The ending really was better on the movie. Reality might have been a little more likely to end not-so-cleanly like the book did, but the sequence in the movie is so well executed that it’s perfect.

“Captain’s scared them out of the water!!”

LOTR, not because the books were bad, but because Peter Jackson’s vision-come-to-life was a masterpiece

The Hunger Games series, specifically the last one. Katniss is unconscious for so much of the action in the third book. Raiding the capital? No worries, Katniss will be in bed for two weeks and just wake up to psycho Peeta. Etc.