Donnie Darko. Everyone and their mother told me how great this movie was, and Netflix was all like, "Hey, if you liked Memento, you'll love this shit!" I fucking loathed every second of it and haven't spoken to anyone who had recommended it to me since (because I brutally murdered them all).

All the HP movies are absolute shit sans The Goblet of Fire. That one is decent.

I don't understand how can they fuck up so badly with such good material. Prisoner is especially shitty.

HBP is the only one I didn't like. Oh my god they ruined the best book's movie!!!

OOT was above expectations for me since that the only book I didn't like but the movie was so well paced so it wasn't boring like the book. But yeah GOF is probably the best.

but ultimately Philosophers Stone probably had the biggest impact on me, since it got me to read the books and its the one I've seen most.

It's pretty hard to adapt most books witout the movie seeming like it's been editet out and missing parts. Adapting a book is hard, and when the succes of the movie is guaranteed (like in the case of the Harry Potter movies) oftentimes film makers won't put enough effort into it. Kinda the same reason why so many licensed video games suck.

Then they damn well should. Not comparing LOTR with HP here, but LOTR movies certainly lived up to the books.

@darth: reverse for me. Books first!

LOTR movies surpassed the books. *trollface.jpg*

Or they were actually better since they cut parts that were totally irrelevant to the general plot (I'm looking at you, Tom Bombadil).

Point is, you can do a book adaptation fine if you want, for example, yesterday I watched The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo after having read the book, they adapted a 600 page book into a 150 minute film perfectly, everything that happens in the film happens in the book, sure, some parts were shortened, but the essence of every scene was kept intact. That's how an adaptation should be. When you gotta make up parts that weren't in the book to justify your plot, you're messing up a bit the adaptation

What do you know :P

True I only read the first 100 pages of the book before dozing off!

To be fair, the first of the six books (that is, the first part of The Fellowship) is frankly horrible and sleep-inducing, it gets much better once they reach Rivendell