Blood and Chocolate. The movie had almost nothing in common with the book.

Twilight. I'm not a big Twilight fan, heck, I hate it. But the movie sucked.

Eragon. It was a good movie, if you seperated it from the book.

ABSOLUTE WORST BOOK TO MOVIE CONVERSION EVER: The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper --> "The Seeker" AKA the travesty they claim is based on the book. At least with most horrible conversions, the movie is halfway decent if you've never read the book, where as The Seeker a)made no sense if you hadn't read the book. It made all sorts of obscure allusions and references that would confuse someone who hadn't read it b) invented a twin brother! c) didn't follow the book at all d) had the worst casting since Spielberg cast his girlfriend e) was overall a horrible movie f) had badly done cgi special effects (if they had used cheap props it might have actually looked better) g) didn't even manage a decent resolving of the plot (re: invented twin brother)

The worst book to movie conversion I EVER saw was "Eragon". The book was long and detailed and had really good parts! The movie was an hour and a half and skipped out on WAY too many important things. They totally destroyed the ending and everything was just a bit off, in my personal opinion. Movie wise, it was good. Compared to the book, it was terrible.

Originally Posted by Dezzy Love

The worst book to movie conversion I EVER saw was "Eragon". The book was long and detailed and had really good parts! The movie was an hour and a half and skipped out on WAY too many important things. They totally destroyed the ending and everything was just a bit off, in my personal opinion. Movie wise, it was good. Compared to the book, it was terrible.

I was SOOO unaware of how horrible the book to movie transition was for Eragon until I started looking up review for it after I saw it. So many people said that the movie was horrible...I thought the movie was fine, but I'm sad to hear that it was so terribly desecrated in the transition.

I thought I was going to be the only one that would say Eragon, just b/c I don't know any people that have read the book. However they butchered it and I was severely disappointed. I'm glad so many people agree with me! I would also say:

Harry Potter (not too bad, but could have been better)
Lord of the Rings (again, not bad, but I'm picky)
Shinobi: Heart Under Blade (the acting, or graphics, something could have made it better, but loved the story line)

Originally Posted by MizumiO

Blood and Chocolate. The movie had almost nothing in common with the book.

Twilight. I'm not a big Twilight fan, heck, I hate it. But the movie sucked.

Eragon. It was a good movie, if you seperated it from the book.

I have to agree with you on Blood and Chocolate. I never saw the movie, but I saw the few comercials and right off the bat I was like "WTF is this crap?". It didn't look anything like the book. Not even the characters. I was sad and mad when I saw it. They could have done something with it, but they didn't.

I don't know if anyone remembers Disney's version of The Black Cauldron, but it was a complete disgrace compared to the book. Disney basically tried to fit a seven book series into an hour and change length movie, and destroyed most of the key elements in the original series that made it interesting.

I think a little part of my soul died when I saw that movie, I haven't been able to go back and read the series since.

I agree with Dezzy and MizumiO about Blood and Chocolate. The movie was AWFUL. Nothing was right. The people who made the movie basically kept the title and the names and nothing else. My friends and i all read the book and were excited to see the movie and were all like: W. T. F.

I don't know if anyone remembers Disney's version of The Black Cauldron, but it was a complete disgrace compared to the book. Disney basically tried to fit a seven book series into an hour and change length movie, and destroyed most of the key elements in the original series that made it interesting.

I think a little part of my soul died when I saw that movie, I haven't been able to go back and read the series since.

I have and have watched the movie. I didn't know it was a book series before Disney got a hold of it. I remember the evil king used to scare me when i was little.

I would have to say Ella Enchanted. They took two or three things from the book and tossed the rest aside.

Originally Posted by Dezzy Love

I have to agree with you on Blood and Chocolate. I never saw the movie, but I saw the few comercials and right off the bat I was like "WTF is this crap?". It didn't look anything like the book. Not even the characters. I was sad and mad when I saw it. They could have done something with it, but they didn't.

OMG yes! i loved the book. was amazing!! i never saw the movie, but I knew it was going to just fall flat on its face. i was so bummed about it in the commercials.
i just hope they dont doa movie of the alchemist because i wanna be in that. and i know they wouldnt be able to depict any of it from the book into a movie. ahhh i scared because its an award winning book and is on its 10th edition thingy.

Kurt Vonnegut's "Breakfast of Champions". Even Bruce Willis, Nick Nolte, and Owen Wilson couldn't save it from being terrible :[

man the twilight series the books were so much better!!

Eragon is hands down one of the worst, a long with Twilight. I used to accept Stephanie Meyer's series. Now, I hate it. With a passion. I usually try not to let the movie mess with my feelings toward the book, but I just can't help it. The sad part was that I've read the books before seeing any of their movies. It's heart breaking, honestly.

New Moon was a terrible movie conversion and that is the only book in the series I adore. They left out a lot of key parts so the movie would make sense to those who have not read the book or the series. Which bothered me. I did not like the Narnia movies and although I have not read Eragon my good friend did and I watched the movie with her and she was ranting about all that wasn't right. So in a sense it comes down to pleasing fans or profiting off movies.

Omg... I remember Blood and Chocolate... man that sucked!


I also here that "The Shining" was a butchery of the book. I hated the movie, but King fans say the movie was competely different from the book.

I stay as far away from book movies as I possibly can (Unless Tim Burton's doing it). I like the Harry Potter books, but the movies made me less interested it them for a long while. The Half-Blood Prince is my favorite of the books, but I will NEVER watch the movie. Anytime I hear that I book I like is being turned into a movie...it just ruins my day :stare:
Comic book movies are my only exception however.

Blood And Chocolate.... the only thing the same were the names, and the fact that it was about werewolves....

It had to be Twilight
I used to be Twilight's biggest fan, the magic Stephanie Meyer weaved into every page used to make me shake while I was reading it. I totally fell in love with Edward, and eventually Edward and Bella together. And then Robert Patterson entered the equation, added to the atrocity they named "Twilight"...
Now, I can't even read the book without thinking "ugh, Twilight" in the back of my head. That stupid movie turned me into a Twilight cynic. It was two hours that crushed me, and what's worse is that I paid about ten dollars for that new-age horrible torture device!

Was anyone as disgusted by Watchmen (the movie) as I was? Queen of the Damned was also very bad.

hmm i would say the angels and demon movie it totally destroyed me inside because if left so many parts out and didn't explain things or make them to exciting as the book did

The worst book to movie adaptation that I actually watched all of is Eragon. I hated the movie so much! Not just because they didn't follow the book (and made the ra-zac weird bug people, made Angela a sexy girl and basically either made the female roles really small, sexed them up, or both,) but also because the editing was terrible! Especially the fighting scenes. And there were tons of continuity errors. At the beginning of the movie was the worst, though. There was narration going on telling exactly what was happening. "Meanwhile, a young boy goes hunting." Yeah, like we can't TELL he's hunting? Do we NEED that pointed out to us? I mean, whatever happened to "show, not tell"?

Movies of books I read that I just couldn't finish were My Sister's Keeper, The Other Boleyn Girl, and Inkheart. Not because they didn't follow the books (though they didn't, especially The Other Boleyn Girl) but because they were just awful movies in general and were really really boring.

I think the only (modern) book-to-movie adaptation I liked was Bridge to Terabithia. They did go overboard with the CGI, I agree with whoever else in this thread said so, but at least the plot was the same. I had been a bit concerned when I saw the trailer, since they were marketing the movie as way different than what it was, choosing to show only the CGI randomness in the trailer.
I liked the Lord of the Rings movies too, since at least they were good movies even if they changed stuff and left some stuff out.
The Golden Compass was alright at least. They changed 2 big things, but not without good reason. They changed the kid she finds to Billy instead of some random kid, but they probably did that to raise the stakes. And they made it end earlier (probably for a good stopping point, though i'm not sure where they will start the next movie if they make it).
As for Harry Potter, well, at least the acting is good and the movies are well-made in general, but they do leave a lot out (especially in the 3rd one) to the point where my friends who haven't read the books have no idea what's going on.

Leaving a few things out or changing like 2 things are understandable in a movie based on a book, since it's not like they remember every single scene and try to shoot it all exactly how they pictured it. but changing basically everything, like they did with Eragon, just makes me think "um...why? What was the point of that?"

just to name a few, eragon, prince caspian, twilight, and new moon. they all made me want to burn the theater down and shoot the idiot that wrote the dum thing.

Oh man, where to start? All of them? I work in a bookstore so all I hear from customers is how much the latest movie based on a book sucked. You'd think they'd stop getting excited about them!

But for me it was: The Darren Shan movie, and Eragon.

The Lovely Bones was a half decent movie if you've never read the book. They didn't include a lot of things in the movie that were in the book, and even removed some characters.

I haven't seen it, but I heard the Time Traveler's Wife did not do it justice.

I have to ask though, am I the only one who thinks The Lightning Thief will make it onto this list? The movie looks like it might be half decent as a movie, but as for an accurate portrayal of the books? The previews are filled with fail. I can hardly believe how many inaccuracies they managed to fit in under a minute!

I've gotta say...the worst book to movie conversion was...Inkheart...I love love love the main actor...but the script was horrible!!

OOO so was eragon...I left halfway through the movie. It was just stupid.

I would have to say (If it hasn't been said already) Twilight.

I really enjoyed Twilight the book but the movie made me shake my head. The media built it up to look like the best movie ever, and I get into the theatre and start watching it and almost automatically disappointed.

First of all, the girl playing Bella was out of it through out the entire movie. She is obviously on drugs.

I know there are limits to making someone look abnormally beautiful, but we have the technology now to make people look beautiful. The vampires in the book were supposed to be portrayed as the most beautiful people you will ever see, truthfully, I've seen real people who look better, even so, they could have used technology to alter them to the point where they did look abnormally beautiful. Really, I don't think Edward was all that handsome...

The make up was horribly done... You could TELL that they were wearing make up. The movie magic is to make us think that is their natural skin color. When I can see the clumps of makeup on the person, that is bad...

As far as special effects, Edward's "Shiny" skin is water and glittler... You could see the water beading down his chest...

Edward himself, ugh... I know he was trying to hold back his accent but it was really obvious for me.

I also believe they tried too hard to fit all the story line into Twilight the movie and didn't let it have some originality of its own.

Ya... This movie ruined my liking of Twilight. Still like the books, but it makes it hard to say it.

<Waits for a Twilight fan girl to come charging and hit me for saying Edward isn't handsome at all.>