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The worst book-to-movie adaptations

Abstract:
Remember the good 'ole days when, instead of reading a book for class, one could just go on sparknotes.com, read the Cliffs Notes or even watch the film version? Well here are some awful and completely inaccurate representations of commonly read books and guilty reading pleasures too....

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Kat

posted 10/01/08 @ 8:51 AM EST

I agree completely about "The Dark is Rising." I loved those books as a kid and was so excited when the movie came out and went to see right away - then it completely sucked.
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Eric

posted 10/01/09 @ 1:44 AM EST

Even worse than "The Da Vinci Code" was "Angels & Demons." I almost walked out of the theater.
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Dheak

posted 10/12/09 @ 5:17 AM EST

Wow, this is a surprisingly short list here considering the level of bile that Hollywood gives us when adapting books to film.

The worst offender that I can think of is Dune. Frank Herbert's original novel is an amazingly complex and captivating read that almost seems to beg to be made into an equally compelling film. Hollywood, however, fucked this one up big time by recruiting David Lynch to direct and write the screenplay of the film adaptation. The result was such a meandering, muddy, mess of a film that deviated so far from the book for no apparent reason that I will not soon feel compelled to see a film directed by Mr. Lynch again.
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