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I really disliked the entire Harry Potter movie franchise. I feel like they stripped all the humanity out of it. It was just a romp with all sorts of CGI stuff, and they'd cut soooo much stuff out of the book and then add stupidly long unnecessary scenes. Granted, I haven't even watched the last one but I didn't really care for any of the earlier ones so it didn't seem worth it.

I watched the movie first, but I really liked the movie The Princess Bride. I thought it did a great job capturing the humor and flavor of the source material.

And the 1995 Pride and Prejudice is a winner.

For me, not everything has to be the exact same in an adaptation, but if something's changed or omitted, I want it to be for a good reason, and a lot of times it seems it's done to make something more commercially appealing rather than to really serve the story/characters.

I do like the Game of Thrones TV adaptation, though there are a couple of added/changed sequences of which I don't approve.