Have you ever read the book and then seen the film

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and been so disappointed with the way they completely changed the narrative ?

Not only that.. but then the miscasting of the actors obviously chosen for their fame and not their suitability ruining the picture you have in your head and the story ?

I hated the changed ending of the tv drama of A Room With A View. In the book Lucy and George are together, happily looking out at the beautiful view from their room. In the tv version, George has died in the First World War, and she is alone! Just why???

Most Stephen King adaptations with the exception of The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption and the Dead Zone. Pet Sematary could make an amazing film but they've cocked it up both times

You got to read those book reviews and steadfastly keep all the bits everyone raves about.

All the time!

The Disney animated film of 101 Dalmatians taught me this painful lesson young. Bastards.

The horse whisperer has to be one of the worst examples 🤬

DH now refuses to watch films if I say, "I read the book, it was really good."

And not add a sad ending or back story to a happy book because you think that will make it "deeper". Looking at you Room with a View, or indeed the production of Going On A Bear Hunt I saw where they'd decided the mother was dead (because there's no other possible reason why a man would go out for a fun walk with his children).

@MargaretThursday yes! I love the book, avoided the first film which came out when I was a child, but gave in on the recent one. Truly awful characterisation and a completely different ending. Absolute sacrilege - it still gets me angry now (can you tell?)

Not a film but the Netflix adaptation of You, I loved the books but the series just went totally off-piste and was unwatchable.

P.S I love you bears no resemblance to the novel and I actually hate how losing your husband is portrayed as something you should get over in a matter of weeks.

It drives me mad when, after reading a book I watch the film and the description of the character in the book is nothing like the leading man or woman they have chosen. It's like the casting director never read the book.

The Little Drummer Girl. They cast Diane Keaton in her late 30s when the main character was a much younger woman. So I haven't even seen it as I'm sure I'd hate it. The recent TV series was better cast but it's such a complicated plot, it's really hard to do it justice.

Stephen kings the dark tower. Such an amazing series of books and the film they made barely resembles the storyline and the characters are nothing like you'd imagined either! DD just finished the series and has been desperate to watch the film, I don't think she even finished watching it! It needed to be a series to do it justice.

Always! I still haven't got over the shock of the Dursley's 1980s house at the start of HP & TPS. It should have been 1930s!

Also disappointed with TV adaptations of JK's books - just not enough time to do justice to the details in the books. A Casual Vacancy being particularly rushed.

Yes, this was ridiculous. Totally ruined the films. Although the guy in the TV series was perfect IMO. Also TC way too earnest for the character. Shows what an egomaniac he is to think he'd be the best person for the role.

Most of the TV Agatha Christie is good but I am spitting feathers over the massacre of Death on the Nile in the recent film. All the side characters were so very wrong in a ‘can we make this more relevant to a modern woke audience way’. Argh!

Yes. The time travellers wife had so depth and the film just ruined it. That's just one example but the books are always better, imo.

I quite often avoid film adaptations, especially when it gets beyond the point where the author stopped writing books.

It’s been mentioned a lot but My Sister’s Keeper is the best worst example I can think of. That ending. There was uproar in the cinema.

The Martian is a great book and the adaptation is generally pretty true to it.

Yep me too!!

Every time

One film that has great potential but they ruined it is Miss Peregrines home to peculiar children.

They butchered that film

One of the book to film adaptations that disappointed me the most was "The Lovely Bones" the mother character, played by Rachel Weis, was just not how I'd pictured her at all.

In the book she is a realistic and well written character who has lost her entire personality and spark to motherhood (something I could understand as a 14 year old reading the book as it was so well written but resonates so much more with me now as a 32 year old mum of three) you can really understand how the characters make the choices and mistakes that they do.

In the film, she's a fairly disinterested mother who then leaves. That's it. They didn't even include her affair with the detective!

They also butchered the beautifully tragic scene in the book where the dad smashes the ships in bottles he made with the daughter who died and is found by his toddler son among the shards, the young son quietly comes over and comforts his father. I nearly cry just thinking of the scene, the sadness and power of it is in the understated way the child's looks after his father.

The film made it all big and CGI boats crashing in heaven and took away the meaning behind it.

Can you tell I've been angry about this for years?

All of the twilight books. I can still remember the gasp of horror from pretty much everyone in the cinema at the end of the first part of Breaking Dawn.

My Sisters keeper

Ps I love you

Absolutely. I can’t remember what it was but there was something I watched with DH where I kept having to stop it to rant about how they’d left out X or changed Y or how that character would never, ever do that.

Must have been very annoying for DH

Any and all Stephen King adaptations the green mile was OK but they changed the ending! I get it was a sad ending but ffs

Terry pratchett adaptations bear zero resemblance to the books (except good omens but obviously that had two writers not just TP so I don't count it)

Harry Potter half the films don't resemble the books one of them at least is a total shambles

Jack reacher

Touching the Void by Joe Simpson. The book was amazing, and he described so well the feat of escaping. I felt the film didn't show how difficult it was.

Bridget Jones. In the books she is about a size 10 and stylish. In the films she is frumpy and overweight.

James Bond books. I read all these as a teen, and they are much darker than the films, with none of the Roger Moore-era slapstick. Having said that, I love all the films too, they are just very different to the books.

The Godfather. I loved the book, and then was disappointed when I saw the film. I didn't like Marlon Brando's depiction of the character. Again I loved the film, but felt it captured a very different spirit to the book.

Yeah twilight was bad.

Made me laugh when the very obvious plot flaw was pointed out. The whole point of eclipse, was Alice couldn’t see Bella because of the wolves.

All of a sudden, in Breaking Dawn part 2, Alice is able to show Aro a vision she had….which included the wolves

This. No way was I paying money to see this primped, manicured popinjay prance about as Reacher. Jack Reacher should have been Gérard Butler.

Most Stephen King books I've read and films I've seen have been pretty good. There are deviations from the book but they still remain the closest adaptations I've seen.

I really love dark , depressing books/films so any thing changed to give pukey happy endings or that ignores really dark disturbing parts in favour for unnecessary sex scenes just does my head in.

Gerald's game was the one SK film that disappointed compared to the book. Apart from the fact that all she would have had to do was say " ok siri" and called fir help kinda detracted from the whole thing. And the film didn't really portray how much the woman hated the whole arrangement and didn't wanna do it.