Some light reading...

The worst book to screen adaptation I've seen is "Beastmaster". I'm not saying the movies themselves are bad. I'm saying that they are totally different than from the book.

Other adaptations that were poor are:
"Starship Troopers", "Avatar: The Last Airbender", "Tarzan", "Sherlock Holms", "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", "I Robot", "Battlestar Galactica", "2001 A Space Odyssey", "Planet of the Apes"

 

I thought it was a sci-fi movie, but it turned out to be a comedy.

 

Not a bad list. Can we add "Dune" (the first one) to it?

 

Lately I haven't had time to watch a movie never mind read a book.

 

A pretty good job of taking a book to the screen: The Stand.

But it took a mini series to do it, maybe that's the better approach.

 

Yep.

 

I'm waiting to see if the "Foundation" movie does justice to the books.

 

I haven't been able to read books lately, because my close up eye sight is deteriorating and its hard to read the small print. Reading glasses help, but I can't wear them for the time needed to read an entire novel. I do listen to audiobooks from time to time.

 

I did not enjoy " The Neverending Story" - Movies that much, too much changed when comparing the book by Michael Ende.*

Michael Ende himself even did not like the movies and let his name to be removed from the credits.

 

If you have read the book, and then see the movie, the movie will almost always disappoint you.

If you see a movie, you may think hey, that was pretty good. So then you read the book, and end up enjoying both.

 

I agree, wasn't very much like the book at all. Some points were the same, but not much.

Was one of the movies "Ten Little Indians".