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30 Adaptations That Crushed The Source Material

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We at Cracked love to harp on about how movies never live up to the comic book, or 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...

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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'

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30 Adaptations That Crushed The Source Material

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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

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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

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CRACKEDCONT In the Bret Easton Ellis novel THE RULES OF ATTRACTION the relationship between Paul and Sean is explicit according to Paul, they have lot

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CAN You DO AN4 FFFFFFFF JOHN IMPRESSIONS, ODIE ? WA4NE? JM DAVY5 12-6 Garfield comics are just jokes and/or slice of life stories FEATURED GARFIBAD TH

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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

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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

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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

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Forrest Gump In Winston Groom's nouel, Forrest was not nearly as relatable. He cursed a lot, had a bunch of sex, and was portrayed as a savant who eve

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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

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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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CRACKED.OOM BOTH THE BOOK AND THE MOVIE JAWS WERE WIDELY SUCCESSFUL BUT THE MOVIE HAS A MUCH MORE IMPACTFUL CLIMAX: THE SHARK GETS KILLED BY AN EPIG E

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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

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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

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CRACKED COM In the novel by Donn Pearce, Lucas Jackson is a war criminal and a rapist. COOLHAND LUKE The movie wisely left out the part of LUke's back

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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