• Pride and Prejudice (2005)--totally butchered the story and so many historic faux pas!
  • The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
  • Girl with the Pearl Earring
  • Like Water for Chocolate
  • Pretty much any Stephen King novel adaptation
  • The Queen of the Damned
  • Valmont (very lame compared to Dangerous Liaisons)
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • The English Patient (for some reason this film always makes me cringe)
  • Great Expectations (1998)--had nothing of the beauty of Dickens' work in it!

Honorable Mentions:

  • The Harry Potter Series (although I don't mind them, Ididn't like the films much, which put me off until I read the books. I understand the stories better now and actually like them)
  • Pretty much any Disney film (they're great when you're kids but when you appreciate the literary versions they're not so good)
  • The Wizard of Oz (a cult classic and I really do love it but in terms of being a good adaptation it kind of missed the mark)
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