Best/Worst Movie adaptations of Books/Video Games/TV/Comics - Adaptation.

[Samuel Belmont]

What do you feel was brought to life best on the screen? It's hard for some Hollywood shill to make your favorite thing for the big screen..but they managed it! What was it? Was it perfect or just slightly off? Even when Film was new, they brought books and plays to the Silver screen to your delight or to just piss you off.

For Books-The Godfather. The attention to detail, the fantastic storytelling, the revenge..it's just fantastic and it sticks to the book. It might just be the best adapted book for the big screen.

Dune. The look, the tone and the costumes really sell David Lynch's Dune for me. Not to mention the delivery of some of the lines which only Shakespearean actors can do.

No Country for Old Men. It's line for line, scene for scene. It's brutal in it's telling of a man against what is seemingly a force of natural evil.

For Video Games- Mortal Kombat. It's just right. It's not a perfect martial arts movie, but the story is okay and the acting is over the top..something I'd expect from Mortal Kombat.

Animal Crossing OVA. Before Netflix Castlevania, this was the most accurate anime by game feel for a video game. The character lives in a village of animals, delivers packages, catches bugs, finds fossils and the main conflict is a character moves out of town. They even do a K.K. Song.

Castlevania. Netflix Castlevania, while it doesn't capture how hard as balls the game itself is, it does retell the story of 1492's Curse of Dracula in an interesting and captivating way. I will say it leaves me wanting more with Curse of Darkness.

As a side note, Castlevania 3 is probably the hardest game I've ever beaten and I could only do it with Alucard with his fireballs.

 

[Rand /pol/]

For epicness: Ben Shapiro facts and logic

 

[nanny911]

The Star Wars Sequel Trilogy is worst adaptation of Legacy of the Force I've seen.

 

[Samuel Belmont]

Ready Player One, Ernest Cline..as a movie, even a Spielberg movie gave me brain freeze. When I read the book, I thought it was just okay..but the movie..they throw so much pop at you. It almost sickened me. I was waiting for someone to say "Bazinga"..it was that bad.

 

[Kamiii]

Mortal Kombat Annilation was just awful

 

[HG 400]

The Walking Dead tv show is an excellent adaptation of The Walking Dead comic book.

 

[Kaiser Wilhelm's Ghost]

Excellent adaptation of a book into a film?
The original Jaws.

Terrible adaptation.
Super Mario Brothers The Movie.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

One of the best adaptations in my opinion has to be the Lord of the Rings trilogy, mainly because it did the impossible. Prior to the movies, Lord of the Rings was considered for decades to be unfilmable, due to the sheer length of the book and the insane amount of detail as well. The fact that Peter Jackson and co managed to make a faithful adaptation of the books while making sure they worked as movies is still impressive to me. They aren't perfect 1:1 adaptations, but if you ask me, most of the changes helped the story better transition to film.

On the other hand, The Hobbit is one of the worst adaptations I have ever seen. I don't entirely blame Peter Jackson, because if you look behind the scenes it's clear that he wasn't given the amount of time or pre-production like for Lord of the Rings and had to do it by the seat of his pants, and you can definitely tell with how the Hobbit movies turned out. There's no reason a children's book had to be adapted into 3 movies; hell the third movie was a couple chapters stretched out into 2 and a half hours. Plus they added a bunch of stupid shit like the romance subplot and a bunch of threads to Lord of the Rings that did not need to be there (like Legolas and the mention of Aragorn).

 

[Nekromantik]

The Tales from the Crypt TV show and the movie Demon Knight, really got the right feel of the comics.

 

[SparklyFetuses]

DOOM's movie looks like a forgettable, generic sci-fi film that has little to do with the game for me. The only scene that's okay-ish is the FPS one.

I could say that Event Horizon represents the game well when it comes to the "Hell at Outer Space" thing, despite it lacks demons.
EDIT: Forgot to say that id Software made Event Horizon's special effects IIRC. Correct me if I'm wrong

 

[IV 445]

One that hasn’t been mentioned yet was Hunger Games. I realize it’s impossible to cram an entire book into a 2 hour flick but I still feel they could have done a better job.

Perhaps as a TV show instead? Netflix series? Idk it may have been a commercial success but ehhhh it was forgettable IMHO

 

[RG 448]

The Hobbit trilogy is the best book adaptation.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

The show Dexter took an interesting series of books and turned them into a fleshed out masterpiece of a story...or at least for the first few seasons.

 

[Truthboi]

The worst adaptation would have to be Netflix's Death Note as while this is a retelling of a story that has been adapted many times, it fails to understand the spirit of the story. It comes across as a romantic drama about an underdog standing up against bullies rather than how people can get corrupted by their own sense of justice which the movie fails to deliver on by trying to portray Light as super sympathetic while everyone around him are morally bad or batshit crazy. Doesn't help the casting was god awful as the kid who played Light was talented and while Willem Dafoe did a good job with Ryuk, his character was poorly written and the same goes for Lakeith Stanfield as L.

 

[Princess Peaches]

The Brave Little Toaster is actually an adaptation. It's based off of two books, (yes they go to Mars in the second book.)

One of my favorite animated movies and it has a lot of heart and soul. I'd pick that for an adaptation that's better than the book.

 

[Some Manajerk]

The Prince of Persia movie was actually pretty good i thought. its not a 100% adaption of the games but it took the themes and the central idea of turning back time and used them to good effect.

 

[Beanie]

The Pupa anime turned an okay horror manga with cannibalism into pure trash, cutting it up to 3 minutes per episode and censoring the violence and blood in the TV version (the entire appeal of the manga). They even censored a knife.

 

[The Shadow]

The Rankin-Bass Hobbit is pretty much a perfect adaptation of the book. It only cuts Beorn (which isn't terribly important to the overall plot) and maintains the lighter tone The Hobbit has compared to LOTR.

The landscapes also do a good job of preserving Tolkien's own watercolor representations of Middle Earth.

 

[KO 864]

All the adaptations with screenplays by William Goldman are amazing, with special credit going to the Princess Bride for perfectly capturing the spirit and incorporating the meta story in the book of his dad reading an abridged version to Godman as a kid in between scenes. Misery is also amazing, though I can't say I've read the book.

The first Carrie is a fantastic movie, but I'd hesitate to call it a good adaptation as the most interesting part of the book was in the style that it was told, though journal articles, interviews, and some scenes of what can be assumed to be a dramatised version of "real" events.

I have a special dislike for the film of 'The Big Sleep' in that I'm just kind of annoyed that the film code made it so they couldn't follow the amazing ending of the book and practically cut Carmen Sternwood from the film. Apart from that great film.

The Percy Jackson films are legendarily bad failing to be fun, funny, and unironically portrayed Hades as being in league with Kronos in the first film, where in the original it was just an assumption and red herring. The sequel is just dull.

 

[Midlife Sperglord]

Goodfellas was an excellent adaptation of the true crime book, WiseGuy.

The Last Temptation of Christ is another one of my favorite movie adaptations of a novel.

The two Barefoot Gen movies are among the best anime adaptations of a manga series I have seen to date.

I also am a huge fan of Netflix’s Jessica Jones and Daredevil.

Worst adaptation of a novel is Will Smith’s I Am Legend, for changing the ending and dismissing what made the novel so great.

Worst anime adaptation of a manga has to go to the original ‘90s Appleseed OVA.

Worst adaptation of a western comic for me is a toss-up between Sylvester Stallone’s Judge Dredd and Dolph Lundgren’s The Punisher. The Canadian live action production of the manga Crying Freeman was also incredibly awful.