re: Do you think it's possible to make a movie better than the book?

Yes. Legally Blond is better than the book.

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That said, most are awful...see most sci-fi/fantasy adaptations.

Ender's Game

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To be fair, Ender's Game was never going to work as a movie; at least not an epic blockbuster.
If you wanted to stay true, you can't show any space battles, no CGI at all. It would have been watching Ender play Stellaris or some space version of Total War all movie, as he bonds with his classmates. And then when he passes the "test" at the end, you break the news.

Do that, and people will feel cheated that there was no action to watch, and say "well that was just a fricked up premise".

I do think you can make a great movie out of a so-so book, but it's nearly impossible to make a great book into a BETTER movie. The LOTR trilogy was great, the books were better.

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Jurassic Park

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I enjoyed the movie more than the book but I always figured it’s bc I saw the movie before reading the book.

Fire Starter and The Dead Zone are two Steephen King movies that were better than the books.

The Mist as a whole was not better but the ending blew the book's out of the water

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To be fair, Ender's Game was never going to work as a movie;

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I agree. It probably would have worked as a series though.

And you can can easily show all the battles. The set up would basically be exactly like esports are now.

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No Country for Old Men

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Figured that would show up here. No.

I love the movie. The book is still better, and I've read it at least 8 times because it is that good. The book isn't all that long. It was written as a screen play by Cormack McCarthy, and took a while for the Coen's to get to it. Almost every word in the movie is from the book. But the book has two important parts that had to be left out. The first is the hitchhiker - the other woman found at the motel with Llewelyn. Great dialogue in the book, it had to be left out for brevity I guess, OK, but this is why books are better. Second, Sheriff Bell's WWII backstory. That was important for understanding the ending and should not have been left out, period. So no, NCFOM book is better than the movie; and the movie is great.

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KCSilverTigerDo you think it's possible to make a movie better than the book

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The Godfather was a much better movie than book

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The book isn't all that long. It was written as a screen play by Cormack McCarthy, and took a while for the Coen's to get to it. Almost every word in the movie is from the book.

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This is they way I feel about the book Wiseguy and the movie Goodfellas. I initially thought Goodfellas was one of the best movies ever made but its best lines are drawn verbatim from the book. They are too different to compare though.

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Lord of the rings. Fight me.

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You have my sword.

I started reading Fellowship after watching both it and the Two Towers movies, and only got halfway through Book 1 (so, a quarter of the way through Fellowship). I stopped because I realized that the amount I had read that could probably fill a whole movie, and we hadn’t gotten to hiding from the ringwraiths. Beyond what was shown in the film, nothing was going to matter in the long run, so why was I still reading.