Books that have been turned into movies

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

I couldn't put down the Maze Runner when I read it, so I can't wait for the movie.

Ahh you're making me really want to read it now. I've been meaning to for ages! xD I'm glad lots of people seem to like it, it must be good!

So is the Maze Runner good? O: I've actually never heard of it.

The first two Harry Potter movies were awesome (third is my favourite), then the guy who played Dumbledore died and it all went to hell from there. xD Hunger Games was good, and I really loved Divergent. Lord of the Rings was epic, too. On the topic of Tomorrow When the War Began, I'm disappointed they didn't make any more movies. :/ I really thought it was good.

I love to read books first, however. And I'm usually disappointed in at least some aspect when they're transferred to film. xD

The Dumbledore switch was pretty sad. The third HP movie is awesome! I really liked the fifth though because Umbridge is so much fun to hate. I thought Divergent was done well too! And I really liked Hunger Games not only because it looked good but because they stuck so close to the books! In too many adaptations they miss out a lot of stuff (mostly for time I guess) and sometimes that ruins things, especially if there was a particular scene you really wanted to see. I'm still disappointed about not seeing all the weird rooms in the Department of Mysteries in HP5! xD

Oh my gosh, I was so disappointed they didn't make more Tomorrow movies as well! I love those books and the first movie was so good! By now the actors are probably too old though. I wonder what happened. :(

I'm looking forward to The Maze Runner, and of course I can't fault Harry Potter and The Hunger Games. Lord of the Rings was pretty good, but I'm still annoyed that each book was only three hours long yet the Hobbit is over NINE thousand hours of film.

As for bad ones.... I'll list three.

The Golden Compass - His Dark Materials as a trilogy is mind-blowing, including the Northern Lights. The Golden Compass was so disastrously wrong, and a horrible film version of the first book.

Ender's Game - It isn't that it's particularly bad, it just was hyped up to be fantastic and, well, wasn't, by a long shot. It had so much potential and failed to grasp that well.

Eragon - I'm not going to say much here. It was god-awful. I despise it.

I couldn't believe it when I heard they were making The Hobbit into 3 (super long!) movies. It still seems pretty ridiculous considering how short the book is. But I can't say I disliked the extra stuff they've added in so far, although I really just want to see more Aragorn. xD

Ohh I agree with you about The Golden Compass. His Dark Materials are some of my favourite books ever and I don't think the movie really captured that very well, although I did think the girl who played Lyra did a good job. I was sad they didn't make the rest of them into movies. Ender's Game was also a bit of a disappointment. I'd only just read the book before the movie came out. I guess a lot of it was hard to translate but it seemed pretty anticlimactic over all. I have read Eragon but haven't seen the movie, I've heard it was pretty bad though.

Harry Potter was definitely pretty good. I understand why they had to leave stuff out considering it's already a long movie, but I think they did a pretty darn good job with it. Special effects were definitely flawlessly implemented. See, I would love to write a fantasy novel, have it get adapted into a movie, and let it get that kind of special treatment. Even if things aren't 100% how I imagined it, I would still adore to see it come to life like that.

I read Eragon after watching the movie, and I'll be honest, I didn't like the movie or the book all that much.

The Hobbit, I feel, definitely got a MAJOR upgrade with regards to the movie. The book itself is a generally easy read from start to finish, but the movie trilogy based on it takes the storyline into overdrive mode and is definitely very enjoyable, even though there are quite a few different things going on.

Also, Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was a book I read way back in fifth grade that I didn't like all that much, but the movie adaptation was AWESOME in comparison.

Oh I really liked the Narnia books! I've only seen two of the movies (I don't know if there are more by now xD) but I really liked them, especially the first one. They did a really good job on them!

So I saw the advert for The Giver and now I don't even want to finish the book, the advert has put me off so much...

The trailer doesn't look that great, does it? I really enjoyed the book though. I think it's still worth finishing!