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Feb 4, 2023·edited Feb 4, 2023Author

I know it's the easy answer but I gotta go with The Hobbit.

The bloated storyline, the manufactured supervillain, the insertion of Legolas, making his dad a jerk, the barrel fight, a love story between Tauriel and Kili everything about Laketown and Bard, and Tauriel for that matter.

It was a near perfect 317 page kids book converted into a seven hour discount CGI vanity project by a washed up director.

Billy Connolly as Dain...I mean, bletch.

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Feb 5, 2023Liked by Vince Guerra

100%. I just came on here to express my own disdain and make this my final answer. I snoozed so I lose. Cheap, rushed interpretation of one of the most beautiful fairytales ever written. They tried to hang on the curtails of LOTR and rush it into the theater. Added in some grossly elongated video game fight scenes and made-up storylines. It could have been a masterpiece.

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Feb 4, 2023·edited Feb 12, 2023Liked by Vince Guerra

Emma. The new 2020 one with the trying-to-be-mid-and-trendy period at the end of the title, the one with the nude backside of Mr. Knightley (what the what?), the one with Emma’s repulsive nosebleed during what is supposed to be a pivotal part of the story. The one that sucked worse than the one with Gwyneth Paltrow. Final answer.

*leaves room, slams door*

I’m not bitter or anything. 😂

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Yes! It was horrible!! 🤢

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Feb 5, 2023·edited Feb 5, 2023Liked by Vince Guerra

Mom's nomination of Emma reminded me of the 2005 Pride and Prejudice, which I think was way more popular than it deserved. I know that comment will stir up a hornet's nest 😅. I thought about going with it as my answer, but all in all I don't think it's as bad as The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. (At least Pride and Prejudice followed the main storyline of the book.) It's sloppy, doesn't follow the book any more than it absolutely HAS to, and adds a bunch of stupid stuff that basically rewrites the whole thing into a totally new story. Even the casting is questionable.

Final answer: Chronicles of Narnia, Dawn Treader. (As if it even deserves to bear that title).

Because if there's anything worse than not doing justice to Jane Austen, it's disgracing C. S. Lewis.

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There's disgracing Tolkien. 😎

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Yep, that too

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Feb 7, 2023Liked by Vince Guerra

One of my favorite memes: You either like the 1995 Pride and Prejudice version or you're wrong :D

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Feb 4, 2023Liked by Vince Guerra

1995's The Scarlet Letter was a pioneer in the field of Woke Cinema. The great Nathaniel Hawthorne novel about sin and hypocrisy was turned into a track about feminism and the injustices done to Native Americans. On the plus side - Gary Oldman and Robert Duvall. On the debit side - starring Demi Moore.

And instead of (spoilers for the novel, even though you've had 173 years to read it) the Rev. Dimmsdale dying in Hester's arms, the happy couple shake the dust of the religious community behind them and escape to the Carolinas to live happily ever after. Critics widely mocked the film back in the day. Modern critics would probably embrace the film, though wishing Dimsdale had been played by a POC and Hester by a nonbianary actor.

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“Spoilers for the novel, even though you've had 173 years to read it.” Well done, sir. I haven’t seen the movie (read the book twice though) but you get my vote just for that sentence. 😂👏🏻

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And the winner is...Shannon with Emma (2020). Congratulations, Shannon, you get to choose tomorrow's question.

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Another unconventional nomination: Into The Woods (2014). I thoroughly enjoy a good twist on a story -my Kindle has plenty of fairytale retellings. However, this movie is an abomination on so many fronts I'm not positive I could narrow it down to one defining reason.

As a musical, its' horrid. The actors were one dimensional and boring. The characters they played were unlikable. There were too many classic fairytales competing to be the most unrecognizable. No satisfying ending, no point, morbid at times. Everything about the movie is insipid, perhaps even creepy in its effort to destroy one's nostalgia with childhood classic fairytales. I suspect it was purposeful.

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I LOVE that The Hobbit was made into three movies. Though it's sad some aspects of the book didn't make the movie, it sits fine with me that *some* liberties were taken :D

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I’m going with The Dark Tower. I’m a big fan of the book series, but I also realize adaptations of King’s stories are either great or terrible. But this was a bizarre case. It was like Sony and all the executives involved were just sabotaging this project so it was guaranteed to fail. The movie was supposed to launch a combination of a movie series and a TV series. But what was adapted wasn’t really the first book. It cut and pasted later books in and made the story impossible to follow if you don’t know the source materials. The thing that annoys me the most is the movie probably killed a lot of enthusiasm for a future TV series, even if it’s made by someone who actually cares and knows the story.

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I'm sooooo sad I missed last weeks Question 14 about the movie music!! I had such a good one that no one else had! and this is what I get for procrastinating throughout the week lol   Anyway, for this week's worst movie adaptation of a book.......   I agree with the Hobbit FOR SURE.  Don't get me wrong, I do like the movie, but it didn't need to be 3 movies long and wasn't a great adaptation.  

But I guess I have to pick a different one... so many.. oof.  Well my first thought went to the Twilight Saga....  the books were way better and more detailed.  But If I said Twilight then I'd have to be "that person" lol  

also The Great Gatsby .... ugh.

ok, I'm going to do it, Twilight, final answer.   

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Ok so all the best ones are taken and I won’t win with this answer, but I was terribly disappointed with how they trashed Eragon. The movie was SO bad and got such hostile backlash from the fans, they didn’t even attempt to film the next two books. Total bummer 👎🏻☹️

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There is a propensity to ruin every story with a dragon in it, apparently. Ever see The Voyage of the Dawn Treader? Rot.

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I didn’t realize they made a movie of it. Such a wasted opportunity. 😕

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This was what I was going to choose. Agree 💯

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