Movies that take great stories...

[Mr. Scot]

...and make them suck

Watching the original Dracula on AMC right now, but thinking of the "Bram Stoker's Dracula" version, which I hated.

That movie may have been "Dracula" but it wasn't "Bram Stoker's". As written, Dracula was meant to be evil, not romantic.

Add in that Anthony Hopkins as Abraham Van Helsing should have been great, but the direction turned the character into a slightly psychotic goofball.

Waste of a decent cast, overall, and did damage to a classic story.

[Sapper]

Van Helsing - what the heck was that garbage?

[Mr. Scot]

I think Van Helsing was an attempt to make an English version of "Vampire Hunter D" and they seized on Van Helsing as their monster fighter.

The idea of van Helsing as a crusading enemy of evil isn't necessarily a bad one, but it was pretty poorly executed.

They'd have done better just to acquire the rights to VHD and make a straight English version of it.

[TarPanther9180]

That can be said for every M. Night movie (except for The 6th Sense)

[Purity-Control]

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The Road

[TarPanther9180]

Oh yeah, The Bourne Trilogy. I actually loved those movies, still do. However, after reading the books....they destroyed the story and it could have been waaaay better.

[Davidson Deac II]

Dune. David Lynch took one of the best scifi novels every, and used it to make a movie that was the worst piece of crap I have ever seen.

[scpanther22]

Planet of the Apes

[charlotte49er]

Planet of the Apes

The original or the remake? I liked the original, but they kind of ruined it with all those follow ons.

[scpanther22]

The original or the remake? I liked the original, but they kind of ruined it with all those follow ons.

2001 with Mark Wahlberg.

[dimbee]

Harry Potter films

[Jangler]

I liked Bram Stoker's Dracula. Good trippin' movie.

But sticking with the season, the remake Frankenstein with Robert De Niro, POS. And I will also stick in the remake Mummy movies.

[Mr. Scot]

I hate just about anything that has any association with Tim Burton or David Lynch.

I actually liked the concept of the new Mummy movies (making him scarier than a guy wrapped in bandages hobbling around at a speed that wouldn't catch a grandmother using a walker) but what made me unhappy was that they turned it into an action movie, not a horror movie.

(same guy did Van Helsing)

[Mr. Scot]

I'll add "Phantoms" to the list. Great book by Dean Koontz. The movie? Ugh

On the flipside, I think some of the movie and miniseries versions of Stephen King's stories are actually better than his books.