Book to Film Adaptation

I think book to film adaptations are okay. I have never experienced an adaptation where the film was better than the book. Hunger Games for example, by Suzanne Collins was a far better book than a movie. Honestly, I think the problem with the Hunger Games was it's casting. Jennifer Lawrence conveyed the oddest emotion throughout the movie. She (no offense) made pretty stupid faces when trying to act out the emotion. This was the main problem for me with the movie. Also, it missed some key elements from the book that should've been included in the film adaptation.
The Divergent film adaptation was bad in my opinion. Tris, the main character, was supposed to be mediocre. Not to pretty, not to ugly. She was also SUPPOSED to be tough. Clearly in the movie, if you even watch her run it's kind of funny and sad. This was casted so poorly, however, the movie had decent suspense and action. Overall, though I don't think that it did the book justice. Another example of book to film that I found pretty bad was Life of Pi. I loved the book, it was kind of different to read and even though it's not a recent book it applied to my life. However, when I watched the movie, there was something there that was just different. There is no other way to describe it, and if you asked me to tell you what it is that's different I wouldn't be able to. Maybe it was just the idea that it "looked" different in my head then it did when it was played out on the screen. Overall, though the film adaptation was just not that effective for me. It was one of those books where in my opinion it should not have become a movie. It was just such a good book to me, and I kind of knew that the movie wasn't going to be that good but my family was watching it and I figured, eh why not right? Well no, definitely no.

Overall, if you ask me, there are such books out there that should not be made into movies and there are movies out there that do not do the book justice. But like all movies, they are just basically the book without any emotion or thought. Sorry if that sounded harsh, but it is true.