Loved the book but hated the movie

Krizzle4Rizzle
Krizzle4Rizzle Posts: 2,704 Member
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I loved 'Something Borrowed' by Emily Giffin. The movie was awful.
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  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Pretty much every one in existence, save about 5 or 6!

    Most recently, The Help.
  • HeelsAndBoxingGloves
    HeelsAndBoxingGloves Posts: 916 Member
    I feel that way about pretty much EVERY movie that was based on a book I read. The Harry Potter series is one of the few where I like the movies as much as I like the books.
  • HeelsAndBoxingGloves
    HeelsAndBoxingGloves Posts: 916 Member
    Pretty much every one in existence, save about 5 or 6!

    Most recently, The Help.

    I still need to read this so I can finally see the movie!
  • btwalsh132
    btwalsh132 Posts: 289 Member
    Steven King's "The Stand"
  • HeelsAndBoxingGloves
    HeelsAndBoxingGloves Posts: 916 Member
    Steven King's "The Stand"

    Any Stephen King book made into a movie ever. Although I think Christine was the worst one
  • ZebraHead
    ZebraHead Posts: 15,207 Member
    Steven King's "The Stand"

    I thought that was a good one.
  • kakklespakkle
    kakklespakkle Posts: 118 Member
    Don't get me started on how they murdered Northern Lights with the trot that was 'The Golden Compass'!
  • joeysox
    joeysox Posts: 195 Member
    i hate book adaptions i don't think i have ever seen one and thought ooooh id love to see it again! i read a lot of random books from random genres but as examples,... Anne Rice books to movies...awful, jodie picoult my sisters keeper...ending all wrong and doesn't follow it and darren shans cirque du freak totally messed up >< i give up watching them. ALTHOUGH a local author, Joseph Delaney writes a good series 'Spooks' but he sold the rights to the movies and has no input, it comes out next year i will feel the need to watch it though! The books are set in my local area in england but its filmed in canada? with american cast? lol xxx
  • mitch16
    mitch16 Posts: 2,113 Member
    Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice. Tom Cruise as Vampire Lestat was wrong in so many ways.
  • Jennloella
    Jennloella Posts: 2,286 Member
    The Amityville Horror
  • pithole
    pithole Posts: 75 Member
    WANTED & KICK-*kitten*, comics were way better.

    Also THE SHINING.
  • randomtai
    randomtai Posts: 9,003 Member
    The whole Narnia series...
  • Carl01
    Carl01 Posts: 9,307 Member
    "It"
    So hard to adapt Stephen King and do the book justice.
  • anothermop
    anothermop Posts: 187 Member
    I assumed you were talking about 'Alex Cross'. I really like the books but this movie was just not good. Added characters, people died that shouldn't have, the psycho was too easy to catch, and the acting was not very good. Very disappointed.
  • k2quiere
    k2quiere Posts: 4,151 Member
    Steven King's "The Stand"

    I thought that was a good one.

    I actually liked that one too! I hated "IT"!

    On the flip-side, I think the ending of the 5th Harry Potter was much better done in the movie than it was in the book. I hated the way that book ended, but the movie made the ending tolerable.
  • aaeros
    aaeros Posts: 157
    Eragon. Movie was soooo bad, I couldn't watch past 20 or 30 minutes.


    I will say, Game of Thrones on HBO has been awesome! I will admit, after seeing it on HBO, I then bought the books.
  • dmpizza
    dmpizza Posts: 3,321 Member
    Charlotte's Web
  • quietHiker
    quietHiker Posts: 1,442 Member
    There are so many to name! Almost ALL of the Harry Potter Movies...but most recently....The Hunger Games.

    ...oh, and I have a feeling that the Jack Reacher movie coming out isn't going to be as good as the book....but I'll go in with an open mind.
  • poetictraveller
    poetictraveller Posts: 47 Member
    I'm on the second book in the Discovery of Witches series. I already hate the movie and it hasn't been filmed yet. Some things were just meant to be read and not watched...
  • Shell_7609
    Shell_7609 Posts: 786 Member
    Most Stephen King books, except The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, & The Shining (original movie with Jack Nicholson)
  • lmeasterling
    lmeasterling Posts: 139 Member
    The Vow.
    Pride & Predjuice (Keira Knightley version).
  • sevsmom
    sevsmom Posts: 1,172 Member
    Steven King's "The Stand"

    Any Stephen King book made into a movie ever. Although I think Christine was the worst one

    I think Pet Sematary was pretty bad. And that one with Kathy Bates, where she kidnaps the writer dude and then hobbles him. Book was much better.
  • user135534534
    user135534534 Posts: 7
    Loved the Bible, disliked The Passion of Christ.
  • tmbowen12
    tmbowen12 Posts: 175 Member
    Nicholas Sparks Nights in Rodanthe. It didn't stick to the book. If you remember in the book her daughter was older and dealing with the loss of her husband. There's a couple of more but can't think of it right off the top of my head. Now if you ask my teenage daughters this question they would say the Twilight Series (shuttering)
  • Erienneb
    Erienneb Posts: 592 Member
    I read a LOT and I am almost never happy with the film adaptation. This is why , even though I love Emma Watson, I am scared to see the Perks of Being a Wallflower. Adapting into a mini series is u sually much better. Most notably, for me, The John Jakes North and South trilogy. Did they change it to adapt it, oh yeah, but it was still very good. Also Game of Thrones is amazing.
  • penrbrown
    penrbrown Posts: 2,685 Member
    The Bourne Identity. Loved the book SO MUCH but yeah... the movie? It was okay but not nearly as good. And I can't watch it more then once so yeah...

    :P
  • GamerGurl729
    GamerGurl729 Posts: 286 Member
    Eragon. Movie was soooo bad, I couldn't watch past 20 or 30 minutes.


    I will say, Game of Thrones on HBO has been awesome! I will admit, after seeing it on HBO, I then bought the books.

    I agree with you for the most part, but I can already tell the series is going to veer off in this next season. I just hope it doesn't go the way of True Blood where the series is hardly recognizable from the books.
  • chocoholicdiva
    chocoholicdiva Posts: 345 Member
    Pretty much every one in existence, save about 5 or 6!

    Most recently, The Help.
    Ugh, don't remind me about that one. AND IT WON AN OSCAR!!!!! Seriously? I've seen loads better movies than that. Knocked Up was a better movie than that and that one was severely perverted. I was amazed that I got through THAT one in its entirety if only for Katherine Heigl. Otherwise it'd be the same thing. Watch 30 minutes of it and then out of the DVD player it comes.
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    Loved the Bible, disliked The Passion of Christ.

    There is simply no topping this one.

    P.S. I would totally call you on the phone...can't leave you just to talk to the Pope, maybe, in Rome...
  • joeysox
    joeysox Posts: 195 Member
    Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice. Tom Cruise as Vampire Lestat was wrong in so many ways.

    soooo not the image i had in my mind x

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