My Question of the Day for 02 June 2010 – UPDATED
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My Question of the Day: Some of the best books have been made into really good movies or miniseries, even if the movies/miniseries haven’t always stuck as closely to the text of the book as we would have liked. With that in mind, has there been any book that was made into a movie and/or miniseries that was a total disappoint to you?
My 2 Cents: I listened to the four, unabridged audiobooks of “The Mists of Avalon”, and I was totally enthralled by the whole story of the mystical world of Avalon and its relationship to the practical world of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. The four-book series goes back before the reign of King Arthur to tell us how he came to be; borne of Uther Pendragon and a priestess of the Isle of Avalon.
The books were fascinating and hard to turn off.
The movie was beyond horrible.
You can’t squeeze all that content into 180 minutes, no matter how good you think you are. I didn’t watch it at the movie theater. I watched it on my Roku through Netflix instant viewing, but I wish I could ask for a refund of my time, because I abhorred the movie version of the books.
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“I, Robot” was so loosely based on the book that I’m certain the author, who I’ve met and heard speak, would never have approved had he been alive at the time.
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LikeDislikeI wasn’t too crazy about Lovely Bones. It might have been fine if I hadn’t read the book but the book was much more heartbreaking and amazing it seemed to me
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LikeDislikeThe first Twilight movie wasn’t as good as the book…it was horrible acting for such a good book. (I have never read “No Country for Old Men, but I’ve seen the movie, and it’s not all that great either.)
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LikeDislikeI love Stephen King and although many of his earlier books that were made into movies were good, Shawshank Redemption, Cujo and The Shining for example, he totally lost me in the film adaptation of The Mist.
Yes, I hate I wasted my money on that yuk of a movie!
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LikeDislikeIn general, most movies adapted from books disappoint me. I just can’t get the novel out of my mind so I’m waiting for the movie to flow just like the book. One of the movies that I hated was “Gangs of New York”, which was adapted from a book that I’ve never read. I just didn’t like the gore in this movie.
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LikeDislikeI would have to say that the WORST adaptation of a book into a movie is Mind Prey. Great book by John Sanford, craptacular TV movie by Eriq LaSalle.
I am a huge fan of the Lucas Davenport Prey novels, and Eriq LaSalle singlehandedly killed any chance that another one of the books will ever get made into a movie. He was horrible in the movie and didn’t get what the character was about or what the spirit of the novels were about. Horrible Horrible Horrible.
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LikeDislikeHad to laugh I saw that movie. “Craptacular” yep, that describes it well. LOL!
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LikeDislikeYou know, I have thought and thought about this question, but I really have no answer. I know I have sat and watched movies and thought “What on earth?! That’s not right!!!” but I can’t remember what they were. I have found that if I go into a movie with expectations based on the book I will never be happy, but if I just enjoy it for the movie it is (rather than the book it’s based on) I’m okay.
That said: A Simple Twist of Fate is a wonderful adaptation of one of my favorite books: Silas Marner. (But you didn’t ask that HA!)
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