Read the Book! 23 Disappointing Movie Adaptations

The misguided ''Golden Compass'' has found its way to DVD -- but it's not the first book-to-big-screen project to veer off course, as fans of ''Da Vinci Code,'' ''Memoirs of a Geisha,'' ''Eyes Wide Shut,'' and%

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Lists of bad adaptations are easy to come by. What I want are good adaptations, and why. Cause good adaptations are good for different reasons. Some because they are faithful; some because they are not. Some because of something in the moviee, and some are because there was something in the book.

But bad is bad. Although perhaps a good subset would be *good* books made into bad movies. For instance, is it surprising that Battlefield Earth made a bad movie?? The list isn't of really bad books, but they are definitely a mixed bunch.

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So let's make a list then!
Blade Runner, because it totally butches the book and its title has a very lame story to itself, the movie has very little to do with the book but is still a great movie.