“As a kid, I read the book first and couldn’t understand why they basically changed the entire plot.”

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"I didn't bother watching all of them after what they did with the first one. It is the nature of prequel stories that we will have some idea of how things will turn out, but a glaring example of the problems with the movie for me was adding a fight focusing on Legolas and trying to pretend there were stakes. Not all of the filler was horrible, but there was no value added with that fight."

"I remember simply not enjoying it as a movie. Like, it didn't draw me in, didn't make me care much about the characters, and felt like some sort of artsy exercise instead of the fascinating dreamworld of the kid in the book. I used to love that book as a kid; it really did capture that sense of a kid's psychology and bending his psyche to his whim and imagination as a child's personal right. The movie was reflective back from an adult's wistful sense of loss of childhood or something, and it felt sad instead of fun."

"This is definitely tops to me. It’s an inexplicable and complete departure from an incredible story."

"For me, personally, most of King's books (with very few exceptions) just don't translate well onto the screen. Especially any of them that are either VERY long, or are multiple books in the series."

"I read the book in high school and was so excited to watch one of the countless film adaptations of it that I didn't know where to start. So I watched a video comparing all the adaptations only to find out that none of them were accurate to the book and was so disappointed I never watched any of them. It's been over a hundred years, how is it that not a single one decided to just stick to how the characters are in the actual freaking book??"

"I enjoyed the book quite a bit, but I really don't know how you can make it into a movie that would be satisfying for a large audience. Personally, I just don't think it can be done well. The book works great as a book, and that's it."

"I've always thought A Wrinkle in Time would work best as an 11-minute episode animated series (think Adventure Time or Steven Universe).

The story is really a series of loose vignettes, and such a format would do it well."

"I loved the book. And I really like the movie. They just have nothing in common but the name."

"I loved how in the book we saw ordinary people who were heroes of their own small stories, and the different ways they handled the different stages of the zombies — seeing it all over the course of years, from the very beginning to the aftermath.

I said when they first announced it, they should have done it as a miniseries, and I was fucking right."

"Omega Man was even worse, and it's based on the same book."

"Hard disagree. I Am Legend is probably the worst. It regularly shows up on lists of great zombie movies even though it's about freaking vampires. You gotta screw up pretty hard to get people to confuse two very different movie monsters."

"I feel like they tried to ride The Crow's coattails, and it very much did not work."

"I remember thinking that Queen of the Damned would have made an excellent show on, like, HBO or somewhere that could show the violence and sexuality, but that it was too dense to be made into a movie. This was years before True Blood that I said this.

And then, when I watched the movie, my feelings were absolutely validated."

"I was surprised reading the book and finding out it's a very serious book full of military strategy written by a former naval officer." 

"As a kid, I read the book first and couldn't understand why they basically changed the entire plot."

"Changing the ending completely changed the whole point of the story for me."

"Yeah, the animated movie of The Black Cauldron doesn't even resemble anything about the tone or characters in the book. It's like they bought the rights, started to adapt it, and decided to just do whatever the hell they wanted. It's astonishing because if they'd simply made an earnest attempt to adapt the book, they couldn't have gone wrong."

"My librarian in elementary school introduced me to this series. She was friends with Lloyd Alexander, and he lived in my hometown. I read all of those. I loved The Chronicles of Prydain; it's up there with Narnia for sure. The movie was the most generic thing they could come up with."

"There are plenty of adaptations that stay true to the themes of the source but not the plot, but Watchmen is the only one I know of that stays true to the plot (to the point that it's structured like a multi-issue comic book) but not the themes."

"In fairness, the polar bear fight was one of the few parts from the original book they actually got right."

"I can definitely understand why people love it, especially if they haven't read the book. But I feel like it doesn't have much in common with the source material besides the title."

"There are great movies that could be considered bad adaptations. An Eragon movie that strayed from the source material could have been good. The real problem with the Eragon movie was that it just sucked at being a movie. The characters were underdeveloped, the pacing was somehow both a slog and incredibly rushed, the acting was horrible, and it was so painfully boring."

"I watched the movie first, and thought it was fine, kinda whatever fantasy movie.

It's been a while, but from what I remember, the fact that he kills the Ra'zac in the first 45 minutes of the movie is hysterical. They're literally his whole reason for questing. It's like if Luke chopped Darth Vader's head off halfway through A New Hope and the movies just kind of kept going."

"Annihilation is a good movie, but honestly, a pretty bad adaptation of the book. Though I also think it’s impossible to properly convey the feeling that the book instills through a movie."

"God, I had such high hopes. Artemis Fowl could have been Harry Potter levels of huge if they just knew how to make a movie that doesn't try to cram three friggin' books' worth of shit in one movie (and, you know, also if they knew how to market the books, but that's another topic)."

"I think this is the worst I've seen. A comprehensive rejection of everything that made the novels compelling. It felt as if they identified the things people liked about them, then went out of their way to do the opposite."