Does anyone else know of any adaptations that they feel are better than the original? This could be anything like book to movie movie to game game to movie etc. Any ideas?
The adaptation's better.
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There are a few. Big Fish was a brilliant adaptation, giving far greater depth to the characters, and I much prefer Watchmen as a film, the characters are just more likeable and the ending is a huge improvement.
The thing is, the adaptation is just the director's ideas from a novel, mixed with those of the screenwriter and various other people, so what you get is an amalgamation of ideas which aren't likely to coincide with yours. If you look at the two as separate works, you'll probably enjoy them more. Take the Bone Collector, the characters are all messed up between the two works, but both work well on their own. You get hung up on details if you focus on the adaptation part.
The thing is, the adaptation is just the director's ideas from a novel, mixed with those of the screenwriter and various other people, so what you get is an amalgamation of ideas which aren't likely to coincide with yours. If you look at the two as separate works, you'll probably enjoy them more. Take the Bone Collector, the characters are all messed up between the two works, but both work well on their own. You get hung up on details if you focus on the adaptation part.
I found the Logan's Run movie distinctly superior to the novel it's based on. While the book helps to give a little more background into the 'environment' of the movie, it remains a jumbled and rambling mess of a narrative, as if the two authors wrote alternating chapters, but only briefly glanced at each other's preceding contribution.
The movie leaves quite a few things out of the book, and changes others almost beyond recognition, yet all for the better. For example, the Sandmen's guns: in the movie, they're simple black affairs that shoot green flame. In the novel, they're pearl-handled revolvers with a Mach-5-esque dial on the back that shoots one of six types of ammunition. For my sci-fi pleasure, the movie wins hands-down because it's a gun that shoots green bloody flames. It's like the Shurikens-and-Lightning gun from Painkiller.
The movie leaves quite a few things out of the book, and changes others almost beyond recognition, yet all for the better. For example, the Sandmen's guns: in the movie, they're simple black affairs that shoot green flame. In the novel, they're pearl-handled revolvers with a Mach-5-esque dial on the back that shoots one of six types of ammunition. For my sci-fi pleasure, the movie wins hands-down because it's a gun that shoots green bloody flames. It's like the Shurikens-and-Lightning gun from Painkiller.
Shawshank Redemption was already named but I'm also gonna say "Stand By Me" based of the Stephen King Novella "The Body"
Of course theres also "Jaws" and in my opinion "The Green Mile"
Of course theres also "Jaws" and in my opinion "The Green Mile"