It's a TV show, but the series of unfortunate events Netflix series. Don't get me wrong, I love the books, but the miniseries is so much funnier and very accurate to the books, and Neil Patrick Harris is perfectly casted.

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basil (as in razzle dazzle)

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Practical Magic.

The movie is so much better than the book. They actually use magic in the movie and stuff.

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Fight Club. Chuck P said so himself!

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Hands down - Shawshank Redemption. It's based on a novella called "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" by Stephen King. Frank Darabont was the screenwriter and director of the movie. He had adapted one of Stephen King's "dollar baby" short stories (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_Baby), and paid King $5,000 for the rights to the Shawshank Redemption story. The original novella is only a part of the movie. The main character's dealings with the warden, my favorite part of the movie, isn't in the story at all, and many great plot points were added as well.. A genius adaptation resulting in an amazing movie!

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First one off the top of my head, is JAWS. The movie was MUCH better. Peter Benchley's (the author) book was a bit convoluted, especially the mess with Hooper having an affair with Mrs. Brody, ugh.

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The Princess Bride. The book is very good, but the movie is a classic.

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Like Water for Chocolate. Not actually movie better than the book, but the BEST book to film adaption ever, in part, I believe, because the author also wrote the screenplay AND her husband directed it.

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Blade runner. Granted, I saw the movie first, but the book while ok, is bit boring at times. The movie however.... shioot I cried when Rutger Hauer had his moment near the end. Keep in mind I'm not often moved by movies to the point of tears.

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Remi (He/Him)

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The Mist…by a mile!

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LennytheCat

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Forrest Gump. I could not read that book for anything.

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Shyla Clay

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Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. I love the language and use of words Tolkien uses in his books, but dang, 100 pages and Frodo still hasn't left the Shire, and is still auctioning the furnitures. And the dwarfs had way more personality in the movies.

I also don't understand how people complain that LotR was too short, but then complain that Hobbit was too long.

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Empire of the Sun. The book is looooong and boring and the movie is breathtaking in performance and photography.

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Laura Myszkowski

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"The Green Mile" with Tom Hanks, based on Stephen King's novel. I loved the book and was really enchanted by the movie. First time I wasn't deceived by an adaptation!

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Joanne L

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How to train your dragon. It may not be like the books but that's ok think of it like a glow up in way(for real though Toothless wasn't a night fury in the books)

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Jurassic Park. A lot more people die and a lot of people are far more dislikeable. For example Malcom dies, John Hammond dies, and they also go into excruciatingly disgusting detail about nedrey's death. Also in the book, John is a grey money horder.,Ellie is a idiot, and Lex is a winey brat. All in all, the movies have far more likeable characters.

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Like others, this isn't strictly to the question: The Running Man. The book was by some made-up guy that turned out to be Stephen King and the movie is starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, they both sound good, right?

The book and the movie are so vastly different (which is usually a bad thing) that you may not have connected the two together if they didn't have the same name, but they are both *so* good each on their own.

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Lawrence Nelson

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Silence of the Lambs... by a lot...it's upsetting how bad the book is compared to the movie...

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Tonett Peraza- Baker

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Doctor Sleep
The book was good too but I like the movie better, much better.

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Maddy Panda

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lovers of the book will hate me for saying this but aussie movie " Bliss"

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Hands down - Shawshank Redemption. It's based on a novella called "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" by Stephen King. Frank Darabont was the screenwriter and director of the movie. He had adapted one of Stephen King's "dollar baby" short stories (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_Baby), and paid King $5,000 for the rights to the Shawshank Redemption story. The original novella is only a part of the movie. The main character's dealings with the warden, my favorite part of the movie, isn't in the story at all, and many great plot points were added as well.. A genius adaptation resulting in an amazing movie!

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SarahBee

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The Godfather.

The movie is far superior to the book, which is practically subpar.

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Charlie and the chocolate factory, or maybe it was W***y Wonka. At this point I have forgotten.

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Not a movie, but the Netflix show Hemlock Grove. They brought a weird, wordy book to life with an amazing cast.

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Also not a movie, but the TV series Sherlock. The books are nice but they are all from Watson's perspective so it is great to have something from Sherlock's point of view, it also developes more the characters. Besides it has an amazing cast and the adaptation to modern life is well done.

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bridges of madison

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Bill Kotsias

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Ella Enchanted!! I love the modern spin on an old story!!

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Clair Burkhalter

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Stardust by Neil Gaiman. I love his books, but this movie was just better.

A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks. It's the only one of his books I've read, but the movie was better.

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Not a movie but a TV show: Altered Carbon. The show is a masterpiece and Joel Kinnaman's performance as Takeshi is brilliant (Don't get me started on Anthony Mackie though). The book I found sort of pretentious, like it was trying to be edgy but failed horribly. I hated how one-dimensional the characters were compared to the show.

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Catch Me If You Can. The book is really good but Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio make the movie even better.

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Jurassic Park, I haven’t read the books but I’ve heard that some characters I like die so in my opinion, the movie version of Jurassic Park is better than the books.

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I found Hugo a lot better than the book (the book is big and more boring in my opinion).

Also LOTR, the books are WAY to long.

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Not a movie but a tv series. “The Old Man” is a dark, exhausting tv series with well known actors but well done. I started the book yesterday and am completely underwhelmed so far.

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I wouldn't say it was "much better" than the book but the film adaptation of "The Black Phone" was really faithful to the story, with a little enhancement. In my experience, that's a rare thing.

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Oh, I have another one. Chocolate. I enjoyed the book well enough, but the movie just really hit all my buttons.

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Shyla Clay

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Bridge to Terabithia. Book was better, but the movie almost had it too.

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Dance with wolves
The Film was much better than the book.

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Harry Potter. The movies are so interesting. Some reason I just couldn't read the books.

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THE NOTEBOOK:. I liked the movie much better than the book. The movie has lots more details, making the book seem like an outline of the movie.

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"Bridget Jones's Diary". Which, to be honest, wasn't that hard, because the book is awful.

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I loved the film children of men, so i tried with the book and hated it. I made myself read it, but the writing was boring and aloof somehow in comparison to the film...

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Not The Fault in Our Stars!! That was probably my least favorite remake.

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Practical Magic. It's my favorite movie and I was so excited to know that it was based on a book. Unfortunately, I found it to be disappointing. In the movie there's a ton of chemistry and familial love between the cast. On the pages, there's a disconnect and harshness that drives you away from the story. I recommend the movie everyone, and the book to no one.

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Cloud Atlas. The book was rather painful. And the music was marvelous.

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Cloud Atlas. The book was rather painful. And the music was marvelous.

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Cassidy Leitner

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Simon Birch. The movie us amazing and moving and tracks enough with the book at first you get into the book (I read the book years after seeing the movie.)

Then the book goes on and it just gets stranger. By the end I was pissed and wished I never read it (A Prayer for Owen Meaney.)

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Alright, there was a post with the opposite question, ‘What movie is awful compared to the book’ or something like that but that post is gone so I will post it here. *Spoilers ahead btw* Wildwitch, based on the danish book ‘Vildheks’ by Lene Kaaberbøl is an AWFUL movie, and I absolutely love the books. They squashed *6* books into 1 movie, and skipped TONS of CRUCIAL details. Like, for instance, in the book the main character has *black* hair, and after the cat scratches her it’s greyish-brownish and becomes black again later. However in the movie it’s ORANGE! THE. WHOLE. WAY. THROUGH. THE. MOVIE. If you watch the movie, and you haven’t read the books, you might like it. Then you will read the books and you will DESPISE the movie. I recommend reading the book, not watching the movie, and continue living a happy life.

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This might just be me, but the Lord of the rings, I am not reading that book.

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