It depends. I'm all free creative license and etc. However if they advertise it and they lean on the fact that it's adapted from blank. Then the movie or series or whatever for lack of a better term shits on the source material. That's when I get bothered. When you can say watch a movie and instead of being engrossed you are constantly thinking something like, in the novel they blanked or actually in the video games they blank. That's when you have a bad adaptation.

I think it's pretty hard to live up to the standards set by a book. In books, we get a lot of what goes on in the characters' heads which can be hard to convey on film.

Smile in relief?

I waited 45 years for the Marvel Cinematic Universe! That's some pretty heavy expectation!!!

Ready Player One has to be the only movie that I’ve preferred over the book. Most of the Harry Potter movies were great. The worst movie adaptation was Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, it was terrible.

Not exactly a movie, but I was really disappointed when Halo Reach didn't follow the cannon and continuity of the book The Fall of Reach. I was excited to play in some of the epic battles and meet the legendary characters in the book, but we got something altogether different.

i think it is silly to get enraged over something you can't control. art and capitalism are not good bedfellows. there are many adaptations i disliked, some adaptions i preferred over the original source. and some adaptations are just as shitty as the source, so no loss either way other then my time. also cramming something you took hours/days to read into less then 2 hours film, something will always be lost. i think t.v.com/multi-film series based on novels do better.

I take film adaptations on their own merits. To me, it's just another version of the story.

So I am a big believer in taking any piece or art/theater/film/book on its own merits. If it is based on a book I have found I enjoy them a lot more if the director creates a film true to the spirit of the book but not an attempt to copy the book word for word scene for scene. And most of all with their own sense of passion rather then with a obsession for accuracy. The same for remakes though I have a rather dim view of movies remaking other movies especially when they basically just copy the prior movie and in America at least dumb it down and/or white wash it for American consumption. I have seen many french films butchered in remake by American directors. Two that come to mind are La Femme Nikita (Point of No Return) and The Visitors. A purely American book to movie failure would be Eragon a completely soulless attempt to profit with little effort of a very well written fantasy epic. Peter Jacksons LOTR and Hobbitt movies too me were success because he made them with a passion for the source but not an obsession with impossible task of translation the book literally. So for me I do not compare so much as ask did I enjoy this piece of art. If it did then accuracy to its originating source is too me at least irrelevant.