Throwback Thursday: The Worst Movie Adaptation Ever

It should have never been made

Credit: 20th Century Studios

Last week, I wrote a piece about the 40th anniversary of the novel Less Than Zero, calling it the most disturbing novel I’ve ever read. Since the story was about the book and not the film of the same name, I only inserted one paragraph warning people against what is, in my opinion, the worst film adaptation of a novel ever made. At that point, I thought I was done with the thing until its next anniversary in 2035.

I was wrong.

For the past six days I have worried that the warning about the film was overlooked, ignored, or will for whatever other reason will go unheeded. Thus, for Throwback Thursday, I am resurrecting a story about how truly abominable the adaptation was from 2021 (when I had about 12 followers who only read my stories about Bruce Springsteen). Check it out below:

The Worst Movie Adaptation Ever

If doing this saves even a single person from wasting one hour and 38 minutes of their life, it will be well worth it. What infuriates me almost as much as the adaptation itself is that one of…