The World of Adaptations: A Ranking by BookishBelle

As a self-proclaimed bookworm, I have always been fascinated by the process of adaptation. How can a beloved novel be translated into another format, such as a movie or TV show? Can it capture the essence of the original story, characters, and themes? In this article, I will share my thoughts on several adaptations that I recently watched or read, and rank them based on their success in bringing the source material to life.

Ready Player One: A Masterclass in Adaptation

I recently had the opportunity to watch Ready Player One, a movie adaptation of Ernest Cline's novel of the same name. I was blown away by how well the filmmakers executed the adaptation. They managed to capture the essence of the original story while also incorporating elements that would work well in a new format. The characters were accurately represented, and the world-building was impressive. I think it's safe to say that Ready Player One is one of the best adaptations of 2018.

The Crows: A Well-Executed Adaptation

I also recently watched The Crow, a movie adaptation of James O'Barr's graphic novel. What struck me about this adaptation was how well it stayed true to the original story and characters. The filmmakers took the time to understand what made the graphic novel tick and translated that into a visually stunning film. I think they did an excellent job adapting the material for the big screen.

Not So Much: A Few Disappointments

Unfortunately, not all of the adaptations I watched were successful. One notable exception is Ready Player One's precursor, Not So Much. I didn't find this movie to be very engaging, and it seemed like the filmmakers didn't fully understand what made the original novel tick. The story was predictable, and the characters felt one-dimensional.

Book Adaptations: A Mixed Bag

When it comes to book adaptations, opinions tend to vary widely. While some people love seeing their favorite novels brought to life on screen or stage, others are more skeptical. In my case, I've always been a bit of a mixed bag when it comes to adapting books into other formats.

For example, I recently read "I'm Not Okay with That" by E.K. Johnston, which was adapted into a TV show that I unfortunately didn't have the pleasure of watching. Unfortunately, I wasn't impressed with the adaptation, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. On the other hand, I did watch and enjoy the movie adaptation of "Purge of Being Wallflower", which was based on the popular young adult novel by John Green.

A Few More Adaptations

Let's talk about a few more adaptations that caught my eye. "If I Stay" is another recent adaptation that I had the chance to see, and it was actually pretty good. The filmmakers did an excellent job capturing the emotional depth of the original novel, and the movie was very well acted. Another adaptation that impressed me was "The Hate U Give", which was based on Angie Thomas's critically acclaimed young adult novel. This adaptation was outstanding, with a strong cast and a powerful story.

"Love, Simon" vs. "Looking for Alaska"

In my opinion, both "Love, Simon" and "Looking for Alaska" were excellent adaptations that stayed true to the original novels. However, I think they had slightly different tones and atmospheres. "Love, Simon" was more focused on the romance between the two main characters, while "Looking for Alaska" explored themes of identity and existential crises.

Tiny Pretty Things: A Drama Adaptation

Unfortunately, not all adaptations are created equal. One notable exception is "Tiny Pretty Things", which adapted Laini Taylor's young adult novel into a TV show. I was disappointed by this adaptation, as it didn't quite capture the essence of the original story. The filmmakers took a more dramatic approach than the book, and while some fans may have enjoyed it, I found myself becoming disengaged.

Another Disappointment: "Every Day"

I also recently watched the movie adaptation of David Levithan's novel "Every Day", which was based on a young adult novel about a boy who switches bodies with a new person every day. Unfortunately, this adaptation didn't quite work for me. I think it would have been better to stick with the original story and characters, rather than trying to add in new elements.

Book Sales: Are They Worth It?

As a bookworm, I've always been curious about how books sell on screen or stage. Do people buy movies or TV shows because they're based on their favorite novels? Can adaptations truly capture the essence of the original story and characters? For me, the answer is often no.

Take "The Miseducation of Cameron Post", for example. I didn't read the book before watching the movie, but I was impressed by how well it translated to the screen. The film's tone and atmosphere were spot on, and I think that's because the filmmakers took the time to understand what made the novel tick.

In conclusion, while not all adaptations are created equal, there are certainly some that stand out as particularly successful. By understanding what makes a story tick and translating those elements into another format, filmmakers can create something truly special – something that brings the source material to life in a way that resonates with audiences.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everyone it's hailey and today i'm going to be doing a tear ranking video but it is going to be specifically for book to movie adaptations that i have seen so my criteria for this was just that it's a book to movie adaptation that i've watched i don't necessarily have to have read the book but most of them i had i have wow struggles i would say like 90 of them i have read the book for but i also kind of left out any things like fairy tale adaptations like the brothers grim stuff that i felt like was kind of there would be too many so i just left it to the more basic ones if you will but i do have 50 here to talk about and i feel like i definitely probably forgot some some were conscious decisions to leave out because the author sucks but others i probably just forgot i did go back and i realized that i forgot dumplin by julie murphy which is a really bad one because i had started filming this video realized i forgot that one and it's so bad because i went to go and see like i went to the movie set for that one so how ridiculous is it that i left that like how how did i do that i don't know anyways uh i filmed a scene as an extra for that it was cut understandable it's fine it was a very awkward experience actually and it wasn't the fault of like the publisher or anything but the guy that i was filming the scene with wouldn't stop talking to me and you're not supposed to talk but he kept on like asking me for my number and asking me to talk to me and it was just really uncomfortable because i didn't know what to do because i'm too awkward so i was like no i'm from canada i can't text you and then he just kept talking so then the guy came over and was like you're supposed to melt it and then like showed me what mouthing was and i was like i know what mouthing is but yeah anyways that was an experience so i don't know how i forgot that but that is not what we are here for today i got the idea for this video from my friend hannah over at a clockwork reader she did this video and i just thought that it seemed like a lot of fun she did this like years ago now and i've been wanting to do it ever since i keep on putting it on my filming list and then pushing it back but we're finally doing it today so i have five categories so it's kind of like five stars but not really because the first category is better than the book which doesn't necessarily mean it's like my favorite adaptation of all time i loved it sometimes if i've already seen the movie or tv show or whatever the adaptation is then i won't want to read the book because then i can't picture things on my own because i've already read the book and or sorry i've already seen the movie so that i'm just gonna be picturing whoever the actors or actresses were and it kind of ruins it for me and that's especially if i liked it like if i didn't like the adaptation then i would be more inclined to read the book to see if the book is actually better it really kind of just depends but this list is honestly bugging me looking at it because i feel like i'm definitely missing some but i really can't think of them anyways so after better than the book we have faves the rest are pretty self-explanatory good okay and no thank you it's you know you get it so first up we have little women and this is the most recent adaptation with emma watson and sharsha ronin i know she says how to say sharish i can't i'm sorry i can't remember how to say it and the girl florence i don't know how to pronounce anyone's names apparently i'm so sorry but this is the most recent one and i did actually really like this one i thought it was really well done i would say is it faves i don't know i think i guess it would be face yeah i guess i would say that that one's a fave because i think it was very well done it was a really solid adaptation and i think it modernized the material but also stayed true to the source material which was a good that was solid uh next is five feet apart and this one i would say is one of the better than the book ones because i actually did enjoy this movie and i wasn't expecting to and it's kind of interesting because this one isn't really a book to movie adaptation because it's actually it was a script first and then they made a novelization of the script so it did come out i believe that the book come out came out before the movie did but it wasn't like the book and then the movie the movie already existed or the script did at least and then they made a novel if that makes any sense to you but it's kind of interesting because i don't really know of any others that that has been the case with them so anyways five feet apart was like it was kind of corny but i felt like it was different than what i was expecting and i did actually enjoy it so that's why i say that one's better than the book because since then even though i know that it's literally based on the script i just haven't really wanted to read the book so i've just left it with the movie the book thief by markus zusak i don't know why i have the book cover and not the movie poster but oh well fun fact the main character of this the girl who plays liesel she was born in my city she was born in windsor which is fun because no one's ever really born in windsor but the book thief adaptation i did think was good i don't think i think i'm gonna put it in good because i don't think it was my absolute favorite i don't think that you could possibly get to the impact level that the book had for me but i don't think it was bad by any means i think they did a really good job with it i just think that personally it's a story that i would rather experience like reading it or listening to the audiobook or whatever i would just prefer the words of it because i think it's so expertly written that it's definitely a hard one to get that same level of impact in an actual visual format so good doesn't mean that doesn't mean that like i didn't like it at all it's one that i would rewatch but i'm also that like not that big of a movie fan i feel like that's worth mentioning now i don't love movies so take my opinion with a grain of salt but yeah that's that's kind of where i'm following with that one i think it was a really solid adaptation but it's just not my favorite it's really bugging me that there's two of the sun is also a star by the way if you didn't notice that already i accidentally saved it twice so i'm sorry but oh well i'll just sort them both in the same category obviously so next is divergent by veronica roth which was adapted obviously uh this one came out it's so funny because there seems to be always like one actor or actress who is in all of the ya adaptations at the same time so when divergent was happening shayleen woodley was also in the fault in our stars and then similarly when the darkest minds was happening it was amandala stenberg they were in the darkest minds and then also everything everything which everything everything isn't on here because i haven't actually seen that one yet by the way heart stopper just came out i haven't watched it yet that's why it's not on here but i really do want to watch it i've heard like nothing but amazing things about it anyways divergent i did actually like it i would say it's good i don't think like it's not groundbreaking or amazing or anything but i think that the first divergent movie was good i think it was enjoyable it gave me what i wanted it to and i had fun watching it uh the next one will be a different story but we'll get there eventually at least i think i included it did i not save the cover for that one i don't see it anywhere i don't know why but i did try and save insurgent the cover for that one which is the second divergent book and movie and that one would go in okay or no thank you for that one i found it that one came out the same year and like really close to when the fault in our stars came out and i found it really hard to separate the two of them because her hair was sure oh i found it i don't know why it just stuck out to me so yeah so this one would go i think in okay i'll put it in okay for now so yeah her hair was short and they made this big deal of her cutting her hair but it was very obviously because she had cut it for the fault in our stars so that annoyed me but also it was like they found this like cgi effect where everything like goes like bl i don't know how to describe it but they used the crap out of that one so i felt like the cgi was just overused and i really didn't care for it so that kind of ruined the second one for me unfortunately and i definitely liked the first one more the other thing is actually i forgot that there were other people who we won't name but there's another actor who stars alongside her in both of them and in one the love interest and then in the other the brother so it's just kind of weird so speaking of that i guess we'll just go to the fault in our stars now even though i'm kind of jumping around everywhere so the fault in our stars apart from who is in it i would say that this one was i did i have to say like there's just such sentimental value to it for me so i would say that it's one of my favs i did really enjoy that movie i thought they did a great job with it and i know it's corny and everything but like i don't care i'm not gonna pretend that i didn't enjoy it because i really did it's kind of a funny story is another situation where i say that it's better than the book and that is because i watched the movie first and then i read the book and this is why i don't like doing that because i watched the movie then read the book and i was disappointed by the book because one of the characters who had one name was completely different and i really had liked the movie but then they ended up completely like changing the name of one of the characters from the book so then when i read the book it was just hard for me to get out of that and to realize it was the same like the same character but a different name so that just kind of i really didn't like that next is dash and lily's book of dares which is by david levithan and this was adapted as a netflix tv show and this is definitely faves i think they did such a fantastic job it was so so freaking cute i loved it and i plan on watching it every christmas i started watching it this christmas but didn't get through the whole thing because i mean it is a tv show but oh my goodness it was absolutely adorable like i really loved it next is the sun is also a star by nicola yoon this one i would say is okay i feel like i need to move this to no thank you then because they're not on the same level but yeah we'll just have it there twice please ignore but the sun is also a star was okay for me i didn't really care for the acting in it like i didn't feel the chemistry between the two characters very much and it was disappointing for me because i love the book that's one of my favorite books and i just was kind of let down from that one so i watched it on a plane at some point actually i don't remember where i was going or anything but i definitely watched that one on a plane maybe i was coming back from or going to san francisco i don't know but yeah i thought it was okay now dumplin i think that the adaptation was actually really well done i think it would be good again though because i think i did enjoy the book more than i did the adaptation however i think they did a really great job with it i thought it was really cute they had a great cast for it it was just hard to like not see jennifer aniston you know like it was hard for me to believe her as the mom and that wasn't any of her fault it was just because i was like oh that's jennifer aniston so the southern accent and everything and how she's supposed to be like a southern genteel lady i just had a hard time believing the hunger games is one of my faves i did really enjoy the hunger games i thought it was a very solid adaptation like i personally think that they had a great cast the cast was perfect i wouldn't cast anyone else different i think it was just such a solid and like groundbreaking adaptation really because it made way for so many other stories that are like that and there's definitely books or movies before that that kind of are similar but i feel like this one was so groundbreaking for whatever reason paper towns by john green i would say this one gets okay i don't really remember it i just remembered that cara delevingne was cast as i forget her name margo margo's her name isn't it and it was really hard to get past that once again because it just didn't really fit for me so yeah that's why i kind of i watched it once and i was like okay this might be controversial but honestly i didn't really like the like movie jim carrey adaptation of a series of unfortunate events and i think it's because it was like too much what it was supposed to be i never read those books when i was a kid but i found it so bleak and depressing and that's why i i have a hard time saying i know that's what it's supposed to be but i didn't feel like it had whimsy to it i don't know but that one definitely i'm kind of like if i stay i would say that it's better than the book and this one i have read the book and i read it before i watched the movie and i just had okay feelings about the book but the actual movie i thought was really well done i like gayle forman's other book more what's it called it's the one where they travel uh just one day is that what it's called i can't even remember it is just one days i don't even know but if i stay i think that the movie was really well done it was kind of i'm kind of seeing like a theme with the ones that are better than the book they're all kind of like depressing sad stories but i guess that's just kind of what i like in movies is that they're depressing and sad the host by stephanie meyer i did read this book i don't really remember i think that the movie was pretty well done i i i'll say it's okay because i don't really remember it that much i don't think it's really something that appeals to me as much as it might other people and that's why i don't really have like strong feelings about it either way i'm gonna try and pick this up because i always talk for so long in these ranking videos next is to all the boys i've loved before by jenny han and the other two movies for this are not on here because i haven't watched them yet no i really suck at that i don't think i watched ps i still love you maybe i did but i'm pretty i don't know i definitely didn't watch that one because i don't remember john ambrose but yeah i think that's the character's name anyways to all the boys i've loved before i think is faves i think they cast this one so well it was adorable exactly what i wanted it to be honestly netflix does a fantastic job with their adaptations all the time the maze runner is definitely one that i would say i think no thank you to be honest i would put it in better than the book because i didn't really like the book but at the same time i didn't really like the movie that much either i guess it just kind of like wasn't for me obviously so yeah i thought i had 13 reasons why on here but now i'm not seeing it i feel like i'm just missing it again next is catching fire and this one's definitely faves again i feel like catching fire i may have even liked more than the hunger games and definitely in the books i would say that catching fire is my favorite out of the books i think it expanded everything so much and was really such an interesting sequel next we have alice through the looking glass and this is the what is his name tim burton adaptation this one i'm gonna put no thank you because it literally just takes the name and that's kind of it so it doesn't stay true to the source material at all it just kind of does whatever and that is because in the first one so i'll just go ahead and put that in i would say i would say good because i do enjoy that one it has like i just don't really like there's a lot of adaptations that make wonderland really dark which i understand it totally can be it lends itself to that but i like more of like the whimsy and the lightness of it so i think that's why i wouldn't say that i like love love love alice wonderland the tim burton adaptation and i think that it melds the two together a lot as well so that's why when it came to them actually doing through the looking glass there was like nothing left from through the thing from through the looking glass for them to do kind of good but bordering on faves but i don't think it's my fave fave would be alice in wonderland the like original disney adaptation i adore that one i could watch it over and over and over again and i really love it so it definitely also is through the looking glass and atlas in one but i just love it next we have the mortal instruments city of bones adaptation with lily collins and this one i would say was okay i think that i liked the casting but like i didn't really like the casting of jace that much to be honest which might be a little bit controversial it just wasn't really i don't know it wasn't how i pictured him as but i think they did an okay job with the adaptation it's definitely one that has mixed feelings on it i feel like i think it's just a story that doesn't really lend itself all that well to adaptations is kind of what we've discovered over the years the hobbit i by the way lord of the rings isn't on here because i have not watched lord of the rings i have never watched it never read it either and don't really want to i would maybe watch the movies but i definitely haven't read the books hobbit was no thank you well um i think there's no thank you i'm just not a fan i don't know why i just for some reason lord of the rings doesn't really appeal to me i'm sorry mockingjay's okay it's like i don't know i didn't care for the last book for sure but the movie was okay and i'm just gonna judge like part one and part two as one breaking dawn twilight we're getting to twilight here breaking dawn i think was actually well done i'm gonna put it in good but i think breaking dawn was actually well done because there were obviously there's that one scene that like twisted everything it was just such an unexpected thing so i think they did do a solid job with that one by the way i'm realizing that i forgot to include 13 reasons why on here but 13 reasons why i would personally be a no thank you didn't really care for it i didn't care for the book either i did not like the book at all i think maybe like the the tv show was like a little bit better but it wasn't my favorite by any means now we have little women the masterpiece theater edition not masterpiece theater is that what it's called it's the pbs edition and i do think that this one was good uh but i do have really bad memories of it because i remember my mom and i were watching this when we found out that the kitten that we had adopted and had gotten really sick and then she died the next day so i have really bad memories of little women in regards to that and it was specifically this adaptation that we were watching so for that reason i don't think it can be a fave for me although i do think it's really well done i just have traumatic memories with it new moon is definitely no thank you like the book everything about the new moon story absolutely hate it and the adaptation was no exception so annoying honestly i can't and twilight i would say is okay i think like for the nostalgia of it but it's really corny and like it just i don't know it is what it is so i don't think it's the worst thing ever but i don't think it's really the best thing ever either the great gatsby i would say i think they did a a pretty good job with that one actually i think it was interesting i remember that my prom came out the year no my prom didn't come out this movie came out the year of my prom so it was like gatsby themed and everything um but yeah i think the movie was good i prefer the book though percy jackson the lightning thief it's it is what it is there's not much else to say they did just release i'll put a note uh i'll put it in okay uh anyways so they did just release the cast for the new adaptation that they're doing on disney plus i believe they're doing a tv show and that looks really really awesome beautiful creatures is absolutely a no thank you i remember i read this book because my sister had read it and then she wanted to go and see the movie together so we went and did that but oh my god did i hate it i hated the book and then i also ended up hating the movie so just i hated all of it miss peregrine's home for peculiar children by ransom briggs i have like a i have a soft spot for this adaptation because it was one of the first sponsorships actually i think it was the first sponsorship that i ever got and i thought it was so cool but i think that the adaptation was good it definitely it lends itself to a younger age range and it's not my favorite but i do have that kind of like nostalgic connection to it but i think it makes everything a little bit younger and there were certain changes that i was kind of like meh about so overall it's not my favorite but i don't think it's the worst either the darkest minds is i like i'm gonna say no thank you and i wish that i didn't say no thank you but because honestly alexander bracken is such a sweet person but i just did not care for this movie at all and i really wish that i did like it but i just i didn't series of unfortunate events with neil patrick harris i think that this one was really well done so i'm gonna put this one in good i think it was solid and i liked that it kind of added more of that whimsy even though it was dark and i think that the story lent itself really well to tv rather than a movie bridgeton which is what i'm watching right now i would say better than the book and this is solely based on the fact that my sister read the book and she didn't like the book so i haven't like read the book series and i don't know if i will maybe i will i'm not gonna say no but i don't like probably not i don't know we shall see but i am really enjoying the tv show i did find season one kind of annoying and i know i'm so late to this but i found it kind of annoying because it's so like slow burn and i don't like slow burn but then this one is even more slow burn like in the first season at least things happen you know there's one episode where like so many things happen but it was just they were so mad at each other all the time and i'm i'm not a big fan of enemies to lovers and it wasn't really i was kind of paid to love but this next season is also hate to love and i think it's a little bit more fun between the two of them i guess i don't really know love simon is definitely faves i think they did such a fantastic job with the love simon adaptation it was so sweet and i watched it in theaters like three times and it was incredible shadow and bone i'm also going to put in faves i think they did a really good job even though they kind of changed well not kind of they definitely very much changed the story for the crows i think that they did a good job of adapting everything for the new format i think it stayed true to the story and to who the characters were but also twisted it in a way that's going to be more successful for that new format ready player one i think that they did i'm gonna put in good i think that they did a really good job with this adaptation and it was kind of like everything i wanted it to be i think it worked really well and it was a big task because it's a whole new world and like different things going on but i think they did a solid job with it let it snow i'm gonna put no thank you i couldn't even watch the whole movie for this i don't know if like now if i read the book i wouldn't be able to finish the book but i liked the book when i read it it's just i think maybe it was a little bit immature and kind of i don't know there was just it just wasn't for me the hate u gave i'm going to put in faves because this is another movie that i think they did an absolutely incredible job with so impactful it came out around the same time as love simon and i saw both of them in theaters and like four times or something like that it was just so incredibly good looking for alaska was adapted into a tv show and i'm gonna give this one okay i watched it i watched it pretty quickly because i watched it for bookmas for like the episode of bookmas that i do where it's just about adaptations for the past year but i never really wanted to pick it back up again so i never started watching it again so i think that it's just okay for me tiny pretty things i think is going to get an okay as well they really tried to make it more of like a pretty little liars sort of drama thing and i just wasn't really into that all that much so it's another one where like i'm not a big tv person or a big movie person which is why i'm so late to things like bridgerton and stuff like that because i just i'll watch the same shows my comfort shows over and over again and i don't generally like very often go for other things so that's kind of why i just if i watch something and i don't want to pick it up again i just won't and that's what happened with tiny pretty things unfortunately because i did really like the book every day by david levithan i never read the book but the movie made me not want to read the book to be entirely honest so uh i'm gonna give that one a no thank you there's just something about it i don't know it didn't really work for me i know some of you guys have said that the book is way better but i just i unhauled it a long time ago and i don't think i'll get it again purse of being wallflower is another another fave of mine i think they did a fantastic job with this adaptation it was so so good and yeah i did really love this one and eclipse is the final book from twilight uh eclipse i think is okay like i don't really remember all that much about eclipse to be honest i don't think it really stood out to me yeah so those are all of the adaptations that i wanted to rank today i hope that you guys enjoyed today's video i'm sorry if i missed any of them or anything but i think i got to most of them i'm sure that there are some that i'm missing but i really can't think of all that many right now and i don't watch oh you know what i forgot i haven't read the book but i forgot the miseducation of cameron tucker i think is what it is but i haven't read the book for that one but that one would go in better than the book as well i thought that the movie adaptation was really really well done and i enjoyed that one a lot that's actually another actor who was in like a bunch of adaptations at the same time chloe chloe grace moretz was in a bunch of adaptations at the same time she was in if i stay and then she ended up being in cameron tucker no it's cameron post why am i saying cameron tucker the miseducation of cameron post is what it is but there was definitely there was some other adaptation that she was in but yeah so those are all the ones that i want to talk about today all the ones that i wanted to bring today let me know if you agree with me if you disagree with me let me know and i will see you guys in another new video soon byehey everyone it's hailey and today i'm going to be doing a tear ranking video but it is going to be specifically for book to movie adaptations that i have seen so my criteria for this was just that it's a book to movie adaptation that i've watched i don't necessarily have to have read the book but most of them i had i have wow struggles i would say like 90 of them i have read the book for but i also kind of left out any things like fairy tale adaptations like the brothers grim stuff that i felt like was kind of there would be too many so i just left it to the more basic ones if you will but i do have 50 here to talk about and i feel like i definitely probably forgot some some were conscious decisions to leave out because the author sucks but others i probably just forgot i did go back and i realized that i forgot dumplin by julie murphy which is a really bad one because i had started filming this video realized i forgot that one and it's so bad because i went to go and see like i went to the movie set for that one so how ridiculous is it that i left that like how how did i do that i don't know anyways uh i filmed a scene as an extra for that it was cut understandable it's fine it was a very awkward experience actually and it wasn't the fault of like the publisher or anything but the guy that i was filming the scene with wouldn't stop talking to me and you're not supposed to talk but he kept on like asking me for my number and asking me to talk to me and it was just really uncomfortable because i didn't know what to do because i'm too awkward so i was like no i'm from canada i can't text you and then he just kept talking so then the guy came over and was like you're supposed to melt it and then like showed me what mouthing was and i was like i know what mouthing is but yeah anyways that was an experience so i don't know how i forgot that but that is not what we are here for today i got the idea for this video from my friend hannah over at a clockwork reader she did this video and i just thought that it seemed like a lot of fun she did this like years ago now and i've been wanting to do it ever since i keep on putting it on my filming list and then pushing it back but we're finally doing it today so i have five categories so it's kind of like five stars but not really because the first category is better than the book which doesn't necessarily mean it's like my favorite adaptation of all time i loved it sometimes if i've already seen the movie or tv show or whatever the adaptation is then i won't want to read the book because then i can't picture things on my own because i've already read the book and or sorry i've already seen the movie so that i'm just gonna be picturing whoever the actors or actresses were and it kind of ruins it for me and that's especially if i liked it like if i didn't like the adaptation then i would be more inclined to read the book to see if the book is actually better it really kind of just depends but this list is honestly bugging me looking at it because i feel like i'm definitely missing some but i really can't think of them anyways so after better than the book we have faves the rest are pretty self-explanatory good okay and no thank you it's you know you get it so first up we have little women and this is the most recent adaptation with emma watson and sharsha ronin i know she says how to say sharish i can't i'm sorry i can't remember how to say it and the girl florence i don't know how to pronounce anyone's names apparently i'm so sorry but this is the most recent one and i did actually really like this one i thought it was really well done i would say is it faves i don't know i think i guess it would be face yeah i guess i would say that that one's a fave because i think it was very well done it was a really solid adaptation and i think it modernized the material but also stayed true to the source material which was a good that was solid uh next is five feet apart and this one i would say is one of the better than the book ones because i actually did enjoy this movie and i wasn't expecting to and it's kind of interesting because this one isn't really a book to movie adaptation because it's actually it was a script first and then they made a novelization of the script so it did come out i believe that the book come out came out before the movie did but it wasn't like the book and then the movie the movie already existed or the script did at least and then they made a novel if that makes any sense to you but it's kind of interesting because i don't really know of any others that that has been the case with them so anyways five feet apart was like it was kind of corny but i felt like it was different than what i was expecting and i did actually enjoy it so that's why i say that one's better than the book because since then even though i know that it's literally based on the script i just haven't really wanted to read the book so i've just left it with the movie the book thief by markus zusak i don't know why i have the book cover and not the movie poster but oh well fun fact the main character of this the girl who plays liesel she was born in my city she was born in windsor which is fun because no one's ever really born in windsor but the book thief adaptation i did think was good i don't think i think i'm gonna put it in good because i don't think it was my absolute favorite i don't think that you could possibly get to the impact level that the book had for me but i don't think it was bad by any means i think they did a really good job with it i just think that personally it's a story that i would rather experience like reading it or listening to the audiobook or whatever i would just prefer the words of it because i think it's so expertly written that it's definitely a hard one to get that same level of impact in an actual visual format so good doesn't mean that doesn't mean that like i didn't like it at all it's one that i would rewatch but i'm also that like not that big of a movie fan i feel like that's worth mentioning now i don't love movies so take my opinion with a grain of salt but yeah that's that's kind of where i'm following with that one i think it was a really solid adaptation but it's just not my favorite it's really bugging me that there's two of the sun is also a star by the way if you didn't notice that already i accidentally saved it twice so i'm sorry but oh well i'll just sort them both in the same category obviously so next is divergent by veronica roth which was adapted obviously uh this one came out it's so funny because there seems to be always like one actor or actress who is in all of the ya adaptations at the same time so when divergent was happening shayleen woodley was also in the fault in our stars and then similarly when the darkest minds was happening it was amandala stenberg they were in the darkest minds and then also everything everything which everything everything isn't on here because i haven't actually seen that one yet by the way heart stopper just came out i haven't watched it yet that's why it's not on here but i really do want to watch it i've heard like nothing but amazing things about it anyways divergent i did actually like it i would say it's good i don't think like it's not groundbreaking or amazing or anything but i think that the first divergent movie was good i think it was enjoyable it gave me what i wanted it to and i had fun watching it uh the next one will be a different story but we'll get there eventually at least i think i included it did i not save the cover for that one i don't see it anywhere i don't know why but i did try and save insurgent the cover for that one which is the second divergent book and movie and that one would go in okay or no thank you for that one i found it that one came out the same year and like really close to when the fault in our stars came out and i found it really hard to separate the two of them because her hair was sure oh i found it i don't know why it just stuck out to me so yeah so this one would go i think in okay i'll put it in okay for now so yeah her hair was short and they made this big deal of her cutting her hair but it was very obviously because she had cut it for the fault in our stars so that annoyed me but also it was like they found this like cgi effect where everything like goes like bl i don't know how to describe it but they used the crap out of that one so i felt like the cgi was just overused and i really didn't care for it so that kind of ruined the second one for me unfortunately and i definitely liked the first one more the other thing is actually i forgot that there were other people who we won't name but there's another actor who stars alongside her in both of them and in one the love interest and then in the other the brother so it's just kind of weird so speaking of that i guess we'll just go to the fault in our stars now even though i'm kind of jumping around everywhere so the fault in our stars apart from who is in it i would say that this one was i did i have to say like there's just such sentimental value to it for me so i would say that it's one of my favs i did really enjoy that movie i thought they did a great job with it and i know it's corny and everything but like i don't care i'm not gonna pretend that i didn't enjoy it because i really did it's kind of a funny story is another situation where i say that it's better than the book and that is because i watched the movie first and then i read the book and this is why i don't like doing that because i watched the movie then read the book and i was disappointed by the book because one of the characters who had one name was completely different and i really had liked the movie but then they ended up completely like changing the name of one of the characters from the book so then when i read the book it was just hard for me to get out of that and to realize it was the same like the same character but a different name so that just kind of i really didn't like that next is dash and lily's book of dares which is by david levithan and this was adapted as a netflix tv show and this is definitely faves i think they did such a fantastic job it was so so freaking cute i loved it and i plan on watching it every christmas i started watching it this christmas but didn't get through the whole thing because i mean it is a tv show but oh my goodness it was absolutely adorable like i really loved it next is the sun is also a star by nicola yoon this one i would say is okay i feel like i need to move this to no thank you then because they're not on the same level but yeah we'll just have it there twice please ignore but the sun is also a star was okay for me i didn't really care for the acting in it like i didn't feel the chemistry between the two characters very much and it was disappointing for me because i love the book that's one of my favorite books and i just was kind of let down from that one so i watched it on a plane at some point actually i don't remember where i was going or anything but i definitely watched that one on a plane maybe i was coming back from or going to san francisco i don't know but yeah i thought it was okay now dumplin i think that the adaptation was actually really well done i think it would be good again though because i think i did enjoy the book more than i did the adaptation however i think they did a really great job with it i thought it was really cute they had a great cast for it it was just hard to like not see jennifer aniston you know like it was hard for me to believe her as the mom and that wasn't any of her fault it was just because i was like oh that's jennifer aniston so the southern accent and everything and how she's supposed to be like a southern genteel lady i just had a hard time believing the hunger games is one of my faves i did really enjoy the hunger games i thought it was a very solid adaptation like i personally think that they had a great cast the cast was perfect i wouldn't cast anyone else different i think it was just such a solid and like groundbreaking adaptation really because it made way for so many other stories that are like that and there's definitely books or movies before that that kind of are similar but i feel like this one was so groundbreaking for whatever reason paper towns by john green i would say this one gets okay i don't really remember it i just remembered that cara delevingne was cast as i forget her name margo margo's her name isn't it and it was really hard to get past that once again because it just didn't really fit for me so yeah that's why i kind of i watched it once and i was like okay this might be controversial but honestly i didn't really like the like movie jim carrey adaptation of a series of unfortunate events and i think it's because it was like too much what it was supposed to be i never read those books when i was a kid but i found it so bleak and depressing and that's why i i have a hard time saying i know that's what it's supposed to be but i didn't feel like it had whimsy to it i don't know but that one definitely i'm kind of like if i stay i would say that it's better than the book and this one i have read the book and i read it before i watched the movie and i just had okay feelings about the book but the actual movie i thought was really well done i like gayle forman's other book more what's it called it's the one where they travel uh just one day is that what it's called i can't even remember it is just one days i don't even know but if i stay i think that the movie was really well done it was kind of i'm kind of seeing like a theme with the ones that are better than the book they're all kind of like depressing sad stories but i guess that's just kind of what i like in movies is that they're depressing and sad the host by stephanie meyer i did read this book i don't really remember i think that the movie was pretty well done i i i'll say it's okay because i don't really remember it that much i don't think it's really something that appeals to me as much as it might other people and that's why i don't really have like strong feelings about it either way i'm gonna try and pick this up because i always talk for so long in these ranking videos next is to all the boys i've loved before by jenny han and the other two movies for this are not on here because i haven't watched them yet no i really suck at that i don't think i watched ps i still love you maybe i did but i'm pretty i don't know i definitely didn't watch that one because i don't remember john ambrose but yeah i think that's the character's name anyways to all the boys i've loved before i think is faves i think they cast this one so well it was adorable exactly what i wanted it to be honestly netflix does a fantastic job with their adaptations all the time the maze runner is definitely one that i would say i think no thank you to be honest i would put it in better than the book because i didn't really like the book but at the same time i didn't really like the movie that much either i guess it just kind of like wasn't for me obviously so yeah i thought i had 13 reasons why on here but now i'm not seeing it i feel like i'm just missing it again next is catching fire and this one's definitely faves again i feel like catching fire i may have even liked more than the hunger games and definitely in the books i would say that catching fire is my favorite out of the books i think it expanded everything so much and was really such an interesting sequel next we have alice through the looking glass and this is the what is his name tim burton adaptation this one i'm gonna put no thank you because it literally just takes the name and that's kind of it so it doesn't stay true to the source material at all it just kind of does whatever and that is because in the first one so i'll just go ahead and put that in i would say i would say good because i do enjoy that one it has like i just don't really like there's a lot of adaptations that make wonderland really dark which i understand it totally can be it lends itself to that but i like more of like the whimsy and the lightness of it so i think that's why i wouldn't say that i like love love love alice wonderland the tim burton adaptation and i think that it melds the two together a lot as well so that's why when it came to them actually doing through the looking glass there was like nothing left from through the thing from through the looking glass for them to do kind of good but bordering on faves but i don't think it's my fave fave would be alice in wonderland the like original disney adaptation i adore that one i could watch it over and over and over again and i really love it so it definitely also is through the looking glass and atlas in one but i just love it next we have the mortal instruments city of bones adaptation with lily collins and this one i would say was okay i think that i liked the casting but like i didn't really like the casting of jace that much to be honest which might be a little bit controversial it just wasn't really i don't know it wasn't how i pictured him as but i think they did an okay job with the adaptation it's definitely one that has mixed feelings on it i feel like i think it's just a story that doesn't really lend itself all that well to adaptations is kind of what we've discovered over the years the hobbit i by the way lord of the rings isn't on here because i have not watched lord of the rings i have never watched it never read it either and don't really want to i would maybe watch the movies but i definitely haven't read the books hobbit was no thank you well um i think there's no thank you i'm just not a fan i don't know why i just for some reason lord of the rings doesn't really appeal to me i'm sorry mockingjay's okay it's like i don't know i didn't care for the last book for sure but the movie was okay and i'm just gonna judge like part one and part two as one breaking dawn twilight we're getting to twilight here breaking dawn i think was actually well done i'm gonna put it in good but i think breaking dawn was actually well done because there were obviously there's that one scene that like twisted everything it was just such an unexpected thing so i think they did do a solid job with that one by the way i'm realizing that i forgot to include 13 reasons why on here but 13 reasons why i would personally be a no thank you didn't really care for it i didn't care for the book either i did not like the book at all i think maybe like the the tv show was like a little bit better but it wasn't my favorite by any means now we have little women the masterpiece theater edition not masterpiece theater is that what it's called it's the pbs edition and i do think that this one was good uh but i do have really bad memories of it because i remember my mom and i were watching this when we found out that the kitten that we had adopted and had gotten really sick and then she died the next day so i have really bad memories of little women in regards to that and it was specifically this adaptation that we were watching so for that reason i don't think it can be a fave for me although i do think it's really well done i just have traumatic memories with it new moon is definitely no thank you like the book everything about the new moon story absolutely hate it and the adaptation was no exception so annoying honestly i can't and twilight i would say is okay i think like for the nostalgia of it but it's really corny and like it just i don't know it is what it is so i don't think it's the worst thing ever but i don't think it's really the best thing ever either the great gatsby i would say i think they did a a pretty good job with that one actually i think it was interesting i remember that my prom came out the year no my prom didn't come out this movie came out the year of my prom so it was like gatsby themed and everything um but yeah i think the movie was good i prefer the book though percy jackson the lightning thief it's it is what it is there's not much else to say they did just release i'll put a note uh i'll put it in okay uh anyways so they did just release the cast for the new adaptation that they're doing on disney plus i believe they're doing a tv show and that looks really really awesome beautiful creatures is absolutely a no thank you i remember i read this book because my sister had read it and then she wanted to go and see the movie together so we went and did that but oh my god did i hate it i hated the book and then i also ended up hating the movie so just i hated all of it miss peregrine's home for peculiar children by ransom briggs i have like a i have a soft spot for this adaptation because it was one of the first sponsorships actually i think it was the first sponsorship that i ever got and i thought it was so cool but i think that the adaptation was good it definitely it lends itself to a younger age range and it's not my favorite but i do have that kind of like nostalgic connection to it but i think it makes everything a little bit younger and there were certain changes that i was kind of like meh about so overall it's not my favorite but i don't think it's the worst either the darkest minds is i like i'm gonna say no thank you and i wish that i didn't say no thank you but because honestly alexander bracken is such a sweet person but i just did not care for this movie at all and i really wish that i did like it but i just i didn't series of unfortunate events with neil patrick harris i think that this one was really well done so i'm gonna put this one in good i think it was solid and i liked that it kind of added more of that whimsy even though it was dark and i think that the story lent itself really well to tv rather than a movie bridgeton which is what i'm watching right now i would say better than the book and this is solely based on the fact that my sister read the book and she didn't like the book so i haven't like read the book series and i don't know if i will maybe i will i'm not gonna say no but i don't like probably not i don't know we shall see but i am really enjoying the tv show i did find season one kind of annoying and i know i'm so late to this but i found it kind of annoying because it's so like slow burn and i don't like slow burn but then this one is even more slow burn like in the first season at least things happen you know there's one episode where like so many things happen but it was just they were so mad at each other all the time and i'm i'm not a big fan of enemies to lovers and it wasn't really i was kind of paid to love but this next season is also hate to love and i think it's a little bit more fun between the two of them i guess i don't really know love simon is definitely faves i think they did such a fantastic job with the love simon adaptation it was so sweet and i watched it in theaters like three times and it was incredible shadow and bone i'm also going to put in faves i think they did a really good job even though they kind of changed well not kind of they definitely very much changed the story for the crows i think that they did a good job of adapting everything for the new format i think it stayed true to the story and to who the characters were but also twisted it in a way that's going to be more successful for that new format ready player one i think that they did i'm gonna put in good i think that they did a really good job with this adaptation and it was kind of like everything i wanted it to be i think it worked really well and it was a big task because it's a whole new world and like different things going on but i think they did a solid job with it let it snow i'm gonna put no thank you i couldn't even watch the whole movie for this i don't know if like now if i read the book i wouldn't be able to finish the book but i liked the book when i read it it's just i think maybe it was a little bit immature and kind of i don't know there was just it just wasn't for me the hate u gave i'm going to put in faves because this is another movie that i think they did an absolutely incredible job with so impactful it came out around the same time as love simon and i saw both of them in theaters and like four times or something like that it was just so incredibly good looking for alaska was adapted into a tv show and i'm gonna give this one okay i watched it i watched it pretty quickly because i watched it for bookmas for like the episode of bookmas that i do where it's just about adaptations for the past year but i never really wanted to pick it back up again so i never started watching it again so i think that it's just okay for me tiny pretty things i think is going to get an okay as well they really tried to make it more of like a pretty little liars sort of drama thing and i just wasn't really into that all that much so it's another one where like i'm not a big tv person or a big movie person which is why i'm so late to things like bridgerton and stuff like that because i just i'll watch the same shows my comfort shows over and over again and i don't generally like very often go for other things so that's kind of why i just if i watch something and i don't want to pick it up again i just won't and that's what happened with tiny pretty things unfortunately because i did really like the book every day by david levithan i never read the book but the movie made me not want to read the book to be entirely honest so uh i'm gonna give that one a no thank you there's just something about it i don't know it didn't really work for me i know some of you guys have said that the book is way better but i just i unhauled it a long time ago and i don't think i'll get it again purse of being wallflower is another another fave of mine i think they did a fantastic job with this adaptation it was so so good and yeah i did really love this one and eclipse is the final book from twilight uh eclipse i think is okay like i don't really remember all that much about eclipse to be honest i don't think it really stood out to me yeah so those are all of the adaptations that i wanted to rank today i hope that you guys enjoyed today's video i'm sorry if i missed any of them or anything but i think i got to most of them i'm sure that there are some that i'm missing but i really can't think of all that many right now and i don't watch oh you know what i forgot i haven't read the book but i forgot the miseducation of cameron tucker i think is what it is but i haven't read the book for that one but that one would go in better than the book as well i thought that the movie adaptation was really really well done and i enjoyed that one a lot that's actually another actor who was in like a bunch of adaptations at the same time chloe chloe grace moretz was in a bunch of adaptations at the same time she was in if i stay and then she ended up being in cameron tucker no it's cameron post why am i saying cameron tucker the miseducation of cameron post is what it is but there was definitely there was some other adaptation that she was in but yeah so those are all the ones that i want to talk about today all the ones that i wanted to bring today let me know if you agree with me if you disagree with me let me know and i will see you guys in another new video soon bye\n"