A History of Violence Breaks One of Cinema's Oldest Clichés — gizmodo.com

"The book was soooo much better" is a phrase that screams to me "let's not be friends." It is almost a given at this point, that whenever one thing is adapted from another thing, the original thing is always vastly superior—except when it's not. One bit of big movie news this week is Chris Pratt signing on for another comic book adaptation, this time A.J. Lieberman's Cowboy Ninja Viking. This news got me wondering when was the last time I saw a movie that was actually better than the comic it was based on. Immediately this film came to mind.

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