Casino Royale. I like the book but the movie is leagues better. Not too surprising since it's Fleming's first in the series. I haven't read all the books but I much prefer the films.
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Adaptations that you think are better than their source material.
- Thread starter El Bombastico
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The Leftovers
The Boys
HBO's Watchmen - Not a adaptation, but it better realizes the original intent of the graphic novel and not whatever it turned into in Pop Culture.
The Boys
HBO's Watchmen - Not a adaptation, but it better realizes the original intent of the graphic novel and not whatever it turned into in Pop Culture.
I read the manga in between seeing Mugen Train and the second season starting, I came out of it like "wow, that was absolutely mediocre stuff"
The anime elevates it so much it's kinda crazy.
Just finished reading it and it's not nearly as exciting or magical as the movie. I mean, the book is good cause Chrichton is good at making exciting/fun stories and set pieces but Spielberg made this a cultural icon.
I can't rank the book or the movie for this one. There are changes the movie made for the better and others I wish hadn't deviated from the book.
came in for The Boys and Starship Troopers, but since those were already taken i will go with
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (so much better than the book that the own author consider the movie more canon than the book in the second book =P)
X-Men Origins Wolverine (the 360/ps3 game is SO MUCH BETTER than it has any right to be considering the movie)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (so much better than the book that the own author consider the movie more canon than the book in the second book =P)
X-Men Origins Wolverine (the 360/ps3 game is SO MUCH BETTER than it has any right to be considering the movie)
Anything by Mark Millar, who gets decent ideas then immediately ruins it with edge lord bullshit.
Blade Runner is ALOT better than "Do Androids dream of electric sheep?"
Sword Art Online Abridged is alot better than the anime it's based on.
Ringu is better than the light novel.
Captain America Civil War is better than the comic it's based on.
Sword Art Online Abridged is alot better than the anime it's based on.
Ringu is better than the light novel.
Captain America Civil War is better than the comic it's based on.
i would argue even more to anything they touch is better than the source by studio alone
same with something like demon slayer
I remember being reading Jurassic Park and being excited to see the film adaptation...only to be sorely disappointed. It felt too sanitized, I would guess. Same thing with The Shining, except it felt lesser, just an awful, awful adaptation of the story and the characters. But those two are not bad movies at all, they are exquisitely crafted and are their own thing and do their own thing, they immerse you in the atmosphere of their fictional worlds.
If forced to pick, ironically, I would say Doctor Sleep impressed me in its amalgamation of the original book, the Kubrick movie, and the original Shining movie, and the acting was fantastic by all, the pace nice and crisp and ruthless.
If forced to pick, ironically, I would say Doctor Sleep impressed me in its amalgamation of the original book, the Kubrick movie, and the original Shining movie, and the acting was fantastic by all, the pace nice and crisp and ruthless.
Drive My Car. The characters are far more developed and layers upon layers keep getting added, also while dropping the sexism from the Murakami story. The pacing is elegant and meditative, and of course the cinematography is gorgeous.
I've only read Wanted and partially read Kick-Ass, but if those are indicative of his wider work, absolutely.
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Yeah Starship Troopers was my second choice. A wonderful FUCK YOU to a disgustingly racist and fascist novel.
There are still a lot of Tolkien purists out there.
There are still a lot of Tolkien purists out there.
Agreed it actually does a good job if showing the darker side of a military dictatorship only implied by the games
The book is pretty good but the performances from the movie take every single character to a new level. Ponyboy and Johnny are allowed to be far more intimate, Dally acts like a constant emotional whirlwind, etc. I feel like it's cheating by specifically saying the "complete novel" cut is better than the book since it's meant to directly mirror the novel but it really is just that good.
Even his work like Ultimates is poorly written jingoistic garbage about how all these different countries like Russia, France, Syria, North Korea, and China unite to cripple America.
Psycho
The novel was pretty boring in parts focusing mostly on the relationships between Norman Bates and his mother as well as Marion with her lover. It's more of a slow burn buildup. Hitchcock took the most interesting and thrilling parts of the novel and stitched it together to make one of the greatest horror/thriller films of all time.
The novel was pretty boring in parts focusing mostly on the relationships between Norman Bates and his mother as well as Marion with her lover. It's more of a slow burn buildup. Hitchcock took the most interesting and thrilling parts of the novel and stitched it together to make one of the greatest horror/thriller films of all time.
The first season is a pretty direct adaption, but lacking the detail, color, and depth of the novel (really just a limitation of television as a medium). I can't think of any storyline in season 2 that's an overall improvement on its analogue in the novel: some are good, a few are bad, the rest are decent.
Not edgy enough. Try again.
Any manga that's based on music is far better as an anime. Your Lie in April
Big agree. Especially Wanted but I'd even count The Avengers as a better adaptation of The Ultimates.
Actually hated both this book and the movie but I hated the movie slightly less.
Was going to post the Leftovers but the above me poster got it first! (Hated the Leftovers book soooo much)
I love Blade Runner but I don't think I could agree with this. Especially since the movie completely cuts out the entire Mercerism part of the book which I thought was interesting in itself as it was what Deckard's wife was involved with and gave his relationship with her more depth. Since her entire character is gone in the movie to serve the romance plot between him and Rachel.
I came into this thread to say Lord of the Rings movies, so I'll choose something different which I don't think is necessarily a better version but I do think some of the changes made were genius.
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo. The biggest and most impactful change this adaptation makes is that you follow the story through Albert's point of view instead of the Count's. This changes the story from first and foremost a tale of revenge to something of a mystery and like I said, it doesn't make it better than the already amazing original book, but it's a fascinating experience and one I highly recommend to anybody who is a fan of the book. They have many lines lifted directly from the story, there are some other minor changes but most of these barely have any real effect on the story (one of them being that it's set in the far future but honestly that basically doesn't have any effect on things really) some other secondary characters have some of their stories changed as well. Regardless, while not better, I think this adaptation is at the very least as good as the original tale.
This is always the first example I think of. The book was significantly worse in every possible way. And Forrest was not nearly as likable.
The fact that Psycho the movie is an iconic, ever enduring pop-culture legacy that folks who have never even seen the movie know all its iconic moments and tropes by way of cultural osmosis I feel is a testament to its superiority over the source material.
See, I'd argue that, even if you like the movie ending over the source material, the comic is vastly inferior in pretty much every comparative aspect.
I love Blade Runner, and I from what I understand Phillip did as well, but Blade Runner cuts out so much of the philosophical meat of the original story, instead choosing to lean in on admittedly gorgeous but ultimately emotionally hollow visuals, that I personally have to give it to the original story.
I'm in the camp of those who prefer this ending over the source one.
See, I'd argue that, even if you like the movie ending over the source material, the comic is vastly inferior in pretty much every comparative aspect.
I love Blade Runner, and I from what I understand Phillip did as well, but Blade Runner cuts out so much of the philosophical meat of the original story, instead choosing to lean in on admittedly gorgeous but ultimately emotionally hollow visuals, that I personally have to give it to the original story.
Except people only say that when the adaptation is changed for the worse so I don't think this logic makes any sense. No one's complaining about shitty stories being changed in adaptations...
but everything the movie did was in the book in the exact same tone (except for how women are portrayed) lol. Didn't really change anything when it was adapted outside of abridging the story and making the women more fleshed out.
I can see that. But honestly the only thing I'd have kept in the adaption is that Deckard had sheep. The rest matter in ways but felt weak.
I actually started reading Phillip K Dick novels because of Blade Runner and found it one of his weaker works. Which reminds me...
Is better than the short story it was based on.
It's there in the Final Cut but is also not there if that makes any sense?
The Final cut of the movie wants you to think about what is human, but it cut out so many other things that you're not sure what it's trying to say.
However I think it says what it's about more than Phillip K Dick's story did.
Also why are Cybepunk stories hard to adapt?
The incredible thing about the leftovers is how that first season is such a straight adaptation, and then really it was just an excuse to make a tv show that was infinitely more interesting. So rare to see—to not just try and emulate what worked previous.
To be fair, I havent yet seen the final cut, so I'll definitely check that out. All I can say is that the earlier cut of Blade Runner which I saw didnt capture for me the real existential horror of the original story; that being having to deal with these beings who, on the one hand, totally understand the idea of human emotion, but on the other hand, by design simply dont experience it themselves.
And I'd argue that cyberpunk stories are hard to adapt by virtue of the fact that they originate from a relatively heady space. A combination of deeply philosophical sci-fi concepts combined with general paranoia over late-stage capitalism makes them tough to adapt to a generalized audience in a way that stays truthful to the original concepts
Invincible - I read the comic after the first season, my first long form serial comic series I ever read. I really liked it but the adaptation cleans up so much dumb shit and really feels like it got to benefit from having the source material completed, so that it can be remixed to having better connective tissue, not to mention fixing the embarrassingly juvenile, chauvinistic, sex obsessed, homophobic and overwhelmingly white elements (and when it doesn't adhere to these problematic elements it's hardly nuanced writing to rectify it).
Fight Club/Choke - I like Chuck P. stories but not so much his writing I guess, because I love both these movies and while I like Choke the book, I actively disliked the Fight Club book.
Fight Club/Choke - I like Chuck P. stories but not so much his writing I guess, because I love both these movies and while I like Choke the book, I actively disliked the Fight Club book.
Again, I can't agree. While I love both, they are very different works and the book has more depth that the movie misses out on by cutting some of these things out I imagine due to runtime. Either way it's a great story, but the book hits different.
They're not hard to adapt at all, it's all about the cool visuals. /s