A book and a movie
There is a book named "Taeback Mountain Range" published in early 1990's. It is set in the Korea right before the Korean war break out and it described the life and struggle of communist resistances. Literary critics evaluated that novel was great when it released. In the end of 1990's, it was transformed into a movie but it was failed to meet the expectation of neither literary critics and movie critics. I was also disappointed about that movie because It couldn't contain all the stories of the original novel.
I agree that there are many great movies as themselves. But when it comes to a movie transformed from a novel, I think it is very hard to tell movie is better than the original novel because of the limits of the genre by nature.
A book and a movie
There is a book named "Taeback Mountain Range" published in the early 1990's. It is set in Korea right before the Korean War broke out and it described the life and struggle of the communist resistance. Literary critics applauded that novel. At the end of the1990's, it was transformed into a movie, but it failed to meet the expectations of literary critics and movie critics. I was also disappointed about that movie because it couldn't contain all the stories of the original novel.
I agree that there are many great movies, but when it comes to a movie transformed from a novel, I think it is very hard for a movie to be better than the original novel because of the limits of the genre.