What book did you love but hate as a movie?

Question

You read a book or story and love it then a movie adaptation is made and it is horrible. Don't you hate that?

Answer 1

Almost any Stephen King book that has been made in to a movie.

Answer 2

In my opinion all books that they have adapted to television could possibly be renamed an entirely different name than the original book altogether. They have to compact a book for viewing whilst trying to keep the original plot going however, it seems that the world of books and the imagination is completely different than the world of TV and often even the original plot doesn't work. I would have to say i have never watched a movie yet that has captured the meaning of the book. This must leave authors shaking their heads. I would like to point out one possible exception and that was the day of the triffids. Was a short book with an easy plot and not a bad movie. Thanks.

Answer 3

Stephen Kings IT. There is no way the fear and unknown could be translated into a movie. I can't imagine why they would even try. The Green Mile was a good movie not as good as the book though. I think it may be that books play off OUR imagination and since that is different for each of us their is no way you can make a movie that will incorporate all that our brains are capable of imagining in a book. JUST GOES TO SHOW HOW POWERFUL THE HUMAN MIND IS!

Answer 4

I have to agree on the Stephen King books (with the previously noted exception of the Shawshank Redemption). Most books make disappointing movies. Two stand out in my mind as good. 1. A Room With a View

2. Lonesome Dove (actually a miniseries) I love Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones - they were excellent.

Answer 5

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe until the recent live-action spectacular. Especially the incomparable Tilda Swinton as Jadis, the White Witch.



Though I have to agree with Cheaper by the Dozen and the every Stephen King movie, except that I beg to differ as to The Shawshank Redemption and Delores Claibourne. King seems to fare better on the big screen without the supernatural horror themes.



Just my opinion, as always.



Adastra, the Wizzard of Jacksonville

Answer 6

Just about every Stephen King book. Cold Mountain was massacred, and even the DaVinci Code was a mess - although it would have been entertaining if you hadn't read the book. On the other hand, if you hadn't read the book, I don't think you could have made ANY sense of the movie. And the ending sucked.

Answer 7

The Animal Farm By Orwell, Jane Eire by E. Bronte, almost any book of the classic literature...

Generally speaking, the book is usually much more interesting than the movie adaptation.

Only some books by S.Sheldon i liked more as movie than the book itself, but he was the producer for his movies, maybe that's why.

Answer 8

Needful Things By Stephen King

Answer 9

The 3 movies made out of the Lord of the Ring books.

Tolkien must have turned around in his grave because these books cannot me made into a movie. and the movies don't do the books any justice.

Answer 10

They did a horrible job with Cheaper By the Dozen. They should have given it a different name so people wouldn't expect something 1/2 way like the book.

Answer 11

The Deep End Of The Ocean...

The book was awesome, but the movie with Michelle Pfieffer was just horrible. It could have been made so much better.

Answer 12

I agree with the Harry Potter movies, and the Stephen King movies. I read the original Yours Mine and Ours book , the Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball movie was hysterical the most recent remake was gawd awful!

Answer 13

The Postman by David Brin



movie starring Kevin Costner

Answer 14

Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers

Answer 15

The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin



Awesome book! Terrible movie! But Shawn Ashmore was really hot as the lead role.....

Answer 16

Amen on Steven King,except for Shawshank !I also thought the Scarlet letter with Demi Moore in it stunk compared to the book! They demolished the ending. I can forgive Demi however. She did that stripper movie with Burt Reynolds and Armand Assante!! Yummy! Yummy!

Answer 17

Almost ALL of the Stephen King novels were better as books than movies. The ones that were not bad were "Christine", "It" and "Needful Things". Otherwise....not so good.



Sorry...had to add in "The Green Mile" in the good movie category.

Answer 18

I hate that more than anything!!! The movie often ruins the mental pictures you have created, and all of a sudden you feel llike your perception and visualisation of the novel was inaccurate! On top of that, they just can't possibly do justice to the classics: Jane Austen, for example, has been rampantly destroyed.

Answer 19

The Green Mile by Stephen King - and come to think of it any King book made into a move. NO ONE can capture the quirky depths of his characters on film.

Answer 20

OH too many to name, but right off the top of my head the worst movie editions were probably "The DaVinci Code", "Where the Heart Is", and "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". I really wasn't blown away by "The Chronicles of Narnia" movie either. I liked it, but I felt like it really didn't capture the whimsy of the books.

Answer 21

Ishmael: The book

Instinct: The movie



Totally destroyed the book. The movie was decent but how they came up with the screenplay is a mystery to me.

Answer 22

Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice. Very disappointing movie.

Answer 23

Cold Mountain

Answer 24

Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code.

The book was simply awesome!! Initially I couldn't wait for the movie, but it turned out to be bland.. So not nice!

Answer 25

Oh god, definatley Jude the Obsure, by Thomas Hardy. The book was so good but the movie version is HORRIBLE! I couldn't believe it was so bad even with Kate Winslet.

Answer 26

Any of them except maybe The Da Vinci Code which came really close to the book in content.

Answer 27

I didn't hate it,but the last movie version of Little Women,the one with Winona Ryder in it was the worst of the three.None of them have been as good as they should have been.I mean,the book has been around forever,and they STILL couldn't get the movie right!

Answer 28

Jurassic Park

Answer 29

Miracle Worker. The book was good to read the movie was not.

Answer 30

I love all the harry potter books but the movies are really not as good same with tuck everlasting.

Answer 31

This is a easy ? to answer.

Pet semetary!!!.The book scared the willys right outa me.I had to watch the movie to see how it ended because I was convinced the book was evil, so I burned it the movie was much easier to deal with.

Answer 32

Cujo. Then ending of the movie deviated completely from the book.

Answer 33

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Answer 34

Flowers in the Attic. Awesome book - awful movie.

Answer 35

Timeline was an excellent book but the movie was bad in comparison.

Answer 36

Return to Oz. It was really a combination of two of Baum's books. Despite Disney's hype stating that it was true to Baum's vision, I felt it really fell short. It could have been so much better.

Answer 37

Loved The Princess Bride....the movie was soooo bad compared to the book.



And, Oh my gosh...Ella Enchanted...the movie totally missed the point!!!

Answer 38

Dreamcatcher. The movie was horrid and confusing. I thought any movie with Morgan Freeman would be a blast. I was SO WRONG on this one!

Answer 39

Every movie based on a Stephen King novel has failed miserably in comparison.

Answer 40

The newest Pride and Prejudice movie really stunk. They could've at least gotten someone who resembled Lizzie! Yes, I do hate it too.

Answer 41

I read the Count of Monte Cristo then watched the new movie. It was so off and so wrong!!!!!!! I was so upset at the ending that my old roommate still makes fun of me!

Answer 42

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep into Bladerunner...wow that really sucked!

Answer 43

"Eaters of the Dead" - Michael Crichton



P.S. I agree that a majority of movies based on S. King's work are pretty substandard except for "The Shawshank Redemption", "The Dead Zone", and "Misery."

Answer 44

The Hunchback of Notre Dam - a la Disney. Sacrilege!

Answer 45

Hannibal - they ruined the whole book by the way they changed the ending. They should have left Clarice the way it was written.

Answer 46

I have to say (and have always said) "The Outsiders". I don't care how many up-and-coming actors there were in it, the movie was just plain BAD.

Answer 47

Catch twenty-two; hilarious/scary book, absolute dross movie.

Answer 48

dreamcatcher

needful things

all but first harry potter movies

salem's lot the book was much scarier than the movie

Answer 49

The Other Side of Midnight

Answer 50

I know I hate that so much. They should just leave it as a book.

Answer 51

I love Nabokov's Lolita and despise Kubrick's film - but only because I think that Kubrick could have done better!!! High expectations....

Answer 52

Queen of the Damned. I don't know why Anne Rice allowed her name to be on that piece of crap.

Answer 53

most films I've viewed, after reading the book, i have been disappointed.

exception...the hours

Answer 54

Series of unfortunate events. they totally ruined the plot line.

Answer 55

Day of the Jackal.

Answer 56

all of the harry potter series except the 1st one.

Answer 57

"Dreamcatcher" S. King

Answer 58

harry potter

Answer 59

white oleander. I wouldn't say "hate" but. . .

Answer 60

all of them

Answer 61

pet sematary yes i know what you mean;-)

Answer 62

HOOT