What film based on one of your favorite books did you hate?

Timeline. I love the book by Michael Chricton, but the movie is absolutely terrible... couldn't even sit through it!

what I always find is that when I have read a book and then watch a film based on it, I always get annoyed when in the film it does not go as it does in the book or they dont put some of the good bits from the book into the film.

An example would be P.S I Love You- i did not hate the film loved it actually but found it annoying that they removed some of the good bits from the book

Quite a few films change the ending of a book - Great Expectations starring John Mills is a good example - I suppose if it encourages people to read the book afterwards then maybe it's a good thing.

It wasn't my fave book but I thought queen of the damned could have been way better than what it was. As fans of books we expect the movie to be exactly how we read or picture it in our minds. They rewrote some of the story, some of the actors did not fit or look like the characters they portrayed and it was set in the wrong decade. My friend and I spent the whole time in the theater dissecting it and saying what was wrong with it. Stuart townsand did a good job as lestat and aaliyah was good but I was disappointed.

Eragon was absolutely horrendous! The book was pretty decent, and could have been made into an excellent film without a lot of work, but the filmmakers completely ruined it, to the point of cutting out characters and facts that would have played a crucial role in the sequel (ie, they cut out Roran in Eragon, cause he didn't have a big role, but half of Eldest is about him!).

The movie version of Maeve Binchy's Circle of Friends totally changed the ending, thereby rendering the message of the book (which was a much more positive message for women) meaningless.

One of my favorite books is Watchers by Dean Koontz & the movie made of it was absolute rubbish, had almost nothing to do with the book. I'm also a big Stephen King fan & I don't think most of his books translate well to films.

Hate might be too strong a word, but I found the Chronicles of Narnia a disappointment. It was weak on the theological message that was a strong part of his book (CS Lewis).

The Lord of the Rings was done excellently and followed Tolkien's ideas very well.

Dune movie really didn't do the book justice

AI was based on a short story, so it took a lot of work to get it to keep the message

Eragon...the book was a very detailed interetesing read...the movie was turned into some cheesey action film with a lot of over acting...so dissapointing and it did horrible in theaters.