I agree with @ucme. I am currently reading The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and I am just trying to race through all the crap- he repeats everything sooo many times- to get to the actual exciting story bit. 80% into the book and I think I’m there. I love the movie- and even if I’d read the book first, I would still like the movie better.
Also, I’m going to try to explain something else here. Although the Harry Potter books are pretty much my favourite books of all time and probably always will be, because the movies started coming out quite early, I also love them so much. They obviously could have done better with the first couple, but because they hold special memories for me and came out while I was still young, I can’t not love them. And they have gotten better as they go along- truer to the books. They still… I don’t know. They obviously haven’t put everything in that they should have or could have, and might have to make up for that in the last two movies… but I love them just the same. I love them the most when I don’t actually compare them to the books. When I don’t nitpick. So maybe like MacBean I have an “as good as the books” list, and the Harry Potter movies are on it, mostly for sentimental reasons, but maybe in the case of the 6th, and hopefully the two halves of the 7th, for the movies themselves.
Ooh ooh and I thought of another one! Holes. The movie is pretty much identical to the book by Louis Sachar. I’m pretty sure that’s because he wrote the screenplay or something. But yeah. Love them equally so in my “as good as the book” list too.