Books to Movies...

Why are they so often so horribly screwed? I just watched Eragon... 50% of that movie didn't even happen at all in the book! I can list off countless others. It cant be that hard, all the detail is put in the book.

That's the problem, there isn't enough time in 2-3 hour movie to incorporate everything contained in a book, so things are cut out. Also, screenwriters may choose to modify certain plot points to make the more exciting for movie goers (for example, the book may have a secondary character do something cool and the film version may change it so that the primary character is now the one that does it, thus making him seem like a bigger hero.)

I just see them as separate entities, unrelated to each other but still somewhat similar. It's better than coming out of each movie saying "OMGWTFBBQTELETUBBY!!! Teh b00k was l33t but the m00vee was teh pwnage!"

I was originally peeved at the The Bourne Identity vs the book. I later learned to enjoy it for what it was, just another popcorn flick that happens to share the title and some character names from a book.

You want to see angry people, ask big comic book fans what they thought of Spiderman 3

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