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Books! Movies.
Debate Score:38
Arguments:25
Total Votes:42
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Which is better... the book or the movie?

Self explanitory

Books!

Side Score: 26
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Movies.

Side Score: 12
2 points

Books, hands down. Most people who answer "movie" probably haven't read the book. I challenge anyone to read Nabakov's Lolita and compare it to the movie, East of Eden with its good, but bastard and inadequate counterpart, Heart of Darkness to the Hollywood remake: Apocalypse Now.

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Whenever they make a movie adaptation from a book they almost always screw It up. In the movie East of Eden they really messed up. The started it two thirds of the way through. Books are way better because movies rarely make good adaptations.

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The desire for instant gratification (a quick 2 hour movie) without having to think (without having to use you imagination) is destroying this country.

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kmjnhh123(278) Disputed
1 point

no way movies are like exciting as in big loud music violence all that stuff not boring old books which are dyeing out

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Well, go and watch all the movies you want and don't read a damn thing. But don't be surprised when you grow up and one of my daughters is the boss of you ;)

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Manastacious(22) Disputed
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Point A) Books are most definitely not dyeing out. Libraries are flourishing and three times as many books are made compared to movies.

Point B) Saying that books are not as exciting as movies is ludicrous. The movie came from the book, so if you have enough imagination then you see all the action clearer than that in a movie.

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2 points

Definately books. Movies is something you can enjoy with other people and all of it's special effects etc. is great to enjoy, but give me a great book over a great movie any day.

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2 points

You can always make your own interpretation of what a story should be during a book, but a movie is interpreted for you, thus ruining the whole experience.

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2 points

Reading a book may take longer, but it definitely gives more entertainment than watching a movie.

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I love to read a book that they then turn into a movie and not be disappointed in the end. Books are important for the details are all there that they couldn't fit into a two hour movie. In a movie you get the gist of the plot with some detail but not all. I prefer to read the book but I've had it go the other way too...reading the book after the movie. One I can remember was a mini-series made for TV which was awesome in it's detail and story line. But there was still a bit more in the book they just couldn't cover.

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2 points

Books give more detail of the scene is and gives a picture in your head, with a movie it gives the least detail and doesn't make you think about it, you see it that's it!!

Book's make you imagine wat you think whatever you read, when you see a movie that came originally from a book you get usually dissapointed in what evverything looks like and they don't give great detail!

AND THEY SKIP GOOD PARTS SOMETIMES!

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1 point

a book gives scope for u r own imagination but in a movie u have to go alng with it

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1 point

Books.Books are more of a personal thing.....................but imagination is better than both.

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1 point

Because imagination is better than both ,i could take a lot of the debators from this site and casting you all as the main charactors,compose one of the greatest books ever written OR one of the greatest movies to ever be produced.

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1 point

Books are better then movies because it allows you to imagine what the characters look like. Plus you can read a book over and over but eventually watching a movie would get boring.

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Books are always better. Books are always more detailed. For those who say movie, have you ever the read compared to the movie.

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0 points

When ever a read a book and see the movie I almost always get disappointed. Books are way better than movies.

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2 points

i frankly say that movies are better, why?

'coz it

flows out your imagination, you need not sit and read and then think

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pvtNobody(645) Disputed
2 points

So basically what you're really saying is that you're too lazy to read.

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2 points

it ends in 2 hours whereas book takes weeks together

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Tugman(749) Disputed
1 point

If you can read well then a book won't take weeks ro read. You could read in a few days. There are studies that show reading can improve test scores.

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2 points

+ the the female actors almost all are hot

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1 point

it gives pleasure whereas books kill the time

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Side: Movies.

well, if we watch movies, we not only be entertained, but it gives us and evokes us with a variety of feelings. We can also understand the story line more easily... and definitely, it etches in our minds more deeply and we can recall it more vividly...

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In most cases, the movie is better than the book. I read "Frankenstein" but the movie was so much better than the book.

Side: Movies.