The Movies

The term "the Movies" is often used to refer to the cinematic adaptation of any book series by its fandom.

Due to adaption decay, the Movies tend not to offer the whole world of the series or book involved. While some people seem to assume that this just means that some parts of the book were excluded&mdash;understandable for reasons of time&mdash;another argument is that the wrong parts were excluded, stripping the world of some of its vitality and possibly mucking with the timeline. Even worse is when events, items, and/or people not found in the original canon are included.

This makes some fans angry, and occasionally brings in new floods of fans and fanfiction (and thus badfic) into the fandom.

Book Series that Have the Movies

 * Harry Potter
 * The Lord of the Rings
 * The Bourne Trilogy (a Trilogy of Movies, which is mostly completely different from the source material)
 * His Dark Materials (well, in this case, it's a Movie)
 * The Chronicles of Narnia
 * The Inheritance Cycle (again, a Movie)
 * The Dark Is Rising (a Movie, for now, and most fans pray there will never be another)
 * Pride and Prejudice
 * Jurassic Park (the Movie is better-known in this case)
 * Twilight
 * Watership Down (an animated Movie)
 * Wizard of Oz
 * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (but the full story of HHGTTG adaptations is a long and complex one)
 * Sherlock Holmes
 * How to Train Your Dragon (Almost unrecognizable from the source material)

TV Show Adaptations

 * Redwall - a children's cartoon show
 * Animorphs - a very forgettable Nickelodeon series
 * Dungeons & Dragons - a cartoon series
 * Pride and Prejudice
 * How to Train Your Dragon - a spin-off from the movies

Other Adaptations

 * Les Misérables - a stage musical
 * The Lion King - a stage musical
 * Harry Potter - multiple video games and an unlicensed series of (affectionately parodic) musicals
 * Wicked - a musical adapted from the book of the same name and the Oz series