Movies "loosely" based on original books...

[Lucky3623]

Wow... so I am *reading "I am Legend", and am almost done with the book.

The book is soooo much different than the movie. I know of a couple of other movies that don't come close to the original books, but why do they stretch movies THAT far? At best I would say that the movie is "loosely" based on the book. Yeah, they have to add in some filler to the movie, but to go almost completely in a different direction? I am not dissappointed in the book or the movie, but you would think the movie actually included key details from the book... I should have read the book before I watched the movie.

Does this ever bother you?











*reading - actually I am listing to the Audio book. I hate to read, because it puts me to sleep in about 10 minutes, and I am illiterate.