Of course it is legal to say that you liked the book, but dislike the movie, and you conclude that the book is better. It is just a statement like you said comparing michelangelo and picasso, you can say it, even if those things are not really compareable, but let´s not be so fussy

Comparing the quality of a media itself is absolutely o.k. (like you meant a picture of rubens and a novel from Brezina), but that´s right what i meant with: “good / bad book” and “good / bad movie”, the important part is just that most people have wrong expectations of a movie…

And you brought up a very good point, comic and video game adaptions, the same idea goes for these media.

(… some weeks ago you made the argument that no matter if movie or series its all about the character which makes it great. i said well they are different media with different possibilities, but you said, still characters metter most. of course you could stretch that argument on any media you like…)

anyway. i get your point, but you can still say that is a high class book and a shitty movie so objectively the book is better. or the other way round. what comes hard to judge is when both book and movie are very good (or very bad), so its hard to tell which is better. but same goes with movies on each other or any art form you like. you cant just argue on an rational level if michelangelo is better then picasso or mozart is better than beethoven (i mean you can but thats mostly bullshit). at that level its just personal preferences. but you can still see at one glance that a picture of rubens objectively has more quality than a novel by thomas brezina.

but whats absolutely true in your argument is that most people come with false expectations into a movie of a novel, and this expectations of course cant be fulfilled. same goes with comic and video game adaptions.

Miso writes about books <> movies:

In the past i quite often had discussions about whether a film adaption of a book is as good as the book itself, or even better, that a film could never come near the book.
In my opinion comparing a book with …