Most Inaccurate Adaptations

[danoyse]

The Shining. It's great movie, but it's nothing like the book.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Jurassic Park and The Lost World.

Now I like the films for what they are, but man, I just finished up The Lost World. There only like two scenes from the book in the film. Malcolm and Sarah Harding are characters, Eddie is in it, but as a younger man while the Eddie of the film is the Jack Thorne character in the book, who I wished was in the film.

 

[JeetKuneDo]

I Robot.....they pretty much just used the name and ignored the story.

For most inaccurate historical adaptation, Tombstone. Good movie....but Doc Holiday was nothing like that.

 

[Franklin Richards]

Starship Troopers.

 

[Iron_Stark]

Resident Evil. All of 'em.



(But I still find them enjoyable)

 

[Tanin]

A Beautiful Mind

They not only changed what happened to John Nash Jr. They murdered it.
Nothing like what really happened at all.

 

[Matt Mortem]

I agree with everyone about Jurassic Park and The Lost World. I still like the books and I like the movies

 

[Rowsdower!]

I recently tried watching GI Joe. I never really cared for the cartoon as a kid, so I didn't think the movie would be as horrible as others have thought. Long story short, 10 minutes into the movie, my brain had rotted. It took another 10 minutes to regain control of my limbs to turn the damn thing off. Awful, awful movie.

The first inaccurate adaptation I can think of is Jurassic Park: The Lost World. It was nearly unrecognizable from the book. I was still a kid when it came out, so at that time I ate it up, but then I read the book and was like "wtf?!" Only decent part of the flick was getting to see the T-Rex terrorize San Diego.

Good one. The book wasn't that great to begin with, but still... it didn't even attempt to stick close to the story. They eliminated or merged half of the characters in the book in order to make room for completely different ones. And then they added about 100 more people on the island just to use as T-Rex fodder. Easily one of the worst adaptations of all time.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

Starship Troopers.

I read it about 11 years ago, but as I recall, they were pretty accurate to some of the book, more than I thought it would be. They didn't have those crazy jumping exo-skeleton type suits, and I'm sure they fought a different species of alien in those suits(might be mis-remembering), but the stuff with the bugs was like the movie iirc. So, let's say, the half of the book they chose to film was pretty accurate.

 

[chamber-music]

If we are talking historical adaptaions as well the I'll include Braveheart.

Mel Gibson may as well made a movie about William Wallace being a cyborg zombie fighting talking monkeys which would of been more accurate than Braveheart.

 

[Valaquen]

Resident Evil is one, and Starship Troopers another. Troy too, of course. And Braveheart, historically speaking. There is almost nothing, nothing, in that film that is accurate. Even down to the clothes. Scots didn't wear plaid and kilts for another 300 years. The Battle of Stirling Bridge was fought at - a bridge! But not in the movie. Entire Scottish heroes are cut out entirely [Andrew de Moray]. You could go on and on about Braveheart.

 

[Alchemyst]

Street Fighter: The game itself revolved around a tournament that gathered fighters from all over the world, each fighter had their own motives. Why in the world did we get M.Bison holding hostages and demanding millions of dollars, and America's strongest soldier.......Belgian Jean Claude Van Damme had to stop him....AWFUL

G.I. Joe: Everything was just plain wrong in that movie, I hated every second of it.

 

[DocHoliday]

Less Than Zero. I like the movie okay (I know a lot of people loathe it, but the music and RDJ's performance are good) though. 7/10

 

[Manic]

I Robot.....they pretty much just used the name and ignored the story.

Pretty much. Asimov's original I, Robot was a series of short stories that covered everything from robots wandering around in confusion to people growing emotionally attached to robots once they start to perceive them as people. The movie was about robots trying to take over the world.

It's the prime example of an inaccurate adaptation. Same title, and there are robots involved. That's where the similarities end.

 

[Hush]

I wouldn't call it inaccurate so much as they didn't go far enough or do enough with it.

No they pretty much just didnt adapt the book at all.

 

[hopefuldreamer]

I Robot.....they pretty much just used the name and ignored the story.

I felt the same about I am Legend. The whole way through the film I was yelling at the TV 'Why did they call it I am Legend? Why didn't they just make up their own title?

 

[DACrowe]

This is not based on quality, just the accuracy of these films' adapting works (most of which I like and will mark with a "*").

-Bram Stoker's Dracula*
-X-Men the Last Stand
-V For Vendetta*
-From Hell
-League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
-The Scarlet Letter (1990s version)
-Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves*
-Robin Hood (2010)
-Queen of the Damned
-The Shining*
-Every Bond movie after Goldfinger not named Casino Royale (* for a lot of them)
-Resident Evil
-Resident Evil Apocalypse
-Resident Evil Extinction
-Resident Evil Afterlife
-The Bourne Identity*
-The Bourne Supremacy
-The Bourne Ultimatum*
-Jurassic Park*
-Jaws*
-Jurassic Park: The Lost World
-The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
-Where the Wild Things Are
-Breakfast at Tiffany's*
-Clue* ( )
-Troy

Adaptation is not a reflection of its quality.

 

[Sloth7d]

If we are talking historical adaptaions as well the I'll include Braveheart.

Mel Gibson may as well made a movie about William Wallace being a cyborg zombie fighting talking monkeys which would of been more accurate than Braveheart.

If that's the case, I'll also say Agora should be mentioned.

 

[Heretic]

I wouldn't call it inaccurate so much as they didn't go far enough or do enough with it.

I agree. Alexandria Daddario should have gotten naked.

 

[Specter313]

No they pretty much just didnt adapt the book at all.

The basic, bare bones of the original story from the book was there with a few tweaks, but unfortunately that was all. They didn't go into the details or much of the development like the book did.

 

[Sawyer]

The Shining. Sure, the end result was still good, but way to throw the baby out with the bathwater, Kubrick...

 

[Evil Twin]

Adaptation is a pretty inaccurate adaptation of The Orchid Thief.

 

[WarBlade]

Planet of the Apes (1968)
Planet of the Apes (2001)

I read the book (English translation) before ever seeing a screen version, so the screen versions just annoy me.

Blade II

Never mind how little Blade-in-name-only borrowed from the comicbooks, the second instalment turned it's back on the source altogether and came out even better than the first. At least in my opinion.

 

[xwolverine2]

The Invasion (vs. The Invasion of The Body Snatchers)...only as the horror aspect. they ignored the actual scaryness of it with more of an adventure thriller sci-fi feel..

same the day the earth stood still

 

[Visceral]

I felt the same about I am Legend. The whole way through the film I was yelling at the TV 'Why did they call it I am Legend? Why didn't they just make up their own title?

Because sometimes studios won't back scripts unless a bankable familiar name is attached to them.