Is it normal i don't get why people always say the book is better?

When you dont like a film people always claim the book is better. However it never is. Its just basically a written version of what you just watched. I have in fact read books about movies I have watched.

Two I will list are willy wonka, and James and the giant peach. Now the only difference is that the names were a little different and they might minus one character or two and change a few details. Like a character that is fat in the book might be skinny in the movie. Another one I read was "Holes". A movie I really loved and I did enjoy the book.

However every-time I read the book to a movie unless is something they completely butchered like the notable flaws when they turned the dragon ball Z series into a film they are usually pretty much the same. So I don't understand what people always complain about?

The fact the book is a bit more detailed than seeing it on the screen? I am always dissipionted when I actually try to READ the book. Since its basically the shitty film I just watched, I said I dislike BUT IN BOOK FORM.

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  • kingofcarrotflowers

    With a book you read the words, then you paint a picture in your head, a film is an image from someone else's mind, someone else's interpretation of the words they've read and created in their head.
    Plus with a book you don't know what's coming by the time you watch it as a film plot twists won't have the same impact.
    I prefer the film fight club to the book though,

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    • Tommythecat.

      "With a book you read the words"

      -kingofcarrotflowers

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    • So you are saying the only reason people hate the films is because they had a preconceived notion of what it was like in their minds and the movie ruined it? Not necessarily that the film is a bad interpretation of the book. Since a lot of times they do a very good job of that.

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      • kingofcarrotflowers

        In many cases I think so, it cam also be the same for films for example, I love let the right one in, its one of my favorite films whereas I don't really like the American remake let me in.
        However, let me in is well acted, well shot and the cinematography is brilliant, it's just not the version of the story I love, but it's still we'll made.

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    • I think its stupid, why read fictional books when you have it on film. Why work for fictional knowledge when you can just chill on the couch and watch it in movie version? If im reading a book im soley reading it to gain knowledge. I dont see the point putting in that effort when you can watch the movie version.

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  • Holzman_67

    never judge a book by its movie

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    • Most of these movies are just the book in movie form. Everything I actually bothered to read is accurate.

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  • Sometimes the books have a lot more detail or entire different sequences of events/stuff that was left out of the movie - such as Stephen King's The Shining vs Kubrick's film adaptation using the same premise.

    I like personally reading the book and seeing the movie if something interests me enough though.

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  • loopoo

    Because it is, it is so much more detailed. Do you read much?

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  • jeebley

    I have a friend who makes films and she told me she was adapting this novel ('not before sundown') into a movie. I was kind of impressed at first but the film is just the pages of the book being turned...! stupid... but I still prefer the film.

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  • PureLikeSnow

    When films lack important content is when people side with the book.

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    • Everything I read had most of the same material minus one or two characters or a name change. It did not make a huge difference.

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  • Shackleford96

    Do you read the book first, or watch the movie first?

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    • Well generally the only time I hear this is when I say the film is awful. So I go to read the book. However there has been a few books that later became films and it always surprises me when this happens.

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      • Shackleford96

        Most of the people who say this are actually comparing the movie to the book after reading the book first, so that is why I asked.

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        • Well sometimes I go back to read the book since when I say "Oh I hate this film" people often suggest the book. So I say "Fine ill read it and its never any better" and I just wonder why this person would tell me to read this crap when I just said I hated the movie version. Its always the same concept, almost all the same characters, and usually the same style of telling the story. Now I would understand if they changed the angle and you know maybe turned a horror book into a comedy or put some awful twist on it yeah I understand what they mean.

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