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You’re about to see the worlds and characters you’ve imagined blown up on the silver
So what happens when the movie turns out to be a total flop? Yes, it’s disappointing,
Now the books we love will be forever associated with a movie that practically no one enjoyed
For instance, many people (myself included) think adapting The Hobbit into three (3!) movies was completely bananas
Here are the worst book-to-film adaptations that nearly all critics and viewers can agree were totally bad
They’re organized from highest Rotten Tomatoes score to lowest rotten tomatoes score, so settle in because
The 2007 film adaptation of The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman had all the makings of a good
But the subject matter of The Golden Compass and the rest of the His Dark Materials series
What we ended up with is an adaptation that felt totally heartless
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In 2018, we were all excited about the adaptation of Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time
But the film itself did not live up to the hype, nor did it capture the magic
In 2014, the film adaptation of Lois Lowry’s The Giver came out at the tail end of
In fact, these are very wildly different books, and the fact that this movie tries to make
And, look, we all had Taylor Swift’s Midnights at the top of our Spotify Wrapped charts
2022’s Persuasion was the real book-to-film adaptation that inspired this list for me
This is another one of those movies that got a lot of hype, especially after the success
And yes, I too was super excited to see Jane Austen’s novel adapted into a movie
Viewers everywhere cringed at lines like, “It’s often said if you‘re a five in London,
The sets were uninspired and the costumes looked like they came out of my high school drama
What the heck happened here? This movie probably singlehandedly killed Jane Austen adaptations for years to come
Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones was a book that left me in tears when I read
The movie’s biggest misstep is the fact that it missed the entire point of the novel
But Peter Jackson must have just heard that this story had something to do with heaven
Before the film adaptation of The Woman in the Window hit Netflix in 2021, we all kinda already
First of all, there’s the controversies surrounding the author A
Then there’s the fact that this movie was originally slated to be released in October 2019…and
Vampire Academy was a 2014 fantasy horror comedy based on the YA book series of the same name
And for a comedy, this movie was really short on actual funny moments
You would think that a young adult fantasy adaptation coming out in 2006 would automatically be a runaway
This film adaptation of Christopher Paolini’s beloved novel was not beloved…by anyone
This is another one that also suffered from terrible special effects and bad acting
Fans of Eragon are still waiting for the film adaptation this book deserves
Seriously, how do you mess this one up? The Dark Tower is a film based on the
King was also puzzled by the fact that the film decided to start the story right in
And as much as I love seeing Idris Elba on my screen, the actor was not enough
This 1995 film, starring Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, and Robert Duvall, took the novel’s complex themes of
I mean, just look at this movie poster…What? Apparently even Demi Moore called The Scarlet Letter “
Look, I love movies! I love books! I want book-to-movie adaptations to be good, which is why
Here’s hoping 2023 will be a good year for adaptations too!