Slashfilm's 15 Worst Movies Based on Books

"Clearly, there is a longstanding and fruitful path of turning books into excellent movies — and sometimes the movies are better than the books they're based on. But are these wonderful films the exception or the rule? Does something inherently get lost in translation from book to film? Is a successful adaptation purely a case-by-case, filmmaker-by-filmmaker, book-by-book basis? Or is the decision to turn a best-seller into a motion picture just another indication of Hollywood's cynical churning of familiarity into intellectual property? I don't have the answers. What I have are some stunning examples of what happens when everything in any of these processes goes terribly, startlingly wrong. Some are entertaining in their camp, some are jaw-dropping failures, and all are dreadful adaptations. Here, then, are the 15 worst movies based on books. Push up your reading glasses, get your best nerdy voice, and repeat after me: 'The book was better.'" - slashfilm.com