Hey Pandas, What Are Some Movies That Are So Much Worse Than Their Book?

sometimes book to movie adaption just isn't meant to be...

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both percy jackson movies

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ShadowMorph

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Klorx 2 years ago

So sad, so true.. heard they may be remade though!

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THE PERCY JACKSON MOVIES! I HATE THEM WITH A BURNING PASSION. LIKE A BURNING PASSION

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Elyce

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Bryce Hogencamp 2 years ago

Said that same thing, they suck

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Most of them. Eragon? They tried to cram the whole 509 pages into one movie. They skipped all the best/most important parts.

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MollyJune

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Klorx 2 years ago

Damn beat me too it, but eragon was definitely the saddest one I’ve seen.. and it doesn’t seem like they’ll try again anytime soon, if ever :(

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Miscasting of Reacher from the Lee Child’s books.

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Jono

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Sandra Keith 2 years ago

A Reacher series starts soon on Amazon. And it's not Tom Cruise

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I’ll make it clear I don’t like JK Rowling but the Harry Potter movies just aren’t as good as the books because they cut out a lot of things although it is kinda hard to film 7 movies about like 300-500 page books over such a long period of time.

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That One Weird Lesbian

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Lollipop Girl 2 years ago

Ikr??? Where's all the elves we met in the books?? AND WHERE IS PEEVES???? I'm sorry, it really upsets me 😞

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A wrinkle in time

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GaeFrog

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After. The books were amazing. The movies cut half of the story that made it so exciting and deep.

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Brittany

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Mortal Engines. The whole Predator Cities saga is fantastic. The books are riveting, witty, ingenious and deep: They do not hide from the horrors of war or poverty and in some cases they are really dark. Reeves imagined a post-apocalyptic scenario with an incredible universe of complex societies, amazing world building and really creative visuals and ideals. The characters are round and they grow with the story. The movie was a run-of-the-mill dystopian teen flick with clunky exposition, bad acting and cardboard characters. I felt like screaming at the screen.

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Luis Hernandez Dauajare

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Klorx 2 years ago

True

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Unpopular opinion, maybe, but I think The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a terrible adaptation. Don't get me wrong, the movie is funny at times, but it misses most of the jokes, wit and humor of the book. Douglas Adams' work is hilarious, witty, sarcastic and very intelligent. The film is mostly cringe humor and slapstick.

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Luis Hernandez Dauajare

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There are already a few comments about this one...but I'll say it again. PERCY JACKSON! OH MY GOD, DID THEY EVEN READ OR REFER THE BOOKS?!

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ItsMe

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Klorx 2 years ago

First one was “ok”, second one? What the hell was that ending especially.

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THE F*****G PERCY JACKSON MOVIES

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Gabrielle B. Marcelo

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Shadow Hunters. Don't even get me started

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Lennah Palbachm

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Charolette's Web

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Dumbledore Out

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Divergent series although I didn't like the books much either

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Anjelika

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Firestarter by Stephen King. Not a huge fan, but they butchered it.

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Brenda

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All the movies that are based on Terry Patchett's novels. The books kick ass, the movies suck.

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Ryan Deschanel

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The Dan Brown books; The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons

The books were pageturners because you wanted to see what happened next, what fresh puzzle there would be to solve and where the answers would take the characters. There was real mystery and adrenaline to it.

By contrast, the movies were simply one set piece after another. Every scene blandly served up lukewarm and without energy. And the biggest sin of all was completely ignoring what made the books so engrossing - the 'what happens next?' factor.

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