#21

Isn’t a large part of the book the historic bit of Godfather Part II? As a whole is it better than parts 1 and 2?

#22

Yeah. And both films are much better than the book, which isn’t actually that good, but is perfect for a film adaptation.

#23

Shawshank Redemption

  • Film first
  • Story first

0 voters

  • Prefer film
  • Prefer book
  • About the same

0 voters

#24

American Psycho

  • Film first
  • Book first

0 voters

  • Prefer film
  • Prefer book
  • About the same

0 voters

#25

Trainspotting

  • Film first
  • Book first

0 voters

  • Prefer film
  • Prefer book
  • About the same

0 voters

#26

You have reminded me I’ve never seen the film despite hearing good things about it.

#27

Tried reading the book as a teenager, but found the dialect utterly impenetrable. Should try again sometime tbh.

#28

Saw both NCFOM and The Road before reading the books - preferred the film version of NCFOM and the book version of The Road (though neither are my favourite McArthy books)

#29

Clockwork Orange

  • Film First
  • Book First

0 voters

  • Prefer film
  • Prefer book
  • About the same

0 voters

#30

Do Androids dream of electric sheep?/Bladerunner

  • Book first
  • Film first

0 voters

  • Prefer the book
  • Prefer the film
  • About the same

0 voters

#31

Ghost World

  • Comic first comic better
  • Comic first film better
  • Comic first about the same
  • Film first film better
  • Film first comic better
  • Film first about the same
  • Only read the comic
  • Only seen the film
  • Neither read comic or seen film

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#32

yeah I deff prefer the book of the Road

I’ve not read everything he’s done, but the Border Trilogy are my faves of what I have read

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#33

HEART OF DARKNESS (BOOK) vs APOCALYPSE NOW (FILM)

  • Book first
  • Film first

0 voters

  • Film better than book
  • Book better than film
  • About the same
  • Bonus vote - actually the book is boring as fuck…

0 voters

#34

Best adaptions are when someone turns Shakespeare into a teen comedy

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#35

or Jane Austen

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#36

Or Nathaniel Hawthorne

#37

The film is such a loose adaptation of the book it’s really hard to compare them.

#38

The book’s great, but having enjoyed it so much has made me want to re-visit the film to give it another go. Like I got what it was trying to do but it left me cold. I also didn’t realise until afterwards that much of it was improvised and some of the characters were not actors, that might make it more interesting / make more sense second time round.

#39

Just to save a bit of time here.

Watchmen, 300, Kick Ass, Scott Pilgrim, Atomic Blonde, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, From Hell, V for Vendetta.

The books are all better.

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#40

Oh fuck all the way off. The book is brilliant.