Best and Worst Book/Movie Combo

[kelliebeans104]

From this list, what is your favorite book/movie combo, where you loved both, and what is your worst book/movie combo, where you hated one and loved the other?


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My favorite combo would be About a Boy.  I love both the movie and the book, even though they're both different.  I absolutely love both of them and definitely re-read the book and watch the movie all the time.  

My worst is probably the City of Bones.  I thought they did a pretty horrible job with the movie and it was nothing like the book.  

[snshne322]

My favorite was probably The Martian.

My least favorite was probably The 5th Wave.

In fairness, I just watched The 5th Wave last night, so it's pretty fresh.

[labellabarv]

So I loved both the book and movie of The Perks of Being a Wallflower. While this isn't on the list it stood out for me The Duff... I loved the book and absolutely hated the movie.

[aurora]

There aren't very many where I've both read the book and seen the movie!

Probably the worst is the Hobbit. The book is fabulous, but they put so much damned filler into the movies to try to increase profits that they're absurd. Nobody wants to watch so many fight scenes and chase scenes and cinematic effects. And this is coming from someone who actually thinks Peter Jackson did a pretty good job with the LOTR movies, which is saying a lot given my incredibly high opinion on the books.

I think Jurassic Park was really well done as a movie, even though there are some major changes from the book.

[kelliebeans104]

May 11, 2016 14:40:20 GMT -5 labellabarv said:

So I loved both the book and movie of The Perks of Being a Wallflower. While this isn't on the list it stood out for me The Duff... I loved the book and absolutely hated the movie.

I love Perks too.  They did a good job with both.  I love the casting in the movie, too.  I thought it was perfect.

[rootbeerfloat]

May 11, 2016 14:40:07 GMT -5 snshne322 said:

In fairness, I just watched The 5th Wave last night, so it's pretty fresh.

I watched it last night, too! And I was also underwhelmed lol.

[bernsteincat]

Memoirs of a Geisha is a both a beautiful book and a beautiful movie. My favorite.

[litskispeciality]

I hated Water for Elephants the book, but the movie was pretty decent.

I liked the Virgin Suicides book a little better than the movie, only in that I could understand the plot with the narration. Still a fantastic movie.

The Help book and movie were both well done, although my one gripe is that they changed the darn plot how she got the idea for the book in the movie version, and that was really important.

I agree with the Duff, I've only read half (plan to re-read the whole thing this summer), but didn't like the movie...too different in a bad way.

[Nonny]

I really liked His Dark Materials (the whole trilogy) but the Golden Compass movie was pretty bad.

I also kind of hate how whiny Harry is in HP5 and it's my second least favorite of the books (I don't care for Chamber of Secrets in book or movie form), so I really like how in movie 5 they toned that shit down.

The Shining are both good, but they are actually pretty different. Some of the incredibly iconic things that happen in Kubrick's movie don't happen in the book, and the book has a lot more background about the family, and explores if/how he's being haunted and if he's already a little crazy before the hotel got to him.

[snshne322]

May 11, 2016 15:03:09 GMT -5 rootbeerfloat said:

May 11, 2016 14:40:07 GMT -5 snshne322 said:

In fairness, I just watched The 5th Wave last night, so it's pretty fresh.

I watched it last night, too! And I was also underwhelmed lol.

I was so underwhelmed with the casting.  I wasn't expecting A level, but put some effort in people!

[rootbeerfloat]

May 11, 2016 15:57:38 GMT -5 snshne322 said:

May 11, 2016 15:03:09 GMT -5 rootbeerfloat said:

I watched it last night, too! And I was also underwhelmed lol.

I was so underwhelmed with the casting.  I wasn't expecting A level, but put some effort in people!

Well, at least Evan was hot. But Ringer is Asian/Native American! I know we don't learn that until the second book, but grr.

On topic, I enjoyed The Martian in both book and movie form. Also, HP; I didn't love all the movies, but enjoyed them for the most part.

[anglashly]

Best; the shining. I liked them both or The Fault in our Stars- I liked them both
Worst: not really sure I didn't really care for The Devil wears Prada book but liked the movie enough

[frog]

My favorite combo: Stardust

There are quite a few there that could vie for the title of worst.

[frog]

May 11, 2016 15:22:48 GMT -5 bernsteincat said:

Memoirs of a Geisha is a both a beautiful book and a beautiful movie. My favorite.

I agree with this.

[dorothyinAus]

I've only seen & read four of the combinations, and it's hard rate any of them as worst because they were excellent as both a book and a movie, but they were very different:

The Princess Bride
To Kill a Mockingbird
Breakfast at Tiffany's

for the last combo, Little Women, I am only considering the best version of the book I have seen as a movie -- the 1933 black & white version with Katharine Hepburn.  The other movie versions of the book pale in comparison to that one.

[aurora]

May 11, 2016 15:52:21 GMT -5 Nonny said:

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The Shining are both good, but they are actually pretty different. Some of the incredibly iconic things that happen in Kubrick's movie don't happen in the book, and the book has a lot more background about the family, and explores if/how he's being haunted and if he's already a little crazy before the hotel got to him.

I hadn't seen the movie in years when I recently read the book so I thought maybe I had forgotten a lot. The violent shrubbery at least makes an impression in both.

[alleinesein]

There are very few books turned into movies that i have seen on the list.

Schindler's List and Jurassic Park are the only two on the list that I loved the book and the movie.

The Nanny Diaries is the only one that jumps out where I liked the book but was underwhelmed by the movie.

[snshne322]

May 11, 2016 16:08:49 GMT -5 rootbeerfloat said:

May 11, 2016 15:57:38 GMT -5 snshne322 said:

I was so underwhelmed with the casting.  I wasn't expecting A level, but put some effort in people!

Well, at least Evan was hot. But Ringer is Asian/Native American! I know we don't learn that until the second book, but grr.

On topic, I enjoyed The Martian in both book and movie form. Also, HP; I didn't love all the movies, but enjoyed them for the most part.

See I wasn't attracted to him at all.  He had pretty eyes, but in the lake scene I said to DH that the dude is way over compensating.

[lab7979]

Best: Gone with the Wind.  Love the book.  Love the movie.
Worst: Not sure.  Maybe Vampire Academy?  I enjoyed the books series but the movie didn't do it for me.

[suzannesugarbaker]

I don't watch very many movies, but here goes.

Best: TKAM, Little Women, Harry Potter series

Worst: I liked the movie version of The Notebook way better than the book. Same for the The Devil Wears Prada and Twilight.

[sassypants]

It's been over 20 years and I'm still mad about the ending to the film version of Interview with the Vampire, even though I liked the movie as a whole and love the book.