Which book to movie transition was the most disappointing [the movie sucked, but the book was good]? are there any movies adapted from books that you felt were better than the book?

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• I read those reviews of Dune and wasn't happy when I saw the first cut. A later viewing reversed that early opinion completely and I, like a lot of other reviewers on iMDB, "disagree with the fuss" as one reviewer put it.
  I have the DVD now and watch it occasionally, always enjoying the easy willing suspension of disbelief.

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  by rdrainer on July 30th, 2007

• You know when a movie is hyped as being good? Then you see it and it's not as good as it was hyped to be so you start thinking that it's actually a bad movie. Same thing with some movies that are hyped as being terrible. You watch it and since it isn't as bad as you thought it would be, you start to think it's good. Well...I think that's the case with Dune. But, I would give it another shot.

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  by killdrphil - reasonable for a madman on July 30th, 2007

• I remember reading that the first version was so bad that a director's cut was produced, and that might be the one I have that I like and watch over again. I couldn't find evidence of this having been done on iMDB, but maybe that's because only the director's cut version was released on DVD. Completely unsure at this time, but I did find an alternative ending on youtube that's interesting, and touted as being less stupid than the one released.

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  by rdrainer on July 31st, 2007