Most disappointing movie adaptation

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » 03 Sep 2015, 19:10

The film of 'Enduring Love' changed a little too much for my liking.

narvinder kaur 2294 · Post by **narvinder kaur 2294** » 04 Sep 2015, 10:30

The divergent

cinder_allie · Post by **cinder_allie** » 05 Sep 2015, 08:52

Twilight, Fifty Shades of Grey, and pretty much any adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare is just not meant for the silver screen and Twilight and Fifty had great soundtracks, HORRIBLE casting.

Ann sempiternus · Post by **Ann sempiternus** » 05 Sep 2015, 18:08

I will say that the worst movie adamptation, for me at least, was The picture of Dorian Grey.

I mean it has nothing to do with the book, and just to make it worse they turn it to somenthing so sexual, full of lux, and weird sex scenes.

I just hate it, it's just like they wanted to corrupt the book...

Just my opinion.

Michelle23 · Post by **Michelle23** » 06 Sep 2015, 00:06

I have to say 50 shades of gray. It took me a while to bring myself to read the series, then did.
Saw the movie a few months ago and was very disappointed.

sydney-rice · Post by **sydney-rice** » 06 Sep 2015, 02:54

The worst movie adaption was by far the Percy Jackson series. It was honestly hard to get through, and a disappointment to the fans of the books.

Margaret 2584 · Post by **Margaret 2584** » 06 Sep 2015, 12:11

Eragon.

Another vote for Eragon.

rssllue · Post by **rssllue** » 06 Sep 2015, 12:15

Reiterating that The Keep was the worst adaptation ever made!

An Dalta · Post by **An Dalta** » 06 Sep 2015, 12:46

Seventh Son, based off the Wardstone chronicles, one of my favourite series as a child. The film is very loosely based off the books. They took the best part of the books, discarded the rest and slapped it all together into a mediocre movie. The attempt to take details from every book severely diluted the story but thankfully led to a sequel being unlikely. Very disappointed with the result.

Beckers · Post by **Beckers** » 06 Sep 2015, 13:10

The hunger games. I liked the movies but they lacked a lot of the insight that Katniss's thoughts portrayed. So much went on in her head they just couldn't capture. The movies had to grow on me because I was disappointed.

zeldas_lullaby · Post by **zeldas_lullaby** » 06 Sep 2015, 17:15

Hm.... I really hated the second Harry Potter film. There was a scene early on with Mrs. Weasley in which her dialogue felt stilted and unrealistic. Granted, a lot of effort was put into those movies. But the overall effect of them didn't work for me, for some reason. I loved the first one, but not so much after that. And I'm not certain if I mentioned this yet, but the fourth movie really messed up the relationship between Harry and Cho Chang, in my opinion.

Mkaykay7 · Post by **Mkaykay7** » 06 Sep 2015, 21:53

Twilight and Harry Potter are on my list. It's impossible to fill the standard made in every readers mind but it blows my mind the bad acting used sometimes! I honestly can barely watch movies after books now.

timmetivier · Post by **timmetivier** » 06 Sep 2015, 22:57

Definitely agree re: Harry Potter. Good books but basically unfilmable; they are simply too packed with little details that play into later plot events. So the movie can either include every scene, leading to an impossibly long and bloated behemoth of a film, or it has to leave some scenes out and inevitably suffer from plot holes due to the missing details. Harry Potter probably would have worked better as a TV show (like Game of Thrones--can you imagine the disaster if someone had tried to turn those books into movies?) Then they could have really given the books the detailed treatment they deserved.

litmonster · Post by **litmonster** » 07 Sep 2015, 12:29

Probably the Harry Potter series. As much as I *adore* the books, I reread them pretty much every year and still love them, the movies make me incredibly frustrated. I could go through each and still cannot refuse the urge to yell out everything that was done incorrectly, was different from the book, or never happened at all. There are some amazing castings for characters, but some that are also incredibly disappointing. I can no longer read the books without seeing Alan Rickman as Snape, and I'm okay with that. But so much of the movies, especially the deeper into the series they got, the more upset it made me. It breaks me heart to be as disappointed with the Harry Potter film series as I am, but c'est la vie.

Hannah Miller · Post by **Hannah Miller** » 07 Sep 2015, 12:52

It's horrible when a well loved book is turned into an embarrassingly bad movie! The ones that never fail to make me cringe are Eragon and Percy Jackson. They were just so bad...