I think mine’s Z for Zachariah. The book is insane. A psychological survivalist thriller between a 14 year old girl and a strange man with unknown intent. The movie is… not this. They changed everything meaningful about the characters and lost all the tension. Hope someone does it properly one day. What’s your adaptation peeve?
Anything Resident Evil by Paul WS Anderson. With that, it’s like the game franchise is cursed to never have a good live action adaptation.
I Am Legend. The book is dark, brooding, heavy, and psychological. The movie really Hollywood’d it up, completely changing the entire point of the ending.
The Movie City of Joy took a minor character from the novel so it could be a vehicle for a Hollywood star, in this case Patrick Swayze. I think World War Z, mentioned elsewhere on this thread, was guilty of the same, but I can’t remember if Brad Pitt’s character is even in the novel.
Stephen King’s The Gunslinger
I fucking love that movie and now I want fried chicken lmao.
I love the 1995 Scarlet Letter movie, but it’s not remotely similar to the book.