The Bourne Trilogy

So, I guess I'm going to start all my posts with some meta blogging about the blog itself. (Please learn the correct use of the 'meta' prefix, because used properly its exceptionally descriptive and... just cool) So yeah, that's the meta meta blogging du jour. The meta blogging is that I've been writing down a list of topics as I wrote the previous two posts, and I'm probably not going to sleep for about 2 hours. This post: the Bourne Trilogy.

So for all you suckers who bought the movie, you haven't a clue in hell what happened. So, many many years ago I saw the first Bourne movie (at a family friends... whom I haven't seen in FOREVER.) And I LOVED it. Didn't we all? And I'm sure you loved the next two when they came out. Unfortunately, I HATED them. Why? I read the book. So in the interest of 'flow charts' or whatever:
Similarities Differences
the name 'Bourne' Everything else
the name 'Treadstone'
the chick who Bourne
picks up off the street

yup. That means NOTHING. Bourne is not a '70 million dollar machine gone wrong.' Its kinda unclear, but he isn't even Jason Bourne: He was some criminal who was hired to go behind enemy lines during 'nam (think of the 'Delta Force'). I'm a little blurry on the details, so I'll check wikipedia. Okay HIS REAL NAME IS (something) WEBB. NOT BOURNE. He was a criminal who was recruited after his wife and children died, and he killed a double agent who was in the same 'Medusa' Project, and took his name, Jason Bourne. He was also known as Delta. Essentially a pardoned assassin, Bourne (WARNING: PLOT SPOILERS GALORE) it turns out was working FOR the CIA, FOR tread stone with one objective: take down 'Charley,' another assassin. That was his sole objective. Guess what. You have no clue who Charley was, cause HE WASN'T IN THE FIRST MOVIE!!! (I think he might have been in the second, but when I watched it, i hated it so I didn't pay attention.) Anyways, to talk further would be pointless because you no longer have a frame of reference unless you've read the book in which case, I wouldn't be telling you anything.

So I'll talk about how bad movies are. Take the Harry Potter movies, the Bourne trilogy, I could rant all day, and the book = (movie*e12!). Movies with books that are (probably) good that I haven't read:

I, Robot (Assimov)
The Matrix trilogy

There are more, but I can't think of them now.
Please leave in the comments:
Lists of movies with books that are better, that I should read
Lists of movies with books that are worse (please, I like counter examples, always feel free to provide them)
Anything else