Fight Club. Even the author preferred some of the changes made for the movie.
The Stargate movie was good, but SG-1 far surpassed it.
Agreed
Johnny Cash’s version of Hurt
Trent Reznor even said it’s no longer his (Trent’s) song
I’ve heard both versions probably a hundred times each and only hear Johnny Cash’s voice anymore.
The Mist
That ending was one of the most brilliant gut-punches in film history. Stephen King himself said he wished he had written it.
Came here looking for this.
Arcane, the animated Netflix show that was based on League of Legends.
The Muppet Christmas Carol
I wasn’t sure what the right answer to this question would be until I saw it.
Only version to actually feature a Dickens character that acts as a narrator. It just works better even if the narrator is Gonzo
Controversial, but Lord of the Rings. Tolkien wrote great stories, but his writing style always seemed kind of lackluster.
I can’t fault him for any of his depth and character building and poetry and storytelling and descriptive environments it was all very thorough and for the right person wonderful. I think the movies did a giant justice to making his work accessible. There are a lot of people out there that can’t manage to make their way through his poetry sections. And you can’t not read the poetry sections because there’s definitely content in there you need.
I encourage you not to view him as an author but as an imaginative creator confined by language.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), at the time of its release, was based on a short story called The Sentinel by Arthur C Clarke. In that story, the roots of the Tycho Monolith plot segment of 2001 of is sketched out, and then expanded as both a screenplay and a full-length novel.
Oh, and then I guess it inspired Bowie’s single, Major Thom
The Princess Bride was a pretty good book but an amazing movie.
One thing that always stuck out to me about the book is the introduction of certain editions. The author writes about himself researching the history of the country the story takes place in and describes it as real, saying he took his son to a museum with Inigo’s sword and everything.
I was Googling furiously when I read it because I was so confused. I was astounded that the place (and people) was “real”. It took a bit of research to find that the author just does this bit and hasn’t let it go since he wrote the book
I’m still so charmed that he tricked me. It made reading the book that much sillier, for me
I had a teacher that worked for the publisher and talked about how they’d have a series of responses for people who wrote in for the part of the book where the author says he wrote his own fanfiction scene and to write in if you wanted it.
Like maybe the first time you write in they’d respond that they couldn’t provide it because they were fighting the Morgenstern estate over IP release to provide the material, etc.
So people never would get the pages, but could have gotten a number of different replies furthering the illusion.
I have a similar story from a different medium:
Frank Zappa has an album called Francesco Zappa. On the back of the sleeve, Frank describes finding out about a distant relative who composed and played music during the 18th century. After telling some friends about it, I got to thinking that Frank had invented another character (á la Ruben and the Jets), because that’s the kind of thing he would do, and felt very foolish for repeating this information uncritically.
Years later I looked the album up on Wikipedia, and it turns out Francesco Zappa was a real musician in the 18th century (who was not actually directly related to Frank).
He got me twice with one album.
The sequel to Trump screwing Stormy Daniels…Stormy Daniels screwing Trump.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Pretty sure that movie is what set me on the path to radicalization…
Yeah, that’s a good one. Better by a large margin.
The Magicians: The books were good, but the TV show really was in a class all its own. And it did away with using obscure words just because, that was annoying.
Game of Thrones: At this rate, ASOIAF is never getting done, so I’m by default giving it to the show for actually finishing the job.
Good Omens: The first season brought the book to life, but there wasn’t source material beyond that. The second season did a great job fleshing out the characters and moving the story forward into the final season.
I’d rather the five released ASOIAF stay as they are, perpetually unfinished than anything close to the hatchet job that was the GoT show ever be released in book. For me, sometimes just finishing isn’t enough. The books > than the show 10,000 times.
Okay, fair. I’m mostly just frustrated that GRRM is taking so damn long.
Blade runner. Much better than “Do androids dream of electric sheep?” but it is only loosely based off it.
PS: when reading a book after watching a film, it usually feels like the book is much better, fills in details, separates scenes which a film had mixed together or altogether done away with. E.g. The Shining, LotR, Dune…but for Androids I just felt “what, that’s it?”
They’re almost too different to compare imo, but both the book and the movie are top-tier.
I dunno if you can still find it, but I remember there being a Blade runner TTRPG in the FASA catalog in the '90s
Interview with a vampire. The book was good but the movie was better imo.
Mandela effect?
What?
It’s a common Mandela Effect. Interview with A vampire instead of interview with THE vampire.
Read the book 6 times plus, saw original movie a few times and wrote a book report on it. For me it’s always been interview with A vampire
Omg, wtf is even going on! I’ve read all her books like 3 or 4 times each and saw the movie like 5+ times and never knew that.
It’s so common Google autocorrect gave me “interview with a vampire” as an option, and not “interview with the vampire” after only typing the string "interview "
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
