Basically the title. I just finished Project Hail Mary (book) about 2 weeks ago and just got home from seeing the movie.
Overall, it was still a good movie, but having read the book I can’t help but compare the two. Basically any time I do this I prefer the book. This made me wonder if I should have just left the magic of the book as is in my mind.
by Garth_AIgar
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Try reading some mid books that got turned into superb movies for a palate cleaner! Jaws, The Godfather, and Jurassic Park are all entertaining but problematic books that were turned into absolutely S-tier movies through the magic of competent editing and direction.
I’m not going anywhere near wizard of earthsea adaptations
I’ll never watch the Wheel of Time adaptation after what they did to it. Read those books like 3 times and the show just butchered everything I loved about Jordan’s world building
The problem is once you have all these detailed scenes in your head from reading, any visual interpretation feels wrong somehow. Like they can never match what you imagined
I wouldn’t be able to watch a movie version of any of the Tortall books by Tamora Pierce, were they to ever be made. I just couldn’t bear to have them ruined.
Beloved is one of the best and most devastating books I’ve ever read. It’s not that I heard anything bad about the movie it’s just that I can’t picture it as a movie instead of that amazing writing. So I probably won’t ever watch it.
I have this with a lot of adaptations. A recent example is Winter in Sokcho. It’s because it seems like a book is just the right medium for it. It doesn’t call out for a more visual take.
I could be wrong though; I think there are sometimes adaptations that are different/better than the source. Like, I think Ridley Scott’s take on do androids dream was really really suited to film. The movie of it, Blade Runner, is /arguably/ the better piece of art and at least very different so it would be a shame to miss it.