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Old 04-28-2009, 12:56 PM   #16
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Oddly enough the Dune movie was made in collaboration with Frank Herbert; I remember him having quite a bit of input. But I didn't love the movie either.



My vote for worst adapation would be Starship Troopers. It's probably my favorite book, certainly the one I've read the most, and the movie was an enormous disappointment.
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Old 04-28-2009, 12:58 PM   #17
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I feel the Eragon series is head and shoulders above the twilight crap and look at the kerfluffer over that!
That's because the teen girls get tingly for the star of Twilight. Teh star of Eragon is not tingleworthy.
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Old 04-28-2009, 12:59 PM   #18
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they were tinglin' and jinglin' long before the movie came out
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Old 04-28-2009, 01:00 PM   #19
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One other movie I found a disappointment was The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I've enjoyed the book, the radio drama, the TV series, and found the movie to be blah at best.
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Old 04-28-2009, 02:33 PM   #20
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Oh no! I quite enjoyed 'Dune', 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' and even thought 'Golden Compass' was passable.

I think I'd had my expectations sufficiently lowered before I saw them - they were better than I was expecting.
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I feel the Eragon series is head and shoulders above the twilight crap and look at the kerfluffer over that!
Glad to know I'm not the only female who shares the same opinion.
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Old 04-28-2009, 03:12 PM   #22
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I enjoyed 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'.
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Old 04-28-2009, 03:15 PM   #23
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I enjoyed 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'.
Have you see the TV mini series? If you have, you'll know how second rate the movie really was (IMHO).
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Old 04-28-2009, 03:17 PM   #24
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I did not see the mini series.
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Old 04-28-2009, 03:23 PM   #25
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One other movie I found a disappointment was The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
My wife and i found the movie a very big disappointment too.
"Solaris" was a disappoinment too, i love the book by Stanisław Lem, but not the movie.
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Old 04-28-2009, 05:02 PM   #26
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You're all wrong all of those book to movie deals were Golden Globe, if not Oscar material compared to "High Crusade" which bears resmblance to the Poul Anderson Book by same title in that it has the title and some guys in chain mail.

WORST STINKER BOOK TO MOVIE ADAPTATION OF ALL TIME!!!!!!!!
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I didn't know that any of his stuff had been made into film!
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Old 04-28-2009, 05:23 PM   #28
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My vote for worst adapation would be Starship Troopers. It's probably my favorite book, certainly the one I've read the most, and the movie was an enormous disappointment.
Oh definitely. Although I wasn't actually all that fussed about the book, but it was head and shoulders and then some above the film.
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hey now! if you get into the brain of the Master and the time he was writing... jack booted nazis were the image of all the ickiness in life, bad or good! having reports in film reel format was de riguer of the day... I thought they really got into modern technology circa 1942 reality film.

clear as mud?
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Oh, i forgot one: The earthsea series by Ursula K. Le Guin. A great read - but the movie was like a B-movie.
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