Which movie/tv adaptations from your favourite books were the absolute worst, just soul-shattering? I’ll go first

In some books, the physical features of the heroine (Let's be real. It's the heroine whose looks matter) are a key feature of her personality. Such a one is Bathsheba, in Far From the Madding Crowd. Her dark hair, dark eyes, and Amazonian physique are described lovingly by the author again and again throughout the book.

So colour me shocked when we were forced to watch the 1967 Hollywood version at school, and Bathsheba was a small, fair Julie Christie. Bleurgh.

This keeps happening again and again, right? Kathleen Hepburn looking like she's thirty-five and smoking a cigarette in a very chic way, drawling Lizzie Bennet dialogue in Pride and Prejudice- the first time I saw it on screen. Keira Knightly's slim un-shoulders as Anna Karenina. Oh and we're supposed to buy the fair, delicate, modelesque Saoirse Ronan as the chestnut-haired angry tomboy Jo March? Give me a break!

The obsession with smallifying and blondifying women in Hollywood movies, I'm sure there must at least a dozen if not more angry feminist treatises on it tucked away on Google Scholar, but tell me about all the times you were shocked, outraged, and confused when you saw your favourite book characters "brought to life" (the audacity!) on the screen.