Ok, so everyone has read at least one book, that has a movie based on it.
Now, i always hear people saying "the book is better than the movie."
but, in some cases. I really liked the movie better.
Like, "The Lord of the Rings." Those movies were really cool, but the books arent
as good imo. All they do is sing a bunch of songs and chants at any random point in the book.
That was cool at first, but it really got old.

Anyone Agree with me?

Books always beat the movie in my opinion there may be a rare case where the movie is just as good as the book sometimes better but thats hardly happened for me at least.

Of course books are better. The fact is that everybody likes different kind of books, what doesnt really apply to films. Most of people doesnt mind any kind of film as far as it is good, while even if book is good, many people wont read it. As to LOTR, the film isnt really better than the book. It has just more special effects than book and doesnt need your imagination while watching. Thats why LOTR became so popular after release of the film, it was easier for all those avarage people to watch the film than read the book. Books require a big attention while reading and only a few ambitious films need the same. Rest are productions that you turn off your brain and watch. Books have bigger potential than films. I know a lot of books which are great and have specific climate and moving them to the silver screen would not succeed. Of course there are also bad books just like films, but good book > good film, always.

i agree. just because lotr is a great movie, doesnt mean the book no longer has value.

book is always better, because the mind plays out so much more than any movie

Most books are better than the movie.

Books are better because they encompass so much more than the movie ever could.

To take an example... The Three Musketeers... there have been many movies about them but none to my knowledge protray the book in its entirety. It portrays certain parts of the book leaving others out, and more often than not the parts left out a very important.

The mind is always more imaginative when given the chance with a book, while watching a movie doesn't really lend room for you to imagine anything as it is all laid out there before you.

I still think the lotr books are better than the movies. And you must realize that those books were written in the '50s and Tolkien is basically responsible for creating teh Fantasy genre so it doesn't matter how the books are seen at the present they were the first of their kind, and some may argue the best.

Him and C.S. Lewis

I think books are only good if you don't watch the movie version of it...not that it's always true.
Like once you watch the movie version it crushes your personal imagined visuals of everything you had read in the book version, so the enjoyment is kinda ruined.

The books are FAR better. Sure reading books takes time and patience and a bit of imagination, but you get so much more out of a book then a movie. The book can go places and go into things that a movie cannot. Movies have a certain time slot they have to fill and they cut out A LOT of the good stuff. Books are far more in depth and far more real. Movies are powerful in their own way though, but i'm still not a big fan of them.