For me it’s definitely the Dark Tower, but the Golden Compas was also a huge letdown.

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    • Dune (the old one, not the new one)
    • Dark Tower
    • Eragon
    • Ender’s Game
    • The Witcher (a real shame, it could have been such a good IP for Netflix)

    Most adaptations suck, these are just some from the top of my head.

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      I like at least the first season of Witcher, though it could’ve been more linear

      The old Dune was just lol what the fuck

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        The mini series is fantastic. It’s a lot closer to the book and handles the pacing extremely well.

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      Oh God, I remember how disappointed I was when seeing the Eragon movie. After having read the trilogy I was having such high hopes, it could’ve been a LOTR alike trilogy, but instead we got this half baked… Stuff. At least the actors gave their best.

      Kind of in the same line with the golden compass I guess?

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        I really enjoyed the Eragon books as a kid but they aren’t great themselves. It’s a mediocre book series adapted to a bad film.

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          Oh yeah for sure, they were great to child me, I haven’t read them in years.

          I just thought of another example to the theme: I also really enjoyed the vampires assistant thirteenology or so, but the movie was horrendous!

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      Honestly, I fucking hate the new Dune. The old Dune at least has charm for how goofy it can get. The characters and editing choices I have huge problems with. It’s a very pretty movie and most scenes made it in but the characters just aren’t there. Also the world isn’t established properly. They don’t even mention the Landsraad until the tailend of the movie but they’re important to know about because they are why the Emperor takes the strategy he does.

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      What’s so bad about enders game. I don’t remember that being a bad adaptation, but it’s been a while.

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        It wasn’t a bad movie, I actually liked it a lot - but the book is significantly better and the movie left out a lot. If I had read the book before watching the movie I would probably have hated the movie tbh.

        Also even picking that book to make into a movie was a mistake, enders game was only written to give backstory for speaker for the dead which is much better than the enders game book but never made it to becoming a movie itself

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          That’s the story of adaptations most of the time.

          I read the book first and enjoyed the movie enough to buy it.

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        The book Ender’s Game has a psychological component that it’s nigh-impossible to nail in a visual medium with child actors. The story works in book form because books are the closest thing we have to telepathy, but it’s harder to do in a visual medium simply because visual storytelling is different from written storytelling.

        You could probably do the movie with really good adult actors–but most of the cast are children. And really good child actors are rare to come by–you’re lucky to have one, much less multiple. And when the cast is made entirely up of children who are all supposed to be geniuses, it’s unlikely you’ll be able to get the casting and talent you need.

        The Ender’s Game movie wasn’t terrible–it was surprisingly watchable compared to other adaptations of other books–but it didn’t come close to nailing the feel of the book.