Why books are better than movies

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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27 Comments

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Reply Abigail Laycock June 30, 2019 at 3:01 pm

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.

Reply Maggie May 12, 2020 at 4:41 pm
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! :)

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Reply Janardhana. G Kotian July 4, 2019 at 11:53 pm

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Reply izette August 4, 2019 at 11:00 pm

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Reply Vols Dreamer September 4, 2019 at 11:03 pm

100% of the time movies are better. 100%.

Reply You. October 7, 2020 at 1:22 pm
Dream on dreamer

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Reply ravi Manjoo September 22, 2019 at 5:55 am

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

Reply Why is Harry Potter such a big part of Dobie students’ lives? – Dobie News October 17, 2019 at 11:18 am

[…] 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. […]