Best and Worst to Big Screen

Hollywood has a lot of cool special effects and a lot of money. Their technology is very advanced and makes a lot of the imagery and action in books look extremely cool. Example: The Harry Potter Series. Some people would rather read books and some would rather see movies. Most girls would rather read The Hunger Games for its inspiring literature, adventure and romance. Most guys would rather see the movie because they'd rather watch Jennifer Lawrence in a black dress with fire coming off it than read about the adventures of Katniss Everdeen. But in the end each fan is always thrilled or extremely disappointed with what Hollywood did to their book. So here is my Top 3 best and worst film adaptations.

Best Adaptations:

 3) To Kill A Mockingbird

 

Although, as I've stated in this blog before, I hate To Kill A Mockingbird I thought the film adaptation was spot on. I didn't think there was a thing wrong with the plot or characters and it was perfectly adapted for film. 

2) Jurrasic Park

Most people don't know that Jurrasic Park was a novel that came out in 1990 and was adapted into one of the most well known films of all time by Stephen Spielberg. The plot stays very consistent with the book the entire time while incorporating and creating a prehistoric world of dinosaurs in modern day with the power of Hollywood's special effects.



















1) Moneyball
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game was originally written by Michael Lewis in 2003 about the Oakland Athletics and their bold general manager Billy Beane. The book discusses much about how the economic and financial side of baseball works. The first half of the book mainly focuses on the general aspect of baseball economics then focuses on the 2002 Oakland A's and Billy Beane's unique strategy at making a run in the post season despite being the poorest team in baseball and no superstar ballplayers.
The movie focuses on Billy Beane and how he got the A's to the post season despite being the poorest team in baseball while offering insight into baseball economics. And would an audience rather see a baseball team make a Cinderella run in the playoffs while learning a little on the way or read about baseball finances with a Cinderella sports story thrown in?













Worst Adaptations:

3) The Great Gatsby
Although the plot wasn't to inaccurate the poor acting skills and slow, uninteresting settings and effects ruined F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Even if Hollywood keeps the plot great, they can't ruin it by not adding the effects and excitement that movies were created for.







 












2) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
I am a huge fan of Harry Potter and was absolutely horrified when I walked out of the theater the first time I saw this movie. Much like my number one worst adaptation, the movie cut very important and key scenes from the book. The book has a very epic battle in the astronomy tower after the murder of Dumbledore. But the movie has absolutely no battle whatsoever and barely any action scene at the end. The movie also adds a scene when death eaters destroy the Weasley's home, which is not present in the book. The film is good overall, but because the plot is so twisted it belongs at number two.
















1) The Rum Diary
In my previous post I tore apart and ripped the film of The Rum Diary to pieces. In terms of plot and characters the movie was garbage. Johnny Depp was great in it. But the film just doesn't even include one of the most important characters in the book! In fact, it even replaces that character with a whole different character and that character marries another character who is married to a different character in the book and the whole story just gets screwed up and twisted. Not to mention it does a very, very, very poor job of following the plot in the book or even any real consistent plot in the movie.