Twilight & Mary Poppins
A young teenage friend of mine gave her opinion on books vs. films, as least as far as film versions of written material. In her view, as she gave it last evening, films can never be as good as the books that they represent, because they narrow your vision of what was in the book. Both she and her best friend pointed at Twilight as an illustration -- both are fervent fans of the book series, but were not very happy with the film, because, they said, it didn't portray the depth of feeling between the two main characters that they found in the book.

I think that we all, even those of us who are film buffs, have been similarly "betrayed" by film versions at one point or another. Mine came very early; I was a huge fan of Travers' Mary Poppins books when I was a kid, and the idea that this smiling young woman singing about spoonfuls of sugar could possibly be the stern, magic, somewhat frightening Mary Poppins of the books irritated me terribly.