What film adaptation of a book has annoyed you the most?

[Squoze]

The movie Wanted. Not necessarily a bad movie, but once I read the graphic novel, seeing how they cut out a major topic from the film annoys me enough to like the original graphic novel more.

 

[whycantibelinus]

The Lost World, that book had incredible depth and story to it. The filmmakers just turned it into a pile of burning wreckage.

 

[caveman665]

I realy shouldn't have to say this, and im surpised no one else has already: TWILIGHT!!! Twilight was a crapy book series and is now an absoloutley god awfull movie series. Worst of all they took lycans (werewolves as the series incorrectly calls them) and vampires and turned them into preppy teen girl icons. I do want more people to like vampires and dark generes but not when there being turned into cutesie poo teen love stories (with bad acting)

 

[blackshark121]

I haven't seen a good Les Miserables adaptation.

 

[caveman665]

adding on to my last post Eragon was THE WORST MOVIE EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Books great, Movie -> ;'(

 

[Wintermoot]

Harry Potter 4 I was all excited to see the cheerleaders from both quiditch teams but they left the whole match out

 

[Smokeydubbs]

1984 and I Am Legend

My problem with 1984 is very small, but annoyed the hell out of me. Other than my nitpick, it hit the book spot on. Instead of calling people comrades, like in the book, they said brother and sister. That alone was enough to break my focus.

I Am Legend the book had vampires... not cancerific zombies.

 

[Dufaunce]

The Mist, a short story by Stephen King which just so happens to be one of my favorite pieces by him, was adapted into a film a couple of years ago. I refused to watch it on the basis that I loved the book so much and just knew that they would ruin it and never recreate the fear of being trapped in a supermarket whilst there's.... things... outside in the mist. Same thing with Garfield, that was always going to be a poor adaptation of a brilliant comic strip.

I agree with this one, one of the first books I ever owned was a collection of Stephen King shorts, The Mist being the first featured in the book and I really very much enjoyed it, particularly the whole this-is-just-a-diary-entry-so-you-dont-know-how-it-ends ending.

 

[Guy32]

Eragon.

I REALLY like the books, but the movie seemed rushed, alot of the scenes missing and too much happening at once.

Ya they cut out like 4/5 of the book to make room for fight scenes. And I didn't like the fight scenes.

WATCHMEN

What's most annoying about it is that's it's actually quite a good film. But there are so many tiny little details (and some absolute stinkers) that are either tweaked or just plain wrong that the film loses nearly all of it's demands on the audience. It no longer makes you think about it or even pay much attention, which annoys the fuck out of me.

They managed to make a decent movie called Watchmen, but they shouldn't have mentioned Alan Moore, they didn't tell the story he wrote.

I definitely get what you're saying, but I think they did a good job considering the movie would have to be at least 6 hours to get everything in.

 

[skullpile]

harry potter 6 they turned it in to angsty teen drama bullshit

 

[blankedboy]

Well, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy wasn't meant to be an adaption of the book, or the radio show, or any of the other contradictory adaptions. It was it's own stand alone continuity, and was based on Douglas' own script. Not to say that it was a very good movie, but it wasn't an adaption of the book so much as another alternative part of the Hitchhiker universe.

The HHGTTG movie was WAY better than the book, IMO. But the book wasn't that good to begin with, so yeah.

Eragon.

 

[Skeleon]

Golden Compass, I think.

 

[jarate]

Eragon, hands down.
They cut out the middle part of the plot, basically shooting themselves in the foot and negating any possibility of creating a sequel, because so much was left out. It was and remains the worst book to film adaptation I've ever had the displeasure to experience.

EDIT: after reading through the thread, I'm also adding I, Robot to my list. It was a good film, it just had nothing to do with the book at all.

I totally agree! Also every single Harry Potter movie has made me feel so disappointed.
And The Northern Lights(Golden Compass).I mean seriously they put the plot in the completely wrong order! Its just stupid.

 

[ThatsBitch3n]

I say A Clockwork Orange. The small things get me every time. AND Kubrick leaves out the last chapter, making it incomplete.

 

[Fortesque]

Its been said before but.. Eragon.

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[Erja_Perttu]

Sahara!

Oh my god Sahara was awesome as a book. It was not a literary masterpiece by any stretch ofthe imaginiation but it was fast paced, fun and the characters were likable. The plot was well thoughtout and world threatening, the action set pieces were great and the bad guys ending was deliciously sweet. There was a scene with such hopeless connotations I nearly couldn't finish it and in the movie...


Nothing. They left EVERYTHING out. I mean everything. They left out the mine, the fight at the foreign legion fort, basically the entire ending. It was the most crap adaptation I've ever seen, from a book I really enjoyed. Terrible.

(For some reason, no one can make a good movie of a Clive Cussler book. Raising the Titanic was atrocious as well)

 

[Master Kuja]

Though not technically a movie, it's a TV series adaptation of a series of books.

Legend of the Seeker series pissed me off so much, the amount of massively important plot details that the producers managed to cut out from the book always manages to surprise and stun me, it takes maybe the odd chapter from the source material and proceeds to butcher it horribly.

I specifically hated that, in the seris, they made Giller out to be a backstabbing dick, but in the book, he ended up being a good guy in the end.
Seriously, I've never been infuriated quite that much, I'd like to see how they manage to do the second series now, considering most of the stuff that links to the second book has been omitted from the series.

 

[sokka14]

harry potter.
they've been done so badly it's unreal. not that it's surprising when half the cast CAN'T ACT!!!

also, if you say LOTR, you are officially a fucktard.

 

[Amazon warrior]

I have to say that I think The Da Vinci Code made a semi-decent film, actually. Not great, but I think it's one of those rare cases where it's better than the book. But then, my opinion of the book is so low that it takes tea with creatures living in the Marianas Trench. I suspect Brown wrote it (and all his other books) with dollar signs and the words "movie rights" floating before his eyes. It's an appalling tedious piece of writing, and in this it is no different from any of the other books of his I've read. At least the film did its best to distract me, and they slicked over the bits where the supposedly genius-code-breaker, we-do-this-shit-for-a-living characters puzzled over something I'd figured out three pages ago. I actually have the film on DVD, but I'm odd in that I like having a supply of fairly rubbish films to put on while I'm doing something else, such as mini painting. I can ignore any semblance of "plot" with impunity, since I'm not that bothered anyway, and it forms a pleasingly varied aural wallpaper. A kind of white noise, if you will.

 

[Bozbezbozzel]

Troy.

They somehow changed the Iliad into a generic Hollywood story.

Also, I think the Twilight movie is actually better than the book. There is less gooey lovey-dovey fanfictionesque stupidity, and more resemblance of a plot.

It's still a terrible movie, but it's not as vomit-inducing as the book.