{"id":8096,"date":"2021-03-22T08:14:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T08:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/?p=8096"},"modified":"2021-03-25T22:00:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T22:00:44","slug":"fans-cite-top-film-flops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/fans-cite-top-film-flops\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans cite top film flops"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The age-old debate continues to rage whether the book always better than the film?<\/h2>\n<p>Curious to find an answer, researchers at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onbuy.com\/gb\/\">OnBuy.com<\/a> have delved into the numbers to discover which book-to-film adaptations have left fans most disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>By combining the reviews of best-selling books on Goodreads with the reviews of its movie counterpart on IMDb, they revealed the popular novels that failed to set the world of cinema alight.<\/p>\n<p>Here are their findings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Fifty Shades of Grey<\/em> \u2013 released in 2015 \u2013 is the worst book-to-film adaptation, with fans saying it is 44 per cent worse than the novel<\/li>\n<li>M<em>ockingjay<\/em>, the final film <em>The Hunger Games<\/em> series, comes in second place with a 19 per cent differential<\/li>\n<li><em>The Girl on the Train<\/em> and <em>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows<\/em> are in joint third with a 17 per cent deficit<\/li>\n<li><em>Me Before You, The Da Vinci Code<\/em> and <em>The Fault in Our Stars<\/em> are also revealed to be among the worst book-to-film adaptations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the plus side, <em>Gone Girl<\/em> is deemed to be the most accurate \u2013 with only one per cent of fans think it is worse than the original book.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7973\" src=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2021\/03\/4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2021\/03\/4.png 850w, https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2021\/03\/4-300x62.png 300w, https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2021\/03\/4-768x158.png 768w, https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2021\/03\/4-600x124.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The age-old debate continues to rage whether the book always better than the film? Curious to find an answer, researchers at OnBuy.com have delved into the numbers to discover which book-to-film adaptations have left fans most disappointed. By combining the reviews of best-selling books on Goodreads with the reviews of its movie counterpart on IMDb, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-content","category-homepage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8099,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096\/revisions\/8099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}