Name a movie that had a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ENDING THAN THE BOOK YOU LOVED
Name a movie that had a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ENDING THAN THE BOOK YOU LOVED
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Name a movie that had a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ENDING THAN THE BOOK YOU LOVED
The Horse Whisperer. I will never forgive Robert Redford
My Sisters Keeper. Still mad about how that movie ended
Jodi wasn’t happy either!
So ruin it. Made the whole story predictable . I remember reading the book and saying what the h just happen?? And had to read it a few to finally accept it. Loved the book.
Same. That was some bullshit
I didn’t watch the movie. Glad of it now.
The changing perspectives and the ending are what made the book so good. I remember when the movie came out. I ask everyone about the ending. I still haven’t watched it.
@Katherine same here and these posts confirm I’ve made the right decision in not watching!!
My sister’s keeper.
Not a movie, not an ending, but boy do they make some interesting changes to Game of Thrones the show
??
Well, they had to since the’ve gone beyond the books that have been written.
@Jillian this is totally true! However some things before that point were super different to the point of leading down a completely different road than the books (which was inevitable I know) such as who married Ramsey, the lack of lady stoneheart, and some of what happened at the red wedding
Practical Magic.
The Firm
Right? Pissed me off!!! ???
I cannot tell you how angry I was – I LOVED the book, the movie came out my birthday weekend and I was SO excited and then…this is when I learned 99.9% of the time the book is best and don’t go to the movie, don’t do it!!!
I read it in high school, loved it, told my parents OMG you have to read this. Then the movie came out and I was PISSED lol.
I don’t remember why I was so mad but I know I was!
And isn’t it funny it’s been 25 yrs and I haven’t read the book or watched the movie agsin almost that long and it was instantly the first one that popped in my mind when I saw the question lol.
Same!! Now I’m mad all over again just thinking about it!
@Kelly I Know right? Lolol
Wait. I don’t remember the difference! Of course I liked the book best… am I blocking it out for my mental sanity!!??!!!
@Anna Yes!
Ready Player One
@Kali that was my first thought too
Sssshhh! I just borrowed that book from a friend! 😉
@Anna don’t worry! You’ll LOVE it!
Well not just the ending but the whole ? movie….Confessions of a Shopaholic.
OMG yes!!! Hate that movie and loved the book, all of the books. Movie was so terrible!!
I remember when it was released and I was so excited. My jaw was on the floor the entire time. They combined books, changed the story, etc. I love love love those books and that movie was a tragedy.
its funny for me because I loved every single one of Sophie Kinsellas books except for Shopaholic but I had already seen the movie. I wonder how I would have felt if it was in reverse. I only read the first in the series because I was so annoyed with it I didn’t want more.
That has happened to me. If I have seen the movie, I can’t tolerate the books. I have to read the book first or else I’m a lost cause
I was SHOCKED by how much they changed. I saw it in the theater, and I only saw it the one time because I remember thinking, “Uh, that was nothing like the books I fell in love with.”
Movie “Enemy” based on Jose Saramago’s book The Double.
Not completely different but I hated that Neville didn’t have his full sword scene at end of Deathly Hallows movie. It was perfectly written to give him a powerful scene them the film botched it.
My Sister’s Keeper
The Power of One
Marley & Me
Can you explain this one to me? It’s been a while since I’ve seen the movie, but I thought they were fairly faithful to the memoir… I could be misremembering though.
SPOILER ALERT
As I recall the book ends with how they lived life after Marley died and got another puppy. The movie ends when Marley died. Horribly sad and not how it should have ended!
Ah, okay. Yeah, I think the reason why they didn’t do that is because the family actually waited almost a year before they adopted another dog. There was one shortly after Marley’s death that they looked into, but ultimately that dog ended up not being a good fit for their family (if I recall correctly, she had been abused or something? And the rescue didn’t want her to go to a home with small kids like they had?).
I can understand why you didn’t like the way they ended the movie. I thought the ending quote – about how there’s something special about a dog that makes you feel so loved – was beautiful and perfect. I also think that there are some people who would have been mad if they had showed the family adopting another dog – I can hear the internet cries of “you can’t just replace him like that!” ha ha. It does make me ugly cry though, which is why I haven’t seen the movie in a while.
I think I need to reread it! 🙂
I did a reread a year or two ago and it still holds up <3
Does it count if the whole movie is different?
Like Jurassic Park?
@Shanna oh yeah, that’s another one!
@Kelly lol
Which one were you thinking?
@Shanna Ready Player One was the first that came to mind, but there have been a few that were so different I couldn’t even compare them anymore. Part of me actually prefers when that happens, because it becomes impossible to compare the book to the movie. The other part of me really wants to see what happened in the book!
@Kelly that’s true! I agree on ready player one.
But yes! I liked Jurassic Park the book AND the movie… because they were not the same lol.
Oh you know what else was sooooo different? The Giver!
Notebook
Dear John – I shouted at the TV when I saw the movie!
My sister’s keeper
In the Miss Peregrine series they changed some of the characters and their powers. I was so confused!
AGREE
This made my daughter furious
I was mad too
@Kathi I vividly remember us looking at each other with the same bewildered expressions! WHY do they feel the need to do this!
Where the Heart Is. I loved, loved, loved that book and when the movie came out it was completely different. So, mad.
Yes, My Sister’s Keeper. I was dissatisfied with the ending, but that’s me. I figured it would mimic the book’s ending.
@MaryAnn I agree with you 100%! That is the one book that really stuck out to me
The lovely Bones. Maybe not so much the ending as the whole feel of the movie. I felt like the director spent so much time developing the look of “Heaven” that the rest of the movie felt flat.
The Notebook
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. In the book Saruman and Grimaldi Wormtongue took over the Shire and needed to be ousted. I Am Legend.
The Mist. I liked the movie ending better than the book ending, though.
Oh, and also Cell. Again, better movie ending than book ending.
I didn’t know Cell was made into a movie. Maybe I’ll check it out if it’s different from the book. The book started out great and then totally fizzled at the end.
It wasn’t that great of a movie. John Cusack starred in it, which is why I watched it. I did like the ending better than the book…completely different.
Stardust. Actually liked the movie ending better but the book overall better
Circle of Friends
Coraline
Our Town
The Help
Divergent
I was going to say this too! Even though I was so sad that the book ended the way it did, I wish the movie would have stuck to it.
My Sister’s Keeper
The movie ending made me so mad!! It ruined the entire point!!
@Melinda I was SHOCKED! Stunned, even!
To be fair they planned it to be the same, the last move just bombed.
It’s seriously makes me so mad. I have to wait a long time between reading it and watching it, or I’m like ‘nooooo the car was blue!’
Haha! Me, too. My husband got tired of me leaning over during movies and whispering “not in the book”.
I get SO many people telling me how uptight and picky I am. Well, dammit, when it’s WAY off from the book, what SHOULD I say? I’m OK with leaving stuff out for TIME, but to CHANGE it? Us readers are the ones that made it popular enough to make into a movie, after all!!! 😉
The Time Traveller’s Wife
@Susan ooh, yes!
That was my first thought.
The Martian had one major change that made me mad, but the other major change/addition kind of made up for it… Almost. Still love the movie.
How to Be Single ….the only thing the book and movie had in common was the title.
Gone with the wind. Valley of the dolls
Devil Wears Prada
Not a movie but the following tv shows need to reread their source material:
Dresden Files
Bitten
Blood Ties
Valley of the Dolls
My sisters keeper ?
The Witches by Roald Dahl. I loved the movie ending!
The Nanny Diaries. That whole movie was a mess!
Circle of Friends.
Orange is the New Black
Yes! That whole thing has gone completely off the rails. Even the first seasons that attempted to follow the book were bad.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s but I think the movie ending was good for the way they did the film.
Big Little Lies!! Book was better
I know it’s a kids’ book, but The Little Mermaid. Ugh! Sure, Disney, just ruin THE most romantic story of all time.
It’s horrible, the poor mermaid.
I’ve read that Walt wanted to do The Little Mermaid while he was alive, and keep the ending true to the book. I wonder how that would have turned out. ?
@Adrienne, what is the true ending?
@Jennifer SPOILER ALERT: She dies. The prince marries another woman (a totally innocent, non-evil woman) and the only way her sisters can save the little mermaid is by trading their hair to the sea witch (not an octopus) for a magic knife. When the prince’s blood splashes her feet, it will become a tail again. So the little mermaid goes to kill him in his sleep, but she loves him too much to be able to do it. So when the sun comes up on the last day, she is turned into foam on the waves, forever following him in his ocean travels. It’s beautiful.
@Jennifer she doesn’t win the prince and turns into sea foam. ?
My sisters keeper
So disappointed in the movie!
World War Z. LOVE the book so very much but the movie was nothing like the book and was a HUGE disappointment.
My Sister’s Keeper! I was so mad they changed the ending. That is part of what made that book so great.
A Simple Favor
That awful version of The Scarlet Letter that came out in the 90’s! That was a long time ago, but I’m still bitter!
My Sister’s Keeper! Still mad about how they changed the ending!!
This was the first thing I thought too! I was so annoyed with that ending.
Me too!!!
The book was so amazing, why they had to screw it up with a Hollywood ending ?♀️
The Devil Wears Prada.
The Time Travelers Wife
Under the Tuscan Sun. Totally different, but love both anyway.
The book was a memoir, the movie was a fictionalized version. So many things were different but I enjoy both book and movie.
Cujo
Yep. Read the book, then almost wet my pants at the end of the movie because I was NOT expecting that.
I crapped my pants too. I was thinking this movie is great. I read the book and know what will happen. Boy was I wrong as I jumped out of my skin.
Circle of Friends
My Sister’s Keeper
That was the first one that came to mind. I couldn’t believe they changed it that way.
Circle of Friends ?
My sisters keeper
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult. I was so mad at the end of that movie!
Same!!!
@Christine that was my first thought too
My Sister’s Keeper. And MY GOD did I get angry
Devil wears Prada
The Notebook! Oh and My Sister’s Keeper made me so ANGRY!
Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters
My Sister’s Keeper. So disappointing!
it may be because I’m sick with what feels like the plague or maybe it’s just been too long since I read it but can someone remind me what the difference was in devil wears Prada??
I think at the end of the book it was clear that Andy&the bf broke up, but the movie was more of a Hollywood, they-may-get-back-together ending? It’s been a loooong time since I read the book though, so I could be wrong!
Miranda also was not nice to Andy at all in the end and, if I’m recalling correctly, she tried to blacklist her all over the city at other publishing place. I think the only reason Andy got her next job was because the person hiring her had also worked for Miranda and hated her…. but it’s been many years since I read it, so I could be recalling these details incorrectly.
Dear John
The Shining
Seconded! I don’t even acknowledge the movie. The ending is a travesty!!!!
A major character dies in the movie that not only lives at the end but has a major part of the book ending!
Ooh really??!! I’ve only ever seen the movie….better add the book to my list!
Crazy rich Asians
My Sister’s Keeper.
“Forrest Gump” by Winston Groom, but this is the rare occasion I actually liked the movie better!
Princess Bride…but I loved both the book and the movie.
My Sister’s Keeper
Spiderwick Chronicles – My kids and I were pretty excited to watch it after reading the books. When the movie ended my son commented, “I think they [the screenwriters] forgot to read the book!”
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
All of them? lol
I Am Legend
The Horse Whisperer
The Circle
@Michelle they definitely changed a decent amount in the circle and had you not read the book that would not have made sense. It just it didn’t have the impact the book did I mean it wasn’t bad but people just coming into it would have been confused.
@Katie I saw the movie first. It made sense to me. I just finished the book yesterday. The book was so much creepier! What a world we may be heading towards!
Exactly! The book really showcased the creepy AF world we could be headed for !
My Sister’s Keeper!
I waited YEARS to watch this movie because of that.
@Tracy , it is awful!
Two come to mind. The first was not a movie, but a play. “Wicked.” While both the book & the play were fantastic, the book was a whole lot darker than the play, but I was ok with it because it made sense for the play to be lighter.
The other was Michael Connelly’s “Blood Work.” In the movie, the serial killer was not even the same person as in the book.
Wicked is one of the few books where I liked the “movie” (play) better. I read half the book and just couldn’t make myself finish it. But I LOVED the play!!
My sisters keeper
Serena! The changes seemed SO unnecessary, and completely altered the fundamental nature of her character. Super disappointing.
I love the main actors, and it would have been so great if the writers had just stuck to the original story
Red Sparrow. Though I could not even finish the movie. The changes were so annoying to me.
Yes.
My sisters keeper
Silver Linings Playbook- I adored the book and was so mad at the movie version for changing EVERYTHING.
Inferno
Haha, the one that stands out is from my 80s high school days. Pretty in Pink, the book, was based on the original screenplay. And Andie winds up with Duckie. Yay!! Movie, she gets boring Blaine.
That. Was. A. Book. With. The. RIGHT. Ending?! That was when I was in high school, too, and that’s why I HATED that movie!!!
Seriously, the book was do much better! I’m having as hard time thinking of an instance where the movie was better. Maybe Lord of the Rings, just because the books can be tedious. But I love Tolkien, so I’m torn.
Added it to my TBR list. It won’t make me like the movie (except for the cultural styles in there which were priceless), but I’d like to see Duckie win.
THERES A BOOK!?!? HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS???
It came out about the same time as the movie. But they didn’t have the updated script, thank goodness! #duckierocks
In the original movie ending she does end up with Duckie. However, test audiences hated the ending so they had no choice but to change it to Blaine.
My Sister’s Keeper… A different sister dies in each! I may have thrown the book across the room bc I saw the movie first
White Oleander
The Horse Whisperer
My daughter loves the Percy Jackson series. We bought her the movies…highly disappointed. The Maze Runner was bad too. I didn’t even bother to watch the sequels.
I hope in time they will remake Percy Jackson correctly. It had the potential of Harry Potter.
Agreed.
LA Confidential. Loved both the book and the movie.
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Notebook
@Katy I haven’t read the book, but I do rather enjoy the movie
There’s actually a sequel. I’ll leave it at that ?
@Katy oh snap! I’ll have to check it out
@Katie I almost bought the sequel (called The Wedding) was better!
Annihilation
Notebook
The divergent movies ?♀️
@Brianna yeah…. Let’s just pretend there was only 1 film instead of 3…. They at least followed the book in the 1st one only cutting a few things not adding characters changing Entire plot points and making stuff up !
@Katie yes! The ending made me sick. Lol. I couldn’t believe they messed it up so much
@Brianna oh yeah, by that point they were literally just making stuff up! I was floored!
@Katie yes!
Kramer vs kramer
Eragon
Interview with a Vampire
My sisters keeper
The Natural
The horse whisperer