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Sometimes the movie can be even better than the book. The Godfather
book was just another (slightly better that average) potboiler, but
the movie was one of the greatest of the 20'Th century. Much more
recently the book "The prestige" was pretty good but the movie (made
by the fellow who directed Batman and staring the actor who played
Batman) was absolutely superb, perhaps the best movie of the last 10
years.

The Potter movies certainly weren't better than the books, but they
were far better than we had any reason to suppose; they could have
easily been dreadful but they weren't, probably because JKR, if not
veto power at least had some control over them.  The movie makers know
that it would devastate the box-office if she said "the new Harry
Potter movie is terrible and I hope all my fans do not see it"; so
they want to keep her happy. 

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