Most disappointing movie adaptation

[Acalcote]

Oh ya, twilight was a huge disappointment. I love those books. Girl with a Dragon Tattoo was also one I though did not go as well. I also thought the Divergent series was a disappointment. They're great movies by themselves, by as the movie series kept progressing it got more and more disappointing.

[anita1994]

Harry Potter and the Half blood Prince (2009), the worst movie of the saga
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013)
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) was terrible, but the tv series was better

[Fi Zoraa]

Oh ya, twilight was a huge disappointment. I love those books. Girl with a Dragon Tattoo was also one I though did not go as well. I also thought the Divergent series was a disappointment. They're great movies by themselves, by as the movie series kept progressing it got more and more disappointing.

Oh my gosh, yes! In my opinion, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo lost a lot of depth in its characters. And, sure, the complexity of the book can't be condensed into the average 2 hours run time of a movie. The books themselves were quite lengthy too. I guess that's one book where a movie adaptation was always going to struggle to live up to it.

[Netvigator72]

I think Twilight was quite a disappointment. If I watched the movie by itself this wouldn’t have occurred to me but coz the movie is so well-written, the movie let me down.

[Falling4Ever]

I think we can all agree that the Percy Jackson movies were terrible.

[mjohnson296]

I would say that Ender’s Game was one of the worst adaptions of an otherwise stellar book. The way the movie turned it into a synopsis of the first and last chapters of the book....so disappointing.

The other one would be the entire 50 Shades series. I admit, I read the books. They were steamy and super adult as far as the content but the movies turned them into soft core (sometimes more) pornography. Not a fan of the movies although Dakota Johnson is surprisingly good in her role as Anastasia.

[DragonLight877]

Golden Compass was a poor adaptation. It just tried to cram too much story into a short movie and as a result, a lot of it didn't make sense.

I totally agree with you on that one, Golden Compass was disappointing.

[DragonLight877]

Obviously Percy Jackson was pretty bad. But I also didn't like the adaptation of Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events. It wasn't a bad movie, it just didn't follow the books very well. That and Narnia, for the same reason. Not a bad movie, just could have followed the books better.

[Arite Seki]

Everything, Everything. It was my favourite book at some point, and I would regularly re-read it. When I watched the movie, I was just really disappointed with the way it turned out.

[KaraSkinner]

For me, the two that top the list are The Lightning Thief and The Host. They were so bad it almost felt insulting.

The Lightning Thief movie got the story completely wrong. While the books were pretty accurate to Greek mythology and were hilarious and entertaining, the movie tore the main story to shreds, got rid of most of the jokes, and completely messed up Greek mythology. I know Disney is going to do a new adaptation and I'm really excited because there's no way it could be worse than those movies. I think they're going to do it right.

The movie The Host was also really bad because it seemed to just try to ride Twilight's coat tails. In my opinion, I thought The Host (book) was so much better than the Twilight books. It was actually written for adults and the love story was still angsty but less toxic from what I remember and the heroine wasn't just the world's biggest wet blanket. But the movie decided to add all the Twilight angst and melodrama while also taking out the majority of the plot and character development because hey, it's Stephanie Meyer, and the producers thought we turned up for the sexy six packs and not for an actually good story.

[Lady-of-Literature]

The Golden compass could have been down better, but I believe they are remaking that one.

[Barbie_sidhu]

The Mortal Instruments.

[CupofJoie]

For me, it’s Percy Jackson. The age is very different from what it should have been. On their second movie, they already showed what should have been in the fifth! It was so fast-tracked .

[Elise_lovely]

It's not even out yet, but the Artemis Fowl adaptation strays so far from the source material and alienates the massive fanbase that was already there. The characters and story have been changed so much that there seems to be no connection between the movie and books except the names of characters.

[Dominika S]

The worst movie adaptation has to be the 5th Wave. The book is so good, and then watching the film of it just completely ruined it for me. It's not worth seeing, the trailer is the only decent thing about it.