Movie verson better than book

There have been, I'm sure, countless movies that were better than the books that spawned them. Off the top of my head, here are three I've read and seen:

The Godfather
Jaws
Alien

What you gots?

 

Goodfellas (better than "Wiseguy")
Field of Dreams (better than "Shoeless Joe")
A Clockwork Orange
All 3 Jason Bourne films (I enjoy Ludlum and loved his stuff as a teenager but the movies are better)

 

Hunger Games

 

No Country for Old Men

It's in the lower tier of Cormac McCarthy books for me and one of my favorite movies.

 

Silence of the Lambs is close, although I love both the book and the movie.

 

That's one where I think they're about even.

I definitely think The Road was better as a book.

 

Stand By Me might be close as well...

 

I'd give the slight edge to the Jurassic Park movie over Crichton's novel. The Lost World was much better than the movie sequel, though. Obviously.

 

Except the movie left out the part where the two kids took cover behind a waterfall as a T-Rex blindly probed in vain for them. Perhaps the single most terrifying scene in the book, and it wasn't in the movie.

 

I found the DNA tracking stuff in the book to be really interesting. Obviously, none of that was in the movie.

 

Fast Times at Ridgemont High is one that always springs to mind.

Godfather is another.

 

Forrest Gump. I remember HATING the book.