Any Fantastic Four movie (2025 bucks the trend)

I do remember being stoked about them making The Postman and gravely disappointed in how it turned out.

I have never seen The Dark Tower because of how badly it was received. I refuse to acknowledge it exists.

As much as I loved LOTR, I cannot believe how badly Peter Jackson screwed up The Hobbit.

I'm withholding judgement on The Dragon Reborn series but it was a rough start.

I also thought the Cowboy Bebop live series paled in comparison to the original.

I'm thinking about watching Borderlands this evening, will report back what a terrible movie it is. While the games are high art by any means, they're fun with some interesting characters and decent storylines.

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Maybe my Entertainment Board opinions suck, but I thought The Lost World movie was better than the book.

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I came to the same conclusion when I realized the movie was not going to be the book. What I really liked about it was that it gave us another great sequence (modified in terms of who was involved but basically the same) from the original novel with the Tyrannosaur chasing people into a cave and trying to get at them with its tongue. In the book it was Grant and the kids; in the movie it was Malcolm, Harding, and a bunch of the other team, with one getting chomped after freaking out over a coral snake. Plus I loved the Godzilla reference at the end that started with the Tyrannosaur crashing through a sign that said no animals allowed into the States (something like that) and included the 4 Japanese dudes running down the road looking over their shoulders.

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Captain Winky said:

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Maybe my Entertainment Board opinions suck, but I thought The Lost World movie was better than the book.

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I came to the same conclusion when I realized the movie was not going to be the book. What I really liked about it was that it gave us another great sequence (modified in terms of who was involved but basically the same) from the original novel with the Tyrannosaur chasing people into a cave and trying to get at them with its tongue. In the book it was Grant and the kids; in the movie it was Malcolm, Harding, and a bunch of the other team, with one getting chomped after freaking out over a coral snake. Plus I loved the Godzilla reference at the end that started with the Tyrannosaur crashing through a sign that said no animals allowed into the States (something like that) and included the 4 Japanese dudes running down the road looking over their shoulders.

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The first time I went to see the Lost World, it was flooding outside and they stopped the movie to evacuate the theater right after they capture the Big Rex. Given there wasn't much Internet back then, we had no idea there was all the stuff in San Diego until seeing it on TV 2 years later.

Eragon

The books were good and I was excited for the movie to come out. They totally left out key characters like his brother and went in a totally different direction. Could have been a good sequel of movies if they'd follow the books!

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The books were good ...

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On the Dark Tower: I enjoyed the times when it was a mix between Fantasy and Western like Wizard and Glass and The Wind Through the Keyhole. It would lose me when it became a nexus for all of King's other works. I hope the Amazon series focuses more on the Western/Fantasy blend.

I think Assassin's Creed could be a great tv show. The movie sucked.

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AgTrip said:

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The books were good ...

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Haha I know people don't like them but I enjoyed them. The movie sucked big time though, completely butchered it.

And how can you not like Ready Player 2? Prince world would be awesome on the big screen!

I agree that Ready Player 2 was one of the worst books I've ever read.

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The Original Houston 1836 said:

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AgTrip said:

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The books were good ...

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Haha I know people don't like them but I enjoyed them. The movie sucked big time though, completely butchered it.

And how can you not like Ready Player 2? Prince world would be awesome on the big screen!

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The pandering to woke-ism, which a term I almost never, ever use - was the worst thing I've ever seen. Parzival casually trying every kind of sex out there was just awful. I know Cline is from Austin, but that was maybe the laziest book I've ever read. It was on level with the originality of The Hangover Part 2.

Claude! said:

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The Peter Jackson Hobbit films

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Immediate thought that came to mind

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Lucky Jack Aubrey said:

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Timeline is the worst Michael Crichton movie adaptation ever! And it was actually a great book.

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Ill add a 4th Crichton book to the thread.

The Lost World. Great book that they completely butchered.

Basically, they've screwed up every Crichton book other than Jurassic Park and Rising Sun

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I've read Jurassic Park multiple times but The Lost World only recently. They should have shot The Lost World as a straight up horror movie and it could have been awesome. They really could have cranked up the tension from the first movie but they pivoted too far from the source material and made a bad movie. They still have to deal with Velociraptors, multiple T-Rex, and a couple of Carnotaurus as well.

Vince Blake said:

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On the Dark Tower: I enjoyed the times when it was a mix between Fantasy and Western like Wizard and Glass and The Wind Through the Keyhole. It would lose me when it became a nexus for all of King's other works. I hope the Amazon series focuses more on the Western/Fantasy blend.

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Same

I've always been a huge Clive Cussler fan. Both movies made from his books were abso*******lutely horrible!

"Raise the Titanic"
"Sahara"

Lucky Jack Aubrey said:

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Timeline is the worst Michael Crichton movie adaptation ever! And it was actually a great book.

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The 13th Warrior is on line 2

I must be weird because I loved those movies.

G.I.Bro said:

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I'm thinking about watching Borderlands this evening, will report back what a terrible movie it is. While the games are high art by any means, they're fun with some interesting characters and decent storylines.

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This movie was simply devoid of any fun. Mind boggling

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91_Aggie said:

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All the Star Wars after the original 3

Almost every Stephen King novel (Shawshank was a short story)
But The Dark Tower was a bad movie but also had HORRIBLE source material... I can't understand how anyone likes these "novels" they are horrible.

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How many of them did you read?

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I started it so I had to finish it... hoping it would lead somewhere... instead got the silly plot line of the author putting himself in the story

the Postman movie was SUCH a disappointment of a movie, that I had to go back and re-read the book to cleanse the movie from my mind!

Good responses on here.

First one that came to mind was Sphere but it's been so long since I read and watched it I don't recall how they missed the mark with the movie.

World War Z is next. Blatant cash grab ripoff of a title that had nothing to do with the book. Nothing.

And for the person who posted Battlefield Earth. I see you trolling, sir. That's bait because the book is also terrible. Everything written by Hubbard is trash. Thus, that entry does not qualify for this thread.

The Road. One of the best novels I have read and the movie was utterly forgettable.

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Atlas Shrugged

It's never really gotten the proper treatment it deserves. There have been a couple of mini-series versions, and that's probably the right format. But the poor execution, low budgets, and re-casting midway through the series just kind of ruined them.

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They were not good.


I'll add the Left Behind series. Church goers were all going nuts over the movie idea because they loved the books so much.

When Kirk Cameron is your star, it's gonna be bad. They could have made it dark and borderline horror, which would be how it is for those left behind. They didn't.

HummingbirdSaltalamacchia said:

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I am Legend. Terrible movie that completely missed the point of the novel.

Enders Game. Such a great book and bad film

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Great call on I Am Legend.

HummingbirdSaltalamacchia said:

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I am Legend. Terrible movie that completely missed the point of the novel.

Enders Game. Such a great book and bad film

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I'm not sure if Enders Game could have ever been a good film. When you have a Sixth Sense twist in your story and you know that going into the movie, then it's never going to be as good when you first read that book and had that holy **** moment. You can't ever get that back.

Killers of the Flower Moon

G.I.Bro said:

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I'm thinking about watching Borderlands this evening, will report back what a terrible movie it is. While the games are high art by any means, they're fun with some interesting characters and decent storylines.

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I refuse to watch that movie, and I love the Borderlands games. No Brick, no Mordecai, no Handsome Jack(the best villain), no Mr Torgue, terrible casting. I just can't watch it, and I was so excited when they first announced they were going to make a movie of it.

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G.I.Bro said:

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I'm thinking about watching Borderlands this evening, will report back what a terrible movie it is. While the games are high art by any means, they're fun with some interesting characters and decent storylines.

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I refuse to watch that movie, and I love the Borderlands games. No Brick, no Mordecai, no Handsome Jack(the best villain), no Mr Torgue, terrible casting. I just can't watch it, and I was so excited when they first announced they were going to make a movie of it.

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It's bad. I can't even put my finger on it, but it was absolutely no fun