According to library staff member Brian, Jaws the movie has more bite than Jaws the book.
"The movie was better than the book," said no one ever. While mostly true, it is not always the case. Here is a list of movies that are better than the book from which they were constructed.
Director Ridley Scott took Phillip K. Dick’s dystopian classic and turned it into the greatest science fiction movie ever made. If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes!
Even author Chuck Palahniuk agrees that David Fincher’s film is better than his book.
Stephen Spielberg took Peter Benchley’s monster blockbuster, threw out all the chum, and turned it into the Hollywood’s first monster blockbuster.
Jaws was probably the first grownup book I ever read. I did the whole reading-under-the-covers, pretending-to-sleep thing with it. I devoured the book; but it wasn’t the movie.
Michael Crichton’s thriller that reads like a science book is great; but Steven Spielberg’s Tyrannosaurus Rex is even greater.
Rosalind Wiseman (along with Tina Fey) took her non-fiction book Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and the New Realities of Girl World and turned it into easily the most quotable movie of the 2000s. It’s so fetch.
The Cohen Brothers best picture winning film is by far darker than Cormac McCarthy’s dark modern western. And is there a scarier villain than Anton Chigur to ever stalk the screen?
Ok, so Jane Austen’s book is probably better than any of the 17 movie adaptations; but does the book have Colin Firth in it? I think not. Proposal accepted, Mr. Darcy.
Mario Puzo’s literary hit The Godfather was overshadowed by arguably the greatest movie ever made, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather. Leave the book, take the cannoli.
Frank Darabont’s vision of Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption escapes the prison of so-so Stephen King adaptations.
Director Rob Reiner took author William Goldman’s farcical fantasy novel and turned it into one of the most beloved movies of the past half century.
Legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick turned Stephen King’s ghost story into a masterpiece of a film. King hates it but everyone else loves it. Here’s Johnny!
