Telly/film adaptations of books that made you fart with rage

[solidgoldbrass]

I will never forget the outrageous horror that was the TV adaptation of Christopher Brookmyre's Quite Ugly One Morning - not only do they cast an irishman as the glaswegian hero but they give it this absolute sexist mullering by totally changing the two heroines (from sorted dyke and feisty single woman to frisky single and desperate ex-wife) and fuck it up COMPLETELY...

I liked about a boy. I know it's not true to the book but Toni Collette and Hugh Grant are great.

Benjamin Button. The short story is interesting and wry, fascinating subject and enigmatic main character. The film is dull, schmaltzy and Brad Pitt is truly terrible; dull dull boring drively dullness.

I liked War of the Worlds as well. I actually thought Tom Cruise was okay. Can't beat the music CD though.

I came on here to rant about Billy Piper in Mansfied Park but I see I've been beaten to it! The Sense And Sensibility at the same time was bloody awful too and had me shouting at the television.

I love About A Boy though - have just watched it with dd1.

I was so sorry that they messed with the plot of About a Boy because I thought the acting was great too, and Hugh Grant was perfect for the role. DH really enjoyed it! But the schmaltz-fest at the end was too much for me.

Golden Compass (Ridiculous name as well, I hate it when they change book titles for the Americans.) I think they took the ending off so that it didn't have to end on such a cliffhanger (giving them the option of making a sequel or not). They mangled it and dumbed down the plot way too much. Worst film adaptation I have ever seen.

Charlie and the choc factory, especially the new one - how they couldn't decide whether it was American or English.

Harry Potter 3 - none of them were true to the book but did well I think, considering. 3 (Azkaban) was awful though, if I hadn't read it I would not have had a clue what was going on.

The best book to film adaptation I've seen has to be Holes.

Holes is superb.

I also really like Emma Thompson's S&S, despite ET being twenty years too old!

The Crow Road was a really good adaptation. Has anyone seen the film of "Complicity" by the way? We are big Iain Banks fans here.

DH claims he got bladdered with him on a regular basis when he was a student.According to DH, IB used to turn up at the St Andrew's University Sci-Fi Society piss-ups, ply the impoverished youngsters with strong drink and then nick all their amazingly brilliant ideas for his books.

According to DH that is!

That's hilarious about missing incest out of Flowers in t'Atti(which was required reading for any teen in mid 80s surely?)

Mind you, an interesting one was the adaptation of Clive Barker's Cabal as Nightbreed. OK so the film was fucked up by the backers insisting on dumbing it down for the American midwest, but if you had read the book the film was quite enjoyable in some ways, you sort of needed both.

Another crap film adaptation is "Cujo" iirc.

OOh, Cujo was quite good i thought.
Well scary.

Mansfield park with Piper terrible. S&S by Emma Thompson ok I thought. S&S for tv a disaster.

Persuation with Amanda Root quite good too.

Is The Dark is Rising pants then? I still read those and have them on audio book.

Totally veers from the plot in the book though - although it's so long since I read/watched it I'm not sure but I think that in the book the little boy dies, though not in the film.

The "old" Persuasion with Amanda oojiemaflip is fabbo. Also the Kate Beckinsale 'Emma'.

That Jane Eyre on TV a while back was really good too.

Oh really?
I've read it too-forgot about thT.

And Jane Eyre with Samantha Morton. That was a good bit of sexual tension for a Sunday night I thought. Kieron[sp????] Hinds too. Drooool.

tv serailisation of Middlemarch about 10 years ago was pretty good too.

Still giggling at farting with rage. I'd like to do that one day.

Yes, me too.

You mean you HAVEN'T done it before? I thought you were only allowed on the thread had you done so?

You have clearly never seen Billy Piper gurning her way through Mansfield Park - farting is barely sufficient to describe the rage.

Jilly Cooper's Riders tv adaptation was.............

The little white horse had DD spluttering out of the cinema saying and they got that wrong & they got that wrong & that was silly & wrong too

It was so funny

I did watch Billy, but I just became contorted. looking back what I needed was a good fart.

Ah hindsight.

OMG themoon, I remember that: the horror! The horror!