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The Junji Ito collection and throwing in that Uzumaki anime short in there as well for the same reason, Shoestring Budget. They aren't the worst adaptions in the world as they don't deviate terribly from the source material, but the shoddy animation is just too hard to ignore and sours the whole thing.

Ironically, it's probably the reverse, but I'll mention it anyway.

Bionicle: The Legend Reborn is notable for being made by Threshold Animation Studios, the same studio that would later go on to make the infamous film Foodfight!

The big bad of the year got nerfed for the film specifically as bad as Grievous, bizarre dialogue, and other downgrades from the previous Miramax films.

I remember watching the film and being pretty let down by it back in the day. Some point later that year, I would go read the movie novelization. It was just, so much better, and while the infamous 'purple Malum' science was still in it (if you know you know) it and the follow-up felt much more believable by comparison. The two were made at roughly the same time, and technically by name, the book is an adaptation of the film, but I would recommend the youth fiction book over the film easily.

I dont care how much of a dead horse it is

I dont care how much time has passed

The Last Airbender was the WORST movie I have EVER seen EVER even if the actual show didnt exist it would be worse than the room at least the room has characters that almost speak like humans I can NOT say the same of the last airbender and its need to not only infodump excessively but also repeat what they had already said like the audience were MORONS.

This atrocity Shamalayan pulled should NOT be forgotten regardless of how much time has passed, how do you manage to make the worst movie ever from one of the best cartoon shows ever?

DONT get me started on the action scenes EVERY bending art besides air was WORTHLESS you were better of fighting with no powers! Hell grabbing small rcks from the ground and throwing them at enemies was far more effective than Shamalayans earthbending!

A good laughing riot though. Certainly more watch value than the Netflix version we all clearly remembered to watch.

David Lynch Dune was and is an abomination. Not only does it totally glosses over the core themes of the book (Paul having visions of the Jihad he will eventually be responsible for and doing everything he can to avoid it, only to be thrust into its inevitability, the stagnation of Humanity, the anti-Hero that is Paul, the power of controlling such a valuable resource as the spice) it outright invented shit that never was in the books, such as sonic devices, as a substitute for explaining the powers of the Bene Gesserit ability to manipulate through voice.

It's great for memes, and it's campy as fuck with Toto soundtrack. But it had a multi decade legacy on influencing the visual aesthetics of Dune that were hard to step away from. It wasn't even until the Sci Fi miniseries (which for all its flaws was clearly superior and dared to push aesthetic boundaries) that we had any visual changes.

Yes. Jordokowsky's Dune would have been far worse. Thank God Villeneuve is a competent director and visionary to understand the source material to create a grounded aesthetic, follow the themes of the book, and ACTUALLY improve on the source material (controversial point).

Villeneuve at least was able to explicitly add scenes into the movie that we're not in the book but better relayed the horror of Paul Maud'Dib's descent.

But yeah. The ONLY redeeming quality of Lynch's Dune are the memes like BIFAR, and Mentat litany on Sapho (not in books but goddam what an awesome quote) "It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning."

Dragons of Autumn Twilight is a pretty bad adaptation of the book. Rushed, cheap, skipping plot points enough to make holes that never existed in the books.
World War Z and Priest are based on a book and a manwha I like but both are so far removed from their source material they might as well be entirely different things that just happen to share names and vague plot and themes.
Monster Hunter is my go to punching bag for closer to modern films as an MH fan since the ps2 original.