Quote Originally Posted by Beskar View Post
It is simply not true. Some of the movies are infact, better than the books and in other areas, the books take a while to read, thus you tend to forget the bad moments and due to the process of reading, you create a mental image of a person, how they sound like, etc.
Yes, I think it's often because the film does not match your imagination that you came up with when you read the book.
And then the director may have just had a different imagination than you and created the movie after that, taking into account monetary problems etc. as well.