31 of Your Favorite Stories That Adaptations Ruined

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31 of Your Favorite Stories That Adaptations Ruined

It’s exciting when one of your favorite books, or comic books, or shows, or whatever gets adapted into a movie or a series. But it can also be incredibly disappointing, specifically because it’s something you’re emotionally vested in. Our readers were particularly damaged by the following adaptations…

While One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is certainly a well-made film, as an adaptation it misses every mark. EAST KEN FLIW KETEY ONE WEST FLEW OKE S FL
GRAGKEDOO Arrogant butotherwise reasonable guy: Unbelievable douchebag. Timid, but gradtahy gains confidenee. Gains and loses confidence arbitrarily.
BOB HOSKINS JOHN LEGUIZAMO DENNIS HOPPER ABSOLUTELV OTHING THEGAMES! LIKE GLIARANTEED! KIDS SUPER MARIO ROS NONSENSICALCHANGES' TO CHARACTERS. INCREDI
AS a kiD, I loved THE ADVENTURES OF ROCKY & BULLWINKLE for its goofiness. As an ADULt, I love it for the jokes that went over my head When I was a kiD
THE AMERICAN YORK NFORGETTABLE AEIL MES BESTSELLER GALMAN GODS IS *ther OWIr ONE OF MY FAVORITE AMERICAN BOOKS. GODST USA Totey But the TV series just
Stephen King's The Langoliers was an awesome novella... in print. But in the mini-series, the bad acting and drawn-out dialog made it nearly unwatch
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A lack of time dedicated to Voldemort's past in the Harry Potter film series means he doesn't have the depth he does in the books. His backstory helps
THE MOVIE WAS A THE BOOKS BUILT DUMBED UP AN THESE MCCONA DOWN THAN AMAZING MAT POORLY UNIVERSE. WORLDS TOWER ELBA OTHER WRITTEN IDRIS ARE MESS. THERE
31 of Your Favorite Stories That Adaptations Ruined
DEATH Note Xn A brilliant psychological thriller featuring a unique plot and interesting characters... ...was turned into a wacky ve-action American m
FOr THE FILM ADAPTATION OF SWEENEY TODD, THEY TOOK A GREAT STAGE MUSICAL AND REMOVED HUGE AMOUNTS OF THE NUANCE, HUMOR. PLOT, AND SCORE, IN ORDER TO C
SILENT HILL 3 IS A MEMORABLE HORROR GAME THAT USES GROTESQUE IMAGERY AND EERIE SOUND DESIGN TO BUILD A TENSE, UNSETTLING ATMOSPHERE. SILENT HILL: REVE
Ginny Weasley's characteristics are insultingly watered down in the Harry Potter films. She is written as a complex character in the books: a fierce,
ORAOT I will never forgive the 1995 Mortal Kombat movie for reducing my favorite characters Scorpion and Sub-Zero to mindless goons with no personalit
CRAGKEDa THE BOOK CREATES A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE ZOMBIE EPIDEMIOATHROUGH MULTIPLE NARRATORS AND STORYLINES. THE MOVIE IS A BRAD PITT HERO VEHICLE
DC PREACHER VERTIGO NL.32 DEE 97 S2. 5K The comic book starts with an explosion of a church, instantly moves on to an epic road trip and it never slow
Anne of Green Gables is a classic tale about an optimistic imaginative girl. So naturally Netflix made it a grimdark slog of constant suffering as all
OTO Eragon is brilliantly written and will always be a great novel for me. ERAGON CimtehT Paslin The film, though, seemed like it was carelessly throw
I re-read my copies of His Dark Materials until their spines broke. LBESTSCLLER PHILIP EINS PHIL PLLME PUg OMPASS COLDDEN PHILIF AN THE MATEROALS But
31 of Your Favorite Stories That Adaptations Ruined
The Last Airbender disappointed me so much. The director's thought process: Bad CGI? Mispronounciations? Plot incoherence? Poor script? Entire season
CRAO BATMAN DC UNIVERSE ORIGINAL MOVIE THE KILLING JOKE could've been one of the best animated DC movies ever... (comic) (movie) ...if they hadn't was
GRAGKEDOT THE LOVELY BONES The film's focus on the criminal investigation aspect instead of the book's study on human grief is a huge missed opportuni
MARVEL shares only ULTIMATE SPIDERMAN the name with the comic it's based on. It reduced the comic to unfunny cutaway gags... and awful messages like o
No matter how many times I read a book from the Percy Jackson series, my mind is completely blown. PEROYJACKSON INCLLIDES PERCY TACKSON CMK LIGHINING
THE FIRST SERIOUS LONG-FORM COMIC I EVER READ: ITS INTERCONNECTED STORY, COMPLEX CHARACTERS, AND CAREFUL WRITING SHOWED ME THAT COMICS HAD THE POTENTI
CRACKEDoO COn Lerrony Snickets UNFORTUNATE ASERIES OF EVENIS More like a series of unfortunate CGI. The focus on special effects shots really detracts
PET SEMATARY IS ONE OF STEPHEN KING'S FINEST WORKS THE 1989 MOVIE IS t YOUR TYPICAL, RUN- OF-THE-MILL HORROR FLICK WITH LITTLE 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSE
I can't stand the Pokemonanime. Ash is supposed to be a Pokemon fanatic, but never seems to know the frst thing about them on any level.
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I despise Sherlock with a passion. This unlikable and not-so-intelligent jerkass is not Sherlock Holmes. This undeveloped random manchild with no plan
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