Books That Get Turned Into Movies and How They Suck

Here are books that have been turned into movies that I've seen:
Princess Diaries: I actually saw the movie before I read the book, and I thought it was good, but the book is WAY WAY WAY better.
Reason #1: In the book, the grandma is crazy and evil. In the movie, she's a nice grandmother who if she wasn't a dowager princess would probably be baking gingerbread and buying Mia Barbies. Let's have the crazy evil grandma!
Reason #2: Something is telling me that in the movie she lives in San Francisco. I can't really remember if this is true or not. Anyway, in the book she lives in New York.
Reason #3: In the book Lily is crazy and does crazy things like staging protests against deli owners who charge everyone other than Asian people 2 cents more.
Reason #4: In the movie, Dad dies and leaves his daughter a letter and its all very touching. In the book, he's still alive, has a new girlfriend every week, feels emasculated because of his testicular cancer, and is scared to death of his mother. I rather like the whole dysfunctional family thing.
More differences:
#1:
Book: blonde short hair
Movie: long brown hair
#2:
Book: More friends
Movie: No friends other than Lily
#3:
Book: More dysfunctional characters such as a fake blind man who when people help him across the street actually, in the words of the book, "feels them up." And then Grandma beats him up. Also a stalker who has a fetish for Lily's feet and chased Lily and Mia and was ambushed by a bunch of undercover cops. Right after Mia relates this in the book, she says "I always have such fun times with Lily."
#4:
Book: Mia has unrequited love for Michael.
Movie: Michael has unrequited love for Mia.
#5:
Book: Josh uses Mia to get his face in the papers, but then gets slapped by Mia. Mia is scared her picture will show up everywhere, but someone bombed Iraq, so it didn't.
Movie: Josh uses Mia to get his face in the papers, and then Lana and her friends trick Mia into a cabana and collapses it while she's changing, and she gets her face in all the papers.

Now let's talk about the Princess Diaries 2. The plot in the book is that Mia has a secret admirer. The plot in the movie is that she has to marry or else she can't keep the throne (or something like that) Basically the only thing they stick to in the movie is that fact that Mia is a princess.

Let's talk about Ella Enchanted. I was all psyched for the movie, but was disappointed when I saw previews. The book is about a girl named Ella who has to obey people, and she goes on a quest to get the fairy who gave her this "blessing" to take it away. In the process, her father marries a stupid woman with two stupid daughters. The book I would rate 10 out of 10.
The movie, however, is the stupidest thing I have ever seen. You would've thought that the writers would actually read the book, and the author of Ella Enchanted would have said something about how stupid the movie was. Anyway, the plot in the movie is that Ella has to obey people, and I think she goes on a quest to find the fairy, and meets a prince whose uncle is planning on taking the throne. Sounds okay, but here are some differences:
#1
The movie does not stick to the medieval setting at all. It looks medieval, but no one "thinks" medievally, if you know what I mean. The girls have a Prince Charmont fan club.
#2
The whole thing starts with Ella's dad already married to Olga. In the book he gets married about halfway through.
#3
In the book, Ella has to obey ONLY WHEN IT IS WITHIN HER CAPABILITIES. In the movie, for example, they say "stop" right when she is jumping over a water barrel, so she is hovering in midair.
#4
The prince doesn't have an evil uncle in the book.
#5
In the book she meets Char at her mother's funeral.
In the movie she meets him while she's taking a walk or something.
#6
In the book she stays briefly with Slannen and his elves. Slannen is kind and hospitable.
In the movie, Slannen is an irritable dwarf like creature.
And basically, the whole movie was childish.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy were basically the only movies that I thought were as good as or better than the books. They stuck to the plot reasonably well, and didn't take too many liberties (*cough*Ella Enchanted*cough*)
Harry Potter was pretty good too, although the first movie I thought was sort of childish. Every movie is better than the last though.
Around the World in 80 days, was a butchery of a great novel though, I hate to say. I haven't really read the book, but somehow I don't think that the movie was like the book. It's all good though, because it had Jackie Chan in it.
Here are some differences and similarities in Jurassic Park:
#1
Book: Hammond is an evil and stupid man who just wants money, and doesn't care about his grandchildren at all.
Movie: Hammond is a stupid man who loves his grandchildren, and wants his park to teach people about dinosaurs.
#2
Book: Muldoon has a bigger part
Movie: Muldoon is barely seen, except when he dies.
#3
Book: Tim is older than Lex
Movie: Lex is older than Tim
#4
There were some parts in the book that were in the second (or third, I can't remember) movie, like the pterodactyl habitat thingie, and the girl that gets attacked by the little dinosaurs.
#5
In the book, Allan and Ellie weren't an item (in fact, she was his student at the university) and in the movie they were (but then broke up in the second (or third) movie, which made me mad)
#6
In the book, Ian Malcolm was an annoying chaos theory spouting moron.
In the movie, Ian Malcolm was an annoying chaos theory spouting moron, but you can't help liking him anyway. ("that is one big pile of shit")
#7
In the movie, the Chinese guy (BD Wong) that is there when the T-Rex is born has a bit part.
In the book, he has a way huger part. (is huger a word? Don't think so)
#8
In the movie, Lex figures out how to get the system online, and then the T-Rex kills the raptors, and its a happy ending.
In the book, I can't really remember how it ends. I think they escape on this boat that brings supplies, but I'm not really sure.
#9
In the movie, the lawyer, Muldoon, Arnold, and Dennis die.
In the book, Hammond, BD Wong, I think Arnold, Dennis, this other guy that isn't in the movie, and Ian Malcolm dies. Yes, Ian! I was so mad! It doesn't actually say he dies, so I was kind of confused, but I read it over, and yes he dies. My favorite character, and he dies. He actually dies from the injuries he sustains when he is attacked by the T-Rex. And in the book, Muldoon really does go out hunting the raptors, but when he is attacked he crawls into a culvert thing and sits there for like two days until someone saves him. Muldoon is also one of my favorite characters, and I was like "yes!"

Funny story: In the movie, remember when Ellie is in that basement type thing, and Arnold's arm falls on her shoulder? I never knew whose arm that was. I just kind of assumed it was a random character who got dismembered by the raptors. And consequently, I never knew Arnold dies! I just kind of never saw him again. When I watched the movie for like the third time, I finally heard Ellie say "oh, Mr. Arnold" and I was like "is that Arnold's arm??" He was my second favorite character. My favorite line of the whole movie (other than "we're alright unless they learn how to open doors") is "hold onto yer butts!"
And another story about the arm, when Jonas was little he always thought that it was a wax arm. He was like "why is she so scared of a wax arm?" Who knew that one arm could confuse you so much?
Well, that was kind of long. Ta ta!