The movie is not really an adaptation, because the script was written first, and the title was attached to it later, with minor script changes. The movie company had bought the rights to the title from Isaac Asimov's estate, and apparently thought attaching it to the awful Will Smith movie was a good use of their money. Perhaps they saw what a piece of crap the movie was becoming, and decided to sacrifice the I, Robot name to salvage their investment in the movie. I'm not sure I even watched the whole of the first part, but something that disturbed me was that the other characters referred to him as "Ged". That kind of proved how sloppy they had been reading the books. "Ged" is his secret name; other characters refer to him as Sparrowhawk. In the Earthsea world, people don't reveal their real names, since knowing someone's name gives power over them. You can't explain it away as a deliberate change to make the story easier to understand either, since then it would have made more sense (and been easier to understand for the English-speaking audience) to just call him "Sparrowhawk" and forget about the name "Ged".
It takes place on another planet, where dragon-like, semi-sentient creatures have been tamed by humans. Each dragon forms a bond with their human trainer, and the plot revolves around a natural disaster they're trying to avert. If you want to try a deep, serious fantasy novel, read Terry Goodkind's Wizard's First Rule. If you'd like to read something lighter, I hear David Edding's books are enjoyable (haven't read those myself). If you want an intelligent and completely whacked-out fantasy comedy, Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels won't disappoint you.
Many don't agree that they should be read chronologically and think they should be order of written. As a result The Magicians Nephew will be the second last film, and The Horse and his Boy will be just after the Dawn Treader.
If no one has mentioned it yet, I would like to add The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans. More recently, My Sisters Keeper by Jodie Picoult - Not that the movie was bad but they completely changed the ending. I read on the author’s website that she was devastated.
Eragon They completely trashed it. everyone i know who has not read it enjoyed it, but every person who read the book said it was awful, do you agree?
I thought Eragon was so poorly written that I didn't get past the first three or four chapters. Never watched the movie, but I imagine it can hardly be worse than the book.
Definitely much worse then the book. Everything from the book was basicly cut from the movie. What wasn't cut was drastically altered. The things they altered made no sense what so ever and left you wondering why not just... keep as it was in the book. It also made it far more difficult for any possibility for a sequel to the movie to be anywhere close to Eldest. So I guess it really was just a quick money scheme.
Where the Wild Things Are. Admittedly, it is a childrens' book, but the film didn't have much magic. Kind of ruined my childhood imagined world. Pretty boring, too.
The only good thing about the Eragon movie was that when his dragon was young, it was super cute! I don't remember much else from the movie, so I guess I'm blessed.
That's what I heard. I knew a lot of people who were excited about the movie, but I don't remember hearing a single positive review from any of them after they saw it...
The I Am Legend movie's ending destroyed the whole premise of the story and made the title meaningless. Robert Neville was supposed to have become the monster of *their* legend since by the end he was the only human being left alive. I read the book but haven't seen the entire movie all the way through. The movie version of I, Robot was also mutilated by Hollywood and also starred Will Smith. But if you haven't read the source-material by Isaac Asimov, you can actually enjoy this one.
Did anyone feel like the Count of Monte Cristo Movie was better than the book, its a rare case but reading the book it felt like it was all drawn out and in the end he didn't get the girl, but in the movie he wins, maybe Im just sappy Also lets start a thread about Movies Hollywood might ruin? LIKE ENDERS GAME
Some perfect translations I can think of: Fight Club, and the LOTR series. One that disappointed me was Harry Potter: Sorcerer's Stone, they just left so much stuff out, but then again, it's a movie, so they have to..
The sole reason I didn't like the movie was the fact he ended up with the girl (and the fact that he had illegitimate kid, if I remember correctly) I just liked it in the book when he ended with that other girl, but kill me if I know the reason for that. I mean the movie was good, just the end bothered me, but that's just me. On the other hand I loved Three Musketeers just because there was some romance between Anne and Louis, so I wouldn't say you're sappy. OT: Hmm, what did Hollywood ruin for me? Perhaps Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix and Pride and Prejudice. With Harry they left out too many stuff and at moments it was just weird watching it. With Pride and Prejudice, some things just seemed stiff. I was more pleased with BBC mini series.
Myself, I would have to say Starship Troopers. I mean, come on did anyone involved with that movie read the book. The book's overall focus was more about politics and citzenship. The war with the "bugs" was more for a charged atmosphere than anything. "You must be some kind of smart bug." Please don't mind my vomit!
I wouldn't say LoTR was perfect. Things were changed, left out. The movies were very good, in my view, but is there ever a perfect translation? Well...I may have to give you Fight Club. They did a darn good job with that one.
Books are never ruined for me, regardless of how bad the movie adaptation was. There comes a few times in my life, however, when it's shockingly bad. Eragon was such a film. An amazing book, and incredibly realistic and detailed for the genre. And rumored to be written at a young age? Astounding. And then the movie came along, with the realization from everyone a few years later that it wasn't mere happenstance that they weren't going through with the trilogy of films. Hmmm...
Really? Eragon is a rotten book, and so is the entire Inheritance Cycle. Talk about someone catching a break, it was Christopher Paolini. Those books should've never been published in the first place. And that's why the movie sucked also, you can't take something like Eragon and expect a good film.
