The Book Was Better discussion

No spoilers please! Just talk about why you thought it was terrible :)

Hmm... hard to pick just one. Eragon is high on my list of bad adaptations... it just left pretty much everything out! Really did no justice to the novel.

Of the Harry Potter movies, Half-Blood Prince was a trainwreck for me. To me it felt like a rom-com and captured none of the beauty of the book.

Inkheart wasn't great either... they just didn't have a huge budget and I didn't agree with some casting choices. I still enjoy watching it, but it's not a great adaptation.

The Golden Compass was a lousy film too... really liked the book, but the movie had so little from the book at all!

On the flipside, I much prefer Stardust as a movie than a book! The book was brutal in my opinion, but I loved the film!

The Percy Jackson series were a tragedy to be honest. I LOVED the books, and read them several times, before the movies came out. Don’t even think they continued after the third film? It was such a disappointment. Just imagine how amazing they could’ve been?

And I didn’t really like the maze runner movies either. The first film is alright, but when I watched the rest, the only thing keeping me from leaving the movies was Dylan O’Brien.

Percy Jackson, I agree, was a disaster. I do hope though that they re-make the movies and do them better this time, making them more worthy of how amazing the books are. I know a lot of people who don’t read, but who would love the story of Percy Jackson.

On the bright side, there is a musical of the Lightening Thief so that’s great!

I would (obviously) say that the Percy Jackson movies were indeed by far the worst book-movie adaption I've ever seen. The characters didn't even look like themselves, and they did not complete actions, personalities, or even names they were supposed to in the book. Harry Potter Order of the Pheonix left out quite a lot as well, however, it's Harry Potter and I cannot criticize that too much.

The Divergent series! The first movie was okay but the second and third movies were pretty much awful. I absolutely loved the books and the first time I saw the Allegiant movie I cried because I was so disappointed, the movie was completely different to what happened in the book and a main thing (I don't want to spoil) that happened in the book wasn't in the movie at all. It was just utterly disappointing.

I would say the adaption of Blood & Chocolate. I never read the original book or watched the movie, but I have seen drawn out clips and several reviews made on it. It's pretty bad both adaptation wise and movie-wise.

Maximum Ride. Definitely.

The Witcher series. Just terrible.

The Percy Jackson series was a disgrace to all mankind. They left out several key events and characters. They weren't even the same age.

taylor.reads wrote: "No spoilers please! Just talk about why you thought it was terrible :)"

I say this all the time, and I'd say it until I die: "Twilight". There are many reasons why it was terrible, the final books being one of them. Like Robert Pattinson said: "Didn't seem like something that was meant to be published". My apologies if someone is a fan, I used to be one too.

The Bonfire of the Vanities.
This was THE great book about the movers and shakers in NYC society of the 1980s, with a pivotal plot point taken from the headlines of the day (involves a hit and run). It was a shoe-in for a movie adaptation, and turned into the most miscast, clueless movie ever made from a book. There was even a "the making of" book that was written afterward by a writer named Salomon who gives a blow-by-blow of every wrong move they made.

Over the weekend I saw the latest version of "Little Women." It was a hot mess, IMHO. Except for Saorise Ronan who was a pretty good Jo, it was totally miscast, timelines were altered or sped up for no reason - at least no reason that did justice to the book. Not enough room here to go into everything that was wrong with it. Nice photography, but that was it.
Maybe it would be best not to make "Little Women" anymore.

Someone mentioned blood and chocolate, oh yeah that was a bad adaptation. The book was scary, gorey, wasn’t afraid to be a little dark. The movie took all that away for standard paranormal romance.

The remake of "The Stepford Wives" (with Nicole Kidman)
The Netflix "Anne of Green Gables" adaptation
"The Age of Innocence"
"Mansfield Park" (the 1999 version)
The "Atlas Shrugged" trilogy.