An adaptation completely botches the original theme and message

[u/Morr4Seiya]

Mulan(2020)-They give Mulan superpowers which is not only lame it goes against the message of the original about equality and struggle,plus they removes Shang because apparently having Mulan date her superior was "problematic" even though Shang genuienely respected Mulan and their rank was never brought up

I am Legend(2007)-You know why the story is called "I am legend"? SPOILER ALERT the protagonist is the actual monster,humanity is gone and the vampires have a actual society and the protagonist kills and terrorize them

Animal Farm(2026)-On the very slim chance that Andy Serkis ever sees this,here's the thing Andy,Animal Farm was not a children work it was not supposed to have a happy ending,you never heard of cautionary tales before?

[u/arcticvalley]

Artemis fowl. The secondary character Holly was supposed to be the first female member of the fairy police. In the live action they genderswapped her boss casting Dame Judi Dench, completely undoing Holly's main character arc.

I'm not even going to discuss what they did to Artemis.

[u/Xegin157 → u/arcticvalley]

It's pretty impressive how bad they screwed up. They betrayed pretty much every single character, oversimplified the plot, yet somehow managed to make it difficult to follow of you haven't read the books.

[u/Ok-Abbreviations9936 → u/Xegin157]

So horrible that they just deleted it. Which was the right thing to do.