What came first, the book or the movie???

[temporus]

That's a totally rhetorical question in the title.  I'm not even interested in the answer.  This isn't really about which came first, it's more about how these are just always two different beasts

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[sartorias]

I keep hearing that Austenland is far better as a movie. (I was really disappointed in the book, and so never watched the film.)

In many ways, I think the 1939 Wizard of Oz movie is better than the book, which is weirdly structured. The "it was all a dream" ending was cheesy, but until then, the whole works better than the book.

[temporus]

You know, thinking on that, I am having a similar feeling about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Don't get me wrong, I loved that book. But the Gene Wilder movie got that one a lot more right than wrong, and, in some ways, I think did a better job.

[sartorias]

Oh, yes, agreed. And so did the movie of Mathilda, too.