Ester Ofarim - Suzanne by Leonard Cohen
The film of The Princess Bride was a wonderful romp - full of quotable lines.
The book was just boring. 
I agree with Jaws.
Although I liked the novel, I thought the original movie version of The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three was much better than the book.
I think Frankenstein, the 1931 movie, is damn near infinitely superior to the book.
mbh: I have read the novelization of The Wicker Man. I thought it was the novel upon which the movie was based. It was excellent. I like the original movie so much I refuse to watch the remake.
The film To Have and Have Not is a vast improvement on Hemingway’s book. But, hey, Ernie didn’t have Lauren Bacall.
The Camel album The Snow Goose is better than the Paul Gallico novella that inspired it.
I have no idea if it’s better, because for me, the Coen True Grit was the perfect cinema experience, so good that I’m loath to see the original. Yeah, I’ve heard it’s good, but I’d go into it with such sky-high expectations that it could only disappoint. I read the novel and had just that experience.
One can argue over the best cinematic Zorro (I am partial to Tyrone Power. The Alain Delon version was pretty cheesy, but it had a fun theme song.), but I think most of them are better than the book. In the book, Zorro wears a purple cape, and a mask which covers his entire face. McCulley does not say what type of sombrero the hero wears, but I got the impression that he was thinking of a broad-brimmed mariachi-style hat. the sombrero de Cordoba of the movies is much better for swashbuckling.
^^^ Yep, hands down. Even with the awful final season.
Wilson Pickett owns Hey Jude.
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of The Opera beats all the movies.
That is - quite possibly - the lowest bar I have even considered. But that doesn’t mean I disagree…
I tried to read the book on a bet years ago - couldn’t do it. Did technically make it through the movie, but I may have zoned out for large sections of the middle since a review I’ve read since referenced scenes I don’t recall.
Still, technically-finished does beat didn’t-finish. Touche. 
What quotable lines were in the movie that weren’t in the book? 
Any song written and originally recorded by Bob Dylan.
It was written back in the '80s, and first recorded in 1985.
I thought the film version of Coma (1978) was a classic and much better than the dated novel. The Dogs of War (1980) is also more entertaining than the novel, but the book is still a classic in its own way.
OK, sorry about that. Does the earlier recorded version at least sound like the 50s?
Looks like the version by the Bangles was the first one released (although it was first recorded by Lene Lovich.) Perhaps you were thinking of Istanbul (Not Constantinople) which was a novelty song from the 50s.
The book The Bridges of Madison County was an abomination. It was made into quite a good movie with Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep.
The book *Rebecca *by Daphne duMaurier was okay, but the Hitchcock film tightened up the plot timeline, got rid of some extraneous characters (and one too many dogs), trimmed out some unnecessary detours, and just streamlined the whole thing into a very good movie. It won the Best Picture Oscar for 1941, beating out The Philadelphia Story, The Grapes of Wrath, and seven other nominees.
You know what? I think you’re right.
I found Soylent Green better than Make Room! Make Room!
Anyone who has tried to read the book Forest Gump will wonder how anyone could make a movie from it. Ditto Kiss of the Spiderwoman. I tried to read an English translation, and I can’t image getting through the original in Portuguese. Yet both the movie and the musical were excellent.
The movie version of One Flew Over The cuckoo’s Nest gets kudos for not revealing the Chief’s secret till the second half. Jaw dropping moment for McMurphy, and anyone who hasn’t read the book.