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What's the worst change made in a movie adaptation of a book?

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Question for fans of the Russian film/books "Night Watch":
The first movie was amazing, it adapts roughly the first 1/3rd of the first book, I thought it was very well done. Went out, bought the books and caught up.
"Day Watch" comes out. I can't tell if it's legitimately a shitty movie or if it's just shitty compared to the books?
p.s. The author is now problematic because of the whole Russia/Ukraine issue, but the books were completed before even the Crimea invasion in 2014.
- I read the first three books, and saw two movies, I think. I wasn't aware that anything new had happened on that front.
  Or that the author was an idiot. Disappointing, but not entirely surprising.
  
  Yeah, the two movies didn't even finish adapting the first book. There are 3 stories in it and the first movie does a good job with the first one, then the 2nd one kind of half-asses the 2nd story in the first book.
  It also painted them into a corner narratively where a 3rd movie wouldn't be possible. 😟
- Saw the movies and liked the unique story. I hope I get my hands on the books.
  
  When you consider the first movie adapts the first 1/3rd of the first book, and the 2nd movie kind of fucks up adapting the 2nd 1/3rd... there's a TON more material. 6 books total and it all comes to a very satisfying conclusion.
  HBO could get 6 seasons of television out of this if they wanted to and unlike Game of Thrones, it's all done!
  
  I want to read the second trilogy so bad, but it's proving so difficult to get.
  The movies were how I imagine a bad drug trip.
  
  Last I checked, they had moved to a new publisher and had all new editions, but the author also kind of went off the rails on the whole Russia/Ukraine issue. He's very much a Russian nationalist, but has Ukrainian heritage so it's this huge complicated mess. :(
  Remember when we could just enjoy books without worrying how problematic the author is? Yeeeeaaaaahhhhh...
  Looks like they're all on Amazon. Book 4 looks to be the hard one to get. I had to go through the audio book page to find the print edition. It's also called "Last Watch" even though there are 2 more books after it.
  Night Watch - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DB3FSNW
  Day Watch - https://www.amazon.com/Day-Watch-Book-Two-Night-ebook/dp/B00DB3FSQY
  Twilight Watch - https://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Watch-Book-Three-Night-ebook/dp/B00DB3FT2C
  Last Watch - https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004HKGKOO
  New Watch - https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00FJ3ABGG
  Sixth Watch - https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0151VIAG8
  If you don't want to throw money at Bezos, there's also Powells and Abe Books.
  https://www.powells.com/books/search?query=Sergei+Lukyanenko&page=1
  https://www.abebooks.com/author/b075z8drvz/sergei-lukyanenko?ref_=nav_alk_bdp
  If you don't want to throw money at a Russian nationalist... well... there are alternatives. 🏴‍☠️

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