Jennifer Lawrence returns to the big screen Friday in "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2," and bookworms everywhere rejoice. The film is the last in a hugely successful series and promises to live up to the hype.
How many times have you heard in a friend's movie review, "It was good, but the book was better?"
Well more often than not, that seems to be true. Internet reviewers tend to prefer the book versions of the stories that have been made into movies, according to a Big Crunch analysis. Only a few movies have better ratings than the books they're based on.
We used ratings data from Goodreads and the Internet Movie Database to run the numbers on recent book-to-movie productions.