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 to not 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 thusly, 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.)
 * The Golden Compass (well, in this case, it's A Movie)
 * The Chronicles of Narnia
 * The Inheritance Trilogy (Again, A Movie)
 * The Dark Is Rising (A Movie, for now, and most fans pray there will never be another.)
 * A Series of Unfortunate Events
 * Pride and Prejudice
 * Jurassic Park--the movie is better-known
 * Twilight
 * Watership Down--an animated movie
 * Wizard of Oz

TV Show Adaptations

 * Redwall, a children's cartoon show.
 * Animorphs, a very forgettable Nickelodeon series
 * Dungeons and Dragons, a cartoon series

Other Adaptations

 * Les Misérables, the musical
 * The Lion King, the musical
 * Harry Potter, multiple video games
 * Wicked, a musical adapted from the book of the same name and the Oz series.