Cleolinda everywhere

You can change the story and put in pointless but trendy family conflicts, love interests, younger characters? You can squeeze action into bizarre places and completely miss the point of the story? You can whittle it down until it hardly resembles the original at all? That is how the Count of Monte Cristo Hollywood movie was made a few years back. You can hardly even call it an adaptation, maybe an "inspired by"? I haven't read the Dark is Rising books, but any time a book gets mauled beyond recognition (I'm looking at you, Disney), I feel sad.