Attack on Titan anime better than the manga. I love them both, but the musical cues, the animation, the voice acting all take the anime way over.
I’m curious - on voice acting do you mean the English or Japanese version?
English
The Magicians: The books were good, but the TV show really was in a class all its own. And it did away with using obscure words just because, that was annoying.
Game of Thrones: At this rate, ASOIAF is never getting done, so I’m by default giving it to the show for actually finishing the job.
Good Omens: The first season brought the book to life, but there wasn’t source material beyond that. The second season did a great job fleshing out the characters and moving the story forward into the final season.
the Game of Thrones show’s last 2 seasons (the ones not based on any published books) was so bad, it make people retroactively hate the entire series and the entire intellectual property lol
I suppose one could say Game of Thrones has surpassed the source material in quality so much that it managed to do it twice in both directions.
Honestly, that’s on Martin. He signed the deal, then failed to get off his arse and finish the damn series. HBO exercised their right to develop their own content when, after five years, he’d still not made any progress on finishing the series.
The fans needed something. Can you imagine the uproar if HBO told us all to wait another few years before closing out the story?
Martin can whinge all he likes about his creative process, and how he was shut out of the final seasons. I notice he hasn’t whinged once about the money he made from selling the TV rights.
Don’t get me wrong - he’s absolutely entitled to that money. It’s his creation after all. But he also signed the contract that got us to where we got to.
It makes me very glad that Wheel of Time finished before being adapted. That one has the potential to be better than the books, but they need to give it more episodes per season IMHO. WoT has some unnecessarily tedious bits that will likely be stripped out, which should improve things.
I’d rather the five released ASOIAF stay as they are, perpetually unfinished than anything close to the hatchet job that was the GoT show ever be released in book. For me, sometimes just finishing isn’t enough. The books > than the show 10,000 times.
Okay, fair. I’m mostly just frustrated that GRRM is taking so damn long.
I totally agree. The dude is aging, and not the greatest candidate for advanced years, we’ll say. He’s worth 9 figures. Please just hire someone to ghost write it and supervise their direction closely. He would more than recoup the financial hit in sales, so it could be argued it wouldn’t even cost him anything.
He could even justify it to the fans as a collab with a well-known author, who would do the bulk of writing with Martin as a supervisor/big picture guy. Like if Jordan had spoken with Sanderson to finish WoT before he died.
Fight Club. Even the author preferred some of the changes made for the movie.
The reveal for example.
Been a while since I read the book, and the reveal was similar, but a lot better in the movie
The Stargate movie was good, but SG-1 far surpassed it.
Indeed!
Agreed
I thought the Three-Body Problem on Netflix was better than the book. I haven’t seen the Chinese TV series adaptation of the book, but I’ve heard it was really good too.
Good to know. Wasn’t sure 3BP show would be good because I think the book was so slow. Probably lost in translation.
Yeah, I heard it was the next big scifi trilogy, but when I read it it was like “Really? This?”
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), at the time of its release, was based on a short story called The Sentinel by Arthur C Clarke. In that story, the roots of the Tycho Monolith plot segment of 2001 of is sketched out, and then expanded as both a screenplay and a full-length novel.
Oh, ant then I guess it inspired Bowie’s single, Major Thom
I haven’t read it, but I’ve heard the Forrest Gump movie is much better than the novel.
Yeah but the 2nd book is batshit crazy and worth a read
Jaws the movie is much better than the book. None of the characters in the book are remotely likeable.
Blade runner. Much better than “Do androids dream of electric sheep?” but it is only loosely based off it.
A solid chunk of Philip K Dick’s output worked better as movies/TV than as books.
There’s definitely something there, but the books feel somewhat unfinished/unpolished. Which makes sense, his books weren’t popular in English until after the release of Blade Runner, which coincided with his death. Maybe the popularity of the movie would’ve given him more time and resources to revise future works.
A Scanner Darkly is the only one where both the book and the movie felt about the same quality.
They’re almost too different to compare imo, but both the book and the movie are top-tier.
The truth of the matter is that a lot of PKD and Heinlien era sci-fi was very focused on exploring a single theme - that works well literary but isn’t rich enough for TV/Movie - so those works generally got richer and usually were by transitioned by genuine fans that tried to keep the theme and core message.
I feel this is mostly the case with short stories (and a lot of those works were short stories). Where there isn’t enough material for a full movie, the writers are free to add more to the story without messing much with the original. DADOES did have enough material but the movie decided to go a different direction while keeping the main theme. I wouldn’t say one is better than the other in this case as they’re pretty different.
I dunno if you can still find it, but I remember there being a Blade runner TTRPG in the FASA catalog in the '90s
Manhunter (1986)
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, baby.
Yorkshire puddings.
Now, now!
Arcane, the animated Netflix show that was based on League of Legends.
TBF that was a low bar to clear. They just had to make sure the show was better than a bunch of screaming children.
However it is truly fantastic
That’s nonsense. League of Legends has plenty of screaming adults too.
“The Manchurian Candidate” isn’t a great book.
Gotta disagree, the book is extremely entertaining, and has an element of satire that’s missing from the movie. I agree that the movie is one of the best ever made tho, and I’m not sure which one I like better, because it’s so well done.
The Bourne Identity movie > book
The sequel to Trump screwing Stormy Daniels…Stormy Daniels screwing Trump.
