Top Ten Tuesday - Best/Worst Movie Adaptations

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme by The Broke and the Bookish and each week there's a different topic. As always, even if you can't think of 10, do as many as you can. This week's topic is the best/worst movie adaptations and it made me realise how few films I've seen of books I have read, I tend to either read the book or see the film but rarely both:

The Best:

                                   

 


The Road by Cormac McCarthy - The film was exactly as I'd imagined the book








Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier -the film is the 1940 Hitchcock version.

                         

 


The Shawshank Redemption, a novella in Different Seasons by Stephen King








American Pyscho by Bret Easton Ellis








Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh







The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis - I loved the book when I was a child and enjoyed watching the film with my daughters.









The Wizard Of Oz by L. Frank Baum






            

The Shining by Stephen King - the Kubrick film, I know King hated it and it splits his fans opinions but I like this version.

The Worst: 

 

Autumn by David Moody - I haven't read or seen this but my Husband says the film is
one of the worst he's ever seen and he loved the book.









The Stand by Stephen King - I know it was a mini series and not a movie but I've included it anyway, started well but quickly went downhill, awful acting and script.