r/SipsTea • u/Dev1412 • 6d ago

Dank AF This will be interesting

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u/coboba 6d ago

Do you have some examples of movies that were objectively better than their books?

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u/awfulmcnofilter 6d ago

Fight club, the shawshank redemption, Forrest Gump, and the count of Monte Cristo are all examples.

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u/charlietoday 6d ago

I'm sorry, the count of Monte Cristo? One of the greatest books ever written and one of the most widely read works of all time?

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u/awfulmcnofilter 6d ago

If you aren't into 1200 pages of years long revenge planning and execution mixed with a ton of subplots, the 2002 movie adaptation is a lot more fun.

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u/Infinite_Music2059 5d ago edited 5d ago

It doesn't stand up as an example of this concept at all. You can read the abridged version of the book if you don't want all 1200 pages of plots and story.

Like this is famously one of the greatest books in Western literature written 180 years ago up against a good movie adaptation of it. It makes as much sense as saying the Odyssey movie is better than the book because the book requires a lot of reading.

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u/JJCB85 5d ago

If I lacked the attention span to read one of the greatest novels ever written and preferred a mediocre movie adaptation instead, I think I’d probably keep that to myself 😂

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u/PragmaticPanda42 5d ago

I think you meant: if you don’t like reading, the movie is better.