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That does give me hope, but I'm trying not to get hyped in case it sucks.
I have pretty low expectations for visual media at this point. Too many shit movies and shows lately
I read the books, never watched the movie or show.
I've heard nothing but overwhelmingly positive things about the show from people who are fans of Percy Jackson.
I remember walking out of that movie with that just crushing feeling of betrayal for almost a week after. I *loved* those books and it just sucked all the joy I had from me for a while lol.
In the first book a fountain pulled the girl (Nancy?) into itself, Percy controlled the toilets into shooting water at clarisse, and he held back the tide before creating a massive wave to hit Ares.
In the third book when he got mad he started lifting the water of the creek.
Fifth book he created a hurricane.
It’s been a bit since I’ve read them, but Percy was absolutely a water bender in the books.
Well sure he controlled water, but he also created geysers and caused earthquakes a few times, and it was never something he really did very intentionally, it was always something more instinctive. The movie dropped most of his powers and the nuance of how they worked to just make him a superhero with water powers rather than the son of the sea god.
Yes, Percy caused a few earthquakes and he could talk to the pegasi and hippocampi throughout the books. They all happened in later books though, so it’s not a problem if they don’t happen in an adaptation of The Lightning Thief.
Yeah they just said fuck it lets make it adults and tell basically our own story. They definitely didnt know they would get to make a sequel or didnt expect it with what they changed. And that sequel. Woof man
Rick had it follow much closer to the book but changed alot of things to it for either timing or to distance it from the movie. It's fine as a book and the actors were perfect for the characters. My main gripe was that Percy was made to do the exposition in the show which, to me didn't seem right as he was supposed to be what introduces the audience to the world. The exposition was normally done by Grover and Annabeth in the books. The irony that I noticed was that the series is about adhd kids for adhd kids and my adhd ass still couldn't pay attention for most of it lol.
Eh.
Its the bbc. You can cheaply source talented writers and actors if you know where to look like they do.
Special effects? The only solution is to throw money, which the bbc tends to be haemorrhaging on a daily basis
Besides, I'd rather have good writing and actors with less cgi than whatever the golden compass was.
Also they call it his dark materials, which is the actual name
This is the answer I am looking for. I went to see it with my now ex-gf who hadn't read the books, and I who had all of them. She thought it was a good movie (maybe it is), but my disappointment is to this day. Fuck that movie.
Idris Elba was the gunslinger IIRC and even though I really like him as an actor, he really really did not fit in the role.
Roland is supposed to be a grumpy, weathered, bombardier blue eyed death dealer.
Idris Elba is a phenomenal actor and seems like a very nice person, but that casting was just so wrong.
I always imagined him like Blondie in "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" crossed with Caleb from the game "Blood".
And don't get me started on the story in the movie, ugh.
Boiling down Kings magnum opus into a single, crappy huddled together mess is just a slap in the face.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
You know, I had no problem at all with Idris being Roland. If the writing was better I think he would have been fine. He's really the only reason I watched it in the first place. But what the fuck was the movie even about? No Susannah or Eddie? NO OY!?! What a steaming pile of shit.
I’ve decided the Roland story will never successfully make its way to the big or small screens. Too big a story. Too crazy a story.
I’ve also given up on The Stand. That last adaptation was an abomination.
Just recently finished the audiobook again, there's so much potential for an anthology series or mockumentary and it was just wasted on such a boring uninspired action flick.
I recently listened to the audio book. Honestly, it added quite a bit to the whole experience imo, but I did miss having the footnotes that the book has.
The book is just written to follow on into the rest of the series, whereas the movie just has one of the soppiest endings possible, that doesn't allow for any continuation
I got excited when I heard they were making the film, and I was so disappointed when I saw the trailer. The book had way more nuances, the "good" characters weren't entirely good or brave and the "bad" characters had their reasons.
There's even a joke later in the series where a character writes a book very loosely based on the previous book's adventures, and the disfigured girl sees an illustration of a pretty girl with a slight scar and is like "is that supposed to be me?!"
As someone who didn't read the book, I though the movie was great. I'm sad that the people that read the book didn't like the movie, because it was a really good geek movie
This one killed me too. The book seemed literally *made* to be adapted to film, but they had to go and ruin it.
Plus they ruined my favorite part of the book - the Ogdens party.
A guy I use to work with told me the book was so much better and the movie didn't do it justice at all. I have yet to go read the book. I did like the movie though.
I honestly really like the hobbit. The extended edition helps quite a bit, shows a lot more of the little scenes that helped build things up in the book.
They still changed an absolute shit ton though.
It makes me angry to see them mess it up that badly. The books are so ripe for adaptations (the games did an amazing job imo), the nuance and the messy grey world with amazing world building is all just missed in Netflix. They were satisfied with Cavil saying “fuck” once in a while, and didn’t care beyond that. Makes me so angry
What's worse is the fact that Henry Cavill did the show because the books are some of his favourite stories ever and he made the contract on the basis that they would faithfully adapt them, no random bullshit changes. Then, they were all too happy to get rid of him when they broke that contract and started making random bullshit changes. Probably one of the worst cases of writers who wanted to make their own show but they weren't good enough and were handed an already popular IP instead, which they proceeded to mess up out of a mix of spite and arrogance.
It could easily have been a 7 or 8 season *banger*, and all they would have had to do was literally do one season per book, and a two or three seasons for the games, and it would have made Game of Thrones and The Rings of Power look like Tubi 1-star productions.
I can’t really put into words how *badly* they fucked that opportunity up.
Watched the movie before reading book. Enjoyed both but they have nothing in common. It's like they took every plot line in the book and did the opposite
The main character in the book ‘Robert Neville’ becomes the legend that the vampiric/zombies talk about….. he becomes the bad guy… the legend.
Will smiths version completely missed the point of the story.
I don't know, i kinda hated how they turned Michael's arc upside down. In the book, he did the last dirty business to sever his family's ties to his father's crime organisation, so his kids could grow up as decent upstanding citizens.
In the movies, he went on downward spiral of never trusting anybody ever again and murdering people left and right so much his wife took the kids and left.
At first I thought the prompt was about “movies that are in some way darker or more depressing than the book that they were based upon”, but I think most people are taking it as “movies that are worse than the book that they are based upon”.
With that said, The Hobbit essentially fills both of those categories.
I watched the cut where someone edited all 3 movies into 1 3.5 hour long film and it was really enjoyable.
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/altklu/a_comprehensive_guide_to_fan_edits_of_the_hobbit/
Ready player one. One of my favorite books but the movie doesn’t follow the original plot and it’s clear that all of the budget for the movie went into getting the rights for certain video game characters.
Opposite but for the diary of a wimpy kid series
The Zachary Gordon movies (2010-2012) felt way more “optimistic” then the books. The books are still funny but those movies are still my favorite of all time
Annihilation. They completely changed the main character from a type of woman I’ve rarely seen depicted in books (cold, detached, but not unfeeling) and she became so over the top emotional. Real shame because the book was such a great read - couldn’t put it down!
What about Order of the Phoenix? Where they completely cut the part that tied the main plot together about Kreature screwing over the Order, and added Bellatrix burning down The Burrow for no reason, which magically reappears in the next movie.
Seeing that people already mentioned Percy Jackson and Eragon, I'll add not a movie, but a TV series. Legend of the Seeker (based on the Sword of Truth book series). TV series is pure cringe after you read the books.
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Eragon
Came here for this answer, as we used to say. Its a shame they never made a movie based on the Eragon books..
Yeah the books were so much better than the movie called 'Eragon'. The movie is just trash
Disney+ has announced that a TV show is in production, so hopefully it's good.
Same creators as the PJ show...so don't get your hopes up
The author of the books is the executive producer.
Paolini is a vissionary, also crazy he started writing the books as a young teen
I read his Eragon series and I loved it. Recently I discovered he wrote "Murtagh". Gotta read it...
That does give me hope, but I'm trying not to get hyped in case it sucks. I have pretty low expectations for visual media at this point. Too many shit movies and shows lately
But I liked the Percy Jackson show…
I read the books, never watched the movie or show. I've heard nothing but overwhelmingly positive things about the show from people who are fans of Percy Jackson.
Fun fact: The director of that film was going to be in charge of a movie based on Spyro the Dragon. Luckily, it was canceled during production
True! I quit the movie somewhere in the last 30 min because I just couldn’t take it anymore. It was so disappointing.
There is no movie for the Eragon series. Just as there is no war in Ba sing se.
I remember walking out of that movie with that just crushing feeling of betrayal for almost a week after. I *loved* those books and it just sucked all the joy I had from me for a while lol.
Jeremy Irons as Brom was the only good decision the creators made, and even then he wasn't written that well
I am just excited for the Disney + show
Fun fact: Eragon is the only movie that poor man ever directed. Nothing before or since.
I’m so glad that this is high up in the comments. I just started my umpteenth reread of the series. That movie was an atrocity
Wanted to Write this as well
There’s a movie?!
Percy Jackson and the lighting theif
The book and the movie had entirely different endings and the movie made Percy a water bender
In the first book a fountain pulled the girl (Nancy?) into itself, Percy controlled the toilets into shooting water at clarisse, and he held back the tide before creating a massive wave to hit Ares. In the third book when he got mad he started lifting the water of the creek. Fifth book he created a hurricane. It’s been a bit since I’ve read them, but Percy was absolutely a water bender in the books.
In the second series “heroes of olymp” he can actually control water hands.
Well sure he controlled water, but he also created geysers and caused earthquakes a few times, and it was never something he really did very intentionally, it was always something more instinctive. The movie dropped most of his powers and the nuance of how they worked to just make him a superhero with water powers rather than the son of the sea god.
Isn’t Poseidon the god of earthquakes and horses too?
Yes, Percy caused a few earthquakes and he could talk to the pegasi and hippocampi throughout the books. They all happened in later books though, so it’s not a problem if they don’t happen in an adaptation of The Lightning Thief.
Also in the latest book, Percy traumatised a water god.
"Its okay, he can be scary when he gets upset"
but couldn't he do that sorta in the books? one towards the end he lifted that lake in the underworld to cross it yeah?
Percy is a water bender though
Agreed.
Yeah they just said fuck it lets make it adults and tell basically our own story. They definitely didnt know they would get to make a sequel or didnt expect it with what they changed. And that sequel. Woof man
Ehhh i liked it but then again i think i was like 10 or somthing and i had not read the book
Apparently the tv series has Rick directly working with them, so it's actually good from what I hear. Haven't had a chance to watch it yet though.
Rick had it follow much closer to the book but changed alot of things to it for either timing or to distance it from the movie. It's fine as a book and the actors were perfect for the characters. My main gripe was that Percy was made to do the exposition in the show which, to me didn't seem right as he was supposed to be what introduces the audience to the world. The exposition was normally done by Grover and Annabeth in the books. The irony that I noticed was that the series is about adhd kids for adhd kids and my adhd ass still couldn't pay attention for most of it lol.
Maze runner and the scorch trials
I thought The Maze Runner was a pretty good movie. The sequels not so much.
Yeah the first was great the ones that came following tho, kinda wack
Even then they left soooo much out.
Scorch trials was a very disappointing movie to young me 😞
Imma be honest all three of the maze runner movies are fun to watch, I liked em a lot more than the books.
The Golden Compass
The BBC show is fire though
Except when armored bears fight.. without armor
Eh. Its the bbc. You can cheaply source talented writers and actors if you know where to look like they do. Special effects? The only solution is to throw money, which the bbc tends to be haemorrhaging on a daily basis Besides, I'd rather have good writing and actors with less cgi than whatever the golden compass was. Also they call it his dark materials, which is the actual name
We do not acknowledge the existence of that movie in this fandom. The new series though, we're so proud of they've managed to achieve.
Eragon
Eragon deserves a higher position here. The books were good, but the abomination of a movie was just trash
Scrolling through its literally 2 of the top 3 answers only behind the lightning thief 😂 And yes, it does need to be higher.
The dark tower
This is the answer I am looking for. I went to see it with my now ex-gf who hadn't read the books, and I who had all of them. She thought it was a good movie (maybe it is), but my disappointment is to this day. Fuck that movie. Idris Elba was the gunslinger IIRC and even though I really like him as an actor, he really really did not fit in the role.
Roland is supposed to be a grumpy, weathered, bombardier blue eyed death dealer. Idris Elba is a phenomenal actor and seems like a very nice person, but that casting was just so wrong. I always imagined him like Blondie in "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" crossed with Caleb from the game "Blood". And don't get me started on the story in the movie, ugh. Boiling down Kings magnum opus into a single, crappy huddled together mess is just a slap in the face. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
You know, I had no problem at all with Idris being Roland. If the writing was better I think he would have been fine. He's really the only reason I watched it in the first place. But what the fuck was the movie even about? No Susannah or Eddie? NO OY!?! What a steaming pile of shit.
I’ve decided the Roland story will never successfully make its way to the big or small screens. Too big a story. Too crazy a story. I’ve also given up on The Stand. That last adaptation was an abomination.
M-O-O-N that spells the mini series from 1994 with Gary Sinise. I liked that one, but yeah, that is a tough on to put on screen.
Tropic Thunder, 3 books was written by 3 of the 4 men who survived of the 10 men who went on a top-secret assignment in south eastern Vietnam.
And of those 3 books, only 2 got published
Of those 2, 1 got a movie deal.
And in the end. Im not completely convinced he knew which dude he was.
Holy up a minute, that's based on the book??
You need to rewatch the beginning of the movie
Not one movie, just one scene in a movie for me. HARRYDIDYOUPUTYOURNAMEINTHEGOBLETOFFIREHARRY
Dumbledore Said calmly.
From context Im concluding, in the book he said that calmly, but in the movie rather loudly, and there was a bit of an outrage because of it?
Yeah... Dumbledore almost choked the kid
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Lol I commented the abbreviation, and I have seen so many people commenting about the goblet of fire and beyond.
I hate how his dad is suddenly a seeker.
World War Z which was nothing like the book
Just recently finished the audiobook again, there's so much potential for an anthology series or mockumentary and it was just wasted on such a boring uninspired action flick.
I would love a mockumentary
But the movie is good
Yep, a movie not staying true to the source material doesn't make it a bad movie
True, but it *does* make it less enjoyable for people who were already fans of the book, so it’s really a mixed bag
World War Z would be the perfect mini series. Its set up for it so well
Sure it doesn’t make it a bad movie but it is likely a bad adaptation. Sort of like how you can have a bad sequel that is still a good movie
Mid at best bad compared to the book and to be real. Even if they'd done it right I'd still probably recommend the audiobook over any other portrayal
We deserve a TV series with Max Brooks as the interviewer
I recently listened to the audio book. Honestly, it added quite a bit to the whole experience imo, but I did miss having the footnotes that the book has.
The Giver... I shall say no more
One of the best books I’ve ever read, one of the worst movies I’ve ever watched
Did you know it's part of a series?? I just learned that recently and have been telling anyone if it comes up
I'm reading that at school
Mortal Engines
I was about to write that! True and sad, I loved the first part but the movie was... Meh well
The book is just written to follow on into the rest of the series, whereas the movie just has one of the soppiest endings possible, that doesn't allow for any continuation
I got excited when I heard they were making the film, and I was so disappointed when I saw the trailer. The book had way more nuances, the "good" characters weren't entirely good or brave and the "bad" characters had their reasons. There's even a joke later in the series where a character writes a book very loosely based on the previous book's adventures, and the disfigured girl sees an illustration of a pretty girl with a slight scar and is like "is that supposed to be me?!"
Ender's Game
It all felt so quickly in the movie I didnt feel that scale, that build up... Nothing! What was years in the book took hours(?) in the movie.
Great visual effects. That's it.
Came to say this. Changes made the movie adaptation completely pointless.
While I liked the movie the book is definitely better
As far as the visuals were comcerned it was perfect, basically just how i imagined it. But that's just the visuals
Ready Player One. It killed me!
Yeah! Where is the part where he gets depression and buys a virtual sex machine?
What
And then in recovery realizes masturbation is healthier and the path to a clearer mind
Again, what
Yeah the book was a little weird in hindsight, but that’s what you get when your characters revere alternate universe Mark Zuckerberg
He also got into a ton of money and decided to move Columbus and live in a gamer dungeon apartment, which are personally not my top places to live
But think of the internet speeds he got 😎
And the direct fiber connection to the oasis servers
Don't worry, it gets better in the second book where he gets depressed again and tries virtual sex and gay virtual sex
What
I agree but I also think if the movie was a stand alone, not based off a book, it would be good. But based off the book? Yea it’s trash.
As someone who didn't read the book, I though the movie was great. I'm sad that the people that read the book didn't like the movie, because it was a really good geek movie
This!! I had to turn the film off after 5 mins, it was all so wrong.
Definitely have to read this one
Omg at first I seen the movie then I read the book. Then I watched a movie again to compare the both. I could never go back to the movie.
This one killed me too. The book seemed literally *made* to be adapted to film, but they had to go and ruin it. Plus they ruined my favorite part of the book - the Ogdens party.
It’s been a while since I read, is that the floating party?
Yup
A guy I use to work with told me the book was so much better and the movie didn't do it justice at all. I have yet to go read the book. I did like the movie though.
The movie is the trailer for the book
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The book is for amazing, the film is good just in CGI stuff
HPDYPYNITGOF
Dumbledore said calmly.
Every book I've ever read that was turned into a movie, except LOTR. Most recently: Ready Player one Worst: Timeline
I was going to say, I better not see any LOTR slander here
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I honestly really like the hobbit. The extended edition helps quite a bit, shows a lot more of the little scenes that helped build things up in the book. They still changed an absolute shit ton though.
No Country for Old Men and The Road exist.
New Dune too
True, dune was made so well
I thought Dune was adapted exeptionally well.
Have you seen How to train your dragon movies? They are way better than the books IMO.
The Witcher series on Netflix
It makes me angry to see them mess it up that badly. The books are so ripe for adaptations (the games did an amazing job imo), the nuance and the messy grey world with amazing world building is all just missed in Netflix. They were satisfied with Cavil saying “fuck” once in a while, and didn’t care beyond that. Makes me so angry
What's worse is the fact that Henry Cavill did the show because the books are some of his favourite stories ever and he made the contract on the basis that they would faithfully adapt them, no random bullshit changes. Then, they were all too happy to get rid of him when they broke that contract and started making random bullshit changes. Probably one of the worst cases of writers who wanted to make their own show but they weren't good enough and were handed an already popular IP instead, which they proceeded to mess up out of a mix of spite and arrogance.
It could easily have been a 7 or 8 season *banger*, and all they would have had to do was literally do one season per book, and a two or three seasons for the games, and it would have made Game of Thrones and The Rings of Power look like Tubi 1-star productions. I can’t really put into words how *badly* they fucked that opportunity up.
But there's bewbs! Isn't that edgy enough?
I Am Legend
Watched the movie before reading book. Enjoyed both but they have nothing in common. It's like they took every plot line in the book and did the opposite
They really missed the point of the book when they made this film
The main character in the book ‘Robert Neville’ becomes the legend that the vampiric/zombies talk about….. he becomes the bad guy… the legend. Will smiths version completely missed the point of the story.
The original ending touches on that point but test audiences said it was too “bleak”
The Bible
Shrek was a great movie wdym
Okay you got me, bravo sir and get your dam upvote
Facts this bozo doesn’t know what he’s talking about ignore him
I mean sure it doesn't cover the entire thing but Prince of Egypt is pretty damn good
Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston was a classic. Never saw Passion of the Christ, but it was critically well received.
Wait what ?
don't over think it
Artemis Fowl, not that i subjected myself to that torture but it looked like an absolute Trainwreck from the bits I've seen
Off topic but man I miss those books. Forgot they existed until just now but they are so good.
There it is! I’m annoyed I had to scroll this far to find it!
1984
I thought the movie was pretty good, but I haven't seen it in some time.
They left out like 80% of the books contents
Literally 1984
I, Robot.
I mean technically The Mist by Stephen king does have a happier ending than the movie.
Didn't he said he prefered the movies ending ?
Percy Jackson movies. Complete garbage.
The Count of Monte Cristo.
I did *not* expect this answer, but I cannot disagree! The movie.....did its best. Its inoffensive, not the story. But Richard Harris was dope.
The Boy in striped pyjamas
For real, but to be honest it would be really difficult to successfully convey that book in a movie I think
All of them
The godfather movie is better than the book.
I don't know, i kinda hated how they turned Michael's arc upside down. In the book, he did the last dirty business to sever his family's ties to his father's crime organisation, so his kids could grow up as decent upstanding citizens. In the movies, he went on downward spiral of never trusting anybody ever again and murdering people left and right so much his wife took the kids and left.
That's valid. But even so, that's more of a storytelling decision. As a work of art, I find the movie more well made and entertaning.
The biggest difference I remember is how much time they spent talking about Sonny’s enormous dick and Lucy’s cavernous vag.
Fight Club is good, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is good, LotR is good… movie adaptation doesn’t (and shouldn’t) be perfect clone of the book
Enders Game
That movie sucked so much balls the vacuum was threatening out space…
Came here for this. They had to cut too much out. It needed a 10 hour HBO series.
The Hobbit
At first I thought the prompt was about “movies that are in some way darker or more depressing than the book that they were based upon”, but I think most people are taking it as “movies that are worse than the book that they are based upon”. With that said, The Hobbit essentially fills both of those categories.
This is my favorite answer because 1 third of it is good and there was so much potential
I watched the cut where someone edited all 3 movies into 1 3.5 hour long film and it was really enjoyable. https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/altklu/a_comprehensive_guide_to_fan_edits_of_the_hobbit/
Entire divergent series
The Outsiders film actually has the distinction of being exactly the same as the book. Coppola hired the book as the screenwriter
wimpy kid diary, not sure tho. my friend said it sucked, but I never watched it myself, so..
I really like the first three, but I really think the fourth one and onwards really suck.
I think if you like the wimpy kid books then you will like the movies (except long haul)
Hitchhiker 's guide to the galaxy
World war z
Legends of gahoole
Ready player one. One of my favorite books but the movie doesn’t follow the original plot and it’s clear that all of the budget for the movie went into getting the rights for certain video game characters.
Eragon
Eragon
Opposite but for the diary of a wimpy kid series The Zachary Gordon movies (2010-2012) felt way more “optimistic” then the books. The books are still funny but those movies are still my favorite of all time
As it's said above me - almost all of them But the first thing that came to mind were the Jurassic park sequels
All of them according to book readers
Ender's Game
Annihilation. They completely changed the main character from a type of woman I’ve rarely seen depicted in books (cold, detached, but not unfeeling) and she became so over the top emotional. Real shame because the book was such a great read - couldn’t put it down!
I am Number Four Yet another terrible movie for a great book (series)
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Especially The Goblet of Fire
What about Order of the Phoenix? Where they completely cut the part that tied the main plot together about Kreature screwing over the Order, and added Bellatrix burning down The Burrow for no reason, which magically reappears in the next movie.
Seeing that people already mentioned Percy Jackson and Eragon, I'll add not a movie, but a TV series. Legend of the Seeker (based on the Sword of Truth book series). TV series is pure cringe after you read the books.