Jurassic Park is better than the book. Also, and I know this may sound weird given how much the movie is panned, the Lost World movie is also better than the book it's based on.
Terrible Plot lines adaptions did better
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Not sure if this counts, but since a new movie by the same name is coming out, The Haunted Mansion video-game is actually really good! It dispenses with whatever the plot of the movie is and has you playing as a sort of "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" character that's becomes the new groundskeeper for the mansion. Almost every single room in the mansion is unique, with its own puzzle and the gameplay, though simple, is pretty fun!
The Ghostbusters Video Game (2009. HD & Wii) is consider the real GB3, and better than GB (2016) and the most recent one that released last year.
Die Hard is slightly superior to Nothing Last Forever. Keep in mind, the latter is a sequel to another novel called The Detective. So NLF has a much older protagonist that is in his early 60s. The novel does have an advantage of having a more detailed plot, and the terrorist are motivated by more than just money. They are terrorists with a cause. I won't spoil anything, but there is a lot of grey, the further you get into the novel.
Alien vs. Predator (Capcom) is far surperior to both AVP films from the 2000s.
Die Hard is slightly superior to Nothing Last Forever. Keep in mind, the latter is a sequel to another novel called The Detective. So NLF has a much older protagonist that is in his early 60s. The novel does have an advantage of having a more detailed plot, and the terrorist are motivated by more than just money. They are terrorists with a cause. I won't spoil anything, but there is a lot of grey, the further you get into the novel.
Alien vs. Predator (Capcom) is far surperior to both AVP films from the 2000s.
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As they made an adaptation of the first book already, they were considering using the same lead in Die Hard. That would have been Frank Sinatra, who would have been about 5 years older than Bruce Willis is now.
Pretty much all AvP games are better than the movies, simply because they deliver way more of what their title promises: aliens fighting predators, or vice versa. Tho imo, if a AvP games has a colonial marine campaign, that's usually the best one.
As in added bonus in AVP Capcom's favor, the arcade game was based off the original script. Which was going to have Arnie in it. I think the only thing not in the original script was Linn Kurasawa herself. You are correct though.
Sonic 3 (2024) is a much better adaption of Sonic Adventure 2, than the Sonic X adaption from 20 years ago.
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Since the first example of this thread was a Spider-Man example, I feel it appropriate to say Spider-Man: No Way Home did the plot of Peter having to erase his identity being exposed to the public far better than the One More Day comic did. The fact it stemmed from the need to tell a compelling story as opposed to being an excuse to reset Peter back to the status quo of being unmarried and living with Aunt May.
And they also had to write in a lot fewer contortions for "only magic can fix this" than "bullet wound that somehow can't be fixed by literally the best doctors and sorcerers in the world".
And all that to adhere to the conceit that comic-book readers couldn't relate to someone who actually scored with a woman.
I thought the issue was that him getting married would make him too far removed/too old to be relatable to a child audience.
Could also be that!
I remember reading that Quesada didn't want two teenagers having sex with each other, so he had one of them have sex with Harry Osborne...?
OK, I misremembered why Quesada was opposed to the divorce idea. To quote Wikipedia (I know, but there is a primary source for this quote, so it's legitimate)
Quesada sees Peter's making a "deal with the devil" as a villain (Mephisto) taking advantage of someone at his weakest moment. This, he feels, is a better resolution than Peter and Mary Jane getting divorced, which would indicate "they gave up on their love, that their life in love together was so awful, so stressful, so unfulfilling that they had to raise a red flag and walk away from it. They quit on their marriage and even more tragic, (they) quit on each other. Instead, we had them make a deal with the devil. 'Cause that isn't as bad." Quesada went on to say "Peter and MJ didn't quit on their love, they sacrificed it to save a life, that to me is a pretty heroic story."