World According to Garp was a tie, for me.
I sat through The Hunger Games, because I had no idea what it was about before hand. I liked the concept and thought it might be a better book because there seemed to be so many themes that could possibly explored, so I tried to read the second book in the series. I realised what age group it had been written for and was horribly disappointed. (Remember, I live removed from the English Speaking World a great deal, so I don’t hear reviews or previews) So, you can say that I thought the movie was better than the book. It just so happened the movie was ho-hum and the book was horrible.
I’m with @Seek on the Jane Austin stuff. I’ll sit through them just to look at the pretty costumes and practice my noises of disgust and disappointment.
Some of the interpretations of Dickens’s work has been pretty damn good. Anyone see Gillian Anderson as Mrs Havisham? (but perhaps that doesn’t count because it was a miniseries) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlR1ll0exBg But you miss out on the old English turns of phrase and such, so it is hard to compare, but I liked the miniseries.
I like the new and improved business around Sherlock Holmes. The two current tv series I find quite compelling (The BBC one is much better.) and I agree with @Mimishu1995 about those two awful movies. Never should have been made.