Tell us which was the worst movie based in a book? The truth
Tell us which was the worst movie based in a book? The truth
233 Answers
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Loading Please wait
Tell us which was the worst movie based in a book? The truth
Where do I even start….Eragon.
True
11/22/63 the Hulu mini-series.
Yes! I was just about to type the same thing.
@Gabe I am SO GLAD I had the will power to read the book before watching the show.
I couldn’t finish the series, and it’s made me reluctant to read the book.
@Tiffany you MUST give the book a try! It’s so different! You should’ve heard my ranting while watching each episode. “That never happened!” “Where is the (insert missing plotline/character/etc)?!”
Percy Jackson, Beautiful Creatures, Eragon…
Beautiful Creatures I was so excited about and then so disappointed
I actually liked the movie if it stood alone and not compared to the book.
Flowers in the Attic was an awful movie!
@Denise Yes! Awful!
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was awful
Mortal instruments
Simon Birch – it was the adaptation for Prayer for Owen Meany.
A Very Long Engagement
That depends on if you mean that the book was good. If not, then 50 Shades of Grey. A terrible set of movies for a terrible set of books.
All kind of movies and books but i agree with you. The book and the movie are awful to say the least
@Ana Don’t forget. There are more than one of each.
@Ryan you are right
Why people waste time in that book
THE GIVER
I agree, loved the book but the movie was terrible.
I agree, loved the book but the movie was terrible.
TV miniseries of The Dome by Stephen King. (sorry it isn’t a movie)
That was an abomination.
@Gabe it frustrated me SO BADLY that I actually had to go for a walk. WTF did they even DOOOO? What was the point? They had so much good stuff to work with and they just made it stupid…
Absolutely!
I didn’t understand the program
I had started watching this and stopped after the first episode (no reason, I think I got distracted. But that means it wasn’t holding my interest anyway.). I was considering going back to start it again. Glad you convinced me otherwise! I still need to read the book. So much King, so little time.
Agree
The Revenent. Good book, horrible movie.
My Sister’s Keeper.
Nothing like COMPLETELY changing the ending!
i completely agree, totally different ending, so bad!
Couldn’t agree more!
Yes!!!
So agree!!! I can’t tell you the number of people remaining in the theater after the credits. Unbelievable and frankly, very unfair.
Made me so mad!!
This makes me mad every time I think of it. If they were going for shock factor it worked though.
YES!!! It made me SOOO angry!!!! (I ❤️ the book!)
Oh this made me so angry – I loved the book and was so excited for the movie. Then they ruined it!
So many, but I hated that they completely changed the ending of this book!
How to eat fried worms
Eragon. And The Hobbit.
Clan Of The Cave Bear
There’s a Movie based on this? Wow.. I loved the book.
Dark tower
Yes! Probably hard one to adapt but still- totally ruined it.
Hunt for Red October. Bad. Very bad.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. The movie was such a huge disappointment.
I havent read the book so i cant say but i liked the movie
They changed so many things from the books. It was so disappointing because it’s my favorite book series so I wanted everything to be just right.
I felt like that about the dark tower series. It was so just so good and they left out so much
Thats what I heard. I watched the movie not knowing there was a book. And so many people said the book is much better so I regretted watching that movie and the series are in my tbr
Ready Player One
I wish I could ‘like’ this comment a thousand times. Worst movie adaptation ever.
Red Sparrow
I AGREE
Lawnmower Man.
Right? The movie had nothing to do with the story. All they did was slap Stephen King’s name on it.
The Lawnmower Man. Actually based on a short story , not a novel, but still terrible
Serena
Ella enchanted
Absolute Power by David Baldachi. Clint Eastwood starred and produced it. He DELETED the main character and made it the older man so he could play the part. Money talks, I guess.
I shouldn’t have been in that way
Gone with the wind
Gone with the Wind and My Sister’s Keeper.
Yes! Gone with the Wind was a TERRIBLE movie. Didn’t do the book or Scarlett justice.
My Sister’s Keeper
The. Absolute. Worst.
Honestly, I am not super picky about film adaptations. However, My Sister’s Keeper had me raging @Melissa
@Melissa, same here. I generally don’t mind, but I cannot imagine a movie going more horribly wrong than that one.
Eragon
Dark. Tower.
I can’t bring myself to watch it
I need to read this book! I’ve watched the movie but I liked it.
@Laine The series is fantastic :).
Memoirs of a Geisha
Flowers in the attic
I wasn’t expecting much from it being a Lifetime movie. But even then I was still disappointed.
Twilight
Battlefield Earth. Although I don’t give credence to Dianetics or Scientology by L. Ron Hubbard, in his youth he was a prolific writer of pulp paperbacks – some very exciting and action packed. Battlefield Earth was touted as Rocky meets Star Wars meets Indiana Jones and I was hooked by page 25 of this thousand page story. The movie was such a disappointment.
Eragon. Absolutely dreadful. Also, 1999 Mansfield Park. Seems like they used the names and not much else.
You guys are convincing me not to watch a lot of things that I’ve been meaning to get around to watching. Thanks for making that “To Be Watched” list shorter! ?
You’re welcome
Practical Magic
Oh no! I love that movie! Lol. Although, to be fair, I just found out there was a book and bought it. So , I’m sure it’s MUCH better ?
Jodi Montgomery Torske So much better, and very different in tone and plot. I hope you enjoy it. ?
Hannibal.
Clan of the Cave Bear
I’ve never even tried. I mean…I dig Daryl Hannah…but she’s no Ayla.
I second that. The book is great, but the movie is awful.
The three musketeers. The one that came out sometime in 2012 starring Luke Evans and i think Orlando Bloom was in it too. omg, the horror! I never cursed so much in my life.. Ever.
But I LOVE the musketeer movies that came out in 1974 with Michael York and Richard Chamberlain. They are two of my favorite movies ever. I’ve never read the book, so I don’t know how they compare to it.
@Brenda I know!! I loved the old movies too. And I loved the books…I remembered reading them as a child.
The book thief
Interview with a Vampire. Horrid.
Interview with the Vampire. I hated the ending. Wiped out a beautiful storyline that concluded in a later book in the series.
Annihilation
I was sooooo dissapointed with the screen adaption, if it wasn’t for the company, I’d regret watching it.
@Nikhaylah I felt the same way!
Same
Ready Player One. Loved the book. Hated the movie.
The worst!!
My Sister’s Keeper. Hands down.
The Girl on the Train was a big disappointment.
It really was!
I agree!!!
We need to talk about Kevin. Great book, inner dialogue did NOT translate onscreen.
Same for the host
Inkheart. That movie could have opened a whole new world, with 2 sequels. It was horrible.
Yes it’s
I was so pissed! Love the books so much!
Oh yeah
Agreed!!
The Circle
Clan of the Cave Bear!!
Bought the DVD for $5 watched 20 mins & stopped it swearing @ tv & snapped dvd & trashes it! Hands down the most horrible book based movie ever made! ???☠️
Valley of the dolls.
That one has a huge cult following cause it’s so bad it’s almost good. I own a DVD with commentary and it’s hysterical. Sparkle Neely Sparkle !
@Guusje It’s like the Rocky Horror Picture Show 🙂
@Melissa don’t be sacrilegious!RHPS is a masterpiece. ?
Bonfire of the Vanities
Boleyn Girl
Yes! I hated the Movie. Why did I even bother watching to the end?
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Ive read this book, I didn’t know it was a movie???
Take my advice…don’t see it 🙂
Prince of Tides
My sister’s keeper
The horse whisperer
The Shining
Usually do not see the movie. NEVER as good as the book
Queen of the damned
The Giver. Ugh! It was like a whole different story!
Lovely Bones
or Woman in Black
The Magus
Okay, this may sound weird, as I loved both the movie and the book—I even wrote a chapter for a twenty-fifth anniversary book of the release of the film: The Silence of the Lambs. While the film was fabulous—I love Jodie Foster—it was very different from the book.
I love the bad guy, without a villain the movie and book would’ve been a mess.
The Hobbit
I quite liked it!
Ooo yes!
And I would add all of Tolkien films – they were well done but depended too much on action
Battlefield Earth
Enders Game….just awful!
Blood and Chocolate. A movie no one knows existed based on a book most people ALSO don’t know exists. The book is great and does some interesting things with tropes. The movie took every subversive thing about the book and made it cliche and TERRIBLE. Even now remembering the hours I wasted seeing that movie makes me want to grab my copy and reread again ?
My Top Pick for the worst, I was soooo sad. To think my book is practically falling apart from re reads and the movie just fell so flat
I couldn’t BELIEVE how terrible it was. It was such an abomination. Such an insult to such a good book.
eragon
To be fair to the movie, which was poorly acted and derivative, the book was poorly written and derivative. Apparently by a 16 year old.
the book was dulll, but not as painful as some I’ve read LOL the movie put me to sleep
The movie was terrible!!!
The Golden Compass was pretty poor and The Beach was a massive let-down but not sure if they’re the worst….
They were my let downs too
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. It’s my favorite book in the series, and it was MURDERED on screen. Although Gary Oldman as Sirius was acceptable.
Gary Oldman was the only good thing about it.
Too freaking true.
Oh I really love David Thewlis. I thought they cast him brilliantly
The Power of One.
Cirque de freak
One Day – Anne Hathaway & that hilarious Yorkshire accent!!
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, followed closely by Prince Caspian. They murdered those books. They were so vastly different from the books in almost every single scene. You could easily believe either the director had not actually read the stories or deliberately went out of their way to alter each scene to make sure it was “their take on the story “. My blood still boils over these movies.
The other Boleyn girl
Forever Amber, I loved the book, the movie may as well have been a Disney princess movie, although I did love George Sanders as Charles II.
High-Rise
Mists of Avalon. The film was horrific, ugly and had the wrong tone, completely wrong. The book by Marion Zimmer Bradley was gorgeous
It was a tv movie…
Cheaper by the Dozen. It is described as ‘based on the book’ but they changed everything! The setting, the dad’s job (very important to the story), all the character’s names, the size of the family, the entire plot… I really like the book, but that movie adaptation was ridiculous!
Which? The original with Clifton Webb or the remake with Steve Martin?
Sorry, I meant the one with Steve Martin. The other one was good, and faithful to the book as far as I recall.
@Linda that’s how I remember it. And I always did love Clifton Webb!
Inkheart! The book was awesome, the movie was horrible
The Dark Tower is definitely the worst. I like to pretend the movie doesn’t exist.
Most of Stephen Kings books, made in to a movie. 🙁
I’m probably in the minority on this, but The Shining with Jack Nicholson’s over-the-top bad acting. (Love him in other things.)
The movies based on Dan Brown’s books are not up to the mark. Ofcourse it’s not the fault of movie-makers as there is so much information in the Dan’s books that it’s practically impossible to stack all of it in 2 hour movie!
Hitchikers guide to the galaxy
For real? Why ? I wasn’t too bothered by it.
The Bone Collector. I couldn’t put the book down. The movie bored me.
Some of the Dune film/series
Weight of Water.
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
Ella Enchanted. Absolutely wonderful book. Very poor, embarrassment of a film.
Wonder
They made a movie of Anne Tyler’s “Earthly Possessions” that I hated beyond belief. Stupid changes that wrecked the whole thing, infuriating!
I hate when they make major changes to a book in order to make a movie. I’m not talking about editing for length or that kind of thing, but major changes to plot,, characters, etc. It’s incredibly arrogant on the part of the screenwriters.They should just write their own story instead of butchering someone else’s.
Not the worst but a couple that bothered me. The client by John Grisham. Totally changed the personalities of the characters in the movie. He’s just not that into you… it never should have been a movie. The Other Boleyn Girl almost no tangible resemblance to the book at all.
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy. I know there’s Barbara Streisand fans out there. I don’t dislike Barbara, I disliked the movie. No, I hated the movie.
I kept expecting her to break into song…very distracting
Prince of Tides
Vampire Lestat
The Vampire Lestat was made into a movie? I know of Interview with the Vampire and Queen of the Damned.
Eragon
Yes. The movie was total shit. They ruined it!
Shining Through. The girl was the book’s hero; for the movie, they switched that role to the man. Good book, rotten movie.
Congo
The Other Boleyn Girl
Beloved
Ready Player One
So book is better than movie? I’m confused. Keep getting different reports.
@Lindsey movie is ok but so different from book. Book is great.
@Lindsey much better!!
Ella Enchanted. Doesn’t even deserve to be called that.
I was so mad when I first saw the movie, it was nothing like the book.
I saw it with my best friend and we scream-ranted about it all the way home.
@Cayla I call it Hate watching lol
The entire Divergent Series.
Hart’s War. Great book! Horrible movie version.
A Beautiful Mind. What a bunch of whitewashed trash. Although I did not read the book till after I saw this wonderful beautiful movie. What a shock to find out it was HOLLYWOODIZED to make it more palatable? A romance? He had a child out of wedlock with a woman before he married and ignored that child till he was grown. The child he had with his wife was brilliant, but suffered the same disease only it was so much more debilitating than his Father’s. The other son? Also brilliant, but didnt “use” it to be something worthwhile in his Father’s eyes, just a nurse cause he wanted to help.others. so his father basically has written him off again.
That wonderful acceptance speech he gave when winning the Nobel prize? Yeah. Didn’t happen. He didn’t thank his wife, they were divorced by then, but instead he complained about having to share the prize with another scientist he felt was not as good as he was.
If they had told the true story, it would have been just as great a movie. But once again Hollywood decides we are a bunch of mindless sheep who wouldn’t a)be able to stay interested without fake love and feel good endings, or b) we are too stupid to understand
Never read the book, but it sounds like the movie is essentially fiction. Think I’ll pick up the book. It sounds far more interesting.
@Jean it really was. The man was amazingly brilliant and also one big A-hole
Scarlet Letter with Demi Moore
Twilight
A Wrinkle in Time
Oh. Not good?
@Lindsey Reviewers trashed the movie. Audiences liked it even less. I didn’t see it, but apparently there were major changes to the story and characters. That never makes lovers of a book happy.
I have not seen the movie. I loved the book, and the fact that the girl was an awkward ginger resonated with me… I
know it’s nice to have empowered black girls depicted in movies now, (and there should be more of them) but the change didn’t inspire me to see the film…..
@Lindsey I adored the book so I’m probably the worst critic of the film but there were just too many unnecessary changes. The way the book was written would have made a great movie
I was on a plane and the person in front of me was watching it. Even without sound I could tell it was terrible.
This movie pissed me off so darn much!
The Host
The Hobbit. Bloated, overly CGIed vanity project.
AGREED
Eragon -.- still haunts me till this day…
The giver.
Is it good? I think I have this on my shelf. Picked it up second hand.
Loved the book. Movie sux.
best Exotic MArigold Hotel was pretty bad – practically nothing left of the book at all. the recent version of Swallows and Amazons was pretty bizarre, also butchered the story, and added all those spies. there are so many bad films of books, it is quite hard to choose one.
Dracula! All of the adaptations have wildly strayed from the book and created a love story with Mina and Dracula when there isn’t one! Really gets my goat!
Bonfire of the Vanities. Good cast too, but I couldn’t stand the acting and lasted 15 mins into the movie. I thought the book was great though
Eragon
Forest Gump.