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Posted by Jay (Member # 5786) on :

Lord of the Rings (all three)

Timeline

Jurassic Park

Comics: X-Men, Spider Man, Superman, Daredevil

Ender's Game - impossible to out due the book!

Posted by Godric (Member # 4587) on :

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Lord of the Rings (all three)

Great movies to be sure -- better than could have been expected, really -- but not better than the books.

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Timeline

If true, that must have been a truly awful book.

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Jurassic Park

Possibly. I've never read the book, but the sequels kinda spoiled the fun.

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Comics: X-Men, Spider Man, Superman, Daredevil

No. No. No. Emphatic no. What are you smokin'?

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Ender's Game - impossible to out due the book!

We finally agree! [Big Grin]

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

Practically every book that has had a movie made out of it.

The exceptions are exactly that -- exceptions.

Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :

Godric, I suggest you re-read the thread title.

Posted by Jay (Member # 5786) on :

Yeah, it's a little hard to post about a book you've never read!

So if you were saying the movies are better then the comics guess I just like it better when they stick to story. Nit pick I guess. Which is one reason they'll have a rough time with Ender's Game. Even though I'm looking forward to it!

Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :

Battlefield Earth

Posted by Godric (Member # 4587) on :

Oops! I am horribly embarrassed!

[Embarrassed]

Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :

Battlefield Earth...Well, I guess it's impossible for the book to be WORSE than the movie.

Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :

Yeah - that was my thought exactly.

Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :

A very long time ago -- I really don't remember much of the book...

FG

Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :

You blocked it out, too, eh?

Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :

Well, I can't imagine a book possibly being as bad as the movie was (John Travolta as a tall balding alien with dreadlocks was a dive into the pit of horrible that I don't want to go into here). And while I'm grateful for what L. Ron Hubbard did for science fiction writing (Writers of the Future is about all it sums up to), I don't know if I'm willing to spend what reading time I have on his work just yet [Smile]

Posted by Paul Goldner (Member # 1910) on :

Wait, there are movies that are better then the book?

Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :

Forrest Gump was better than the book. The book, in my opinion was terrible and dippy.

Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :

Schindler's List as a movie was better than the book, which came off to me as a very dry list of goings-on...

Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :

If the novel of Battlefield Earth had ended where the movie did, I would have considered it a decent (not great, but decent) book. I had to really fight hard to finish it once the book got to that point. Oh, and I read the book first, don't even ask why I tortured myself further with the movie. LOL