# Movies better than book? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [April 14, 2023, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-better-than-book/982680 "2023-04-14T17:33:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-better-than-book/982680/4 "2023-04-14T17:55:32Z")
> [@fedman1](#): > > I searched but didn’t see any previous topic here (surprised), > [@Adaptations Where the Source Material is Ignored....for the Better](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adaptations-where-the-source-material-is-ignored-for-the-better/981097/): > > When written works (novels, comics, etc.,) are adapted to the motion picture there are fans of the original that invariably complain of changes. When Jaws was adapted from the novel to the big screen, they removed the affair between Matt Hooper and Ellen Brody as well as the subplot with the mafia and the mayor. I don’t think these plot elements were necessary and the movie is better off for them being dropped. But these were minor changes, and the story is basically the same even with the ch… > [@Any Movies that were BETTER than the book?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-movies-that-were-better-than-the-book/454394/): > > Back when I was little, after Jurassic Park came out back in the day, I dove into a bunch of Micheal Chrichton books. One of which was [Congo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_(film)) . I LOVED this book, and when I later heard it was going to be a movie, I was super excited to see it. Even at 13 years old, I could tell that movie was horrible, and I swore I’d never see another movie after I had read the book. Fast foward to 2003, I was at Border’s and saw [The Da Vinci Code](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Da_Vinci_Code) on prominent display and gave it a chance. I was hooked and… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-better-than-book/982680)._