30 Day Book Challenge: Day 14 Book Turned Movie and Completely Desecrated

There are about 3 hundred million examples of this. WHY CAN'T THE MOVIES EVER GET IT RIGHT? THEY HAVE THE MATERIAL ALL WRITTEN OUT THERE SO CLEARLY IN THE BOOK. Here are 3 terrible examples out of the many. 

If we're being completely honest here, as a movie, the Lightning Thief isn't bad. As a book-to-film adaptation? The film is terrible. Absolutely terrible. I actually watched the movie first and then found the book-- so yes, the movie itself isn't bad. It's when you see the much better source material when you realize how truly atrocious the movie is. I don't know what these people were thinking when they wrote the script. The actors did their best, but the script just didn't to this excellent story justice. 
Disney plus just picked this up for a TV adaptation-- hopefully it will do what the movies could not. 

This is especially painful because City of Bones is part of a series that is so close and dear to my heart... And then the movie came. It was terrible... And then we got a second chance! We got a TV show that promised to be better... Yet the TV show ended up being worse, sorry Shadowhunters fans. As a fan of the source material I couldn't even get through the first season of this show. Especially with the extra helping of cheese from being on Freeform. I know there are a ton of battles between the TV fans and the book fans. To all the TV fans who say the books are crap... Um, if that were true your favorite TV show would never exist. You may not have to like the books if you love the TV show, but you have to respect them at least. I just couldn't watch the show because the portrayal of the characters was painful and the plot was just so... twisted and wrong that I couldn't. Somehow the show made the movie look accurate. 

This movie was so bad that it couldn't even stay in theaters for two weeks. I had to drive an hour out of my way to find a theater that still played it. I knew it would be bad from the trailers, but I still wanted to see it for myself. And it was so bad I had to look away sometimes because GOD. The downfall of all of these book-to-movies is trying to fall into what's more 'popular' and becoming cliche and dumb, instead of original and intriguing. There's a reason these books are best sellers. People enjoy the stories, so if you gave them a chance, chances are they will do well!