Hey! Welcome to Thursday Movie Picks where you get to share your movie picks for each topic presented every Thursday! Based on the theme presented each week, you can pick up to 3 to 5 movies and explain why you picked those movies! This meme is being hosted by Wandering through the Shelves!
This week's theme is: Worst Book to Movie Adaptations!
So usually, when it comes to movies adapting a book to the big screen, either the adaptation is much better than the original source material or they end up being worse than the source material. In this case, we are focusing on the worst book to movie adaptations and man, did these adaptations give me a headache...
Two bored children have their lives turned upside down when a talking cat comes to visit them.
So, when I first heard that this movie was being announced, I was actually excited for it. All that excitement died the moment I saw this horrific adaptation of one of the most beloved children's books. I mean, "The Cat in the Hat" was one of my all-time favorite children's books and this movie pretty much bombed it to death.
Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, half human-half vampire, a guardian of the Moroi, peaceful, mortal vampires living discreetly within our world. Her calling is to protect the Moroi from bloodthirsty, immortal Vampires, the Strigoi.
Did anyone remember that Richelle Mead's "Vampire Academy" book had a movie adaptation? Yeah, I didn't remember it either (until now). "Vampire Academy" was one of my all-time favorite paranormal romance novels that I have ever read and after I saw this movie, I was like "What have you done to one of my favorite paranormal romance books?" It's like this movie had absolutely nothing to do with the book and it made me so mad, especially since I really loved the book this was based on.
3. X-Men: The Last Stand
The human government develops a cure for mutations, and Jean Grey becomes a darker uncontrollable persona called the Phoenix who allies with Magneto, causing escalation into an all-out battle for the X-Men.
So, do comic book adaptations count? Because if they do, I have to put this movie as one of the worst adaptations I have ever seen. It was an adaptation of "The Dark Phoenix Saga" from the X-Men comics and not only did it have too many plot lines going through it that I got so confused by the story, but they also changed everything about the Dark Phoenix herself from the comics that I could barely recognize the Dark Phoenix in this movie.
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