Misery was good as a movie, but they did change some key things. It was kind of ok though, because it made some surprises in the movie.

I'm reading The Dome...I wonder if that is going to translate to screen well? I'm loving it so far.

The Green Mile was awesome either way!

Christmas with the Kranks was made into kind of a cheesy movie, but it was a cheesy book too, but cute!

My Sister's Keeper was controversial either way, not sure what my opinion is really. I cried while reading and while watching.

The books are really good, though I'm somewhat peeved that he ended up making it a 4th book.

Yeah, but the original movie was probably the best out of the group, especially for the time it was made.

ALL of the books, prequels through to sequels were really good! Totally made sense, even though it was such a long series.

Apparently they are working on a new revised Dune movie... looking forward to it...

ANY Tom Clancy book translated to movie has been silly. SO much involved in his books...

The lost world Jurrasic Park, now the movie was good, but the book was better and did not have a T-Rex tromping through the streets of San Diego LOL

Another Dune?! Sheesh. That's just getting silly now.

when I was in summer school for English we read for an hour everyday. I read the Firm and it was a lot better than the movie.

Bad adaptations- Battlefield Earth, The Running Man

Many movies make big changes from book to screen, but still remain excellent films on their own- Kubrick's The Shining, the original Planet of the Apes, The Omega Man are examples.
Tobe Hooper's Salems' Lot made many changes, but in my opinion is the best of all of the made-for-TV King adaptations.

Some movies are bad adaptations but still remain as entertaining(cheesy fun) films- Starship Troopers, Damnation Alley, Spielberg's The Lost World: Jurassic Park(it's almost like David Koepp read the first part of the novel then threw it out), The Beastmaster

Yes! Great examples.

The Shining is one of my all-time favorite movies, but I have never read the book. A friend of mine told me that it would ruin the movie for me. I still plan to get around to it, tho, because I like Stephen King. It is on my list for summer reading.

Agree, Planet of the Apes and The Omega Man were great movies too. Probably won't ever read the books tho.

The excorsist
The secret life of bees

were great books and translated to great movies


My opinion

Stephen kings books are way better as books!

Except "It " which I really liked

I liked reading "twilight" ratheer than watching

aslso enjoyed

of mice and men(reading!)

I really enjoyed the Dune that played on the sci-fi channel!

but the one book that I loved watching as well as reading was

Gone with the wind!!!

The Shining is one of my favorite King novels.

I was surprised at the differences between Monkey Planet and Planet of the Apes- and most of these changes came about because they didn't have the budget or the technology to show ape society the way it was in the book(including the fact that apes did have flying machines unlike the film)
The endings are also very different, and the awful Tim Burton version actually did their ending closer to the book's.

I didnt know there was a Planet of the Apes book

I would like to read that

and the story Total Recall by Phillip K Dick (I think?) bore no resemblance to the movie (well maybe a little but not much)

although his "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" was pretty close to the Bladerunner interpretation of it


I Robot was kinda close to Asimov's version except that it kinda combined several of his robot stories into one

Will Smith's character was more taken from his Detective Bailey character from the Caves of Steel novel

'La Planète des singes' by Pierre Boulle came out in '63. Over here it was called Monkey Planet, then Planet of the Apes when the film came out.

The short lived 70's animated series combined elements from the films and the original book.

Fight Club and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

I think the book is always better because the author can get more into the pychology of it in depth. They always seem to miss this in the movie. I saw "love in the time of cholera" last year and just loved it! I recently got the book. Im looking forward to reading it to see how it compares.

I read "Gone To Texas" and the movie, "The Outlaw Josey Wales," was literally word for word. I think I still liked the book better, because it didn't have Sandra Locke in it.

for stephen king, the stand and the shinning were closest to his books
the stand (book) was way better tho.(IMO) but still close for his movie standard.

Evening,

Cabal by Clive Barker, better than the film Nightbreed....

Any thing written by S. King, IMO does not translate well onto the big screen....and while I enjoyed The Lord of The Rings trilogy the movies in no way compare to the book...

Really?

The Green Mile
Shawshank Redemption
Misery
Stand By Me
Delores Claiborne
Carrie
The Dead Zone

you don't consider these good?

yes i do..but like the LOTR, I watch them for their own merrit,..not as translated from the original books...