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Post by ICBM on Jan 13, 2016 21:24:01 GMT -5
I was watching Return of the King and remembered how everyone seemed to love the adaptations. But I remembered they simply cut wTom Bombadil entirely. As a fan of the books it put me off but didn't ruin it
What movie adaptation omission or changes have pissed you off?
Queen of the Damned itself could stand alone for me. It was so full of rewritten "we need a payday" stuff that it should not be considered an adaptation at all IMO. But Persians to my thread question, I could say the worst QOTD sin was making Marius into so minor a character and writing Lestat as his fledgling.
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Post by jagilki on Jan 13, 2016 22:04:49 GMT -5
Persians?
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on Jan 13, 2016 22:24:11 GMT -5
The LOTR movies were long enough without adding Tom Bombadil who really does not add anything to the overall story.
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Post by PsychoGoatee on Jan 13, 2016 22:26:54 GMT -5
Kind of a side topic, but in The Departed I really don't like how they missed the point of the original movie's ending. (Infernal Affairs being the movie it's an adaptation/remake of.)
I guess in The Big Sleep removing the narration was a bad move.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jan 13, 2016 23:09:13 GMT -5
I generally disliked a lot of the changes made from the Jurassic Park novel for the movie, particularly turning Gennaro into a bad lawyer stereotype and killing off Muldoon, though having Malcolm survive and making Hammond a sympathetic, kindly old man were improvements. The LOTR movies were long enough without adding Tom Bombadil who really does not add anything to the overall story. I'm in the habit of re-reading LotR one every year or so, and I almost always skip the Tom Bombadil section. A complete waste of time.
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on Jan 13, 2016 23:12:29 GMT -5
I'd love a Jurassic Park miniseries set in the 80's
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Post by Mackenzie Gorn on Jan 13, 2016 23:29:51 GMT -5
World War Z skipping over most of World War Z.
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Post by Red Impact on Jan 14, 2016 0:40:40 GMT -5
The only thing Tom Bombadil added was a Deus Ex Machina to show how horrible the Hobbits were when they started so they could compare to the scouring of the shire, which showed them as fully capable of handling challenges on their own. Of course, if you're going to cut the scouring as superfluous, you have to cut Bombadil as even more superfluous.
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Post by Beav on Jan 14, 2016 1:32:43 GMT -5
I was annoyed with what happened with Harry and the Elder Wand at the end of Deathly Hallows 2. Also that they cut 90% of the Half Blood Prince.
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Post by Dean-o on Jan 14, 2016 1:50:35 GMT -5
The death bed scene of Genco in The Godfather, although at least there is footage of that.
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Post by ayumidah on Jan 14, 2016 3:06:23 GMT -5
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was the first HP book I read, so I was really disappointed with the cuts in the movie (The sphinx especially)
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Post by Hit Girl on Jan 14, 2016 3:25:49 GMT -5
All the backstory relating to Voldemort's mother, father, and his early life in the orphanage and working for Borgin and Burkes.
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Post by ICBM on Jan 14, 2016 7:03:03 GMT -5
God damned autocorrect! Pursuant
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Post by Push R Truth on Jan 14, 2016 7:35:10 GMT -5
I still can't believe somebody said "Listen, I know the book has Muldoon with a Rocket Launcher vs Dinosaurs, but that just doesn't make for a good movie"
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2016 7:47:57 GMT -5
Slightly off kilter - something from the book adaptation of Star Wars Episode 2 - but the book did a really good job of fleshing out the scene where Qui-Gon reaches out from the Force when Anakin is killing the Tusken Raider tribe, and we get a detailed scene of Yoda sensing that and being completely startled by it (because, in the lore now, 'Jedi ghosts' had never happened before).
......while in the movie, we get Yoda meditating, hearing a re-used line of Qui-Gon's from Episode 1, a shitty "Nooo!" which is clearly not Liam Neeson, and then he just moves on and talks to Mace Windu about other stuff. And at the end of Episode 3, he finally mentions Qui-Gon again and infers they've been communicating. And hell, in fact the Ep 3 novel has a scene with them talking, but of course the movie didn't even cover that either.
Blugh. Those movies stink so much because there's clearly a lot they could've done on screen that they left the other medias do instead...
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Post by ICBM on Jan 14, 2016 9:21:56 GMT -5
^the star wars universe was deliberately different so that the license could be used to make more money by various medias. It's a selling point of (well it was until 2012) the expanded universe. A film version of a story that was only ever a book should be true to itssource. I feel your pain in general but the star wars deal was wholly different until recently
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Post by Muskrat on Jan 14, 2016 9:37:09 GMT -5
Slightly off kilter - something from the book adaptation of Star Wars Episode 2 - but the book did a really good job of fleshing out the scene where Qui-Gon reaches out from the Force when Anakin is killing the Tusken Raider tribe, and we get a detailed scene of Yoda sensing that and being completely startled by it (because, in the lore now, 'Jedi ghosts' had never happened before). ......while in the movie, we get Yoda meditating, hearing a re-used line of Qui-Gon's from Episode 1, a shitty "Nooo!" which is clearly not Liam Neeson, and then he just moves on and talks to Mace Windu about other stuff. And at the end of Episode 3, he finally mentions Qui-Gon again and infers they've been communicating. And hell, in fact the Ep 3 novel has a scene with them talking, but of course the movie didn't even cover that either. Blugh. Those movies stink so much because there's clearly a lot they could've done on screen that they left the other medias do instead... To be fair, they were going to put Neeson in Episode III but he got hurt right before he was supposed to film it.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Jan 14, 2016 10:35:48 GMT -5
You could have this whole discussion be about Harry Potter easily. With Prisoner of Azkaban you never get the background about the Marauders Map: who wrote it is omitted entirely and the details about the friendship between James, Sirius, Pettigrew and, Lupin are drastically simplified.
One of the things I really wanted to see was the wizard's hospital St. Mungos. This was in Order of the Phoenix, there is a LOT cut from this one altogether. There is a great scene in the book where Harry Potter goes full on teenage angst against Dumbledore that would have been perfect in a film.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 14, 2016 10:37:33 GMT -5
The LOTR movies were long enough without adding Tom Bombadil who really does not add anything to the overall story. Hell I always thought it kinda went against the narrative that Bombadil could resist the ring. In general, I think most of the omissions from the book cut out a lot of the extraneous stuff that Tolkien put in.
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Post by bibboid on Jan 14, 2016 11:49:25 GMT -5
They pretty much edited Ares out of The Lightning Thief, which wouldn't have been so bad if he wasn't THE MAIN VILLAIN IN THE BOOK!!
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