Of all the bad Stephen King adaptations no one mentions Lawnmower Man? It was a short story that was something like six pages long, and it was adapted into a full-length feature film. So you can guess how well that turned out.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell