Best book that was made into the worst movie!
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Re: Best book that was made into the worst movie!
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I'm with you guys on that! I was so disappointed in the first and got hopeful for the second. It was another waste of time. They changed so much, just to make up for the gap of time between the first and second movie.sahmoun2778 wrote: ↑06 Oct 2014, 10:44 The Percy Jackson movie was just horrible. My son and I had both really loved the book but they just butchered the story in the movie version.
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I'm definitely with you two on that! It's a shame, considering how well-written the Percy Jackson series is. It could have been a movie series on the level of Harry Potter if the studio had just taken it seriously enough. They changed way too much for absolutely no reason, and some of the decisions they made had me questioning if they had even read the books before beginning production.Nanig83006 wrote: ↑08 Jul 2018, 09:50I'm with you guys on that! I was so disappointed in the first and got hopeful for the second. It was another waste of time. They changed so much, just to make up for the gap of time between the first and second movie.sahmoun2778 wrote: ↑06 Oct 2014, 10:44 The Percy Jackson movie was just horrible. My son and I had both really loved the book but they just butchered the story in the movie version.
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Yes, I knew I wasn't missing out! I did buy the book, but I never opened it. Then I sold it a couple days later.
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Also, the final novel in the "Hunger Games" series made a weird transition to the big screen. The first half of the novel was very slow and not all that well paced, and I thought Mockingjay Part I was at least a better, livelier attempt at the same stretch of story. The weird part is that the opposite was true for Mockingjay Part 2. The ending to the "Hunger Games" series was actually excellently handled in the novels, and yet the only way I could describe 'Part 2' is as lifeless.
Then there's His Dark Materials. I watched the 2007 The Golden Compass when I was young and didn't think much of it. Recently though, I binge-read one of the most absorbing sagas ever written, and then re-watched the movie. Yikes. Everything that made the book so special was removed, and don't even get me started on the ending!
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I remember watching Jane Eyre and how frustrated I was with the movie and how much they left out and how they really could not develop the characters well enough. It would be a really difficult task to make a movie from Jane Eyre that would capture the book adequately. If I read a book and it is made into a movie, I usually will not go to the movie. It can never really do the book justice.
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Oh you should totally see the 1975 movie! It's so good and falls in line with the book. I have read and seen both. Ah, that 1975 version and that ending is....creepy and fantastic. I'm with you on the 2004 one. They missed the boat completely.Christina Rose wrote: ↑29 Jul 2017, 19:43I didn't mind Cujo so much, but with that particular book I happened to watch the movie first. In those situations, I don't tend to be bothered as much with inconsistencies and such.rssllue wrote:Another one is Cujo. The movie lacked so much of what made the book so appealing when I first read it. It was sometimes very painful to watch.
Now, with The Running Man, (from when Stephen King was still writing under his pseudonym) I was thoroughly disappointed in the movie.
Another horrible adaptation was The Stepford Wives(2004 film). The novel by Ira Levin wasn't the best, but it wasn't bad either. It was good enough for me to want to see the movie. Now, I haven't seen the original movie from 1975, but I liked the cast in the most recent adaptation, so I chose to watch that one. I think they were trying to just make it funny, where in reality that just ruined the story for me.
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Wise choice.
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for Thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety. ~ Psalms 4:8
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