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re: Movies that completely disregard the book.
Posted on 3/13/26 at 5:54 am to Jor Jor The Dinosaur
Posted on 3/13/26 at 5:54 am to Jor Jor The Dinosaur
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The movie is basically a satire of the book.
The movie unsuccessfully tried to be a satire of the book.
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Posted on 3/13/26 at 6:03 am to DoUrden
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King is a strange dude, there is some form of sexual deviance in most of his books.
Yeah, I think the deviance is called Steve.
Posted on 3/13/26 at 6:41 am to Sus-Scrofa
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World War Z
I'm still mad about that.
All I want is the fricking Yonkers (IIRC?) chapter played out onscreen. Is that too much to ask?
Posted on 3/13/26 at 6:58 am to TigerMyth36
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involved with Wheel should be embarrassed.
Brandon Sanderson and AppleTV are going to show them how it’s supposed to be done with the Mistborn movie(s).
Posted on 3/13/26 at 7:14 am to travelgamer
The original Running Man.
Posted on 3/13/26 at 7:48 am to coolpapaboze
Napoleon
Posted on 3/13/26 at 8:56 am to travelgamer
Foundation is completely off from the books - with no redemption.
I do like the idea of the continuous line of Emperors, but that story could have been a completely different movie altogether.
Foundation is nothing, nothing, without the core material put in first, the Elijah Baley books are a perfect introduction to this world. It could have built something amazing, through Empire and then Foundation - all the way to Foundation and Earth.
I do like the idea of the continuous line of Emperors, but that story could have been a completely different movie altogether.
Foundation is nothing, nothing, without the core material put in first, the Elijah Baley books are a perfect introduction to this world. It could have built something amazing, through Empire and then Foundation - all the way to Foundation and Earth.
Posted on 3/13/26 at 8:59 am to travelgamer
Eragon
Posted on 3/13/26 at 9:18 am to tylerdurden24
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I Am Legend
This is the most infuriating one for me. That short story is PERFECT for a movie, yet they screwed it up and turned it into some action horror piece. So dumb
Posted on 3/13/26 at 9:35 am to travelgamer
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Patriot Games, it doesn't even try to follow the book.
The Sum of all Fears was worse. They turned Ryan into a kid, little better than a CIA intern, and then just completely changed the cast of villains from Arab terrorists to White neo-nazis. As someone else put it, this is what happens when Hollywood writers get their hands on book adaptations from authors that they hate.
Posted on 3/13/26 at 9:42 am to travelgamer
I, Robot is always the first thing I think of with this topic. It would be a pretty hard book to adapt but that just tells me that you shouldn't adapt it. It is not even remotely close to the book.
Staying on Asimov's work, the TV series Foundation is a quality show, but an abomination of the source. Race/gender swaps that I don't care about but just major story changes and additions that completely change the theme. Had to quit watching after S1.
The Hobbit trilogy was unfortunately a really bad adaption of the source. Should have only been one movie. Though it didn't disregard the book, it just had to add in way to much extra to fill it out.
The 2002(?) Count of Monte Cristo with Jim Caviziel and Guy Pearce was so far off from the book it's not even funny. I used to love that movie when I was younger, say it in theatres in high school. But I read the book last year, which was absolutely incredible, but has kind of ruined the movie for me. Not even remotely the same story.
Staying on Asimov's work, the TV series Foundation is a quality show, but an abomination of the source. Race/gender swaps that I don't care about but just major story changes and additions that completely change the theme. Had to quit watching after S1.
The Hobbit trilogy was unfortunately a really bad adaption of the source. Should have only been one movie. Though it didn't disregard the book, it just had to add in way to much extra to fill it out.
The 2002(?) Count of Monte Cristo with Jim Caviziel and Guy Pearce was so far off from the book it's not even funny. I used to love that movie when I was younger, say it in theatres in high school. But I read the book last year, which was absolutely incredible, but has kind of ruined the movie for me. Not even remotely the same story.
Posted on 3/13/26 at 9:49 am to CocomoLSU
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I'm still mad about that. All I want is the fricking Yonkers (IIRC?) chapter played out onscreen. Is that too much to ask?
And then the later battles where they switch back to civil war and Viking strategy in mass scale
Posted on 3/13/26 at 10:09 am to PowerTool
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Kind of like any Philip K Dick adaptation - they're "inspired by" but go further or away from the original short stories.
ETA: though I liked most of the PKD adaptations.
I think there are a number of films that are better than the book. I mean it's rare, but they are out there. Bust most of the time it's when the book was nothing spectacular in the first place.
There are very few instances when a movie is better than a good book.
Blade Runner > Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Though that is the greatest book title of all time. Just incredible. Wish they would have names the movie that but seeing as there were no electric sheep in the movie, it makes sense.
Id argue that No Country for Old Men is better than the book and probably Silence of the Lambs as well. Though I do love both of those books, just prefer the movie more.
Posted on 3/13/26 at 11:06 am to Sus-Scrofa
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Without Remorse
Posted on 3/13/26 at 11:09 am to travelgamer
TLJ. I don't know how but it does
Posted on 3/13/26 at 11:25 am to travelgamer
Troy
Posted on 3/13/26 at 11:38 am to TigerMyth36
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Dark Tower was bad. The liberal clowns on here will argue about it but it is actually impossible for Roland to be black. One major theme is Roland's relationship with Susannah / Detta. That cant work unless Roland is white.
The writers weren't comfortable with the character so they removed her even though one of the books is fracking named after her.
they also changed everything else to make up for the huge chunks they removed with Detta.
Well in fairness, books 2 and 3 of Dark Tower suck, it's not like they were going to make great movies. Book 1 is pretty overrated too imo but overall it's not that great of a series.
I couldn't even finish the movie though, I watched maybe an hour and turned it off.
Posted on 3/13/26 at 11:39 am to TigerintheNO
Back in the 80's Cannery Row was in heavy rotation on HBO so I watched it a lot. I really liked it so eventually I read the book.
They are alike in name only for the most part. Because I saw the movie first, there was no way I could enjoy the book.
They are alike in name only for the most part. Because I saw the movie first, there was no way I could enjoy the book.
Posted on 3/13/26 at 11:44 am to travelgamer
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was very different from the book.
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