Yes.

The Richard Lester movies are remarkably true to the book. I love them both.

Alexandre Dumas was well aware of his heroes’ flaws, just as Ian Fleming was well aware of James Bond’s flaws, or Sergio Leone was well aware of The Man with No Name’s flaws. The swashbuckling genre generated by The Three Musketeers was often far less cynical than the original. Lester restored the hilarious cynicism of the original book.

D’Artagnan has several love affairs and tricks Milady into sleeping with him while she thinks she’s sleeping with her lover – and despite the fact that Constance is supposed to be his girl. Richelieu is actually much smarter than the King and has France’s welfare in mind. Ultimately, D’Artagnan ends up working for Richelieu and becomes good friends with Rochefort, who appeared to be the big baddie at the beginning of the tale.

It’s all a big game, life is cheap, and what redeems our “heroes” is that they are brave, daring, clever, and just plain awesome and the people they kill are either non-entities or truly villainous – even more villainous than our heroes.

There are still some novelizations, as you can see in the article below, but they were much more popular before it was so easy to watch movies at home.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelization

Ursula Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea.

Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn.

J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit.

C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

William Goldman’s The Princess Bride.

T.H. White’s The Once and Future King.

J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan.

It’s pretty well known. BNW, 1984, and Fahrenheit 451 are often cited as the three best classic dystopian novels. 1984 is the most well known of the three, perhaps because it was a not-so-subtle critique of Stalinism, and therefore originally had the most connection to then-current events. However, for that same reason it now seems the most dated, since Stalinism has been thoroughly discredited even in Russia.

Keep in mind that all tropes can be done well, and often were done well by some classic book. But then they get overused or done badly and that’s when I find them irritating.

Love triangles that take forever to resolve. Make up your mind!

Multiple fake-out deaths. After a while I just want someone to really die!

On the other hand, I’m also tired of so many people dying that all the people I liked are gone, and the few remaining original characters now have impenetrable plot armor because someone has to survive from beginning to end.

Historical fiction or fantasies that romanticize the past to an absurd extent.

Orphans. So many orphans.

Reckless protagonists who never suffer the consequences of their recklessness. Sensible friends who are berated for being sensible. Or maybe they are persuaded to be reckless too and find out it’s great and there are no consequences.

Traumatic incidents that leave zero scars and are never referenced again.

Nothing has been as popular as Harry Potter before or since. It’s one of a kind, and unlikely to be repeated any time soon.