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What’s the worst movie adaptation and why? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by bec1681@alien.top to c/books@metacritics.zone

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I think mine’s Z for Zachariah. The book is insane. A psychological survivalist thriller between a 14 year old girl and a strange man with unknown intent. The movie is… not this. They changed everything meaningful about the characters and lost all the tension. Hope someone does it properly one day. What’s your adaptation peeve?

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[–] PantsSquared@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Tales from Earthsea is this for me. It's more competent than some of the other entries in here, bc it's a Studio Ghibli film.

That said, it manages to miss what makes the Earthsea books interesting, and trades its moral complexity for something way more direct.