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Originally Posted by tsgreer
I would have to say one of the worse movie adaptations I've ever seen. Actually it's also one of the worst movies I've ever seen: Battlefield Earth.
The book was just straight-on pulpy sci-fi. The movie was horrible. One of the few movies that I wanted to walk out on. I didn't walk out on it because I thought it might get better. To this day I wish I would have walked out on it. Really. I feel so bad that I sat through the whole thing.
The director was really out there on this one. He decided to go for weird camera angles, bluish lighting, hammy acting. Not even up to the level of "so bad it's good or so bad it's funny."
Ick.
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Agreed 100%. OK SF book, but one of the worst movies ever made.
Another "stinker" was, for me, the recent movie adaptation of Philip Pullman's "The Golden Compass". It converted a wonderfully "deep" and thought-provoking book into a cheap "action" movie. I'd been looking forward to it for years, and was bitterly disappointed by it.
As far as GOOD movie adaptations, I'd go for the movie version of Barry Longyear's SF short story "Enemy Mine". Short stories do, IMHO, make better movies than novels, because inevitably so much has to be left out of the novel that it will leave the lover of the novel unsatisfied.