Quote Originally Posted by Lemur View Post
Following-up on drone's excellent point, I can think of a number of flawed or bad books that made much better movies. Silence of the Lambs, anyone? Take away the genius of Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster and Ted Lavine, and it's not nearly so special. And the movie of Fight Club features many improvements on the book, even if it misses one or two important bits. I'm sure there are many others.

The problem comes when we fall in love with a book, a really good book, and then see it adapted. There's no way the film can measure up to the theater of our mind.
Hey, Silence of the lambs was a good book!

It's been a while since I saw the movie though. What I remember though was that I disliked the third movie (Hannibal) and then read the book on wich it was based and loved that ....