The best book! but worst movie.

[tamara_mc41]

what was the one book you loved with all your heart, but then disgusted by the movie ?
Mine was "water for elephants ". every thing about the book was fantastic.
but when it came to the movie I was so disappointed with how much they left out.
I was also disappointed with the casting.
over all I believe the movie could have been done so much better.
-T.M.C.

[Syntheticaudio]

I thought the movie was alright.

There are a lot of YA novels that turned into awful movies: the mortal instruments, I am number four.

But I can't think of a really terrible one atm

[librarydancer]

There is a version of Mansfield Park that makes me cringe. It certainly makes the heroine less passive but is almost an opposite of the book.

[unicorny07]

I was this way with City of Bones. The movie was absolutely atrocious, but loved the book.

[Bighuey]

Christine was like that. Great book, one of my favorites but the movie was garbage. The only good thing was the 50's music.

[rssllue]

Christine was definitely a stinker. But the worst was The Keep. I don't think that Michael Mann ever even knew a book existed let alone read it! It was such a hatchet job which is so sad since the book was so good!

[Bighuey]

Was that the one with Charlton Heston?

[hvotruba1]

Salems Lot was a yuck movie. I don't think I've ever thought that a movie was better than the book. Good, but never better. Garfield was another bad one, lol.

[rssllue]

Was that the one with Charlton Heston?

Nope. It was this one:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085780/.

Interesting tidbit of info too: both Christine and The Keep were released within a week of each other in 1983!

[Bighuey]

I saw that one. It was kind of mediocre, not much to it.

[Ryan]

Gulliver's Travels is a great novel, but the adaptation with Jack Black in it is just atrocious.