A terrible movie adaptation results.
It is still the biggest ever counter-LSD operation in the UK, and has been re-told through countless articles, books and a few truly terrible TV adaptations, in which LSD is portrayed as some sort of demonic auto-suicide potion.
In any case, the fact we have a new anime series for Ghost in the Shell is such a relief after the terrible live-action adaptation.
(As far as terrible idea Roth adaptations, Ernest Lehman's Portnoy's Complaint's position is secure).
At any rate, Max Payne joins the long list of terrible game-to-movie adaptations.
Few movies deserve the sobriquet 'so bad it's brilliant' but this rollickingly rubbish adaptation of an already transparently terrible stage show is an exception.
He played the father of a frustrated boy in Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014), an adaptation of Judith Viorst's classic children's book (1972).
But the filmmakers have been, if anything, too dutiful, too careful, and the movie that results from their conscientious, devoted labor illustrates the terrible, paradoxical trap into which well-intentioned literary adaptations so often fall.
It should come as no surprise that Lifetime's adaptation of "Flowers in the Attic" is terrible.
We'll also see how much of a terrible mess Baz Luhrmann makes of the book in this latest adaptation.
They saw some terrible theatre, but among the best was at the Moscow Arts Theatre adaptation of Gogol's Dead Souls, "a sort of Russian Pickwick... Daddy laughed until he was nearly under his seat & tears rolled down his cheeks".
