10 Movies That Were A Million Times Better Than The Book

Jaws the movie works so well as a movie that it is difficult to believe that it was ever a book in the first place. But it was and it was pretty successful too. Jaws the book was written in 1974 by shark fanatic, Peter Benchley. Benchley had heard about the ongoings of the fisherman Frank Mundus who would openly brag to fellow fishermen about his adventures at sea. Seeing this as a good opportunity to put both his passions together, he created Jaws.

Pretty much as soon as it was released, movie producers Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown secured the rights and selected the already legendary, Steven Spielberg, to direct it. It's hard to imagine Jaws as a book, especially when you also consider John Williams's sinister accompanying score.

The score is now just as famous as the movie and still has a profound effect on popular culture to this day. The movie (along with the soundtrack) was so scary that Spielberg was subsequently blamed for creating a newfound irrational phobia of sharks. People were even afraid to take baths!