Okay... it sucked!

Do you remember a while ago I was having the book vs film debate with myself? Well so far its 1-0 and I'm losing, I love films, my one and only constant passion, so obviously I'm going to argue that films are better than books, and they are, but films based on books are a different story.

I bought a book a few weeks ago, 'The unbearable lightness of Being', a damn good read, not brilliant, but definately worthy of a read or two. So there I was searching the net, and happened to stumble across the title under IMDB's site, a movie based on the book that i just bought? Cool right? NO! I read the book first, eagerly anticipating the film, hoping, praying that it would be as good as the book, and if I was lucky? even better than the book. No such luck though, the film sucked! big time! It now ranks in my top 5 worst films ever, not quite sure what the others are yet, but ULOB is definately in there!

It's like someone read the book and just cut random scenes out, stuck them together and put them on film, absolute rubbish! It had no emotion, no character development and probably the worst ever acting role to come from Daniel Day Lewis, and Juliet Binoche? She doesnt shave under her arms! Uggh!

So, it was disappointing, but I still wont say that all books are better than the films, take LOrd of the rings, for example, I read most of the books (not all), and while theyre good, the films are better, Tolkien rights them as if it was reading for kids, where as the film seems to be done for a much older audience.

Then theres High Fidelity, never read the book, but its one of my favourite films.

Any other film/book comparisons?