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Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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the book is always better than the movie..
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i don't think i can recall ever hearing anybody, in general, argue otherwise.

can you think of a movie which was better than the book upon which it was based?

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Re: the book is always better than the movie.. [Re: asd11]
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advantage with movies is speed. i am a uber slow reader and just dont have the time to read the books anymore. for that reason, and that alone, i lik movies more.

books are more stimulatiuong and in depth and other than time are way better.


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Re: the book is always better than the movie.. [Re: blink]
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The thing is, most movies people say that about are movies where the book is already well known, and in that case the book is likely to be better than the movie cause of, well, common sense...good books are often successful, and so making a movie is just a way of making more mney. But more movies not advertised as based-on-the-book than most people realize are actually made from stories from books that are optioned by the studio...then they call a screenwriter in to salvage the good story, throw away the shitty writing, and then make something film-able out of it.


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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.

-Erik Davis

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Re: the book is always better than the movie.. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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Fight Club was better as a movie.

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Re: the book is always better than the movie.. [Re: blink]
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i didnt mean speed the movie.....lol.  i meant the speed it takes to get through it.  movies are faster than a book.  hehe soory for the shatty english...its only my first language ya know :grin:


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Re: the book is always better than the movie.. [Re: kadakuda]
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jurassic park was better as a movie, although the movie still blew

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Re: the book is always better than the movie.. [Re: asd11]
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Likely this is part in due to the fact that as you read a book, you are making a little movie along in your head. What the characterse look like, what the scenes look like, what happens, etc. is all going on in your mind.

If the movie does not fit what you had imagined, you are going to be like SHIAT MAN THIS AIN'T THA REAL THANG!

Edited by Amber_Glow (12/25/04 02:55 PM)

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Re: the book is always better than the movie.. [Re: Amber_Glow]
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I see your point but even when I see the movie before reading the book, the book is still better.

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Re: the book is always better than the movie.. [Re: BitterPill]
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Books are better because they are not meant to be completed in 1-2 hours. No matter how visually appealing a movie may be, a book can go into infinitely more detail without being constrained by budgets or reality, the only limitation is your ability to use your imagination. I love reading, and I love watching good movies as well, but I think if I really want to entertain myself I will either read or write something.


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Re: the book is always better than the movie.. [Re: CaptainJailew]
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I know it's highly debatable, but I think "the Exorcist" was a better movie than book. The book was very good, but the movie was freakin' awesome. Without the movie, the book would probably be relatively unknown these days.

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Re: the book is always better than the movie.. [Re: Burke Dennings]
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I can honestly say I seen a better movie than the book was.

The only ones that were close that I can think of off the top of my head was:
Fight Club
Jurassic Park
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

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Re: the book is always better than the movie.. [Re: asd11]
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I cant even think of one....
sadly, even the Cat In The Hat (starring Mike Myers) was better as a book....

and a 15 pg. one at that!


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Re: the book is always better than the movie.. [Re: Redstorm]
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Redstorm said:
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest


really? i mean, the movie was awesome - that much is true. but the book was soooooo much better i think. the scenes with "Chief" were so much more in-depth in the book. just for those scenes, i'd say the book kicked the movies ass.


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Re: the book is always better than the movie.. [Re: asd11]
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I liked the movie "The Green Mile" better than the book. which is surprising because most of the other movies I've seen based on Stephen King novels, have been fucking awful. Case in point the movie "it". "It" is my favorite book ever, but holy shit that movie was bad. Another movie that contests the book, IMO, is Sleepers.


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The gunpowder treason and plot.
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Re: the book is always better than the movie.. [Re: Redstorm]
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I disagree. The Fight Club book was much better then the movie. The movie focused on the fact that Tyler Durden and the main character are the same person, while the book focused on the revolution taking place; the whole double person thing was just a side story. The movie kicked ass, but the book was much better than the movie.


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Re: the book is always better than the movie.. [Re: Shmoppy McGillicuddy]
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Hi

I found both the books of Fight Club and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas not as good as the movies (although both still excellent!)

High Fidelity is one where the book is better, and all of Tom Clancy's books turned into movies, particularly The Sum of All Fears....they really need to make a Red Storm Rising movie  :thumbup:

Rich


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Re: the book is always better than the movie.. [Re: Krishna]
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Krishna said:
Redstorm said:
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest


really? i mean, the movie was awesome - that much is true. but the book was soooooo much better i think. the scenes with "Chief" were so much more in-depth in the book. just for those scenes, i'd say the book kicked the movies ass.


Sorry, I didn't mean it the way I said.

The book was much better, but the movie was up to my standards.

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Re: the book is always better than the movie.. [Re: asd11]
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starship troopers.














psych.

naw i agree, suess however is great in both movie and book! i couldnt say which i like more...


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