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Let's hear your favourite movie adaptations of novels, and the ones you hate, if you like. I'd like to start with two corkers: Drive and Out of Sight.
 
I feel that a good movie adaptation is one that understands that a novel & a film are different mediums and need to be executed differently. Some of the best adaptations for me include The Shining & its sequel Doctor Sleep, I also like The Prestige, Jaws, Harry Potter films, Slaughter House 5, Soylent Green, The Lord of the Rings films... the list goes on.

As for poor adaptations, I recently saw The Girl with all the Gifts which I felt was a bit dull :(
 
My husband (and I tend to agree with him) gives a golden vote to Clueless, which is a modern adaptation of Emma

There have been some great movie adaptations of historical novels. I must confess to a soft spot for Merchant Ivory productions of various novels (A Room With A View is probably my favourite).

Agree with the points Rob made I'm likewise fond of The Lord Of The Rings movies and also liked most of the Harry Potter series — especially HP & The Prisoner Of Azkaban, where the film successfully built on and added to the time paradox of the novel. Another successful adaptation of a huge-selling fantasy trilogy is The Hunger Games, which I felt was done very well.
 
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Although i’ve watched all the Harry Potter films, they annoyed me because they missed out so much detail which made the books so good. I loved the Netflix series of ‘normal people’, particularly as I didn’t enjoy the book at all. Loved both the Winona Ryder version of ‘Little Women’ and the newest one. Also, ‘Sense & Sensibility’ and the Colin Firth series of ‘Pride & Prejudice’.
 
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I recently watched the adaptation of Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch, with Ansel Elgort playing the lead. It's pretty decent
 
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