> Now that I think about it, the movie Ender's Game was pretty faithful to the source novel, but probably fell down as a movie because of it. I felt the same w

> Now that I think about it, the movie Ender's Game was pretty faithful to the source novel, but probably fell down as a movie because of it. I felt the same way about Watchmen. The film is remarkably faithful (mostly), but I guess the flow/rhythm/pacing just doesn't work the same way on-screen as it does on-page. Interestingly, there are examples of the book author also being the screenwriter and doing a fairly loose adaptation. The most prominent example that comes to mind is The Princess Bride; the book had a much darker and more cynical tone than the film.