I read the book 2 or 3 times when I was a kid, I loved it. I knew it might be hard to make a movie to match it, but this effort was just laughably bad in pretty much every way.
Wasn't Travolta a Scientologist already then? How could he be involved in kicking dirt in the bosses face like this?
then whoa, differences

I wish they would try again to adapt it but this time do it as a TV show to fit in enough detail from the book.

Very true. But still they only followed maybe 5% of the novel and that's being generous. Shame on all those involved, especially travolta. I can't believe he would let that happen seeing as he supposedly is such a fan of the book.

I loved the book too and didn't like the movie at all. But let's face it, the book is massive and they would have had cut and change a lot to get even a quarter of the book into 2 hours.
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So true. They didn't even depict the psychlos right. They would have been better off having them cgi like the navi in avatar

It's a while I've either seen or read "Phantoms" but the movie hasn't stuck in my memory as a really bad adaption of a book -although, I read the book, as I can't stand audiobooks, so I don't know if that makes a difference.

Yeah I just finished the audiobook earlier. It's one of those 'how did they get THIS from the book?'. Like Dean Koontz's Phantoms.

Almost done. The book is epic. There are so many great parts in it. The stopping of a gas drone before it gets to the humans, or the other alien races, or even the galactic bank. Man there are so many great sequences in the book that the movie never even used! Oh, also the alien planet never blew up, but turned into a raging sun. Awesome stuff