That $35 audiobook that made me hate a good movie

I dropped $35 on the audiobook for Dark Matter by Blake Crouch before the Apple TV show came out. Figured I'd compare them like I always do. Turns out the book is so much better at explaining the multiverse stuff that the show just felt confusing and hollow to me after. Anyone else ever spent money on a book version and ended up liking it way more than the screen adaptation?

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burns.richard1d agoMost Upvoted

Oh man, that's a bummer. I mean, I totally get it though. Dark Matter is the kind of book where the pacing and the internal monologue really sell the whole multiverse anxiety thing. The show had to cut all that out for time and it just felt like a standard chase scene after a while. I've had the opposite happen with a few Stephen King books where the movie actually improved on the story, but it's rare. Usually the book just has so much more room to breathe and let you sit with the weirdness.

the_julia1d agoMost Upvoted

Three pages of internal monologue about a door handle versus three seconds of someone just walking through it. Sometimes less is just less.