{"id":1403171,"date":"2022-01-12T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1403171"},"modified":"2022-01-06T15:25:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T20:25:55","slug":"60-young-adult-movie-adaptations-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/60-young-adult-movie-adaptations-ranked\/","title":{"rendered":"60 YA Movie Adaptations, Ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/toalltheboysivelovednetflix62220MAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We are, as a society, very big on movie adaptations of YA novels. I&#8217;ve given this some thought, and I&#8217;ve decided it&#8217;s because watching your favorite book come to life is almost as much fun as getting to be righteously mad when said book is adapted poorly. (I know I am never having a better time than when I am in the parking lot after a movie, ranting about how the director <a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2018\/07\/09\/8-movie-adaptations-made-by-people-who-apparently-didnt-read-the-book\/\">DIDN&#8217;T EVEN READ THE BOOK, PROBABLY<\/a>, AND HERE ARE ALL THE REASONS I THINK THAT.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, the be-all, end-all in movie reviews, would tend to agree\u2014some adaptations are simply better than others. I certainly have my opinions (or extremely correct, objective truths, whichever term you prefer), but I&#8217;m not the only one who has them. Rotten Tomatoes takes all of those opinions and mashes them into one great big Aggregate Opinion, so I figure it&#8217;s only fair to rank the movies based on their Rotten Tomatoes rating rather than my own personal thoughts and feelings, of which I have many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without further ado, here is every movie in which a bunch of good-looking twenty-somethings pretend to be teens for as long as it takes to save the world\u2014ranked from worst to best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are, as a society, very big on movie adaptations of YA novels. I&#8217;ve given this some thought, and I&#8217;ve decided it&#8217;s because watching your favorite book come to life is almost as much fun   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[32,25017,602,1276],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403171"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446278,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403171\/revisions\/1446278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}