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Dune (2000)
IMDB rating: 6.90
Plot: It is a distant galaxy in the far future. Arrakis is a desert planet and is the only source of Melange, a vital drug used by the Guild Navigators for space travel from star system to star system. The corrupt Emperor Padishah Shaddam IV sends the Atreides family to Arrakis to take charge of the mining operations of Melange, once controlled by the Atreide’s rival family, The Harkonnens. Duke Leto Atreide’s son Paul becomes fascinated by the native Freman’s culture and learns he has a special powers and he can see images of the future. But the Emperor is in league with the evil Baron Vladimir Harkonnen and the Baron and his loyal army attacks, taking control of the mining operation on Arrakis and Duke Leto is assassinated. Paul and his mother Lady Jessica flee in the desert, where they are befriend by the Fremen. Adopting his Fremen name “Maud’Dib”, Paul vows vengeance on Baron Harkonnen and the Emperor and he unites the Fremen and forms a army of warriors and leads into battle, as he sets out to defeat the Harkonnen family and put a stop to the Melange mining operation, as Paul sets out to fulfill his destiny, as he becomes the prophesied all-powerful Kwisatz Haderach.
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Directors: Harrison John
Actors: Schwarz Jakob,Lenkowsky Philip,Maj David,Kriz Pavel,Caster Jeff,Fisher David,Fisher David,Cajzl Pavel,le Bon Noel,Linington Gregory,Rous Dan,Brown Dan,Kren Mikulas,Adventure,Drama,Fantasy,Sci-Fi,
What's the worst movie adaptation of a book you have ever seen?
My personal worst are ‘Dune’ (there were more spectacular special effects and the acting was better in my daughters third-grade play), and ‘The Shooter’ , where Marky Mark takes one of my all time favorite running characters, Bob Lee Swagger, and turns him into a punk with a dork knob and a Southie accent.
Best answer gets how ever many points I give it. Thanks.
Donald Westlake’s "What’s the Worst that Can Happen."
An awful adaption, and an awful movie in its own right.
Rationality | Jan 31, 2010
Eragon. They pretty much got the names right and failed the rest.
I Love Guinea Pigs | Jan 31, 2010
"Eragon" hands down, was the worst film adaptation of a book I have ever watched.
They f*cked it up so bad they can’t even make the second one into a movie, since they left out so many key parts.
My Dogs Are My Life | Jan 31, 2010
Blood and Chocolate. The book was really good and I loved it, so I was really excited for the book. But it was a huge letdown. They changed sooo much!
glitterandtrains | Jan 31, 2010
Northern Lights or The Golden Compass (The books goes by both names, the film by the latter)
They messed up the characters, the point of the book and also ended the story early. It was billed as the next Lord of the Rings, when New Line Cinema had the trailers running, had an amazing cast, beautiful design and it turned into one big epic FAIL. They lost money on it and aren’t going to finish the trilogy. Which makes the film, even as a stand alone, really silly because they clearly made it thinking they would make the other two. Rather than one of the most beautiful, complex yet simply told stories, they just have a series of events that happen for no reason, and then an ending which doesn’t hang on the cliff, it just slides down it.
William | Jan 31, 2010
Starship Troopers
They dumped the unique inventions, dumped the political theories, added a love triangle plot, substituted a cheesy telepathy plot for the original boot story, and then changed the race of the hero. Famously, this novel had one of the first non-white protagonists in sci-fi.
There wasn’t a thing they didn’t destroy about this book. What they did to Dune, doesn’t even come close.
not a top con & proud | Jan 31, 2010
There are so many it’s hard to know where to begin.
"Catch-22" is certainly in the running.
S.K. | Jan 31, 2010
Twilight. Epic fail.
Mary Alice Brandon | Jan 31, 2010
Beowulf. What a wretched excuse for a movie in general, and they mutilated the story in so many ways, it was almost laughable.
DngrsAngl | Jan 31, 2010
FACT: Movies > Books
Raising Bob | Jan 31, 2010
The shooter was a great film noob
Sangha J | Jan 31, 2010
Twilight!!! It was bad!
Sassy_girl | Feb 01, 2010
Here, there is no contest. The absolute 100% winner is "Shadowlands", which was the onscreen adaptation of the life of C.S. Lewis, author of "The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe".
Richard Wagner, author of "C.S. Lewis & Narnia for Dummies" (For Dummies), said that movie failed to convey Lewis’ sense of humor and joy, largely ignored his Christianity, and gave the impression that he lost his faith when he lost his wife.
And, the movie gives almost no sense of the wonder experienced by the actual entering of the wardrobe. When the kid in the movie finally opens the wardrobe and finds nothing but a still, lonely compartment, you are left thinking, "oooookkaaaaaaaaaaay. . . . can you please describe to us — or narrate to us — what he was seeking?" I was very, ***very*** disappointed at "Shadowlands".
NOTE: Granted, "Shadowlands" wasn’t meant to be a reproduction of "the L, the W, and the W" but it lacked everything I would have expected in a story about a wonderfully imaginative guy, C.S. Lewis. We expected a good movie, but it was rubbish.
todd | Feb 01, 2010
"The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy".
Worst. Adaptation. Ever.
ADG | Feb 01, 2010
I was about to say Twilight…then I realized that didn’t classify as a book =P Eragon was bad I have to admit but not as bad as House of the spirits. It was like a 2 hour trailer. AWFUL!
Princess Zara | Feb 01, 2010
The film adaptation of Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights/The Golden Compass.
That movie was ludicrous. The filmmakers could have done SO MUCH; they had great actors and actresses, potential special effects, great settings - yet it was all wrecked by the abomination of the plot.
That’s the primary factor of an adaptation; the story. The movie manipulated the story so much that it felt like the producers had no respect of the original book whatsoever. A lot of it was set in a parallel of Oxford; they came to film here and everything, yet of all the colleges which matched the setting of the book much more, they used a tiny, tiny part nothing like it.
It enrages me especially because the book, the whole trilogy, is one of my absolute favorites. Thought-provoking, intricately woven, fantastic and very, very deep. The film took the meaning, sentiment, symbolism and depth right out of it and chucked it in the trash; and turned it into a typical kiddy prance-around fantasy…when it’s anything but.
I honestly thought it was laughable - three whole chapters were excluded at the conclusion! If it can be called a conclusion…the movie ended and started so abruptly. Fantasy worlds and complex concepts like those in Northern Lights require some kind of introduction - but the film drove straight into the story. No wonder it’s not very popular - I don’t doubt that anyone who didn’t read the book understood any of it.
