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The Golden Compass was a terrific book, absolutely awful movie.
Oh man I had almost forgotten about this. Just... WHY.
I honestly didn't think it was THAT bad, but it's been a few years since I've seen it. The problem was that they cut the climax to put it at the beginning of the second movie...which never happened.

Memoirs of a Geisha. The first time I saw the movie, I hadn't read the book, and loved it. Then I read the book. And I realized just...how butcherd it was.

OH OH OH

And Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. Dear god that was a piece of trout. They felt they had to juxtapose a story of modern day best friends...and most of the story revolved around them, and not what made the book so great. You saw almost no time with Lily and Snow Flower. The thing is, it was an especially bad movie adaptation, because the modern day friends don't exist in the book. That story's not there. So, over half the movie was something from the director's mind, and pooped on a book fans loved.