Do You Know Anyone That Doesn't Like The Book Or The Movie?

[Inyo]

Who could possibly dislike both Melville's Moby Dick and the Gregory Peck movie, for example?

[M19]

Nope, can't think of an example. My brother-in-law however has NEVER watched "The Wizard of Oz."

[Dru Edwards]

I don't recall anyone telling me they didn't like both the book and the movie... although most people I know are more much more likely to watch a movie rather than read a book.

[OKCtodd71]

Check out "In the Heart of the Sea", 2015 film by Ron Howard about the event that prompted Melville to write Moby D.

[Dru Edwards]

It raises a great question - if you watched a terrible movie would you read the book? If you read a terrible book would you watch the movie?

[Riverwolf]

The older that I get the more that I will not finish either a book or a movie if to me, it is not good...

[Dru Edwards]

Originally Posted by Riverwolf

The older that I get the more that I will not finish either a book or a movie if to me, it is not good...

Yea, I walk away from movies on Netflix / Amazon after 15 minutes if I can't get into it. Sometimes I get half way through, take a dinner break, and then never return to it.

[tigobah]

Salem's Lot by Stephen King. Book is great, I've read and reread it numerous times. The made for TV movie was terrible.

Any of Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm books were really good reads. Any of the stupid Matt Helm movies (may have been only one) starring Dean Martin were terrible.

The Hobbit book and the movie. The only similarity between the two was the name Bilbo Baggins.

As a side note, author Sue Grafton put in her will that if her kids ever sold any of her books to be made into movies she'd come back and haunt them.

[bfm612]

Ready Player One. I finished the whole book, begrudgingly, and I remember being just angry at myself for giving it a chance (okay, I'm exaggerating). I found it to be almost insulting in its relentless and nearly pointless (to advancing the narrative, at least) use of pop culture / nerd references just so the author can wink at the reader and the reader can wink back. The main character was unappealing, and the whole book was pretty eye-rolling.

I was slightly optimistic of the movie because Spielberg can usually deliver (when he doesn't succumb too much to melodrama), but this one wasn't any good. I thought it was pretty tedious, and definitely near the bottom of his filmography.

[Mr. Jelly]

Originally Posted by M19

Nope, can't think of an example. My brother-in-law however has NEVER watched "The Wizard of Oz."

My wife and have watched the "Wizard of Oz" numerous times, of coarse. Then one day we both agreed we didn't like it. It just gives me a bad feeling. Not a good feeling. It's kind of creepy.

[bfm612]

Originally Posted by Mr. Jelly

My wife and have watched the "Wizard of Oz" numerous times, of coarse. Then one day we both agreed we didn't like it. It just gives me a bad feeling. Not a good feeling. It's kind of creepy.

If you think that was creepy, you should watch Return to Oz.

[posternutbag]

I didn’t like The Dark Tower series of novels by Stephen King, and the movie adaptation was lackluster at best. Why read multiple novels and go see the movie? Well the basic premise is awesome, as were the prequel comic books.

I don’t like A Clockwork Orange, the book or the movie adaptation. I had to read the book in high school, and I don’t think anyone can go through college without being forced to watch the movie.

[AX17609]

I disliked "The Hobbit" in book form, and I thought the movie was unwatchable. The mass appeal of the entire LotR franchise, both books and movies, mystifies me.

[ctgagnon]

I thought "The Bible" by John Houston wasn't as good as the book.

[robj144]

I don't understand the question. The title says or and the OP says and. Do you mean, do you know someone who doesn't like BOTH the movie and book, or just one of the two?

If it's the latter there are many examples of good books and bad movies and some that are vice versa.