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28 Adaptations That Crushed the Source Material

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August 10, 2023

28 Adaptations That Crushed the Source Material

We here at Cracked love to go on and on about how movies never live up to the comic book, book or show they’re based on. Then we push up our oversized glasses like the insufferable hipsters we are. But sometimes even we have to admit that movies do a pretty good job of grinding the source material into the dust. Movies like...

28 Entry by Andrea Meno

Disney's Aladdin has a hero you can root for, unlike the original. In the most popular English translation of the original Arabian Nights story, Aladd

27 Entry by Moses Armstrong

In Roald Dahl's book, Charlie and Grampa Joe don't steal Fizzy Lifting Drinks and go flying. WfiLy wonek E.t CHOCOLATE THE FACTORY, In the book, Charl

26 Entry by Karen Jones

In the book, Princess Buttercup is rather stupid, has nothing CRACKED COM going for her other than her beauty, and she dumps Westley outside the Fire

25 Entry by Moses Armstrong

STARDUST was a fine book, but thE ending was more than a bit of a downer. The book ends bleakly, with Tristran dying and Yvaine returning to the sky a

24 Entry by Cracked Plasticians

In the comic book version of The Mask, Stanley Ipkiss is a sadistic murderer. NOW, JUN'mY, CAN You DEADMESTEE SPEL Ahh, UR,YOUL SHur THE WORR 'kiD Fo

23 Entry by Andrea Meno

Netflix's Orange is the New Black is much deeper than the memoir it's based on. ORANGE IS THE MY YEAR IN A WOMEN'S NEW PRISON BLACK The show used Pipe

22 Entry by Carlos Suarez

There Will Be Blood is superior to the book it's based on, Oil! OIL! DANIEL DAYLEWIS UPTON SINCLAIR There Mill Be Blood simply because it spares us an

21 Entry by Andrea Meno

The Big Hero 6 movie got rid of Baymax's weird original backstory. In the comics, Hiro's dead father's brain engrams were programmed into Baymax, so

20 Entry by Gareth Klieber

Adaptations of works by legendary authors have a high bar to clear, but 1999's Stuart Little is by all accounts a well-done kids' movie SUMMER MEMORE'

19 Entry by PollyDarton

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CRACKED.COM Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones is a good book... Dion WynneJones Howl's Moving Castle Now Major Mete Picturet but it is incompa

17 Entry by Moses Armstrong

In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Chief Bromden is a legitimate danger to society. He believes that society is controlled by an inhuman

16 Entry by Moses Armstrong

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14 Entry by Moses Armstrong

In Alan Duff's novel about a Maori family living in poverty, the focus is on the entire Heke family and their trials, lacking a definitive lead charac

13 Entry by Vikram Goenka

The movie Jumanjil is more immersive than the picture book, it adds a lot to the story. THE BOOK -Two friends play the game. ANJI -No one else gets to

12 Entry by Carlos Suarez

Shrek won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. SHREK SHREK! WOLLIAMSTEIG It's a clear improvement on the book, which is about an ogre marrying the mo

11 Entry by Carlos Suarez

50 Shades Darker, as bad as it is, is an improvement on the book... which features lines like Desire pools dark and deadly in my groin. LCRACKED COM

10 Entry by Carlos Suarez

Mean Girls is considered a 'OOs classic. UNDSAYLOHAN OVER 400, 000 COPIES SOLD QUEEN BEES WANNABES WATCH YOUR Helpina your daughter survive cliques go

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8 Entry by Carlos Suarez

The Brave Little Toaster ends on a sadder note than its movie adaptation, with the appliances never reuniting with their beloved master. THE DISNEY LI

7 Entry by Markos Hasiotis

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE 007 In the movie: In the book: The villain's lair The villain's lair is a is a volcano. castle where people It ends with pay to co

6 Entry by Carlos Suarez

How To Train Your Dragon is pretty similar to its source... except in the books, instead of being a cool black supersonic dragon, Toothless is literal

5 Entry by Carlos Suarez

John W. Campbell's Who Goes There? is a classic of the golden age of sci-fi. WHO GOES THERE? ELROEE THING IHE IR. CAMPBELL, w. JOHN but The Thing imme

4 Entry by Moses Armstrong

The book Die Hardis RoderickThorp Roderick Thorp NOTHING based on was about a LASTS FOREVER World War I vet with grandchildren. The movie smartly made

3 Entry by Daniel Fraizer

In the film Psycho, Norman Bates comes across as a young, shy but friendly person, which helps puts the audience at ease. PSYCHO BLOCH In the novel, N

2 Entry by Carlos Suarez

The Godfather by Mario Puzo is a extraordinary book that exposes the world of the Italian Mafia. The Godfalher Mario THE CLASSIC BESTSELLER The Puzo g

1 Entry by Markos Hasiotis

The Shawshank Redemption In the movie, Red (Morgan Freeman) is a sweet and sympathetic character. In the original Stephen King story, it's revealed th

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