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What was the worst bastardization of a classic book into a movie? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] alokir@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Not a classics, but:

American Gods: they made unnecessary changes and introduced unnecessary filler plotlines until it felt like a drag to watch. The book already explored social issues, but the showrunners decided to dial it up to 100 and spoonfeed it to the audience at the expense of the actual plot.
Ready Player One: they dumbed down the whole thing about hunting keys and portals, removed tons of important worldbuilding details, made pointless changes that ruined the spirit of the books. They should have made it into a series instead of a movie.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ready Player One was a good adaptation of a mediocre book into a mediocre movie.

[–] macracanthorhynchus@mander.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Disagree. The movie is a mediocre adaptation of a fun and mediocre book into an un-fun and mediocre movie. The film was never going to be gold, but they spent an awful lot of CGI money to make a movie that wasn't as fun as just reading the original and imagining all of the nerdy stuff being described.

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