‘I admit that the book isn’t aways better than the movie. Nevertheless, for me the book is nearly always better because it comes with Instant Replay.
Instant Replay saves the day for you when you are watching a football game on the TV. There is none, though, when you’re watching a movie on the TV. This means that when you are gifted with the talent to Overlook, or Misinterpret, as I am, you may lose the whole point of the movie. (Did you not notice the hand signal that Jack made to the doorkeeper just as he and Jill were climbing out of the taxi?)
Anyway, whatever the reason, whenever I begin to watch a movie I know in my heart I’m going to miss something somewhere. That is why the book is better. When you realize you can’t figure out what’s going on, you just go back, find the critical passage, and read it again. it is Instant Replay. This, in a nutshell, is why for me the book is always better than the movie.