Fantasy with Friends: Movie Talk

Once more it’s Monday, and time for Fantasy with Friends! The prompts are hosted at Pages Unbound, and this time we’re talking about movie adaptations: Are there any fantasy books that you think had a movie adaptation that was even better than the book? If not, what are some of your favorite and least screen favorite adaptations? I don’t really watch movies (or TV), so I am poorly equipped to answer this one! I did watch more when I was younger, but nowadays I’m lucky if I watch a single movie in a whole year (and I’ve watched one for 2026: Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man, which is great but not fantasy). Sooo this will be a short post. We’ve discussed The Lord of the Rings before, and I think that’s a broadly good adaptation that made a couple of choices I didn’t love (e.g. regarding Faramir’s character, but also the omission of Glorfindel in order to give Arwen a bigger part to play). There were reasons those choices were made, often really good reasons, and I’m not a purist about…