Reply #22: LotR was better than the books.

[Dr Morbius]

Recall the trilogy had the climax of the story some 150 pages before the end. The whole "scouring of the Shire" bit was unnecessary. I didn't like the fact that they left out Tom Bombadil, but every other change made was pretty smart. I really believe the movies were better than the books. I still recommend the books, though.

Did someone mention Kubrick's The Shining? How about Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange?

The original book Carrie was OK, but the Sissy Spacek movie was excellent. The Russian film version of Tolstoy's War and Peace was very good, as I recall; the book is agonizingly long. Also Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago; the book is interminal but the movie moves along fairly well (and Lara's pretty, of course). Sometimes I think Russian writers want the reader to suffer to appreciate what it feels like to be Russian.

There are many others but I can't think of any at the moment.