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With me it was seeing Matilda, after I first read the book. I was horrified by them "ruining the book". In hindsight it's not even the worst adaptation I've ever seen, and a decent movie on its own.

Ella Enchanted. That movie hurt my soul.

I never saw it, I can't even watch the trailer, it's so horrifying.

Ella Enchanted is one of my favorite books ever. I don't know why. It's not really that great a book, but I read it about once a year. I was pretty excited about the movie but dear god no. That was a piece of shit, and a piece of shit movie that didn't even resemble the book or carry the same message at all.

I am still waiting for them to remake that movie and DO IT RIGHT, dammit. That was a good book.

This. I haven't even watched the movie, but the trailer did me in. It couldn't have been that hard to make good movie out of the subject matter, but it seems they really fucked it up.

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CONSTANTINE.

FUCKING CONSTANTINE

THAT IS NOT JOHN CONSTANTINE.

THIS IS JOHN CONSTANTINE.

Edited 2013-01-18 00:43 (UTC)

YES

So much yes.

The Neverending Story. I know, I know, it's not bad in its own right, but I'd read the book first and I was so disappointed that it wasn't at all the same.

It's a great book, too.

The original is not too bad (I may be biased, I read the book after the second movie), but the second movie fails to stand up to even the first movie's standard. Let's not even discuss anything else that got given the same name.

EARTHSEA.

For those who don't know what it is, it's the "SyFy Channel" adaptation of Ursula LeGuin's "Earthsea Trilogy" and dear god, it is AWFUL.
They whitewashed the main characters, butchered the plot, and even the author herself got angry about it.

It's fucking terible. Fuck the director and everyone involved in that mess.

probably Interview with the Vampire, honestly. I was like 10 when I saw it and read the book, and the way they did Claudia in particular infuriated me-- when in reality there was no way they could have gotten a younger actress. But I mean I was 10. Not logical.

Queen of the Damned was painful for me.

HP GOF.

The first three weren't bad, although Prisoner of Azkaban left out a lot of details that made parts of the ending make no sense, but it was the First Task in Goblet of Fire that really clued me in to how terrible the movies were.

To me, I thought GOF was better than POA. POA was just so different that it didn't even get the feel of the books. It was a better movie from a purely cinematic standard, but it wasn't a good adaption. I thought GOF found a better balance between adapting and being faithful.

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I was pretty young when I saw these movies (young enough that I didn't really clue in to the fact that the movies were, in fact, made to be watched by everyone, not just by people who'd read the books beforehand), but I remember that I was (and still am) very disappointed that they didn't put Snape's puzzle/test in with all of the challenges on the way to the Philosopher's Stone. I know it wasn't very cinematic, but it was the one test that could only be solved by smarts, the only one a Muggle could solve, and very likely the only one I could solve out of the bunch, so I was sad I didn't get to see it in a movie.

Though as I said, I was also, for the longest time, under the impression that you were supposed to watch the movies after you'd read the books, and therefore it was more like a collection of visual aids and "hey look, doesn't this look objectively cool, instead of just in your head?" than an actual movie.

Secret of Nimh/Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh. I love both and see them now as completely different entities, but as I kid that was my first THE MOVIE IS NOTHING LIKE THE BOOK OMG phenomenon.

OMG YOU TOO??
I don't think I ever watched Secret of NIMH again because I was so upset about the glowing magic jewel thing. I think I was 8. This is now the example I use to explain to people how seriously I take book/movie adaptations. Bet I'd be fine with the movie now, though.
I'm glad there's someone else out there who shares my childhood outrage.

Wizard of Oz was the first for me. Everyone considers it a classic, but the books were such a part of my childhood. When you not only change plot points but actually change the overall themes and point of the story, you have missed the boat entirely. And the fact that the movie version is considered the canon version by most people is so frustrating.

Not to mention the shoe color, which ACTUALLY MEANT SOMETHING in the books, but just looked prettier in red in color film in the movie version

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Howl's Moving Castle. I was super excited before I saw it and incredibly disappointed afterward.

Matilda's wonderful though.

imo the worst example of this is an adaptation of Asimov's "Nightfall." I mean, the imbd page says it all:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095738/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_5

Either the first Harry Potter film (though I did actually quite enjoy it) or Disney's The Black Cauldron which I rented when I was about eleven - I'd just read the book and I was soooo excited when I stumbled across the video because a film! Of that awesome book I just read! Made by Disney! Then I watched it.

No, Disney. No. -_-

(I re-watched it lately and on its own terms it's not horrible it's just also not very good.)

The Seeker: Dark is Rising was the absolute worst movie adaptation of a book I've seen. They changed everything, from the Will's age to his parents' names. Why does it even matter what their names are? It also made Will American, rather than British, and of course, gave him a girlfriend - probably the reason they aged him up a bit, but Will in the books never really cared about any of that. Also, he got a twin brother out of thin air, literally, for no real purpose I could see, except making his loving parents in the book into cold, heartbroken people. FOR THE ANGST.

Usually, movie adaptations are at least amusing on their own, if not always solid representations of the media they were originally inspired by, but this was just a travesty. Susan Cooper even said they couldn't plainly call it The Dark is Rising, because they'd butchered her books so much, so they changed it to The Seeker.

It's not a popular series, I don't think, but I hope one day it'll get a better remake. And maybe Bran will be in it, this time. I had such a crush on Bran when we were both eleven!

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