I don't know if I'd agree, necessarily. I think each version was good for the medium in which it appeared. That is, I think the movie version played better *in a movie* than the book version would have; but I'm not sure the movie version would have been better *in a book*, than the book version.
Uhm, am I making sense? :)
I guess I was trying to say that the movie version was more moving than the book version.