Movies better than the books

[Dick Whitman]

I just bought a copy of the book "The Natural". Which was adapted into one of my favorite films staring Robert Redford. I have yet to read it but I hear the ending is VERY different.

 

[AJBryant]

The "settle accounts" sequence is a particular favourite of mine

Mine, too. I like to compare it to the end of The Godfather, where the family metes out vengeance to one enemy after another while religious music/service is being conducted.

Inama Nushif is one of my favorite pieces of music of all time.

 

[Rii]

I suppose they could skip that book entierly and only alude to Leto's reign as a matter of ancient history, but I doubt many fans would appreciate that.

Given that the framing device in God Emperor (the discovery of Leto's journals) appears to be vaguely contemperous with Heretics, this is not a ridiculous idea. The broad strokes relevant to Heretics/Chapterhouse could be covered easily enough in an adaptation, and the finer details wouldn't need to be.

 

[BrotherBenny]

Richard Matheson's Stir of Echoes. I saw the movie - with Kevin Bacon -and thought it was cleverly done. It was about a year later that I got around to reading the book and to be honest, I thought that it was not that well written.

What do people think of I Am Legend or his other books which have been turned into films?

 

[Stevil2001]

^ Oh, there's another good example. Somewhere in Time is much better than Bid Time Return, the novel it was based on. The love-at-first-sight-of-a-photograph is really hard to believe, and Jane Seymour and Christopher Reeve (along with a great score and beautiful setting) are way better at selling it than Matheson's often-clunky prose. The beginning/ending of the film is stronger, too.