> Billions and billions spent on making movies as polished as possible, yet "I thought the book was better" is what we always hear.
The reason: the movie is often the worse copy of the book. Very often, movies get made of successful and often well-written books. So, the movie has a high hurdle to overcome to be even better than the book.
(if movies were made of "average" books, this would likely be different, but this typically makes no commercial sense)
On the other hand, literary offsprings (books based on and book spin-offs) are created from movie. These are, by the same reason, also typically worse than the movie.
The reason: the movie is often the worse copy of the book. Very often, movies get made of successful and often well-written books. So, the movie has a high hurdle to overcome to be even better than the book.
(if movies were made of "average" books, this would likely be different, but this typically makes no commercial sense)
On the other hand, literary offsprings (books based on and book spin-offs) are created from movie. These are, by the same reason, also typically worse than the movie.