the2ndevil
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Post by the2ndevil on Jan 6, 2016 20:35:51 GMT -5
Jurassic Park I love the book but had they adapted it the same way, it would have been more Andromeda Strain and less West World. Going to add Jaws to this one. And interestingly, both authors of their respective books have a screenwriting credit on the final film.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 6, 2016 20:41:00 GMT -5
People are gonna disagree with me on this, but The Dark Knight Trilogy. I'm sorry, I can't get behind a Batman that f***s off and leaves the mission behind to some untrained nobody just to get his dick wet. Even if it is Anne Hathaway. Also the over-realism. Look, Liam Neeson was awesome, but no Lazarus Pit = no buys. Heath Ledger was fun, but I want goofy sadism interspersed with the realistic psychosis. Acid-spraying lapel flower or BANG! flag gun or something. And lastly, whitewashing Bane and pretending to give him a faithful adaptation only to go "nope, dumb minion all along!" at the last minute. I've seen more people agree that it's not a particularly good adaptation of Batman than agree that it was. Personally I'd also argue that begins and rises aren't particularly very good movies either... but that I know is an unpopular opinion.
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Post by James Fabiano on Jan 6, 2016 20:53:25 GMT -5
People are gonna disagree with me on this, but The Dark Knight Trilogy. I'm sorry, I can't get behind a Batman that f***s off and leaves the mission behind to some untrained nobody just to get his dick wet. Even if it is Anne Hathaway. Also the over-realism. Look, Liam Neeson was awesome, but no Lazarus Pit = no buys. Heath Ledger was fun, but I want goofy sadism interspersed with the realistic psychosis. Acid-spraying lapel flower or BANG! flag gun or something. And lastly, whitewashing Bane and pretending to give him a faithful adaptation only to go "nope, dumb minion all along!" at the last minute. Thank you. Look I liked the movies when I first saw them, but dare I say that they've lost their luster just as much as the Burton ones did? (Schumacher? Argument over before it began.) Agree with most of the above...and it doesn't help that since The Dark Knight, Bruce keeps pondering when there'll be a Gotham that doesn't need Batman. The Bats I know (yeah you can cue That Batman : The Brave and the Bold Scene...you know the one...) would NEVER stop, no matter who doesn't need him. Plus like the Burton movies, the Nolan ones undermine Batman's intellect and detective skills. And of course there's That Voice. But...Bane can't be worse than the Batman and Robin one as far as dumb minions go.
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Post by Hugh Mungus on Jan 7, 2016 2:58:26 GMT -5
... Forrest Gump was a book? Yep, and the author was so upset about his financial treatment in regards to the film that he started the sequel novel (Gump & Co.) with the line "Never let anyone make a movie about your life." Winston Groom (the book's author) got screwed over by Hollywood Accounting. He didn't mind the changes made in the film, though he admitted that he would have casted John Goodman in the title role. Gump in the novel was about six feet tall and weighed 242 pounds. As for the space thing, he did go to space. With a chimp. And crash-landed in an island of cannibals, whose leader was Yale-educated, and taught Gump how to play chess.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jan 7, 2016 3:15:46 GMT -5
People are gonna disagree with me on this, but The Dark Knight Trilogy. I'm sorry, I can't get behind a Batman that f***s off and leaves the mission behind to some untrained nobody just to get his dick wet. Even if it is Anne Hathaway. Also the over-realism. Look, Liam Neeson was awesome, but no Lazarus Pit = no buys. Heath Ledger was fun, but I want goofy sadism interspersed with the realistic psychosis. Acid-spraying lapel flower or BANG! flag gun or something. And lastly, whitewashing Bane and pretending to give him a faithful adaptation only to go "nope, dumb minion all along!" at the last minute. I assumed he gave up because his body was a complete wreck and his secret identity was likely heavily compromised, since tons of Bane's men had to be aware by then.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jan 7, 2016 3:20:56 GMT -5
Yep, and the author was so upset about his financial treatment in regards to the film that he started the sequel novel (Gump & Co.) with the line "Never let anyone make a movie about your life." Winston Groom (the book's author) got screwed over by Hollywood Accounting Yep, hence why I mentioned his financial treatment instead of how they handled the book.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Jan 7, 2016 8:10:21 GMT -5
all the Harry Potters except the first 2. They work as adaptions of that book, but as a film series so much is cut that turns out to e a Chekov's Gun later. Also the fact that some book characters, such as my personal favourite Tonks, get the shaft to almost inexcusable levels.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jan 7, 2016 14:39:01 GMT -5
Aside from a few characters and the 'coming back from the dead for revenge' premise, The Crow isn't a terribly faithful adaptation of the comic book.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 7, 2016 14:44:10 GMT -5
Aside from a few characters and the 'coming back from the dead for revenge' premise, The Crow isn't a terribly faithful adaptation of the comic book. On that note. The Mask is a pretty terrible adaptation too. The mask does change you into a green faced person with vague powers...but it's less Tex Avery cartoon and more Psychotic murderer
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on Jan 7, 2016 19:08:56 GMT -5
Rambo dies in the book...
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