10 Movie Adaptations You Already Know Are Doomed To Disappoint

With most of the films on this list, an effort has been made to justify - on some level - why, exactly, the adaptations in question appear to be doomed. For this next one, you need only watch the official trailer to understand:

Talk about saccharine!

Everything about this film looks insane. Which is a crying shame, because the book on which it was based - a New York Times Bestseller - was actually very good, a touching tale about two very different men who became unlikely friends. What has happened to this adaptation, though? Why is everybody talking in offensive accents? What's with the music? What is Renee Zellweger doing? Why is the whole thing so patronising towards... well, everything?

There is no need to say more, except that Same Kind of Different As Me is guaranteed to wind up with a score of, like, 7% on Rotten Tomatoes. If you read this book and enjoyed it, as many thousands of people did, brace yourself: this is going to be awful.