# Favorite movies that are books **URL:** \ **Category:** Unrelated Discussion\ **Created:** [November 10, 2025, 11:19am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/favorite-movies-that-are-books/435913 "2025-11-10T11:19:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CannibalCricket](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/cannibalcricket/32/665098_2.png) [@CannibalCricket](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/CannibalCricket)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 11:19am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/favorite-movies-that-are-books/435913/1 "2025-11-10T11:19:16Z")
What is your favorite movie that is also a book you enjoy? So I typically prefer the book to the movie but I like both. A Scanner Darkly, Fight Club, and Phantoms are my top three. Jurrasic Park and Starship Troopers get honorable mentions because they are awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Sam](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/sam/32/276240_2.png) [@Sam](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 11:47am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/favorite-movies-that-are-books/435913/2 "2025-11-10T11:47:32Z")
If you put subtitles on it’s like every movie is a book. ---
**Author:** ![MuppetLabs](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/muppetlabs/32/289661_2.png) [@MuppetLabs](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MuppetLabs)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 12:15pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/favorite-movies-that-are-books/435913/3 "2025-11-10T12:15:49Z")
Lord of the Rings The trilogy is collectively my favorite book and my favorite movie. Extended edition of course. 🧐 ---
**Author:** ![rkalajian](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/rkalajian/32/672584_2.png) [@rkalajian](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/rkalajian)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 12:21pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/favorite-movies-that-are-books/435913/4 "2025-11-10T12:21:08Z")
LotR, The Princess Bride, and Jurassic Park are the first three that pop to mind. ---
**Author:** ![CannibalCricket](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/cannibalcricket/32/665098_2.png) [@CannibalCricket](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/CannibalCricket)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 12:28pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/favorite-movies-that-are-books/435913/5 "2025-11-10T12:28:27Z")
I didn’t know The Princess Bride is a book!? Heck yeah. Looking for that now ---
**Author:** ![CannibalCricket](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/cannibalcricket/32/665098_2.png) [@CannibalCricket](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/CannibalCricket)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 12:31pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/favorite-movies-that-are-books/435913/6 "2025-11-10T12:31:02Z")
I think Jim Gaffigan said ,”You know what I liked about the movie? No reading!” ---
**Author:** ![Splizacular](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/splizacular/32/640487_2.png) [@Splizacular](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Splizacular)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 12:35pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/favorite-movies-that-are-books/435913/7 "2025-11-10T12:35:04Z")
> [@CannibalCricket](#): > > The Princess Bride is a book which means the movie is about a book thats about a man reading a book 🤭 ---
**Author:** ![CannibalCricket](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/cannibalcricket/32/665098_2.png) [@CannibalCricket](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/CannibalCricket)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 12:36pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/favorite-movies-that-are-books/435913/8 "2025-11-10T12:36:36Z")
Could listen to Peter Falk read the phone book…just one more thing ---
**Author:** ![NuroVolt7](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/nurovolt7/32/671908_2.png) [@NuroVolt7](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/NuroVolt7)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 2:39pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/favorite-movies-that-are-books/435913/9 "2025-11-10T14:39:09Z")
Chronicles of Narnia. Especially _Voyage of the Dawn Treader_ ---
**Author:** ![MuppetLabs](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/muppetlabs/32/289661_2.png) [@MuppetLabs](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MuppetLabs)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/favorite-movies-that-are-books/435913/10 "2025-11-10T14:46:38Z")
The 1980s BBC version was an integral part of my childhood. ---
**Author:** ![RBT](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/rbt/32/274301_2.png) [@RBT](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/RBT)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/favorite-movies-that-are-books/435913/11 "2025-11-10T14:49:33Z")
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest The Colour Purple The Grapes of Wrath To Kill a Mockingbird ---
**Author:** ![Ironical\_Monocle1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/ironical_monocle1/32/244603_2.png) [@Ironical\_Monocle1](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Ironical_Monocle1)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 3:33pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/favorite-movies-that-are-books/435913/12 "2025-11-10T15:33:01Z")
The Shining, The Silence of the Lambs and of course the LOTR trilogy ---
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Re-Animator Hitchiker’s guide to the galaxy Stranger than fiction Naked Lunch Thinner Salem’s lot The Fly Fight Club The Never Ending Story Children of the corn A clockwork orange A walk in the woods Pet cemetery Choke The mist Candyman Congo Creepshow 1 - 3 Dracula Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind Hellraiser Perfume Jaws I know what you did last summer Prozac nation Spawn (comic / graphic novel) The Crow Misery Silence of the lambs American Psycho / Psycho The Exorcist Invasion of the body snatchers The Thing ---
**Author:** ![AtomicChessGuy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/atomicchessguy/32/606394_2.png) [@AtomicChessGuy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/AtomicChessGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/favorite-movies-that-are-books/435913/14 "2025-11-21T14:38:30Z")
Harry Potter ---
**Author:** ![CannibalCricket](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/cannibalcricket/32/665098_2.png) [@CannibalCricket](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/CannibalCricket)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/favorite-movies-that-are-books/435913/15 "2025-11-21T17:45:01Z")
Ive watched 16 and read 5. Guess I should read more ---
**Author:** ![CannibalCricket](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/cannibalcricket/32/665098_2.png) [@CannibalCricket](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/CannibalCricket)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2025, 4:21pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/favorite-movies-that-are-books/435913/16 "2025-11-22T16:21:23Z")
The Girl with all the Gifts. Watched that one and just found out it’s a couple books. Also Under the Skin is a weird one off. The director refused to read the book but took the synopsis and ran with it. Pretty cool ---
**Author:** ![YoyoGeezer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yoyogeezer/32/755_2.png) [@YoyoGeezer](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/YoyoGeezer)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/favorite-movies-that-are-books/435913/17 "2025-11-22T17:04:27Z")
The Wizard of Oz ---
**Author:** ![CannibalCricket](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/cannibalcricket/32/665098_2.png) [@CannibalCricket](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/CannibalCricket)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/favorite-movies-that-are-books/435913/18 "2025-11-22T17:04:49Z")
Those are really good books ---
**Author:** ![Splizacular](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/splizacular/32/640487_2.png) [@Splizacular](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Splizacular)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2025, 5:25pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/favorite-movies-that-are-books/435913/19 "2025-11-22T17:25:03Z")
> [@cowmamba](#): > > Salem’s lot '79 or '24? ---
**Author:** ![cowmamba](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/cowmamba/32/270859_2.png) [@cowmamba](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/cowmamba)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2025, 7:19pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/favorite-movies-that-are-books/435913/20 "2025-11-22T19:19:36Z")
79 I haven’t seen the new one.