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- Some books nail the film adaptation, others flub it. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the movies that were as good as - or even better than - the books they were based on, and the adaptations that made book lovers walk out of the theater. Our countdown includes “Artemis Fowl,” “A Wrinkle in Time,” “The Social Network,” and more! Which movie adaptation did YOU think was better than the book? Let us know in the comments!
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Which ones do you think hit the mark perfectly, and which ones fell short? Share your thoughts below!
Two that fell short were the two Percy Jackson movies
Flobbed The Golden Compass, The Shinning 1980 😅, nailed it Princess Bride 1987, Stand by Me 1986, The Princess and the Frog 2009 they made a well adaptation despite being set in the Louisiana of the 30s!!! 🎉
I know it's based upon a graphic novel, but the original Crow movie hit the mark perfectly. The other Crow products not so much.
in my opinion: maze runner was perfectly nailed (i also read the books) and flubbed maybe paper towns
The Princess Bride for sure...
"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
Spare me i`ll give you anything you want
"I want my father back, you son of a bitch,"
“Now get out of here before I call the brute squad!”
“but I’m on the brute squad.”
“You are the brute squad.”
Favorite scene
Eragon not being in the flubbed list is a major flaw.
Oh! That movie was awful. It would have been nice to see someone treat the source material with some respect.
Probably because it was outright forgotten.
That movie was an insult to us fans.
I didn’t even care for the books. I thought they were even more derivative.
Would have been better as a TV series, I bet the people who did the Vox Machina animation would have put more care and detail putting the Eragon books together.
My husband and I love Princesses Bride. When he goes into work, I tell him "Have fun storming the castle !"
Oh you're marriage material for sure. He picked a winner. Good job.
Thats my favorite romantic / comedy / action movie.
I love the theme song.
Princess Bride the movie was written by William Goldman, who wrote the book and was an accomplished screenwriter, so it makes sense an adaptation could be nailed
Not really. There are various movies adapted from books or works that flubbed (or even fu*ked) the original work despite having the book’s author penning the screenplay too - one example: the latest two Fantastic Beasts movies.
It's rumored that he actually feared the movie would flop and on a few occasions attempted to sabotage a scene or two. Princess Bride the movie succeeded in spite of William Goldman, not because of him
@@LucienSabreI think that's where the "accomplished screenwriter" part comes in. J. K. Rowling isn't one. Part of the reason the Harry Potter movies worked is that she had creative input to make sure they didn't screw up the story (and to keep it on track to where it would end up going) but an actual screenwriter wrote the script.
If you've ever actually read the book, there's not a lot missing from the movie. The only big difference is that in the book, the 'Pit of Despair' is the "Zoo of Death"--a menagerie full of dangerous animals that Fezzik and Inigo have to navigate before they can rescue Westley.
I love the Princess Bride
"The Shawkshank Redemption" is one of my favourite Stephen King adaptations, despite not having any Supernatural elements. It really stayed true to the Spirit and characters of the original novella.
It’s arguably the best King adaptation. There’s other really solid ones too like Misery, Stand By Me, and Green Mile
Green mile has hints of the Supernatural, mainly John Coffee, but it doesn't take from the Grounded feel of it.
It’s one of the best movies of all time in my opinion ✨
I think it helps that it is based off a novella, Many of his novels are too long and have too much going on to condense into a 2 hour movie.
One of my Favorite Stephen King films
One that should be on the Nailed list is, The Outsiders. The book was great and the movie perfectly capture the tone and the world the characters lived in. And the cast was perfect.
Came here to say the same exact thing!
I read the book, but I will say this much. I agree with that statement. the few clips I seen are like alternate takes of the same scenes that I imagined.
No Country For Old Men me: “Please don’t play any part of the coin toss scene.” 😢😢😢😢
I decided to read the book and watch the movie in one weekend for the first time since the 80’s….this list is woefully incomplete without it. The best casting ever.
The same as all above the outsiders great
Flubbed It: I, Robot A movie so far removed from Asimov's ideas, his estate sued to have adapted by changed to themes suggested by, a move I have never seen before or since.
Just like the Bourne Identity (and the rest) they got the title and the characters names, then changed everything else.
Agree! As the film ended and the lights came on in the theater, I stood up and looked around at someone else who stayed to the end of the credits (okay, I'm a bit nerdy that way). He said, "Well, that was nothing like the book." I said, "No kidding. What a disappointment."
I liked I, ROBOT.
@@CodyFairlessLee Whether or not a movie is enjoyable, which is subjective, has little to do with how well it is adapted. I really like the movie Starship Troopers, but I also know that is purposefully satirizing its source material.
Ive seen it, and it's Confusing as fuck
Stand by Me is missing, apparently even King was impressed
I lived in Barlow which was named for the Barlow Trail that they followed. It's not really anything to brag about, but I always had a connection to the movie because of it.
Another great King adaptation
Don’t want too many Rob Reiner films
The film adaptation of 'Get Shorty' by Elmore Leonard is virtually identical to the book. The dialogue, the pacing, the action, the narrative are closest I have ever seen between book and movie.
Princess Bride was incredible
It's animated but I would have added The Last Unicorn to the nailed it list as well. Like the Princess Bride its script was written by the same person that wrote the book . Peter S. Beagle. And it is amazing.
👍one of my top ten movies of all time, watch at least once a month and paid $60 for the German soundtrack compact disc back in the 80s before the internet. Really hoping that now that Beagle owns the rights again, we will get a live action story with the back stories of King Haggard and Mama Fortuna.
Yup, top tier movie in both writing and visuals, with one of the best OST ever made (thank you, America) !!! 💖
I've always been a Rankin-Bass art fan-girl... and this animated gem was THE CROWN of their craft. 👑
One of my favorites. I love the book and movie
Nailed it- "Holes", "Congo"
Fell Short- "Percy Jackson" (both movies), "Eragon"
Eragon was more like Epic Fail. I hated the movie before I knew it was based on a book. After reading the series I just laugh at the mention of the movie.
Omg, YES. I absolutely hated Eragon. I was so disappointed. There was so much potential there and they just messed it all up.
I liked Eragon, movie, before I read the book series then I realised just how badly they mutilated it now the movie pisses me off (Excuse my language, I'm Australian).
Love the Inheritance cycle. Jus listened to the entire thing on audio recently. The movie was so terribly bad. My family can't understand what I hate about it. Even if they had tried to do the next book they completely took away Eragon's biggest failure, the slash to his back, though I guess if they did that they would have to have him a have a debilitating injury for the majority of the next film. Of course then there is Elva, they completely cut her scene from the movie. Yes, it was filmed.
I apologize for my rant, I lost control but am going to post it anyways!
@@galactus414 Congo? I gave that movie a 2 out of 10. it was laughably bad
I'll add The green mile to the Nailed it list.
Yes I was thinking that.
Here here!
Agreed. Nailed the main story beat for beat; while not wasting time with the books secondary plot revolving around the orderly. Good example of what works in a book isn't always best for the flow of the story in film.
As soon as I heard The Dark Tower was not even two hours long, I noped right on out of there and never watched it. My hope is that Mike Flanagan can finally do it justice as a TV show. 🤞
I'm not sure Rod Taylor's "The Time Machine" deserves to be dismissed as "silly," despite its low budget, considering that it sticks far closer to the source material than the remake does. Quite a few science fiction films from the classic era had low budgets to work with; to write them off as "silly" comes close to suggesting that good SF movies didn't exist before "2001: A Space Odyssey."
But hey, "To Kill a Mockingbird" makes the list, so I'm a little appeased.
It was an EXCELLENT movie and one of my favorites. The 2002 version was forgettable but for Jeremy Irons' part.
Yeah, the Rod Taylor version is much better than the remake, and also quite faithful to the novel.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea is from the same era as Rod Taylor's "Time Machine", the classic era. Not silly, just had to work with limited effects.
@@RoseBaggins Next they'll be telling us the Keanu Reeves remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" is better than the original. #notbuyingit
Neither movie does The Time a Machine justice. The original story was about social hierarchy, whereas the movies were commentaries about nuclear war and advancing technology, respectively.
I'd watch the Time Machine anyway. I love Guy Pierce.
I tried reading To Kill a Mockingbird, and I couldn't get past the first page. Then, we had to read it for English class, and I read it in one day. (I love reading.) It was amazing.
I'd listen to Morgan Freeman read the dictionary.
Stardust was infinitely better than the book. The book was boring. I had to make myself finish it.
I like Stardust way more as a book. I felt they had to take too much out to be able to show it to a younger audience.
Flubbed It (dishonorable mentions):
- The Giver
- The Golden Compass
- My Sister’s Keeper
- Ella Enchanted
Nailed it (honorable mentions)
- Coraline
- Charlotte’s Web (both versions)
Any I missed for either?
I would argue against Coraline being on a nailed it list if only for adding an unnecessary character to the narrative. I won't call it a bad movie at all. It's visually stunning and does stay mostly true to the book.
His Dark Materials is a superb show. Much better than Golden Compass.
I wouldn’t say Ella Enchanted was awful. Granted they took liberties with it, but i actually didn’t mind with this particular book -> movie
Nailed it : The Maltese Falcon (1941).
Nailed it: Holes. Still one of my absolute favorite book to movie films I've ever seen.
I've been a fan of The Dark Tower novels since my tenth grade year all the way back in the early 90s. I was ecstatic when I heard it was finally being adapted to film as I had always wanted to see it brought to life. When I first heard about the casting, I was wary, but upon seeing the first trailer and getting a taste of Idris Elba in the role, I saw that he appeared to capture the spirit of Roland so I was again looking forward to the film. Then came opening day. I had bought my ticket in advance and arrived at the theater early so I wouldn't miss even a single second. On the way home from the movie, I was literally in tears because of the bastardization of one of my favorite works of fiction of all time. Several years ago, when I first became disabled, as a way to fill my time, I actually started adapting all seven Dark Tower novels into screenplays (shortly after book seven was released). I finished the first book as a screenplay that would be a single film of about 105 minutes, but as I moved beyond that, I came to realize that even a whole film for each of the following novels would never do them justice, so the screenplays for the rest of the books ended up being broken into episodes of what I envisioned as a miniseries for each book after the film of The Gunslinger. Of course, I have no connections in the entertainment industry, so those screenplays just ended up on a shelf in my room collecting dust for years until they ultimately disappeared during one of my moves (they MIGHT be in a box in my storage unit, but there's no guarantee of that). My point in all of that is to say that I, someone who had never written a screenplay in his life, was able to better recognize what would need to be done to adapt this epic story than the so-called professionals who ended up making the film.
Oh. And if anyone in the industry sees this and is interested in giving the Tower a PROPER adaptation, I'd be ready, willing, and able to write those screenplays again!
The original film version of The Time Machine is not "silly". It is of its time, of course, but it is brilliant.
Nor was it cheap.
@@kenkahre9262 to this day i am wondering what two books he took with him when he went back to the future
I would've also added The Green Mile bc that adaptation was pretty good imo. Yes, a few changes were made but they didn't take away from the movie.
I loved it
Good picks, thank you.
1. Carrie, the first adaption of Stephen King's novel nailed it, too. Some say it's better than the novel.
1) Shawshank was nominated for seven Oscar's, including picture.
2) Sisey Spacek and Piper Laurie were nominated for Best Actress and Supporting Actress Oscars, respectively.
3) Neither film won any.
4) Carrie was a sleeper in both box office and great reviews.
5) Shawshank did okay at the box office, same with initial reviews. However, with time, the consensus now is that it's a classic.
Then you've got the Lawnmower Man. King sued to the the "Stephen King's" part taken out. The only resemblance to the story was the title. I've read the story. About the reincarnation of Pan (I think) who eats grass.
No Country for Old Men is absolutely brilliant just for Javier Bardem amazing performance he is definitely someone you wouldn't want to approach in real life
It is a great movie.
I include these
Nailed it: Interview With a Vampire, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Flubbed it: Eragon
There could be scores upon scores of these vidoes!! More please!!! Harry Potter, the various Roald Dahl movies, the Martian, Gone with the Wind, the various Jane Austen adaptations, Percy Jackson, Agatha Christie movies, LOTR, etc. ETC ETC!!!! Way too many to name, I would love to see your further analysis!!!
indeed LOTR would make this list on the flubbed it side since Jackson basically made his movies off the synopsis from the back cover of each book. I mean whole chapters of essential detail just ignored.
Can't believe Fried Green Tomatoes isn't here...lovely book adapted into a wonderful film!
My top picks for -
Nailed it: The Count of Monte Cristo
Flubbed it: ERAGON .. whyyyyyy we need a remake so bad 😭
Which Count? There have been several film versions, but most of them stank. The 1975 TV movie version with Richard Chamberlain in the title role was the best of the lot in my opinion.
Count of Monte Cristo is probably the most filmed book ever, if you count TV-series and different languages it has about 90 adaptations, many of them are good many of them are bad, I don't think anyone knows which one you liked.
They flubbed Eragon so badly nobody wants to acknowledge it's existence, let alone remake it :(
Eargon would fit in the Flubbed it side if there is another part.
“The Scarlett Letter” may be bad, but I love it. 🥰 It’s one of my guilty-pleasure movies I like to rewatch once in a while.
“The Princess Bride” is one of my top 5 favorite movies ever….and I pray all existing deities that Hollywoods never makes a remake of it.
If I remember correctly Harper Lee refused to give the movie rights without creative consultant over the filming. She made sure the film stayed true to the book.
1 more personal pick for each:
Nailed it - The Godfather. Took the sturdy bones of a slightly stiff, unwieldy original story and crafted one of the greatest crime epics ever made.
Flubbed it - The Giver. A thoughtful, heartfelt and occasionally downright disturbing book thoroughly wasted as a boring YA romance virtually indistinguishable from its ilk.
Godfather is a series though. Not that you're wrong...
@@dragonlee420 The movies were a series, but there was only ever one book (by the original author, anyway). The second movie’s secondary plot following a young Vito building his empire was a subplot in the book not included in the first movie, while the main plot was an original story.
The Giver was soooooo bad. Shame given the source material is such an interesting concept to play with
Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth Novels was misrepresented in the series Legend of the Seeker. While watch worthy, completely different stories. Hayao Miyazaki Howl's Moving Castle is better than the Diana Wynne Jones novel. For those of us that actually read Maguires book The Life and Times of the the Wicked Witch of the West and two other books know the stage musical was relatively close to the original material, only time will tell is Wicked the movie part 1 & 2 will be "for good". Les Miserables was pretty dang perfect too.
I felt sorry for Ferdia Shaw, who played Artemis in the film. He did a decent job, but he just wasn't convincing as a teenage Mastermind. Maybe Aidan Gallagher would have been a better fit for the role.
IMO they just did him dirty.I would never have guesses mastermind criminal teenager from the movie. And I don't see how any actor could do anything to change that with how the movie was written.
I loved the Malkovich/Sinise version of “Of Mice and Men.” Perfectly subtle actors and great pacing of a wonderfully classic story.
I totally thought the 2018 movie "A Wrinkle in Time" was awful, I didn't like how much it strayed from the book. One movie adaptation that I thought was better than the book was the 2012 movie "The Lorax." I thought it was still loyal to the book, but that movie had more of a backstory than the book did, and I thought it was neat how plot points in the movie were set up. Some movies that I thought flubbed the book to film adaptation that were not on the list include the 2009 movie "Where the Wild Things Are," the 2015 movie "Home," both Disney adaptations of "The Little Mermaid," the 1996 movie "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," "Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant," "The Fox and the Hound," "The Black Cauldron," and the 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz."
"Who cut down these trees!?" 🧡Love the Lorax!
I wish I could tell you that movies based on books are better than the book, but they're not. A human's imagination will ALWAYS be more powerful than CGI.
The two shouldn’t even be compared, Books are personal experience of their own imagination guided by the author alone and allows the reader to fill in the blanks, while Films are a shared experiences of a vision of multiple people, directors, screen writers, actors trying to suck the audience in with a story where the blanks are already filled in.
I would add that all of the Tom Clancy movies, except perhaps The Hunt for Red October, should be on the flubbed list. Most especially Sum of All Fears.
One for nailed it: Tim Burton's 2005 adaptation of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. While hated by fans of the 1971 adaptation, saying it "ruined the original" and calling it a reboot, it is anything BUT that.
Tim Burton and Johnny Depp planned on keeping their version as faithful to the original (that being the BOOK) as they could, and they succeeded, the only thing changing being the ending and them adding a backstory for Wonka. Heck, they went as far as to have no one on the team watch the '71 adaptation until afterwards, so that they pulled only from the book.
(It also speaks volumes that Roald hated the '71 version to the point that it was one of his biggest regrets, and that his wife and daughter both said that he would have loved the '05 version).
One for flubbed it: Percy Jackson. I will go into no further detail, that movie SUCKED.
The ending AND the backstory is what ruined the movie. It went from a quirky, good hearted, genius version of Wonka..
To an emotionally damaged, eccentric cringe version of Wonka...so, while the movie was truer to the book, it gave weird vibes...and will never be a loved version like Gene Wilder's.
The Golden Compass was so bad that I punched a wall
DAMN.
Facts
I would add "Shinning" both book and movie, in my opinion, amazing.
It also helps that the cast in The Princess bride loved being in the cast. They were having the time of their lives and it shows.
Perks of Being a Wallflower was an amazing adaptation! It is another example of the author writing the screenplay and it genuinely delivering.
If you didn’t put Wonder on the succeeded list I’m going to be disappointed because that movie was amazing and so was the book.
It's definitely Danny Devito's Matilda. Happy thursday afternoon, Sophia. Take care and God bless you. Greetings from Colombia to you as well.
I love that picture.
@@laurenmontera9516 Me too
Misery nailed it.
I can't believe "Fight Club" wasn't mentioned among the Nailed It choices. With the exception of the scene where the Narrator meets Tyler, the film is almost word for word from the novel.
It probably helped that William Goldman himself was an Oscar winning screenwriter( Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
The Help did a great job adapting the book! I feel like the book offers something the movie doesn't and vice versa, making me enjoy both materials equally.
Flubbed It: Starship Troopers. Whatever the movie’s virtues, it bears little resemblance to the book it was based on. It seemed as if the screenwriter based his script on the dust jacket summary rather than the actual novel.
The story goes that there was already a SF movie in the works and they tacked on bits from Starship Troopers for whatever reason. Also Verhoeven's politics are a complete 180 from the message in the book. I have a lot of Heinlein & re-read them fairly regularly. (recognise my user name?) Admittedly, some stuff is pretty patchy but the good stuff is exceptional, even the juveniles like Space Cadet where he predicted the waterbed, video screens playing ads in public transport and cellphone in 1948. I could almost forgive the abomination that the story was turned into if they included the one single thing that should be in a movie called Starship Troopers - the powered armour. These guys should all be wearing slightly oversized Ironman suits. They get shot out of torpedo tubes to the planet surface and fire off mini nuclear warheads. And because of this movie and its sequels, no one will ever do it justice unless Netflix or someone does it as a miniseries.
@@mannydavis7708 And also Dizzy is just some dude who gets killed in Chapter 1.
😀
The Day of the Jackal. The original ‘70s movie.
Agree. That was one of the first movies I saw that I thought was better than the book. I went to see it with my dad, who thought the same.
@@eywine.7762
So good.
The Princess Bride was perfect!!
I just read Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, and the movie is truly a masterpiece adaption. Might have even improved upon the novella.
Artemis Fowl * shudder* scream 😠
I'll give you one that nailed it: "Holes". The book was already terrific, but Louis Sachar wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation as well, and that one last shot at the story just tightened it up even more. I know people complained at the time that Shia LaBeouf wasn't built like Stanley was in the book, but considering the physical changes the character went through in the book, I thought that was a small concession to make for the actor's comfort.
If I'm going to give you a "Nailed It', I'd better give you a flub as well: "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Personally, I didn't mind the movie, but I can see where a lot of fans of the book (and the radio show, which was actually the original version of the story) would be put off. The pacing is languid, and the movie doesn't quite have the zany energy of earlier adaptations. Plus, een though Douglas Adams made changes every single time he wrote a different version, the movie adaptation probably strayed TOO far from the source material for some people's tastes.
Nailed It: Mrs. Doubtfire was a riot, unlike the kids book "Alias Madame Doubtfire."
Honorable Mention: The Godfather was far superior to the plodding novel.
Flubbed It: The Hobbit trilogy.
I was so disappointed with A Wrinkle in Time! One of my favorite books as a young person, and such a crappy movie!
Ugh, yes, was expecting it to at least try to be better than the TV film adaptation, but it somehow ended up being worse.
Hearing about a movie adaptation: yay
Seeing the trailers: 🤮
I love “To Kill a Mockingbird” ❤❤ had to watch it in High School and my school never let us finish watching it. I took the time to watch it outside of class during the summer. It was good. For once I was excited to watch a movie. I think it was so good that the teacher decided not to give us homework.
The Green Mile nailed it. Twilight flubbed it.
They didn't just "flub" Artemis Fowl. A "flub" implies that they at least rose to the dignity of an error. No... they *splattered* Artemis against a McDonald's bathroom wall, and the slivers that trailed to the floor are what they flimsily pieced together into a movie.
It's an astonishing failure in every regard. Not one character or plot point was portrayed accurately. Not one. It was an incoherent dung heap of a film, and the fact Eoin gave it his blessing proves he has no respect for his own hard work and material. He'll shill for anything if it means he gets a movie, no matter how bastardized and awful it may be.
As a young adult book, I Am Number Four was almost 100% accurate
Ella Enchanted should absolutely be on the flubbed list. I know they played a brief clip at the beginning, but that movie was entirely different from the book and the book is such a classic that it was a shame they didn't even try to do it justice
It probably wasn't on the list because it was so different from the book that it made everything else on the list look like a "nailed it" same with the princess diaries,another Anne Hathaway movie (actually 2)
So I’m guilty of loving the movie, even though I’ve read the book and I know they took creative liberties with the movie.
Artemis Fowl was terrible but the actress who played Holly Short did a good job.
Agreed, Lara McDonnell, who was wonderful in Belfast, if you've ever seen that movie.
Lara McDonnell needs to be in more movies
Amazing video ms mojo,fantastic job.
Nailed it: 1984 (1984) John Hurt, Richard Burton - Outstanding piece of film that perfectly captures the atmosphere of the original book.
Flubbed it: The War of the worlds (2005) - Diabolical travesty concentrating more on action set pieces and ridiculous nonsensical writing and completely ignoring the sense of solitude, isolation and fear expressed throughout the book.
Having watched _The Scarlet Letter_ as a high school junior, I can easily say the book is 1000 times better.
The Count of Monte Cristo also deserves to be in the nailed it category
I have 1 more to both sides, nailed it the 1970s The Hobbit, flubbed it The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
The only thing good about hitchhiker was Alan Rickman
- for nailed it
The Great Gatsby. Both movies stick to the og plot pretty well, but Lahrman’s movie in 2013 handles all the lengthy narrations and manages to make them so compelling. I know his style of directing isn’t for everyone and my English class wasn’t the biggest fan, but I thought the movie brought a lot of layers to the characters, especially Gatsby, Nick, and Tom. Also making Nick a writer and not just a narrator was genius!
-flubbed it
Call of the Wild. I read the book in 7th grade so I could compare it to the movie. I loved the book and thought it was well strung plot wise. But the movie completely rewrote most of the plot points, especially the end. It also focused more on the humans than the dog who the book centered around!!! I remember sitting there going WWWHHHHYYYY????!!!! I will say the music was pretty good though.
Major Flubbed it: World War Z. Loved the book, but I could not get past the first 10 min of the movie
Actually you might’ve missed the Malcolm McDowell movie, Time After Time in your Time Machine adaptations list. I think it went by a different name because his reason for traveling was different, but the concept of using a machine is still part of it.
Thank you! That's a great movie!
That was quite interesting. Jack the Ripper was in his element in the sleazy late 70's "Ninety years ago, I was a freak. Today, I'm an amateur", while Wells was stunned by the decadence and the history of violence the world had experienced when he expected some sort of socialist utopia.
Good movie. Not an adaptation of the book.
Frank Capra's 1937 adaptation of "Lost Horizon" absolutely nailed the book ( It was the most expensive film made up to that date). The 1973 adaptation however was a complete flub.
It's so bad, it's good...a golden turkey.
Nails it
The fault in our star
Flubbed it
Bridge to Terabitha
When “Bridge to Teribithia” came out several women said it was their favorite (or one of favorites) book as a child, and that the movie matched the book. That got me to try the movie and the movie was good enough to get me to read the book. In some ways the movie was better, while in other ways the book was better. I highly recommend both. Only thing that confused me, it’s a girl’s book where the protagonist is male.
fell short: I am Legend
Missed the entire point of the book... that he became a legend in new world.
The Princess Bride and the Neverending Story were guaranteed to be shown when we had a substitute teacher, and I loved it.
I think each one could’ve had its own list; one video dedicated to Nailed-It Book to Movie adaptations and another for Flubbed-It Book to Movie adaptations
My vote for a Nailed It movie would be Holes. I loved that movie as a kid, surprised me to know there was a book. When I read it I was impressed by how accurately it was portrayed to film, minor things that were kept out weren’t really missed or didn’t ruin the storyline
My vote for Flubbed It movie (you had to know it was coming) Percy Jackson & the Olympians. A whole essay could be and has been written by many about where this one went wrong.
The Green Mile is a very good adaptation of the original novellas by Stephen King. They didn't miss too much
"Let the writer, write the screenplay". Well... yes well done list for sure. To Kill a Mockingbird and Princess Bride are top. But what helped Princess Bride was the writer was also a screen writer as well as a novelist, so he had the way to transfer book to screen well.
The stepford wives remake was an extreme flub, as well as Ella Enchanted.
Fincher keeps nailing it; Fight Club, Gone Girl, Dragon Tattoo, Benjamin Button
I thought the film adaptation of The Stand was horrendous!! It was my favorite book growing up and to see it butchered has made me angry for 30 years! 😂
Misery with James Caan and Kathy Bates is so much better than the book it’s crazy.
Never thought I would say that about any movie!
There's been a few adaptations of the stand and they have all sucked.
Here are a few mentions for a part two: Howl’s Moving Castle, When Marnie Was There, and Apollo 13 all hit the mark while Divergent, Battlefield Earth, and Earwig and the Witch missed.
I won't say that Divergent missed it though😅. The source material isn't great, the characters (especially Tris) are pretty flat and the ending? Gosh, don't get me started on that ending.
Divergent is also a series so it would probably be on a separate list
Yes to Howl's Moving Castle. The film even made Howl more likable in my opinion.
9:08 "changed very little beyond the physical appearance" red's backstory got changed, one character who just changed prisons died in the movie and the book had a consistent changing of the warden and guards...
Nailed It: Gone With The Wind ( 1939), The Godfather ( 1971),The Exorcist (1974), Jaws(1976), 1984 (1984) and Lord Of The Rings (2001-2003) This was not a trilogy but all 1 film......Flubbed It: Dune (1984)They tried to put too much of the books in a film that should have been longer or several films , Bonfire Of The Vanities (1990)characters were changed like the judge in the film was black so his end speech makes no sense among other things, I Am Legend (2007)ending was changed for Will Smith and to make a sequel
Surprised Dune didn't make the list tbh.
"The silence of the lambs", "Jaws", "The exorcist", "Hellraiser", "The Godfather", "Rosemary's baby" and "The bridges of Madison County" would be considered pretty good adaptations.
The Fault in Our Stars stayed mostly true to the book, written by John Green. It's a beautiful and tragic story, about the love between two teens, suffering from the same illness: Cancer. I know animated films weren't mentioned, but I'd say that an instance of the book being better than the movie was Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. The 1951 Walt Disney adaptation was cute but had completely missed the mark. The book wasn't meant to be a silly, nonsensical story. It was more of a story of skewered logic. Plus, the movie had eliminated the Gryphon, the Duchess, and the Mock Turtle. The Johnny Depp version wasn't much better. It was weird.
To be fair, The Dark Tower was confirmed NOT to be an adaptation of the books(s). At the end of the last book, it was revealed that Roland was forcibly sent back in time to the beginning of the first book and made to go through his journey again and again by the will of the Dark Tower itself with no memory of his previous journeys. The movie was confirmed to be one of these journeys that takes place AFTER the final book, so it's actually a sequel to the books. Still not a good movie, but it technically wasn't an adaptation, but a sequel.
Bridge to Terrabithia... utterly brilliant
The Godfather - nailed it!
How did Blood and Chocolate not make this list? The only similarities between that book and it's movie are some character names and the fact that its about a pack of werewolves. The good guys are bad guys, people sleeping together are suddenly direct family members, and the murders are part of a totally different plot. Its unrecognizable.
Completely, Absolutely, Unequivocally, !00% AGREE with the disaster that was the Dark Tower! They totally blew it.
To add to the *"Nailed It"* list:
- *American Psycho* - while altering a few minor aspects of the book it was an excellent adaptation
- *Fight Club* - an amazing film that faithfully captures the feeling and spirit of the source material
- *Naked Lunch* - a potentially unfilmable book, Cronenberg uses significant elements of it and meshes those with elements of Burroughs own life. I think an argument could be made that it _is not_ completely faithful to the book, it encapsulates the intent and key elements of the source material
- *Dune* - obviously the Vilnueve version. The Lynch version actually has a _lot_ of content that is faithful to the book, but the new film(s) capture the spirit and feel of the books and are an excellent adaptation for someone who is a fan of the series.
*Flubbed It* :
- *The Golden Compass* - The thrill and excitement I felt upon hearing that His Dark Materials was being adapted to film was intoxicating. The books are incredible and the trailer looked so good. But the film. Oh the film. It somehow lost the charm and intent of the book and then utterly destroyed any chance it had of a sequel by ignoring the novels ending.
- *I Am Legend* - awful, just awful. The entire movie misses the point of the book entirely in every single aspect. Bitterly disappointing film.
- *World War Z* - Just imagine the potential greatness of an accurate film adaptation and then look at the ridiculously generic film we ended up with. The whole initial appeal of Max Brooks' original is how different its approach is to the zombie genre. Then you start reading it and get drawn in as you witness events unfold through the eyes of those that experienced it first hand. I'm sure I was in physical pain after experiencing the movie.
These three movies not only misunderstood their source material but literally mangled it beyond recognition.
Lonesome Dove, it's the only movie I recommend people watch before reading the book, the reading experience is vastly improved when you picture Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones as Captain Augustus McCrae & Captain Woodrow F. Call.
What made the 2000s Time Machine even more of a tragedy was that H. G. Wells' great-grandson directed it.
hunger games better be the number 1 on the franchise list, catching fire is the greatest adaptation i've ever seen
When talking about The Time Machine you skipped Time After Time.
Starring Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, and Mary Steenburgen.
That was a good movie!
It's funny. I heard that the original Princess Bride was a serious dramatic novel and when the screen writer was young his grandfather read him the book and only read him the "fun parts" and when awe got older he gave it to his own kids to read, couldn't understand why they didn't like it, and then read it himself for the first time only to realize it was not the story his grandfather had created. and the movie was about the story his grandfather had put together and not the actual novel
Flubbed: Raise The Titanic. The book is a typical high-paced thriller romp. But the movie left out chunks of plot, inserted pointless other scenes that slowed the movie's pace, then completely changed the ending.
Nailed: Gettysburg. I haven't read "The Killer Angels" that it's based on, but I understand the match is very close.