Top 10 Worst Movies Based On Good Books
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Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Making a live-action Percy Jackson series was just a horrendous idea in the first place. Let's see:
1. Logan Lerman and Alexandra Daddario were already about 17, give or take a year or two.
2. Rick Riordan was still making The Heroes of Olympus.
3. The plotline was totally botched and compressed into two stupid movies.
4. The cast would be playing their respective roles well into their 40s if they decided to continue the series.
5. Nothing can piss Percy Jackson fans off more than a crappy live-action "series."
Really, there's no competition for crap slot #1 when there's this nightmare.
No one hates the Percy Jackson movies more than Percy Jackson fans. It's an abomination.
Firstly, they took away Annabeth and Grover's personalities. Annabeth literally won no fights, and her kick-butt nature was taken away, along with her past and her Yankees cap. Grover was turned into some buff ladies' man, which is the complete opposite of his personality.
Not to mention the storyline was completely changed (they were not looking for pearls). Luke seemed like he was acting for himself, Kronos was not mentioned, and so many other characters were taken away. Annabeth wasn't even shocked by his betrayal.
And they never battled a Hydra in the first book.
Annabeth's hair is supposed to be blonde and curly, and she is supposed to have grey eyes.
And all the characters were too old. This basically ruins everything. And Annabeth and Percy were not supposed to make love eyes at each other.
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The Cat In the Hat
Only at #4? As someone who saw this and the Percy Jackson movie, let me say that at least *The Lightning Thief* was good in its own right, even if it was almost nothing like the books.
This abomination, on the other hand, fails on almost every level: creepy-looking and out-of-character (OOC) characters, cheap production, terrible script, racist and sexist stereotypes, sexual innuendos galore, etc. If I'm perfectly honest, I blame the director, Bo Welch, for this. A lot of this nonsense was actually going to appear in *The Grinch*, but Ron Howard had the decency to put his foot down and set a limit on how much of this nonsense (especially the innuendos) would make the cut. The rest got carried over to *The Cat In The Hat*, and Bo Welch delightfully gave that nonsense the rubber stamp of approval. DreamWorks being involved this time around, unlike with *The Grinch*, probably didn't help matters. There's a reason they almost went bankrupt - people got turned off by too many pop culture references in their movies, and this is no exception (littered with them every other minute).
Having said all that, the one thing I liked about this movie was that it gave us a glimpse into the Cat's universe. If it had actively tried to explore it and made it a plot point, then I could almost get past the creepy characters, sexual innuendos, and pop culture references. But nope, they botched it, just like they botched the original book. Dr. Seuss must be rolling in his grave that his most beloved book got transformed into this atrocity of a movie. No wonder Audrey Geisel banned any future live-action Dr. Seuss movies, including *The Cat In The Hat Comes Back.* *Shivers for the entire length of this movie.*
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Bridge to Terabithia
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Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters
The live-action version of The Sea of Monsters was a step in the right direction, although not by much. Once again, the Percy Jackson movie franchise totally botched the plotline and characters. But hey, at least they threw in Clarisse La Rue and Dionysus, right? Wrong. Those two characters had to take a rain check in The Lightning Thief, but you don't just go, "Oh, sorry we totally forgot about these very important characters the last time. Here they are." Just leave them out! You don't act completely clueless if you do.
Also, you do not compress four freakin' books into one. That's exactly what the director did, though. They seriously thought they could compress The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, and The Last Olympian into one movie. What a failure.
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Eragon
I can rant about this movie on and on, and I'm pretty tolerant about changes from the source material, but this movie wasn't even good on its own.
Just stick with How to Train Your Dragon or The Lord of the Rings instead.
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The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
Amazing books, mediocre movies.
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid
These two movies are two of the worst movies I've ever seen. The funny thing is, there are more books after the second one, and they were going to make the other ones into movies too. But these movies bombed big time at the box office, so the producers killed all the other movies they were going to make, and thank heavenly Jesus because these movies were horrendous.
Holly Hills was a terrible character, and the films were all generally quite depressing - nowhere near as funny as the books.
Patty Ferrell was horrible! Scratch that. Calling her horrible is too nice. She's a demon-possessed child!
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Carrie (2013)
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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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New Moon
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Home (2015)
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The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
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I Am Number Four
The series is amazing - I've read it all - but the movie made the whole story feel like every other bad, forgettable action movie.
You are number four? Well, I am number one!
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Gulliver's Travels (2010)
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Twilight
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas
It was slightly better than Cat in the Hat, but it's on par with The Lorax movie.
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Ella Enchanted
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Ramona and Beezus
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Divergent
All the good parts (like someone getting stabbed in the eye) were left out.
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Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
The animation was good, but apart from that, it was a bit of a mess.
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It (1990)
Everyone spoke about this at the time it first came out, but now that time has gone by, people aren't really going to remember this one that well. All because of the 2017 version. In my opinion, that version was better as it got a bit more right than the original mini-series.
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Endless Love
The novel was pretty good. The movie sucked.
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Outbreak
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The Scarlet Letter
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Maximum Ride
The only characters that seemed accurate were Angel and Gazzy. The rest of the cast looked nothing like how the characters were portrayed in the book. And they never said Fang's name once in the movie.
This movie was very disappointing compared to the book. It is nothing like the book, and many of the scenes do not match how they happened in the book.
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Vampire Academy
I never read the book, but this movie was so stupid. I hated Rose in this movie. She was so whiny and arrogant.
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Children of the Corn
