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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.

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

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.

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

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

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!

Was that the one with Charlton Heston?

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.

Bighuey wrote: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!

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

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