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What was the worst bastardization of a classic book into a movie? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 10 months ago (4 children)

World War Z. Not a classic book, but still...Wtf.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

World War Z has NEVER been made into a film!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

World War Z is absolutely a modern classic. You can just tell when people are going to be talking about a book a hundred or so years later.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Shit-ass politics though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I agree on the basis that classics are defined by reception and not if they are any good or not, like how Birth of a Nation was for a while considered basically the best movie ever.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Was it that bad?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's a perfectly fine zombie movie, but it only takes small elements from the excellent book. The book needs to be a TV series, made in a documentary style. I just pretend the movie is unrelated; it's enjoyable as just a standard action movie with zombies in it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Yeah, 10 part mini series! Could be amazing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It would have been so easy to do a straight up adaptation of the battle of Yonkers, narrated by Mark Hamill, his two following parts, and a few of the smaller stories here and there to flesh things out, too...

At least it got the perfect audiobook adaptation.