Are Books Better than Movies?

A new age of movies h as begun. Companies like Disney and Dreamworks have noticed a recent lull in people going to cinemas to enjoy their movies. Why waste the money to go out or buy it when it'll be on Netflix soon enough? This dilemma has caused a shift in the way movies are made. The quality has increased and a bit of nostalgia gets thrown into each one. I see all over my feed on social media lists upon lists of movies based on books being released. 

Book lovers will argue that they're intentionally ruining books they love and selling them for less than their worth. they'll believe that the movies are wrong and inaccurate. Fans will rave about how much better the book was, how much more detail was included, how it felt so much more realistic in their head. 

I've fallen victim to all of these. When a title I recognize is coming to theaters I must see it in live-action. I used to enjoy the comparison. Setting each scene next to each other and nitpicking every detail. Comparing what the book did well and what the movie did better. Lately, the movies have become less and less similar to their paper counterparts. It is difficult to look at them as imitations of another person's work. It is easier to look at books as the inspiration for the screenplays. They use the same characters and even the same scenes or dialogue, but they take these ideas and they turn them into something you can watch rather than experience with the character

Thinking of movies this way makes watching them easier and more appealing. It isn't necessary to compare them, but rather analyze each for what it is by itself. Rather than being pieces of each other, they are simply similar and of the same inspiration.