Now, just think of the actor that you dislike the most and put him in the movie role of Michael instead of Pacino. Would you still think that the movie was better than the book? A movie stimulates different parts of the brain than a book does. A book requires that our brains work harder than when we view a movie. A book requires that we work; a movie only requires that we view it. It's an intellectual difference.

A picture is indeed worth a thousand words.