Movie better than the book?

This comes up on many movie threads - just happened to see it again in the The Right Stuff one - in which the movie is good, but, of course, the book happens to be better.

Is there a case when the movie was better than the book? (And I mean movies made from already existing books, not those ones in which they put out a book because the movie did well.)

I'm sure there is ... but I can't think of one off the top of my head. I love Field of Dreams, but read the book first and still think it's better. Never read The Godfather, maybe that's one (doubtful).

 

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/53084/

 

The Hours

 

Yeah, but the dude who started that thread was a real prick.

 

The red X doesn't really get your message across, Demo.

 

Well, it worked for me. I'll change it.

 

It's still in your browser cache. Clear out the cache and you won't see it anymore.

 

Wow, sorry I didn't look back 40 pages or whatever.

 

The Shawshank Redemption was a better movie. The book was good, the movie was just better.

 

he really, really, really was.

god am i ever glad that fucker nuked.

 

Lord of the Rings. Or rather, maybe I should say the movies were easier to get through than the movie. JRR put a LOT of detail and sometimes, it's hard to follow the plot.