So for Two Cents Tuesday, pipe and let me know which books should have NEVER been made into movies because the directors, creators, actors, took a GREAT book and slaughtered it on the big stage.
Here are a couple of books that should've been left alone (the book was great. The movie, not so much):
1) The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (I don't even need to say anything about this one--we all know this one should have been left alone).
2) The Lovely Bones (The book was weird in its own right, but still, it was a good read once you got past all that. The movie, though, was just plain bizarre).
3) Where the Wild Things Are (The movie, though interesting, was BORING. My kids hated it. Who decided to take a ten page children's book and turn it into an hour plus long movie?).
4) My Sister's Keeper (What the crap! The movie didn't even end the way the book did. That's not right. I was so disappointed in that. The book ending doesn't make for a good ending to a movie, I get that. But come on).
5) Flowers in the Attic (Okay, I get that incestuous behavior is a touchy subject--as it should be--but the movie, even if it didn't touch on that issue, it still flopped as a whole. This is a book based on a mother who betrays her children which leads them to . . . do . . . things . . . they . . . shouldn't--need I say more? The book series isn't the best written, but the movie was completely off the mark).
6) The Cat in the Hat (Again, I say, WHAT THE CRAP! This was a child's book and then was turned into a film--directed towards kids, mind you--that had adult, sexual innuendos. Umm . . . fail. My kids still repeat the part when the cat chops off his tail and says, "Son of a BLEEP" Thanks Cat in the Hat. Thanks a bunch). See clip below.
Here are a couple of books that should've been left alone (the book was great. The movie, not so much):
1) The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (I don't even need to say anything about this one--we all know this one should have been left alone).
2) The Lovely Bones (The book was weird in its own right, but still, it was a good read once you got past all that. The movie, though, was just plain bizarre).
3) Where the Wild Things Are (The movie, though interesting, was BORING. My kids hated it. Who decided to take a ten page children's book and turn it into an hour plus long movie?).
4) My Sister's Keeper (What the crap! The movie didn't even end the way the book did. That's not right. I was so disappointed in that. The book ending doesn't make for a good ending to a movie, I get that. But come on).
5) Flowers in the Attic (Okay, I get that incestuous behavior is a touchy subject--as it should be--but the movie, even if it didn't touch on that issue, it still flopped as a whole. This is a book based on a mother who betrays her children which leads them to . . . do . . . things . . . they . . . shouldn't--need I say more? The book series isn't the best written, but the movie was completely off the mark).
6) The Cat in the Hat (Again, I say, WHAT THE CRAP! This was a child's book and then was turned into a film--directed towards kids, mind you--that had adult, sexual innuendos. Umm . . . fail. My kids still repeat the part when the cat chops off his tail and says, "Son of a BLEEP" Thanks Cat in the Hat. Thanks a bunch). See clip below.
What do you think? What books do you feel should've been left alone? Pipe in. Give me your two cents.
