I have to agree with you. I can not think of one movie that was better at creating what I imagined. I find movies to be so cramped and the story line is missing so much from the book. Now I do know a movie is only a hour or so long and they have to cut things from the book to make the movie. But I hate missing parts. I forget what movie it was but I was watching on with friends one time and I kept telling them we are missing this here and this was supposed to happen.

Blade Runner comes to mind. The Game of Thrones HBO series also has a drastically improved sense of flow and makes better use of its characters than the book series.

Shawshank Redemption, but it was based on a novella, so they had room to flesh it out.

No Country for Old Men was another.

No, because...


It doesn't really matter to me anymore, before or after. As you say, they can never beat the freedom and experience that a book gives me. I remember catching a TV show that was based on a book I had not read. The story was interesting, but I got so impatient with the show, that I went and bought the book and read it in one sitting just to experience the world and characters and see how things played out for them. :-)

P.S. I soooo do not appreciate you calling me a Coward after I showed you the error in your ways about certain things. ;-PP

I have never been a fan of Game of Thrones, the books or the T.V. series. I read a bit of the first book but it just never appealed to me for some reason. It's not that I don't like the genre, but for some reason I just did not like the books. The whole series (books and T.V. series) just does not appeal to me.

I got it and I'm a guy

Haven't read this one, but I must say that the actors did a damn fine job with their performances. This was actually the movie that made me appreciate Josh Brolin.


EDIT: typo

At least I never threw you in the pit of killer gamer nerds this time ;-).

I feel the same way. I like the genre, I just don't like Game of Thrones. I still watch it though. Uhm. Mostly for the human anatomy lessons. :P
And for Tyrion. I enjoy Tyrion and Bronn.

Sure, but you'll still know the plot, so watching a movie is like a big spoiler, isn't it?

That's good then. I don't know who that guy is though.

Do you think it would have been an improvement over the book if it was a series of movies and not a T.V. series? Or is the reason why the T.V. series improves upon the books because of the fact that the T.V. series has enough time to tell the story at a slower pace, including more details, characters and plot elements? Something that movies are unable to do due to time limitations.

The latter, I think. That said, Game of Thrones suffers a terminal case of what I like to call "Martin's Paradox", a plot-oriented version of Zeno's Paradox. Zeno's paradox is the idea that when you close in half of the distance between two points repeatedly, you constantly get closer but gradually slow down and never get to your destination. Martin's series is so bloated that man of his plot lines seem to never get any closer to finishing, despite getting some development over time.

There's an episode of South Park that has a similar take on the series. Two of the boys go to Martin's house to find out how the series ends because of reasons, and get invited in to wait due to one of the boys getting low blood sugar. Martin ostensibly orders pizzas to fix the blood sugar problem; when asked how the plot line involving dragons ends, Martin commences on a rambling synopsis of everything else going on in Westeros, no matter how inconsequential (also a lot of dick related stuff, because the writers of South Park think that a handful of onscreen male genitalia = dicks everywhere). This goes on for hours, during which Martin calls in an a capella choir to do a parody of the theme song for the show (again, dick oriented). Throughout the entire period, the boys keep asking when the dragons are coming, to which Martin says "don't worry, the dragons are coming, they're on their way"; the boy with low blood sugar also asks about when the pizzas are coming, to which Martin keeps responding, "the pizzas are on their way". Right as the boy with low blood sugar is about to pass out, the other boy demands to know when the pizzas are coming because of the other is almost about to faint, to which Martin responds by picking up the phone and asking what pizzas the boys would like.