Has anyone seen a movie that's better than the book?

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atwhatcost

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Uhhhh.. I don't remember Dudley looking like Tom Felton (actor who played Draco)? What are you basing that on, Lynn lol? Or are you being facetious? I can't tell, help me lol! :D

But yes, Dudley did kind of end up sticking up for Harry when they finally left, which I thought was cool.
Dudley was blond and thin like his mother. I know. Hard to picture him as anything but the actor in the movie, right?
 

santuzza

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Personally, I think The Shawshank Redemption was a better movie than the Stephen King novelette. But then, it was a novelette and not a full-blown novel, so the film makers added more stuff to the movie. My understanding, however, it that King was part of the making of the movie and approved of the additions.
 
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Tintin

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Correction. Good writer. Terrible story endings too often. Terribly stories too often. (I actually don't like his writing style because he is one who preaches too much about the rules of writing.)
I wish King's story endings were far stronger, I can't disagree with you there. That said, I had no problem with the ending to The Stand. It seemed appropriate. I first read that book during the Anthrax scare in the mid-2000s. I didn't plan it that way, but it happened. Good gravy, that was a terrifying read. One of my absolute favourites. :)
 
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kenthomas27

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I wish King's story endings were far stronger, I can't disagree with you there. That said, I had no problem with the ending to The Stand. It seemed appropriate. I first read that book during the Anthrax scare in the mid-2000s. I didn't plan it that way, but it happened. Good gravy, that was a terrifying read. One of my absolute favourites. :)
And how do you spell "The Stand"? Why it's M-O-O-N, that's how! Ole Tom Cullen is about my favorite character and ever since, I've referred to the crescent moon as the fingernail moon. After everybody died of Captain Trips, that walk through the Eisenhower bridge? about scared me to death. Oh,and Flagg's Trashcan Man -the guy he saved from rotting in prison - "my life for you" who brought Flagg a special gift! So many great characters - Momma Abigail and that crazy Ratman. A friend of mine always tells his boss "my life for you" every time he's told to go do something. It irritates his boss about like it did Flagg.

Great book. Lousy TV series. It was a little anti-climatic. After the bomb went off, the book still went on for another 200 pages.
 
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Practice-English

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I really don't love
to read at all,
I only listen movies!

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Jenizona

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Dudley was blond and thin like his mother. I know. Hard to picture him as anything but the actor in the movie, right?
Not sure where you got that from, Lynn! I just grabbed my nearest HP book, The Prisoner of Azkaban, for one of the many descriptions of Dudley. "Dudley had spent most of the summer in the kitchen, his piggy little eyes fixed on the screen and his five chins wobbling as he ate continually."

He was blond in the books! But he was definitely not thin.
 
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Tintin

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Well, the Harry Potter movies certainly aren't better than the books! (although Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix tightens the glacial pace of the first 200 or so pages of the book)
 
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atwhatcost

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Not sure where you got that from, Lynn! I just grabbed my nearest HP book, The Prisoner of Azkaban, for one of the many descriptions of Dudley. "Dudley had spent most of the summer in the kitchen, his piggy little eyes fixed on the screen and his five chins wobbling as he ate continually."

He was blond in the books! But he was definitely not thin.
I read the Sorcerer's Stone when the "big controversy" hit. (Ends up, many Christians believe Harry Potter was promoting witchcraft in our youth because The Onion, Harvard's lampoon paper, told them it was. They refused to believe it wasn't true, so I had to read it to find out "Up" raises a broom off the ground, so surely witchcraft abounds for our kids. lol) Good story, but the writing wasn't very good. (And that was before I wanted to write, so it was noticeable easily.) I couldn't talk myself into reading the rest, assuming the writing would be equally as bad with the rest of the books.

But I absolutely love the movies. Really still do. So does hubby. We watch them twice a year.

A couple of years ago, I learned her writing improved, so it was time to read the books. Now writerly-me really gets her writing improved, plus, MAN! They really should have included everything although that would have been 14 movies. lol But I just couldn't talk myself into reading that first one twice. So, oops. My memory of Dudley-in-the-book is based on my memory from 2000. I really have to stop thinking my memory is all that good.
 
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Tintin

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Nevermind that a philosopher is very different to a sorcerer. There possibly wouldn't have been half the controversy, if they had kept the original title for the U.S. market. As for J.K. Rowling, her writing is good, but not great. But she's a master storyteller. I think she just needs to take a few classes of Defense Against Atrocious Adverbs.
 

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Personally, I think The Shawshank Redemption was a better movie than the Stephen King novelette. But then, it was a novelette and not a full-blown novel, so the film makers added more stuff to the movie. My understanding, however, it that King was part of the making of the movie and approved of the additions.
Makes me think of the Running Man, as well. The title of the story was different IIRC.