I know it's probably been said a million times already, but I'd have to say Eragon. I loved the book. It was one of my favorites for quite a while. I watched the movie over at a friends house and we were both very disappointed in the horrible job the movie makers did.

Eragon. >_o I've read the series over and over again, and it never gets old. The movie was... terrible, to put it simply. The casting choices were horrible as was the acting. It didn't follow the book at all.

Oh Geeze.
Not one person mentioned....Youth In Revolt.
Yes, guys that was a book. The best most funniest book i have ever read.
The movie completely took out 3/4 of the entire story, There were about 15 characters missing. They got lazy.
There is probally gonna be a sequal called Youth In Exile. seeing as how thats the second book. Not to mention....What they did put in the movie....They were direct lines from the book. Word for Word.

I completely reccomend reading the book. Its about 500 pages long and filled with tons of hilarity.

@ Beliar: I remember reading some of the T*Witches books. I never watched the whole T*Witches movie, but I did see maybe twenty minutes of it, and I totally agree with you. Cameron and Alex's characterizations were utterly slaughtered.

I'd have to say that the absolute worst ones are ranked in order.
1. Inkheart
2. Twilight
3. Eragon
4. ANY of the Harry Potter movies

... *sighs* Thus I stray from watching any movies I have read the books of. Or more accurately, I do not read the book of any movie I have watched. If I'm going to read the book I will read it before I watch the movie. ^^ So I can yell at the movie for everything it messed up, missed, forgot and left out or just did horribly. If I've already seen the movie I don't want to know what I'm missing ^^; Especially if I thought it was a good movie.

Gahh. The Lightening Thief. No question about it. THEY DIDN'T INCLUDE HALF THE CHARACTERS D: And they made Annabeth a BRUNETTE with BRIGHT BLUE EYES! D: I was soo disappointed :|

Eragon, Harry potter, Twilight/new moon, Percy Jackson.
I liked some of the movies listed but I just thought they were completely different from the books.

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@supermango: I think they will make a second or more movies. If so then they characters would be included somewhere because you can't leave out characters in a series unless they were characters who weren't really important in the books.Then again the directer could a moron and do it anyways.

Running with Scissors.


It kept some of the plot, BUT VERY LITTLE..

D: I was disappointed.

The actors were okay but didn't fit the description to the characters in the book.

Originally Posted by DeiGoesBoom

Running with Scissors.


It kept some of the plot, BUT VERY LITTLE..

D: I was disappointed.

The actors were okay but didn't fit the description to the characters in the book.

Thank you for that. Now I know for sure not to see the movie; I read the book a while back and loved it, but if the movie's gonna ruin it... no thanks.

As for my personal least-favorite...
Queen of the Damned is a terrible movie. It's not even really based on the book by the same name. Most of the movie is actually from The Vampire Lestat. And they messed up Marius so bad... He's a blonde, not a brunette, and he most definitely was not the one to turn Lestat into a vampire.

twilight

Scarebear: You should! The books aren't that big but they're pretty good =]
LadyKnightSkye: Before that movie I did not realize how badly they could convert a book to a movie and those books were really good.

Another bad book to movie adaption was A Sound of Thunder. It was a short story to begin with so they were probably better off not making a movie for it. The movie changed a lot of base facts (though I give it credit for following the base idea) and just became so far fetched. It probably would have been fine if I hadn't read the story beforehand because the movie was so bad it was funny when you compared the two.

(Cant' remember whether or not I posted on this thread before...)

The Golden Compass. They got a quite a few of the events mixed up and they didn't even show some of the more important ones that occur at the end.

TWILIGHT! its the worst! i think

Originally Posted by Kid Disaster

As for my personal least-favorite...
Queen of the Damned is a terrible movie. It's not even really based on the book by the same name. Most of the movie is actually from The Vampire Lestat. And they messed up Marius so bad... He's a blonde, not a brunette, and he most definitely was not the one to turn Lestat into a vampire.

I usually try to treat books and movie adaptions as two separate entities because it's nearly always impossible to condense everything a novel has to offer into a film.

But I have to agree that Queen of the Damned was a terrible movie. I remember seeing it in the theater when it was first released and thinking, 'What the hell is this shite?' :lol:

I haven't seen the movie for Blood and Chocolate, but if it's as you all say (nothing the same), I would have to agree and never see the movie ... I agree that Eragon and Twilight. They are both horrible conversions, I like having a picture to go with my personal visuals, but not when the movie TRIES so hard to make viewers happy. I understand that movies canNOT be like a book, and that things must be editted out to make it a sit-worthy time frame. But the remaining story line has to make sense and flow. IF it doesn't, it can't be followed by those familiar to the story, or those unfamiliar alike. Harry Potter, I think started out well and I even enjoyed most of the forth movie. But the last two were horrible, and I can wait until ondemand for the last book-to-movie-conversion of the Harry Potter Series. (Oh, and I can totally wait for the video release of Eclipse too.)

Eragon. I saw the movie first and just thought it was brilliant... then quite a few people told me the book was better I decided to read it. I was completely pissed off at the movie version after that.. I understand that it was quite a long book and that a few things had to be left out, but seriously? They ruined it. It's like they were trying to stick to what happened in the book, but got confused and just left out a bunch key parts. Like, when Eragon and Brom are traveling.. In the book you see how Brom is teaching him magic and blah, blah, blah, but in the movie you barely see anything like that. So, am I just to accept that within a few days (that's the time it seems to take them to get to the Varden) Eragon became a master at magic and fighting, without any training? I think not. I just can't describe how completely disappointed I was with the movie after reading the book.

Also, I forgot to mention in case it isn't clear, I don't think that when making the movie the producers should try to stick to the book too much. It's unrealistic to think that all the details of a book can be transferred to a one and half hour long movie. Books are always going to be better, just because you get so much information that you wouldn't get in the movie. However, I like to see that they are following the same basic plot and at least trying to make it recognizable with the book. I just felt that for Eragon they tried just a little too hard to keep it exactly like the book and it blew up in their faces.

Originally Posted by Captain Howdy

I usually try to treat books and movie adaptions as two separate entities because it's nearly always impossible to condense everything a novel has to offer into a film.

But I have to agree that Queen of the Damned was a terrible movie. I remember seeing it in the theater when it was first released and thinking, 'What the hell is this shite?' :lol:

I always make the horrible mistake of going into a movie based off of a book and thinking that somehow, by some chance, it might actually stick to the book. Even though 95% of book-to-movie conversions have let me down so far... I still hold out hope. -_-

Originally Posted by supermango

Gahh. The Lightening Thief. No question about it. THEY DIDN'T INCLUDE HALF THE CHARACTERS D: And they made Annabeth a BRUNETTE with BRIGHT BLUE EYES! D: I was soo disappointed :|

I feel exactly the same~!

Eragon hands down no questions asked, completely butchered and it makes me weep. Ink Heart was also destroyed so now they can't make Ink Spell! D:

Probably Eragon or Harry Potter 6.

I can't say about some of the really popular movie/book conversions (namely Harry Potter and Tiwlight, neither of which I have seen nor read).

From what I have personally seen, however, was the Disney adaptation of Prince Caspian. First of all, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe stuck to the book /incredibly well/, and is probably the /best/ book to movie conversion I've seen.

Prince Caspian? There were four scenes, FOUR (4), that actually occured in the book. Not to mention that Caspian was about 7-10 years younger than he was in the movie, among other horrible inaccuracies.

Lord of the Rings was pretty good wholistically, (it /is/ only one novel after all, published in three volumes) though there were parts were it looked like the director forgot something had happened in the book and so the shoved it in later ('the sword that was broken' anyone?). Plus, they left out Tom Bombadil, thus making the 'ring' seem a whole lot more powerful than it actually was. Still, overall very good.

First off, I've seen nearly every movie mentioned in this thread, lol! That being said, I've seen QUITE a lot of horribly done book to movie renditions + remakes. Saw Eragon and was disgusted by what they did, am ticked off at how they've been treating the HP movies, I've stayed away from Twilight because I just can't stand the books (period), even Coraline was a bit disheartening but loved the Gaiman-Burton-ness, and Golden Compass missed the whole point.

There are so many that make me sad, but nothing takes the cake, IMHO, to the one I think was the worst.

If any of you have ever seen Sci-Fi Channels TV version of Earthsea.... DON'T! lol! No, seriously. It's bad enough when a movie misses the point of the original story, but there's almost nothing recognizable in the book(s) to movie! They (the directors/screen writers) basically took the names of the original characters, the general idea of the world setting, and a few elements such as the character's home towns and a wizard school... and threw the story out completely, thereby re-writing =coughmassacaredcough= the whole blasted thing to what they wanted. They took a story about discovering ones-self and facing your fears to one of superficial love. There was almost nothing recognizable from the story in the movie.

What's sad is the Earthsea series is incredible and deserves much more coverage than it gets, but it doesn't. (And don't get me started on how Harry Potter is an almost re-write/rip of Earthsea, lol!)

But there it is... horrible books to movies do exist... and I'll continue to watch them, lol, but the Earthsea movie shouldn't even have the book's name! It REALLY has nothing to do with it!

Probably The Golden Compass. Where did the story go?! IT was watered down so much, it lost it's spark, it's uniqueness. Wasn't written to please everyone, so I don't know how they thought that it would make a good movie once they brought it down and made it more PC...

I agree with Tasia too, the remake of Earthsea was horrid.

Originally Posted by Woodlandnymph

Probably The Golden Compass. Where did the story go?! IT was watered down so much, it lost it's spark, it's uniqueness. Wasn't written to please everyone, so I don't know how they thought that it would make a good movie once they brought it down and made it more PC...

I agree with Tasia too, the remake of Earthsea was horrid.

Agreed! It was such a twisted re-imagining that it was NO longer Earthsea.... =shudders= What a sham!

Golden Compass could have made a good movie, if they hadn't of took so much important stuff out. Of course, I had wondered before seeing it how they would deal with that ending scene... =coughcough= Guess they had no choice but to cut it out? =shakes head=

I have to agree with what people said about Eragon, I read the book before watching the movie and was excited about it. I most hated part was where the dragon (I don't remember the name -_-) flew away then come back 10 times bigger. It was weird. Also there was one main elf in the movie, and they couldn't give her elf ears. -_-
The Lord of the rings movies were pretty bad after reading the books but they were decent enough, not like Eragon.
Oh and if comics count then I hate the X-men movies, all of them. They just took some of the character's and threw them in a movie. Wolverine Orgins was the worse.