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<blockquote data-quote="Chain Lightning" data-source="post: 1726121" data-attributes="member: 6791">I disagree on the &quot;Silence of the Lambs&quot; comments. A lot of movies were either much better or much worse than the novel. &quot;Silence of the Lambs&quot; is the only one I can think of that maintained its quality almost exactly. I found reading the book and watching the movie to be an almost identical experience.I'll join KenM on the whole &quot;Lord of the Rings &quot;thing too. While I felt that Jackson did do a lot wrong things (or rather a lot of little things wrong quite often), his over-all movie version of LotR was a much better experience than the books. There are things that I love in the book more than the movie (like the scene with Eowyn vs. Witchking), but for the most part . . . the books have more annoying things that I don't like than the movies do. Okay, that aside, I'll throw in another odd book to movie translation from left field. I enjoyed &quot;Predator&quot; more than the mini-novel &quot;Hunter&quot;. Although they're very close - - except in the book, the alien was a shape-shifter lizard thing. And you got to see his spaceship at the end.And even though the &quot;Sound of Thunder&quot; movie isn't out yet, the trailer looks like a really bad movie. But I did like the little short story by Ray Bradbury.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chain Lightning, post: 1726121, member: 6791"] I disagree on the "Silence of the Lambs" comments. A lot of movies were either much better or much worse than the novel. "Silence of the Lambs" is the only one I can think of that maintained its quality almost exactly. I found reading the book and watching the movie to be an almost identical experience. I'll join KenM on the whole "Lord of the Rings "thing too. While I felt that Jackson did do a lot wrong things (or rather a lot of little things wrong quite often), his over-all movie version of LotR was a much better experience than the books. There are things that I love in the book more than the movie (like the scene with Eowyn vs. Witchking), but for the most part . . . the books have more annoying things that I don't like than the movies do. Okay, that aside, I'll throw in another odd book to movie translation from left field. I enjoyed "Predator" more than the mini-novel "Hunter". Although they're very close - - except in the book, the alien was a shape-shifter lizard thing. And you got to see his spaceship at the end. And even though the "Sound of Thunder" movie isn't out yet, the trailer looks like a really bad movie. But I did like the little short story by Ray Bradbury. [/QUOTE]

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