Some stories are so complex with so many important tiny details that you can't understand it from 90 minutes of screentime and you need the book. Sometimes the book is a waste of time when the plot is thin and weak, making everything so easy to follow.
I agree. Some of the time, I can hardly understand the plot of the movie, because they are trying to cram so much story in such a little time period.
I always like to read the book first. First of all, if I watch the movie first, it always tends to hinder my imagination, because I keep imagining the movie.
And also, because I like to know the complete plot of the story. If you just watch the movie, you are totally missing out on the tiny little details and complex plot that inspired people to make the move in the first place.
For example, the movie Eragon was so disappointing. The plot was so hard to understand and they left out so much details I wanted to gauge my eyes out. But if I hadn't read the book, I would have been missing out on so much! And... worst of all, I would have thought Eragon was actually a decent movie.
Well, for each movie it varies. For example, for the Percy Jackson movie, with the demigods, I wanted to read the book first before I watched the movie. So I finished the series before I first watched the movie and guess what?
It's totally different I mean hades never showed himself in the camp fire, Annabeth wasn't suppose to have red hair or fall in love with him in the First movie, and a whole bunch of other stuff like they never showed Ares or the girl that bullied Percy. (forgot her name)
I mean I know directors have to make adjustments to movies to create more hype for the age groups they're aiming for but it just nerves me that they didn't bother putting two very important characters in the Percy J. movie, they reappear a bunch of times in the other books and are vital. And maybe they didn't have the budget to pay the additional actors, but there's always an alternative right? But then it would make the movie long and they'd have to compromise, but don't just make random scenes, I mean seriously.(lot of buts)
Anyways, it depends, usually if I'm all hyped up to watch the movie and see it, I'm really lazy to read the book afterwards, but sometimes I do read it afterwards sometimes, like for Twilight, I didn't get some stuff so I read the book to fully understand. But if you read the book and are disappointed with the result of the movie, it ruins your mood for a while, and your kind of negative it didn't turn out the way you wanted it to. Though, reading the book gives you more detail on the plot line and other stuff.
You just have to hope that if you read the book first, that the movie won't ruin your perspective, cuz I'm waiting for The Hunger Games movie to come out next year but something tells me it won't reach my expectations, though the series was spectacular with Katniss.
Hope my point-of-view helped in whatever way possible.
I also say book first. No matter how good movies are, the books are usually better. plus, the movies sometimes leave out key elements of the plot (or in the case of Eragon, the entire plot. still mad about how inaccurate the movie was to the book).
depends,if your reading a halo book,bible,or hardy boys, than its probably better than movies. but if your watching somthing like batman or somthing its probably better than some books.
Actualy ive been thinking about that and i was curious.Since i read some books and then i watched the movies.I would definitely say that reading the book is way better than watching the movie!For instance,St.King's Dreamcatcher.I saw the movie years ago and now im reading the book.In the movie i didn't know what these guys been thinking of or that they could realy communicate the other way through their minds.Everything about Duddits,what realy went on etc. t's more phsycedelic and more complicated reading the book.Anyways though,there are exceptions of course!Some movies are way better than the books so it depends!
I say you should read the book first, it gives you a sense of what is what the author intended, then watch the movies. Some movies (Harry Potter) actually do a good job of this. Others, like Percy Jackson... failed. Epicly.
I'd say read the book first. Most movies are usually pretty hard to understand without reading the book, and they almost always cut out some important parts of the book.
