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 "
If covers are allowed… I will always love you by Whitney Houston was so good people outside the US forgot/didn’t knew it was a cover.
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Lord of the Rings. I’ve read the books before watching the movies (I saw them first like 3 years ago) and the books are just… walking… And they walked…. Walked…. They walked… so much walking…. still walking…. And then walking…
Even the author agrees Fight Club the movie is better than the book.
Is Interesting that in the Chinese version of Fight Club, it’s end with a message saying that after the final scene the narrator was arrested and institutionalized and the movement disbanded, making it more faithful to the original ending of the book.
I thought the Three-Body Problem on Netflix was better than the book. I haven’t seen the Chinese TV series adaptation of the book, but I’ve heard it was really good too.
Good to know. Wasn’t sure 3BP show would be good because I think the book was so slow. Probably lost in translation.
Yeah, I heard it was the next big scifi trilogy, but when I read it it was like “Really? This?”
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, ant then I guess it inspired Bowie’s single, Major Thom
Fight Club. Even the author preferred some of the changes made for the movie.
The reveal for example.
Been a while since I read the book, and the reveal was similar, but a lot better in the movie
Jaws the movie is much better than the book. None of the characters in the book are remotely likeable.
The Stargate movie was good, but SG-1 far surpassed it.
Indeed!
Agreed
I haven’t read it, but I’ve heard the Forrest Gump movie is much better than the novel.
Yeah but the 2nd book is batshit crazy and worth a read
Manhunter (1986)
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, baby.
Blade runner. Much better than “Do androids dream of electric sheep?” but it is only loosely based off 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
The truth of the matter is that a lot of PKD and Heinlien era sci-fi was very focused on exploring a single theme - that works well literary but isn’t rich enough for TV/Movie - so those works generally got richer and usually were by transitioned by genuine fans that tried to keep the theme and core message.
I feel this is mostly the case with short stories (and a lot of those works were short stories). Where there isn’t enough material for a full movie, the writers are free to add more to the story without messing much with the original. DADOES did have enough material but the movie decided to go a different direction while keeping the main theme. I wouldn’t say one is better than the other in this case as they’re pretty different.
A solid chunk of Philip K Dick’s output worked better as movies/TV than as books.
There’s definitely something there, but the books feel somewhat unfinished/unpolished. Which makes sense, his books weren’t popular in English until after the release of Blade Runner, which coincided with his death. Maybe the popularity of the movie would’ve given him more time and resources to revise future works.
A Scanner Darkly is the only one where both the book and the movie felt about the same quality.
Yorkshire puddings.
Now, now!
Arcane, the animated Netflix show that was based on League of Legends.
TBF that was a low bar to clear. They just had to make sure the show was better than a bunch of screaming children.
However it is truly fantastic
That’s nonsense. League of Legends has plenty of screaming adults too.
