Good book to movie adaptations, and bad book to movie adaptations.
Good book to movie adaptations, and bad book to movie adaptations.
I would've added more, but a bulk of the others are highly argued about..
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The PJ movies made my heart bleed.....
ReplyDeleteAnother bad adaptation was City of Bones (stabbed in heart)
finally something that recognizes what a pile of poo the eragon movie was
ReplyDeleteLizz Roth no… no… they really weren't.
ReplyDeleteLizz Roth Yeah... they really weren't. Compared to the books they suck.
ReplyDeleteKichu L yes it's the first book in the mortal instruments
ReplyDeleteBut if you haven't watched the movie, don't do it before reading the book!!!
The last third of the movie was just.. just... (wail uncontrollably
Fight Club - great book to movie adaptation!
ReplyDeleteI watched the movie in class before I read PJO. After I read it, I wondered why it had the same name.
ReplyDeletetotally Dude!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteEragon and Percy Jackson are great series but the movies had to ruin them
ReplyDeleteThey did good jobs on Narnia and Lord of the Rings
ReplyDeleteLizz Roth say what?
ReplyDeleteAdd maze runner in bad. I actually didn't like the movie as much as I would've liked. They left out how they got out of the friggin maze!!!
ReplyDeleteBad doesn't even begin to describe it.
ReplyDeleteMaze Runner was great! I loved it!
ReplyDeleteeragon was unfortunately the worst movie adaptation I have ever seen
ReplyDeleteTFIOS was also not good.
ReplyDeleteIt's very very different from the book and they changed many key sentences!
Madison Roberts of course. The Percy Jackson movie is literally just the basic idea and they made their own story.
ReplyDeleteThose dam mortals.
Omg yes
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ReplyDeleteI second Drew Fisher. The book was great but what was with that damn unicorn.... And the write your own ending thing was really stupid....
ReplyDeletethose bad adaptations make me want to read the books
ReplyDeletetoo bad they don't sell them here :(
Mortal instruments should be on the bad side
ReplyDeleteBeautiful Creatures was terrible. I loved to book, but the movie was so confusing and the casting was all wrong.
ReplyDeleteLizz Roth Maybe you enjoyed them, but they were horrible adaptations, of great books.
ReplyDeleteNila Sekar But the spirit of the story is there. They were the same Gus and Hazel, from the book, from the way they acted, to their motivation.
ReplyDeleteAlso in both forms of media the idea of cancer is not romanticized, at all. Even John Green helped in the making. You know the 4 pages of imperial affliction we do see? They were written for the movie, by john himself.
I know they changed things here and there, like what Gus said at the egg throwing scene. But that is not what’s the most important thing. You should be glad you got a scene like that, at all. Most directors would see it as excess fat and trim it off.
There was a lot of time and effort, put into that movie, to make it have the same tone and characters and a lot of other things. There were even a looking for Alaska ref and nerd fighter(john and Hank green fans) references, if you look hard enough.
I know you have your own opinion and I guess I respect that. But what I’m saying is I don’t see your point.
Marie Irwin yes! Thank you, finally someone agrees! The movie= Terrible!! the book was great tho.
ReplyDeleteDivergent should be added to good adaptations. Everyone says they left out so much, but if you don't want a 10-hour-long movie, you've got to chop out a lot! The way they connected the scenes they left was superb, and the plot flowed well. They also made a lot of direct book-to-movie quotations, which I love.
ReplyDeleteI would say put Ender's Game up there, but I honestly cannot decide which to put it under. I know I have strong feelings about it, but I can't decide which way...
ReplyDeleteI mean, the first half was pretty good, and the second had its moments, but the last half just kinda threw the book out the window...
Anybody else got opinions on that one?
And Lord of the Rings deserves a place among the good. We do not speak of those abominations they call "The Hobbit."
Nathan Hone IDK, I thought the Hobbit movies were pretty good.
ReplyDeleteI would say the first Percy Jackson movie was good, but the second sucked.
ReplyDeleteThe Percy Jackson movies are HORRIBLE but the books are the most WONDERFUL and AMAZING THING IN THE WORLD.
ReplyDeleteCaleb Millette yeah even thought both movies were nothing like the books at least the first movie was kind of okay
ReplyDeleteJerrey Anne Nelson The one thing you do NOT want to say to Percy Jackson fandom: I LOVED THE MOVIES! You would get shot. By satyrs and demigods.
ReplyDeleteviv chan .......I sort of got that
ReplyDeleteI've always wanted a good movie.
But Isaac was different, Gus was supposed to have straight hair, they changed the 'he's a self-aggravandizing bastard' they missed so many scenes.
I don't mind the movie. What I hate is when people say "OMG the movie was just as good as the book! Loved it!"
But yeah.
I think the Hobbit should be up there... Considering the amount of information that is actually in the book, they chose to make it three movies instead of cutting a bunch and making it one movie... You really can't leave out information from the book in the movie otherwise you really won't understand it...
ReplyDeleteBut they made The Hobbit way too long. Honestly, I could have been fine with a four or five hour total adaption. But no, they had to make the movie to a 300 page children's-to-young adult book just as long as those of a 1000+ three part, six book series. There isn't enough material for it. So they made them (admittedly) really cool fight scenes bound semi-loosly by a plot which revolves around messing with the lore. And they weren't exceptionally well done.
ReplyDeleteSorry for the rant guys, but the purist inside me demands to be heard.
Nathan Hone I agree with everything you are saying except the hobbit is not a children's book, it may be label as one but I certainly don't think it is.
ReplyDeleteNathan Hone Preach it brother.
ReplyDeleteHow can you put Percy Jackson in Bad book
ReplyDeleteSameeksha Shetty They're not saying the books were bad. They're saying that the movies were bad according to the books.
ReplyDeleteOh my god YAS! The Eragon movie made me wanna cry because of its suckishness and so did the Percy Jackson ones. The Hunger Games movie was pretty good but they left out Madge....overall though, the Hunger Games was almost as good as the book. I my opinion the book is always better than the movie.
ReplyDeleteMatthew Ellis I know, I'm part of it. I've seen it happen to someone else.
ReplyDeleteI don't think the top three are good movie adaptions either.
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