don’t you hate it when your favorite
story is adapted for the big screen and
your dreams are subsequently crushed by
the result welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10 unfaithful movie adaptations
not only the stuff of legend for this
list we’re looking at those movies that
adapted a story from another medium
whether it’s books TV series video games
or more and changed things so much that
it was almost unrecognizable I said
that’s good to be clear we’re not saying
these movies are bad necessarily but
just that they’re unfaithful adaptations
of the source material mommy don’t you
see it been trying to help us all along
giving us the little things to win the
cobbler hang in there come on he wants
to Baba Cooper to number 10 Dragonball
Evolution it has begun
this adventure flick follows a teen
tasked with gathering seven dragonballs
and was adapted from the famous Dragon
Ball manga of the 80s and 90s because
returned while it didn’t stray as far
from its source material as the other
entries on this list the movie was still
heavily criticized for a storyline that
didn’t go into detail like the Japanese
comic and its casting of a white actor
for the main character Goku well good to
Dragon Balls KTU Dragon Ball creator
Akira Toriyama later revealed that the
studio had no interest in his ideas and
he views the film as an inferior product
to his manga number 9 Starship Troopers
Addie’s listen up this film follows the
titular troopers as they fight aliens so
you know there’s gonna be some war
themes in it it’d mean imagine playing a
half a million tons of starship you got
a nerves of steel director Paul
Verhoeven apparently read the first few
pages of the Robert a Heinlein novel and
then made his own story around that
rather than following the original
storyline three weeks aboard a starship
and you think that you can lick my naps
check it though the novel had been
heavily criticized for promoting fascism
and military rule the film completely
changed the tone and instead satirizes
those topics creating a strong
anti-fascist message and changing the
sci-fi stories point of view
number eight Blade Runner I’ve seen
things you people wouldn’t believe this
Ridley Scott classic about bio robotic
androids known as replicants that are
hunted and killed was adapted from
philip k dick novel Do Androids Dream of
Electric Sheep and the title isn’t the
only thing that was changed I need you
tech this is a bad the worst yet I need
the old Blade Runner the film has always
been considered a very loose adaptation
with characters that have been added and
omitted as well as different story
points from the novel I just to
initially disappointed with the original
script dick grew to distrust Hollywood
until he was sent a rewrite that he said
captured the visual style of his novel
perfectly time to die
number seven Godzilla Godzilla
that’s what Japanese sailors call him in
song and mythological she dragon who
filled their hearts with fear good a
reimagining of the classic Japanese film
the 1998 version of Godzilla follows the
titular monster as it causes destruction
in New York however unlike the classic
original this film was heavily
criticized for its depiction of Godzilla
with critics and audiences alike hating
the radically different visual design of
the monster and its new characteristics
including its tendency to run from
confrontation film co-writer and
producer Dean Devlin admitted he screwed
up Godzilla in recent years the creature
has become recognized as a standalone
monster rather than a version of
Godzilla called
Zilla number 6 Forrest Gump my mom
always said life was like a box of
chocolates you never know what you’re
going to get this Tom Hanks classic
about a man who mostly inadvertently
attends many of history’s most important
moments is just fine for family viewing
but that’s more than we can say about
the novel for instance the film version
of Forrest Gump omits many of the
titular protagonists adult
characteristics such as his sexual
escapades and his penchant for profanity
are you crazy I just play stupid stupid
as stupid as missing it also excludes
the detail that he is an idiot savant
and cut out scenes from the novel like
one involving cannibals congratulations
how do you feel I got a page I believe
yes you’ll be while the Winston groom
novel is just as heartwarming it is
definitely for a more mature audience
than the Robert Zemeckis directed
romantic comedy drama I’m not a smart
man but I know what love is
number five The Shining
think that’s true though it is a
masterpiece
this 80s psychological horror film is
still an unfaithful adaptation that has
drawn severe criticism from its
originator Stephen King while Stanley
Kubrick’s dr. Strangelove is also an
absurd adaptation The Shining is
definitely more infamous didn’t let me
finish my sins I said I’m not gonna hurt
you I’m just gonna bash your brains both
the novel and the film follows family as
they are secluded in a hotel while the
father goes crazy but that’s about it
Wendy I’m home the movie omitted many
scenes from the novel and changed the
entire ending Kubrick was more about
style than story and it drew heavy
criticism from King who said he was
extremely disappointed in the final
result here’s Johnny
number 4 The Last Airbender you didn’t
tell me that
you didn’t ask this film is adapted from
the animated series Avatar The Last
Airbender and features a young child
that is the living embodiment of the
avatar
a being that can control the elements
but fans were so upset at the story and
character changes in this M night
Shyamalan directed flick that they
widely panned the movie they had his
chance and missed it there were simply
too many deviations and too much
butchering of the source material with
many fans claiming it to be a terrible
movie that didn’t do the complex story
justice critics didn’t like it much
either
citing too much of a focus on special
effects and spectacle / story
number three I am Legend I’m a survivor
living in New York City I am
broadcasting on all am frequencies this
isn’t the first adaptation of Richard
Matheson’s famous novel but it is
arguably the loosest six billion people
on earth when the infection hit kV had a
90% kill rate that’s 5.4 billion people
dead
both the book and the 2007 site by
horror flick follow a man named Robert
Neville as he tries to survive as the
last man alive but in the novel he’s
hiding from vampires whereas in the film
they are mutated humans that have super
strength and agility
perhaps most notorious about the film
adaptation is the ending change which
also completely alters the meaning of
Matheson’s novel instead of a bleak
realization about his own mythic Ness
the movie slaps us sort of happy ending
on with Neville becoming humanity’s
Savior on September 9th 2012 at
approximately 8 49 p.m. he discovered
that cure and at age 52
he gave His life to defend it
number 2 super mario brothers last name
mario adapted from the famous super
mario brothers video game this movie
follows Mario and Luigi in live action
as they rescue Luigi’s love interest
Princess Daisy that’s right no Princess
Peach Daisy Luigi Mario is Daisy the
Daisy will common instead of the game’s
innocent colourful fun the movie setting
is a bleak and dystopia Quirrell
complete with grotesque reptilian
creatures and weird makeup effects
disgusting mammals aside from the
brothers there’s very little that
transferred over from the game and those
elements that were approved to be a huge
disappointment see the awful goombas
Goomba
this 90s sci-fi fantasy was a dark and
absurd mess that proved too weird for
game fans I’d call them the super mario
brothers before we unveil our number one
pick here are a few honorable mentions
I’m sorry that’s not good enough
Carol you’re terrible King Carol what
this universe is mine
I am delicious cupcakes in just minutes
away did you just say minutes away
that’s important all just wrong
you’re stupid now wait just a minute I
can’t remember anything that happened
before two weeks ago
number one World War Z
fans of the movie who are reading the
Max Brooks novel for the first time and
vice-versa are bound to be disappointed
as there are few if any similarities
between the action horror flick and the
apocalyptic horror book while they both
follow a worldwide zombie outbreak the
novel explores this from numerous points
of view of people from different
cultures by contrast the movie simply
follows one man as he tries to find a
cure there are no characters that carry
over and the film’s story is entirely
original
fans call this World War Z and name only
and we can’t help but agree with them do
you agree with our list here’s Johnny
what adaptation do you think was the
most unfaithful
sorry boys I got this one for more
original top 10s published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
you
story is adapted for the big screen and
your dreams are subsequently crushed by
the result welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10 unfaithful movie adaptations
not only the stuff of legend for this
list we’re looking at those movies that
adapted a story from another medium
whether it’s books TV series video games
or more and changed things so much that
it was almost unrecognizable I said
that’s good to be clear we’re not saying
these movies are bad necessarily but
just that they’re unfaithful adaptations
of the source material mommy don’t you
see it been trying to help us all along
giving us the little things to win the
cobbler hang in there come on he wants
to Baba Cooper to number 10 Dragonball
Evolution it has begun
this adventure flick follows a teen
tasked with gathering seven dragonballs
and was adapted from the famous Dragon
Ball manga of the 80s and 90s because
returned while it didn’t stray as far
from its source material as the other
entries on this list the movie was still
heavily criticized for a storyline that
didn’t go into detail like the Japanese
comic and its casting of a white actor
for the main character Goku well good to
Dragon Balls KTU Dragon Ball creator
Akira Toriyama later revealed that the
studio had no interest in his ideas and
he views the film as an inferior product
to his manga number 9 Starship Troopers
Addie’s listen up this film follows the
titular troopers as they fight aliens so
you know there’s gonna be some war
themes in it it’d mean imagine playing a
half a million tons of starship you got
a nerves of steel director Paul
Verhoeven apparently read the first few
pages of the Robert a Heinlein novel and
then made his own story around that
rather than following the original
storyline three weeks aboard a starship
and you think that you can lick my naps
check it though the novel had been
heavily criticized for promoting fascism
and military rule the film completely
changed the tone and instead satirizes
those topics creating a strong
anti-fascist message and changing the
sci-fi stories point of view
number eight Blade Runner I’ve seen
things you people wouldn’t believe this
Ridley Scott classic about bio robotic
androids known as replicants that are
hunted and killed was adapted from
philip k dick novel Do Androids Dream of
Electric Sheep and the title isn’t the
only thing that was changed I need you
tech this is a bad the worst yet I need
the old Blade Runner the film has always
been considered a very loose adaptation
with characters that have been added and
omitted as well as different story
points from the novel I just to
initially disappointed with the original
script dick grew to distrust Hollywood
until he was sent a rewrite that he said
captured the visual style of his novel
perfectly time to die
number seven Godzilla Godzilla
that’s what Japanese sailors call him in
song and mythological she dragon who
filled their hearts with fear good a
reimagining of the classic Japanese film
the 1998 version of Godzilla follows the
titular monster as it causes destruction
in New York however unlike the classic
original this film was heavily
criticized for its depiction of Godzilla
with critics and audiences alike hating
the radically different visual design of
the monster and its new characteristics
including its tendency to run from
confrontation film co-writer and
producer Dean Devlin admitted he screwed
up Godzilla in recent years the creature
has become recognized as a standalone
monster rather than a version of
Godzilla called
Zilla number 6 Forrest Gump my mom
always said life was like a box of
chocolates you never know what you’re
going to get this Tom Hanks classic
about a man who mostly inadvertently
attends many of history’s most important
moments is just fine for family viewing
but that’s more than we can say about
the novel for instance the film version
of Forrest Gump omits many of the
titular protagonists adult
characteristics such as his sexual
escapades and his penchant for profanity
are you crazy I just play stupid stupid
as stupid as missing it also excludes
the detail that he is an idiot savant
and cut out scenes from the novel like
one involving cannibals congratulations
how do you feel I got a page I believe
yes you’ll be while the Winston groom
novel is just as heartwarming it is
definitely for a more mature audience
than the Robert Zemeckis directed
romantic comedy drama I’m not a smart
man but I know what love is
number five The Shining
think that’s true though it is a
masterpiece
this 80s psychological horror film is
still an unfaithful adaptation that has
drawn severe criticism from its
originator Stephen King while Stanley
Kubrick’s dr. Strangelove is also an
absurd adaptation The Shining is
definitely more infamous didn’t let me
finish my sins I said I’m not gonna hurt
you I’m just gonna bash your brains both
the novel and the film follows family as
they are secluded in a hotel while the
father goes crazy but that’s about it
Wendy I’m home the movie omitted many
scenes from the novel and changed the
entire ending Kubrick was more about
style than story and it drew heavy
criticism from King who said he was
extremely disappointed in the final
result here’s Johnny
number 4 The Last Airbender you didn’t
tell me that
you didn’t ask this film is adapted from
the animated series Avatar The Last
Airbender and features a young child
that is the living embodiment of the
avatar
a being that can control the elements
but fans were so upset at the story and
character changes in this M night
Shyamalan directed flick that they
widely panned the movie they had his
chance and missed it there were simply
too many deviations and too much
butchering of the source material with
many fans claiming it to be a terrible
movie that didn’t do the complex story
justice critics didn’t like it much
either
citing too much of a focus on special
effects and spectacle / story
number three I am Legend I’m a survivor
living in New York City I am
broadcasting on all am frequencies this
isn’t the first adaptation of Richard
Matheson’s famous novel but it is
arguably the loosest six billion people
on earth when the infection hit kV had a
90% kill rate that’s 5.4 billion people
dead
both the book and the 2007 site by
horror flick follow a man named Robert
Neville as he tries to survive as the
last man alive but in the novel he’s
hiding from vampires whereas in the film
they are mutated humans that have super
strength and agility
perhaps most notorious about the film
adaptation is the ending change which
also completely alters the meaning of
Matheson’s novel instead of a bleak
realization about his own mythic Ness
the movie slaps us sort of happy ending
on with Neville becoming humanity’s
Savior on September 9th 2012 at
approximately 8 49 p.m. he discovered
that cure and at age 52
he gave His life to defend it
number 2 super mario brothers last name
mario adapted from the famous super
mario brothers video game this movie
follows Mario and Luigi in live action
as they rescue Luigi’s love interest
Princess Daisy that’s right no Princess
Peach Daisy Luigi Mario is Daisy the
Daisy will common instead of the game’s
innocent colourful fun the movie setting
is a bleak and dystopia Quirrell
complete with grotesque reptilian
creatures and weird makeup effects
disgusting mammals aside from the
brothers there’s very little that
transferred over from the game and those
elements that were approved to be a huge
disappointment see the awful goombas
Goomba
this 90s sci-fi fantasy was a dark and
absurd mess that proved too weird for
game fans I’d call them the super mario
brothers before we unveil our number one
pick here are a few honorable mentions
I’m sorry that’s not good enough
Carol you’re terrible King Carol what
this universe is mine
I am delicious cupcakes in just minutes
away did you just say minutes away
that’s important all just wrong
you’re stupid now wait just a minute I
can’t remember anything that happened
before two weeks ago
number one World War Z
fans of the movie who are reading the
Max Brooks novel for the first time and
vice-versa are bound to be disappointed
as there are few if any similarities
between the action horror flick and the
apocalyptic horror book while they both
follow a worldwide zombie outbreak the
novel explores this from numerous points
of view of people from different
cultures by contrast the movie simply
follows one man as he tries to find a
cure there are no characters that carry
over and the film’s story is entirely
original
fans call this World War Z and name only
and we can’t help but agree with them do
you agree with our list here’s Johnny
what adaptation do you think was the
most unfaithful
sorry boys I got this one for more
original top 10s published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
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