Batty Bilson wrote:
All I can say is that if a novelization is better than the movie it's based on, that film must really be "challenged." smile.gif

Funny you should say that; I've always felt Alan Dean Foster's novelizations of the "Alien" movies were in somes ways better than the films themselves.  And those films (well, the first two anyway) were by no means "challenged."  Foster also did a novelization series of the Star Trek Animated Series that most fans will agree far surpassed the source material.