What is the worst movie adaptation you've ever seen?

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Most book adaptations are actually really good: LOTR, Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, Divergent, Hunger Games etc.

I'd say HG/Divergent were fine. As was Mortal Instruments. Although the Shadowhunters TV show is atrocious.

I hate Maze runner though (another YA movie adaptation). What do you think?

Original post by samina_ay

Twilight

Really??

I don't think the source was that good to begin with. My opinion was that the movies were acceptably faithful.

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hellodave5

Every film adapted from a game. Though I didn't mind the first Hitman too much

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Kvothe the Arcane

Original post by ZuluK

A series of unfortunate events :colonhash:

Let's hope the Netflix Series (starring NPH) is better :awesome:

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ZuluK

Original post by Kvothe the arcane

Let's hope the Netflix Series (starring NPH) is better :awesome:

Omg omg omg OMG omg omg omg OMG !!!! How did I not know this????? I can't wait!!!! I love Neil!!!!!!

Hopefully it'll be good :h:

thanks for telling

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samina_ay

Original post by Kvothe the arcane

I'd say HG/Divergent were fine. As was Mortal Instruments. Although the Shadowhunters TV show is atrocious.

I hate Maze runner though (another YA movie adaptation). What do you think?

Really??

I don't think the source was that good to begin with. My opinion was that the movies were acceptably faithful.

The acting was painful to watch. Was better in my head tbh

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username1504459

the last airbender was so crap :biggrin:

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Gwilym101

Original post by Kvothe the arcane

You've mentioned my number 1 which was Eragon. Absolutely awful film.

Unlike you, I actually did enjoy The last Airbender :colondollar:

. Thought it was mediocre.

2. The Golden Compass

It lacked the controversy of the source material and the resultant movie was some terrible boring thing which fell flat. I felt like the magic of the book was lost. Definitely worth skipping.

3. The giver
Fairly unfaithful to the book. Action added as well as a romance due to MC being aged up to 16 from 12.

Oh god I had forgotten the Golden Compass, I thought it did a lot right. Ian Mckellen as Iorek was brilliant, but yeah how they got so much wrong was baffling. They cut the Northern Lights scene from the book called the Northern Lights FFS.

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Gwilym101

Original post by hellodave5

Every film adapted from a game. Though I didn't mind the first Hitman too much

This could be the year that changes.

Ratchet and Clank, Warcraft and Assassins Creed come out this year, plus they've just cast the woman from Ex Machina to play Lara Croft.

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unprinted

The Village of the Damned remake. All of the intelligence of the original Midwich Cuckoos book (and the first film version) was taken out.

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Reply 29

hellodave5

Original post by Gwilym101

This could be the year that changes.

Ratchet and Clank, Warcraft and Assassins Creed come out this year, plus they've just cast the woman from Ex Machina to play Lara Croft.

You're right, that's true.
Warcraft is by a great director but not one with a lot of history, and that lass was great (and very attractive :biggrin:

) in Ex Machina

Reply 30

Mackay

The Great Gatsby is up there tbh.

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Kvothe the Arcane

Original post by AngryJellyfish

Tales from Earthsea. :yucky:

I thought it was quite bad in its own right, before I read the Earthsea Quartet - after reading the books, it seemed thousands of times worse. Why blend the stories and characters together into a badly paced, incoherent mess when a straight adaptation of any of them would have made for fantastic viewing? :frown:

What did you think of Dragon Ball Evolution :/ ?

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AngryJellyfish

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Original post by Kvothe the arcane

What did you think of Dragon Ball Evolution :/ ?

Haven't watched it. :dontknow:

Reply 33

That Bearded Man

The Bone Collector and Jack Reacher aka One Shot

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nulli tertius

I think you will have difficulty beating a film called Murder at the Gallop based on an Agatha Christie novel called After the Funeral

Here are some behind the scenes clips from the faithful TV version with David Suchet as Poirot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_C4N8HjEjs

Here is the film Murder at the Gallop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CHFkkkxaJw

with Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple dancing the jitterbug

Reply 35

asif007

Original post by Kvothe the arcane

I'd say HG/Divergent were fine. As was Mortal Instruments. Although the Shadowhunters TV show is atrocious.

I hate Maze runner though (another YA movie adaptation). What do you think?

I've never seen Mortal Instruments or Maze Runner. Never really felt the desire to watch them, haha.

Never heard of Shadowhunter either! Will Google it.

I did enjoy Stormbreaker, which was an adaptation of the first book in the Alex Rider series. Even though it did really badly I was hoping they would keep going and make sequels, but it looks like that's never going to happen. :frown:

Reply 36

asif007

If you count comic book movies as adaptations, there's a few that were really bad:

Spoiler

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saladays

Okay. So. This is very unfair of me, I know: but Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. I can see from the trailer alone that not only the characters and some very fundamental plot elements gave been changed, but the whole theme itself, as if appealing to a significantly you get demographic. Perhaps the film might be different. But I have little hope.

Reply 38

It's****ingWOODY

House of the Dead. Brilliantly fun games, boring AF film and stupidly bizarre at times.

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zara_ruby

The Mortal Instruments, was not a big fan of a lot of the cast amongst other things. The netflix tv series Shadowhunters I don't love but is a lot better