Do you guys really get satisfied from a movie taken from a book?

There are very few movie adaptations that measure up to the novels they're based on. However, there are exceptions (Jaws, The Green Mile, The Wizard of Oz), and sometimes movies are quite amazing in their own right, IF you can separate them mentally from the books. This is something I've often had trouble with, but I really enjoyed the Harry Potter and LOTR series on screen despite the changes and the things that were lacking. Would I have been more satisfied if Harry Potter had (for instance) included more about the House Elves, or if LOTR hadn't completely omitted Tom Bombadil? Yeah, I suppose I would. But I'd still give those movies very high marks AS movies, with the understanding that almost nothing is as good as a well-written story. :)

The Lord of the Rings movies were much better than the books, I don't know what you're talking about. I personally can't sit and read an outdated writing style from the 30s, but that's just me. I would disagree with all of the people that say the books are always better than the movies, because books don't have the visual aspect, which is a pretty huge thing. That's a whole other dimension of story telling; a dimension which only movies possess. Sure you can sit there using your imagination to try and imagine what everything looks like, but it's almost always a distortion, whether you notice it or not. Movies are a solution to that problem.

Who says frodo is made into a useless character in either the books or the movies? Also, I agree with you that movies based off books are almost always worse than the book itself, and that's because the director can't fit all of the detail of a good book like LOTR into a 2 hour movie, it's just not possible. On that note, I also think that the LOTR movies are the best that they could have been. Theres no way they would be better than the books, thats just ridiculous, but I think that they were very well made for a film in that genre.

Adaptations in general are really bad. Exception: Harry Potter series. The movies were incredibly true to the books, even if they had to trim down the subplots.

Video games from movies from books, by the way, are cruxs of suffering used to bring the Dark Ones into this realm on the Day of Reckogning.

For me, it depends on the book being adapted into a film. I always seem to have a preconceived notion of book-to-movie adaptions because I'm always so quick to judge the cast chosen, director, etc. Book-to-movie adaptions such as the Hunger Games leave out small details and stay true to the book, which leaves me satisfied as a fan of the original novel but I always seem to prefer the books, regardless.

I really liked the movie "Up in the Air" with George Clooney, so I read the book, and I did not like it. The movie changed the book a lot, and made it better!

I don't mind them leaving out some stuff. But it gets irritating if they waste time introducing extra elements and scenes.

Glad I'm not the only one who hated the LotR films.