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I find it rare that a movie adaption of book is ever as good. Of course there are times when it is, but most often than not it just cannot live up to the original material.
I think that applies to any sort of adaption really. Usually a good source material when trying to be adapted into other mediums loses somethings in the transition resulting in mixed results.
Most of the time, I find myself preferring whatever version it is that I experience first. That is unless the other versions are just that much better to overwrite my original opinions. So if I read a book first, chances are I will think that the book is better than the movie. Even particularly good movie versions sometimes lose out to the book just because it is not always possible to fit everything into a movie.
That being said I don't think I've seen many books into movies, or at least with books that I have read.
The Harry Potter movies are hit and miss I find. Enjoyable if you are a fan, but again when they start varying the source material it just doesn't feel right.
I throughly enjoyed the Lord of the Rings movies, however it has been some time since I read the originals so I do not know how much I can stack them up against each other.
I disliked the movie versions of the Twilight series very, very much. Of course I absolutely hated the books so I guess that was a given. Even so the books are far more tolerable(to an extent) than the horrible acting in the movies.
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