"Did you put your name into the Goblet of Fire, Harry?" he asked calmly.

300 is a f*cking masterpiece

I'm absolutely amazed that Holes didn't make this list. Word for word, straight translation from book to movie.

The Road. Not just a very faithful adaptation but a damn fine underrated movie.

Watchmen. Please WMJ try harder.

What? The Harry Potter franchise changed so much about the books. It could hardly be considered faithful enough to be higher than #10.

Harry Potter? Faithful to source? Have you read the books, Watchmojo?

No, the HP movies were not faithful to the books. It couldn't be, there's no way they could have fit all the parts on the screen. They'd be better adapted as miniseries. But the unforgivable change is removing Dobby from movies 3-6. Dobby appears in almost all the books. It's all that backstory that gives an event in Deathly Hallows its kick. In the movies, Harry and the others haven't seen Dobby since Chamber of Secrets, so the kick doesn't make as much sense.

1.Dragon Ball Evoluti- Nope fuck that not even I can make that joke.

Faithful ≠ good. Also, if 300 and Sin City count. Watchmen should be in here as well.

The Shawshank Redemption The Outsiders Of Mice And Men All should be on this list

Hey guys. Wanna feel a little better about Harry Potter? Daniel was originally going to wear green contacts. They had them in very early in shooting, but quickly discovered he was allergic to the contacts. That's why his eyes are blue in the movies. THEY WERE GOING TO DO IT. DANIEL'S ALLERGIC TO THE CONTACTS.

I mean people have already mentioned it but Watchmen should be on this list. It practically is the graphic novel, everything is there. The only difference is in the ending, of which I actually think the movies ending was better and made more sense.

FUN FACT: How to train your dragon is one of the least faithful adaptations if all time. It takes nothing more than names from the books.

The Watchmen was another faithful adaptation.

1984 is an amazing movie, and incredibly faithful to the book. They even shot the movie in the same time period that the book supposedly takes place.

What about The Outsiders by Francis Ford Coppola. IIRC he ripped out pages from the book and used them for the script.

Where is The Godfather and The Exorcist??

I can write a 50 paged essay on how wrong the Hunger Games movies where

"HARRY DID YA PUT YA NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIRE?!?!? Dumbledore asked calmly" Yeah... so faithful

Holes? I think Holes is one of the best adaptations I've ever seen.

i was scared for 1 second to see the "Twilight" franchise in number 1

"..the novel that everyone had to read in school." (To kill a mockingbeard) Damn right it is xD

You haven't read Harry Potter novels if you believe that Harry Potter movies were faithful to its books, so many changes, specially those including Neville and Luna. The same can be told about Lord of the Rings.

I am surprised that the 1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula was not mentioned in the faithful film adaptations list. It was the most faithful of all Dracula film adaptations and was the closest to the original 1897 novel.

How did Holes not make the list? That movie was exactly like the book.

The Great Gatsby, 1974 adaptation. The movie is the book, line by line. You did a bad job on this top.

10:00 "Never speak a word of love to me again"- history records the first friend-zoning.

I've just started. If watchmen isn't on here, I'm starting a riot. That was faithful as possible.

the hunger games aren't faithful

Thanks for making me relive Misery, I had almost successfully forgotten about that scene until this video. My legs hurt now.

harry potter and lord of the rings should NEVER be on this list!!! c'mon wm, get serious

1.Watchmen

I hope this is followed by worst movie adaptations. Lol.

What about Shawshank Redemption and Of Mice and Men?!

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?!

No Perks of Being a Wallflower or Watchmen? CMON MAAAANNN

How is Watchmen not here?

Harry Potter?! Are you kidding me?!?!?!

I was upset that they left out so much of Voldemorts back story, a d Lilly and Snapes story

How did Harry Potter make the list? Only the first 2 could be considered fithful. After that they became increasingly different with large portions cut, and even rearranged or characters changed.

LOTR was really good but I would have pout Of Mice and Men with Gary Senise above it. LOTR changed a LOT from the books. A lot of book fans were upset with the movies. The Hobbit was even worse.

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.

Were the fuck is Fight Club or the Godfather ? Those stayed very true and were even better than the books. Way more than Harry Potter or Hunger Games. Good job Watch Mojo.

Watchmen?

V For Vendetta and Watchmen are both faithful adaptations

Wait, Harry Potter? They cut and changed tons of stuff

Thanks for spoiling Mystic River for me Watch Mojo, that shot of Tim Robbins lying on the ground really gave a lot away.

The Hunger Games beat out Mystic River, No Country For Old Men and Silence of the Lambs... nope!

1.The Last Airbender

You showed the wrong version of Dragon tattoo. Swedish version was much better.

You want a direct adaptation?? Romeo + Juliet. Word by word, the play by the Bard; not a single word changed. And it works beautifully, it shows the words of Shakespeare are timeless.

I'm a little surprised The Shawshank Redemption didn't make the cut.

Watchmojo is faithful to running out of ideas

You missed "The Outsiders"

Here are a couple of my favorite adaptations. Huge fan of Goodfellas, but a lot was condensed and omitted from the book "Wiseguy." The movie LA Confidential was loved by the author of the book, James Elroy. He said it's a great family movie, if the name of your [expletive] family is Manson.

300 on the #1 spot? Really? Where’s A Clockwork Orange?

Yeah, I don't agree about the whole "Harry Potter films being extremely faithful" thing.

Great list, thanks. Fun fact, the last scene of "Misery" that you use in your video, is juste one of the only scenes that have been adapted... in the movie, she breaks the feet of the writer, while in the book she cuts one of his foot.

of mice and men i remember when i read that book as a sophomore in class and watched the movie i can only remember 3 differences from book to movie

How is Gone Girl not on this list? It was exactly the same story, I don't think anything was cut.

Hey I loved Watchmen

"the davinci code" i got really surprised about how faithful it was

what's the movie title at 0:27?

This should be followed by worst movie adaptations if Percy Jackson isn't on that list everything I know will be a lie

300 & Fight club *_* two of my favourite films

You forgot The Outsiders. The film is accurate down to the last word in every line of S.E. Hinton's novel. If anything, Outsiders should be your #1 pick.

Damn Fight Club was damn near verbatim to the book, not to mention beautiful. Definitely should be up there!

No Kenneth Branagh Shakespeare?

I'm a huge fan of Lord of the Rings, but seriously...the movies were not accurate. I think this just goes to show the folks at WatchMojo haven't actually read these books.

do you guys have a top 10 most faithful anime adaptations?

One movie that is startlingly faithful to the book is "The Maltese Falcon." The story I heard goes that Huston handed a copy of the novel by Dashiell Hammett to a secretary with instructions to type out the dialogue from the book into script form, and Huston wrote the finished screenplay from that (earning him an Oscar nom for Best Adapted Screenplay).

Hunger games shouldn't be on this list. They didn't do so much. Peeta should be missin a leg.

How about Watchmen? Or The Green Mile? :0

The first 'Twilight' movie stuck very close to the first book (haven't read/seen the others), and 'The Virgin Suicides' only had about two differences, which weren't all that huge. Both were faithful adaptations which should have at least made it to the honourable mentions, in my opinion.

Perks of Being A Wallflower? I read the book and then watched the movie, and it was amazing! Only a few scenes were cut out (if you read the book than you know why) but otherwise it was the most faithful adaptation I've ever seen!

How about Goodfellas and Watchmen?

I'm on the fence about LOTR as far as this list goes. To be sure, they had a huge book to put on film and the visuals, acting, effects, costumes, creatures, sets, music... all were absolutely stunning. And the fans were thrilled beyond words when we heard about it and just as thrilled in the theaters. And some cuts make sense, like parts of the story that just take you completely off course and drag the story. I do get that. What I don't get is why they had to change actions and motivations of principal characters, or change scenes for no reason I can fathom. Aragorn was not conflicted about being king. Frodo never told Sam to leave and never trusted Gollum more than Sam. Denethor willingly signaled to Rohan for aid. Rohan willingly marched to aid them. Elrond didn't try to send his daughter to the Grey Havens and there were no elves in Helm's Deep! The Ents chose to march on Isengard after a meeting, not because Treebeard up and hollered at them! He would never be so hasty... Aragorn told them to light a fire on Weathertop. Sam wasn't comfortable with it. And Frodo did not squeak like a baby wraith after he got stabbed, he was talking for crying out loud! And I don't consider this splitting hairs or nitpicking... I overlook the little stuff, or the things needed to make it into a movie. Changes like these are either cosmetic and silly or beg the question... if you thought it was so great that you wanted to make it into a movie, why did you turn around and decide to change so many important scenes and characters? Some of these are bad enough to make me reluctant to watch the films again and it's a bummer because they are good movies. It's just a shame to see a great adaptation made less great but superimposing modern "relatable" motivations onto the characters. We kinda liked the fact that it wasn't like our day so much, and really they aren't as hard to relate to as all that in the book. Nerd rant done. :P

François Truffaut's 1966 "Fahrenheit 451" is fairly faithful if I recall. It's an amazing film.

A lot of people planned Enders Game, but I found it to be pretty faithful. Naturally there were parts missing due to time and pacing, but it was really well adapted

Watchmen should definitely have been on this list.

I thought you were going to put Watchmen on there. If you watch the ultimate cut, everything is 1to1 aside from the ending

In the book Hannibal drinks Amerone with the liver, not Chianti. I've often wondered why they changed it, does anyone know the correct wine to drink with human liver?

Interesting: you mentioned ¨Stomach Churning¨ during ¨The Lamb¨... and the scene where Anthony Hopkins is, seems like a... ¨Cage.¨

Harry Potter movies as faithful adaptations? Bwahahahahahaaa. I admit they are more or less good movies (especially the first 3 and maybe 7/1 and 7/2), and they got some things right, but faithful? Nah.

Why do watchmojo hate Watchmen so much?

One of the best film adaptions was Nineteen Eighty-Four, the one released in 1984 and starring John Hurt, Richard Burton and Suzanna Hamilton. Really followed George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece.

when are you going to do more inside watch Mojo?

Wait a second. At 1:46 it says "Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures" So does that means No Country For Old Men is, at least technically, a "Disney Movie"? LOL

BULLSHIT, where is Watchmen?!?!?! Watchmojo, what the hell?!?!?!

You missed "Brideshead Revisited" (the original with Jeremy Irons) and "All Quiet on the Western Front" (the original B&W version).

Despite its reviews, the 2009 Disney adaption of Dickens' Christmas Carol was incredibly accurate. They literally kept every single line of every single scene the same, neither adding nor removing anything (save a few bits of action). It portrays every single character exactly as they are described in the book, and it's the only adaptation I've seen of the story that properly portrays the Ghost of Christmas Past. As a long-time fan of the book, I was stunned as to how well they adapted it.

watchmen ?

What about the Godfather?

Fun Bonus Fact: Although he had acting on television for a few years, To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) was the first big screen appearance of Robert Duvall as Arthur "Boo" Radley.

No Fear and Loathing in LV? Please WatchMojo, make a follow-up to this.

Harry Potter was not faithful to the books at all.

Putting Lord of the Rings on this list is absolutely fallacious. I take it no one at watchmojo has read the books then? The movies missed the central theme of the books, you cannot miss the CENTRAL THEME of a book and be considered "faithful."Awful.

argh why did you have to show that scene from misery at the end?! it took me 15 years to get over the first time lol he lol

No Jurassic Park? Or Jaws? I recently read Jaws and was pleasantly surprised at how faithful the movie was. In fact, I'd say the movie was BETTER than the book since it cut out some unnecessary love triangle shit and changed the ending.