Most of the time books are better than movies. Books can let you imagine the setting or events happening in the story. They are also more detailed than movies because movies sometimes leave out some important details.
In some movies, they switch up the characters because in the book they are different and totally the opposite.
When we read a book, we tend to visualize the characters a certain way and in movies they don’t look like the way we want them too. It disappoints us in many ways. I’ve read books before that have a plot twist at the end and in the movie it never happens.
Movies tend to last about two hours and books take their time and last longer. Movies rush things so that they can end it fast and there. Not everyone has access to movies or can afford going to movie theatres but books can be borrowed at the library or from a friend.
Books are portable and can be read online as well, anytime. When reading books, we get more knowledge and it helps us improve our vocabulary. Characters are described much better and with more detail.
One important thing that books do have and movies don’t is that they provide more background information than a movie does.
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Movies, along with shows, can be extremely detailed and layered. They can draw attention in subtle ways to the concrete and abstract and allow for connections to be made in the most interesting ways. Movies can show the emotion one feels when the pain or happiness is indescribable: betond words. Movies and shows can illuminate a facet of humanity. They both provide a less limited ability to be creative and innovative. Books are amazing too. They can achieve things that movies and shows cannot, but the same applies vice versa. Making careless generalizations is more harmful than helpful. Applying one’s personal experience to a universal or absolute does not make whatever that is being said fact.
You can improve your vocabulary by watching movies, by paying close attention to what is being said and using subtitles. If the people responsible for creating the film are competent or creative, the movie might even provide more than the book. It can reveal a different lense through which a different perspective is revealed. Actually, it provides a multifaceted lense; multiple perspectives at the same time, like a symphony that harmonizes a multitude of seemingly separate parts. Furthermore, when it comes to book-to-movie adaptations specifically, there is a bit of a poisoning-the-well effect happening. One’s preconcieved notions tarnish what might have otherwise been enjoyable. It’s understandable wanting to preserve what one holds as precious (personal view/understanding of a book) but it’s wrong to lump (almost) all movies with whatever film there is a grudge against, whatever film shattered the picture. Movies (and shows) have their own merits too, and those merits deserve to be acknowledged.
the movie are only for you to watch, after 1 year you will forget about the movie, but if you read a book, after 10 years you will still remember! :)
THis is such a dumb point as it all depends on what you’re reading or watching. If you read something bad it’s not gonna stick with you, if your read something good it will. Same thing applies to movies. This whole argument which are better movies or books is stupid to. Cause after stating the good points which half the time aren’t even that good but are better then what the argument turns into, which is a mess of ignorant subjectivity which usually amounts to stating a point that can be applied to vice versa like yours. Not to mention is extremely flawed to.
As stated above movies and books have their own merits and downfalls, sometimes if done poorly their merits can be their downfalls. So once the proper argument cancels each point out which has been done millions of times before it ends up being what i stated above. This argument is stupid overdone and we should stop having it
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100% of the time movies are better. 100%.
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really reading books is better than watching movies because when we watch any movie we lost our three hours and when we read books we can save our three hours than we get a lot of knowledge and we can improve our vocabulary thank you for this article
[…] Akers said that he prefers the books. “The books have a lot more character and depth,” he said. The Los Angeles Times wrote an article titled: “Why books are better than movies. “Books can let you imagine the setting or events happening in the story,” the article read. […]
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books are much better than movies. Thank you. Movies are good but also bad
Same can be said vice versa
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[…] Gonzales, M. (2017). Why Books Are Better Than Movies. HS Insider. Retrieved from https://highschool.latimes.com/university-prep-value-high-school/why-books-are-better-than-movies/ […]
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This whole argument which is better movies or books is completely flawed as apart from being had and overdone the conversation with inevitably result in ignorant subjectivity. As once the “good” argument has been had the argument basically boils down to points that can be used vice versa and defeat the whole purpose of what the other is trying to achieve which can even been seen partially in the “good” argument with points like movies are 3 hours and u can’t pause when your in the theatre unlike books which you can read whenever you want and the 10 hours just fly by. Saying either point as a negative is ignorant at the very least as again it defeats the purpose of what the other is trying to achieve. And that’s one of the mediocre points. The really bad one is something like movies you will only rerember for 1 year unlike books which you will rerember for 10. I shouldn’t even have to explain this as I already have apart from also being increadably dumb. But basically if you read or watch something good you wil rerember it if you read or watch something bad or mediocre you will probally forget about it
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Books are better
It literally just depends on people’s preferences. Personally, i like movies because i find books kind of boring but books have a lot more advantages.
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