Great Books turned into bad movies

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1. Hannibal.

It's not so much that the movie was bad - but it was grossly incomplete. And the ending of the book, which was the only possible resolution of the relationship between Starling and Lecter given everything Thomas Harris had written about these two characters, was discarded in its entirety. It has been said that the proper ending is unfilmable. This is so only if one places, as is the usual practice, commerce above art.

I never had any problem with Julianne Moore as Starling - I thought she was excellent in the role and Hopkins was Hopkins, but the ending just felt tacked on compared to the creepy psychodrama of the book.