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The Book is at least 100 times better!

posted 12 years ago by atanas-tumbev
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Really! You must read the book! Everything is more touching and better described and much more suspenseful! The movie is average, it's just nothing special!

[–] Titania89 12 years ago

Yeah !! the book is great !!!! I loved it !!! Patterson took the time to describe some of the girls and what was in Casasova's mind and you could better see why he took them.All the girls were strong and super smart and i liked it,even Naomi Cross was very tough.I liked the movie though...I liked Kate better in it than in the book cause she was more human and she didn't have an unrealistic love story with Alex.

[–] lord_jeanquev 12 years ago

There are very few movies as good as the book upon which they are based.

[–] Ash-lee 11 years ago

Just a little factoid: The book is always better.

[–] cliff_niblr031 11 years ago

The book is almost always better.

There is no possible way an hour and half or two hour film can really capture novels with several hundreds or even thousands of pages that go into great detail on characters, backstory, history, subplots, minor characters, locations, events, etc.

[–] MikePaul854 11 years ago

That's true for the most part but there are exceptions. Like some movies, there are books published that makes you wonder what the publisher was thinking. Take The Vampire Diaries. The books are pretty poor yet the series is amazing. Chuck Hogan's Prince of Theives made a better movie (The Town) than the zero character development book.

[–] Zuider_Zee 9 years ago

I would hope so. The film sucks balls.

[–] coolestdudearoundeng 9 years ago

The book is always better. After reading many books, i watch the film, i notice a lot of scenes that are in the book are not in the movie, and they are normally the best scenes in the book...scenes that you look forward to in the film and then you get dissappointed as they are not there.

I thought Kiss the Girls film was a lot more enjoyable than the Along Came a Spider film, i thought that film was very dull, and strayed from the book too much, plus they didn't put Sampson in that one.

[–] baran_erik 8 years ago

How often is the movie better than the book? Of course you can go into more detail in a 450 page book compared to a 100 minute movie.

[–] Dan_Garten 8 years ago

A movie is rarely better than the book its adapted from.

[–] darthhade 8 years ago

What I never understand is when the rights to a book are bought to turn it into a movie, and then they change it so much that it hardly resembles the book at all.

Why pay for the rights to something that will basically become unrecognizable?

What's the point?

Anyone with some writing ability could simply read the book, use it as a template to create something that will easily pass as original, and thus not have to secure any book rights.