Thread: Most disappointing movie adaptation of a book

if anything the harry potter series is too loyal to the book.

Quote: Originally Posted by callmescratch Well now I really want to see this Brave soul

Quote: Originally Posted by Madge Quazzie, I didn't just enjoy the movie, I 'got it'. (It's pretty evident you didn't ) I guess I just "got" the book which judging by your post, you didn't. Intact I'm gonna give it another read over the next few days.

Quote: Originally Posted by The Mad Hatter I'm sick of this attitude that the best way to adapt a book to film is to facsimile the book. This doesn't work, it's pointlessly pedantic, and it makes bad films. A film should catch the spirit of the book. Otherwise it shouldn't bother trying. When they destroy essential plot foundations for flashy Hollywood-esque reasons (Like the LOTR scene in Helms Deep mentioned) is when it...

Quote: Originally Posted by Joycey I couldnt read Fear and Loathing because id seen the film so many times that I knew every incident and every word that was spoken pretty much. I like Terry Gilliam as a director but I wish he hadnt stayed so "faithful". Other way around for me — read the book years before seeing the film and it was so funny and brilliant that the film didn’t live up to it. What I saw of it at any rate....

I wasn't trying to be controversial. While most ( like yourself) will love the movie, as an adaptation of a book it is a terrible failure. For me that made me not like the movie because I read the book long before seeing the movie and loved it, and because of that the movie felt like a bit of a sell out, and too many changes were made in adapting it to a screenplay. You might disagree with me about the movie, but anyone that has read the...

Quote: Originally Posted by Quazzie2002 I wasn't trying to be controversial. While most ( like yourself) will love the movie, as an adaptation of a book it is a terrible failure. For me that made me not like the movie because I read the book long before seeing the movie and loved it, and because of that the movie felt like a bit of a sell out, and too many changes were made in adapting it to a screenplay. You might disagree with me about...

I'm sick of this attitude that the best way to adapt a book to film is to facsimile the book. This doesn't work, it's pointlessly pedantic, and it makes bad films.

Quote: Originally Posted by asdasd Clearly no-one reads anything else except Tolkien, Stephen King, Dan Brown, and the Potter series. Feel free to diversify and enlighten!

Quote: Originally Posted by LiamMc The last chapter in the book that Anthony Burgess wrote wasn't added to the film. This caused Burgess some pain as the book was inspired by a personal tradegy suffered by Burgess. Not quite. The film is based on the American version of the book. This version doesn't have the last chapter. Burgess agreed this with his publisher long before the film was made. He may have wished the chapter to be used...