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Post by Cela on Aug 18, 2014 19:54:08 GMT -5
Why do you like a group of assassins taking order from an evil loom as opposed to a super-villain fantasy battle royale? Unless you like mocking it mercilessly. |
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Post by Banjo Is Broken on Aug 18, 2014 20:13:10 GMT -5
I liked the movie "Wanted" but I've never read the comics so I have nothing to compare it to.
What about "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty?" I read the story a long time ago, but I had to Wiki it to remember anything. Seems like the only thing they kept from the story was the concept of some schlub having vivid daydreams.
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Post by Crimson on Aug 18, 2014 20:28:10 GMT -5
Based on the trailer, The Giver doesn't look like it. It's actually pretty faithful. |
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Post by the2ndevil on Aug 18, 2014 20:30:25 GMT -5
Based on the trailer, The Giver doesn't look like it. It's actually pretty faithful. First positive thing I've read about it. |
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Post by Crimson on Aug 18, 2014 20:31:54 GMT -5
I Am Legend with The Last Man on Earth, The Omega Man, and I Am Legend.
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Post by Dat Dude on Aug 18, 2014 20:40:42 GMT -5
Catwoman (2004)....Did the writers even read anything about character?!
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Aug 18, 2014 21:18:19 GMT -5
Why do you like a group of assassins taking order from an evil loom as opposed to a super-villain fantasy battle royale? Unless you like mocking it mercilessly. because the movie wasn't a childish revenge fantasy with a nonsensical ending about how the reader apparently condones the character's actions just because they read about them. seriously, that book is everything wrong with modern superhero comics. |
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Post by thetower52 on Aug 18, 2014 21:27:07 GMT -5
Jurrasic park & j.p: the lost world are very different from the books. I just bought those two books today |
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Post by Alexander The So-so on Aug 18, 2014 21:30:44 GMT -5
First Blood by David Morrell. The book which created Rambo.
The novel has way more shades of gray than the Stallone movie. In the book, it's all about the comparisons and contrasts between the characters of John Rambo and Sheriff Teasle. Teasle's background is expanded on, showing that he's a Korean War veteran who can relate to Rambo's experience of having seen war, and in both Korea and in his long police career, he's seen some disturbing, traumatizing stuff, like what Rambo went through in Vietnam. Teasle is going through a divorce at the time and filled with regret about his marriage, and Rambo is roughly the age of the son he never had.
Rambo is wandering around the country, trying to find direction in his life (no plot of trying to reconnect with his remaining teammate). In the book, Teasle patiently tries to escort Rambo out of the town, since he's worried that a commotion could start with such a character in their town. But Rambo repeatedly disobeys, sick of being pushed around by the system, leading to the arrest. This is opposed to the movie, where it seems that the sheriff brings him in just to be an asshole.
On top of that, Rambo is much more violent towards the police. He actually brutally murders one of the cops during his escape, and goes on to kill a lot of other officers during the chase. The story eventually comes to center around the relationship that comes to develop between Rambo and Teasle, and how the police confrontation instead becomes a war between two warriors who come to respect each other, all the while representing the social divisions in America over Vietnam.
Compare this to the movie, where it's much more black-and-white, Rambo clearly is the one we are meant to sympathize with, and the cops are all assholes.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Aug 18, 2014 22:27:40 GMT -5
Why do you like a group of assassins taking order from an evil loom as opposed to a super-villain fantasy battle royale? Unless you like mocking it mercilessly. because the movie wasn't a childish revenge fantasy with a nonsensical ending about how the reader apparently condones the character's actions just because they read about them. seriously, that book is everything wrong with modern superhero comics. Yeah, Mark Millar is pretty terrible... everything I've read of his generally ends up as the exact same shit in vaguely different package. |
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Aug 18, 2014 22:34:04 GMT -5
Why do you like a group of assassins taking order from an evil loom as opposed to a super-villain fantasy battle royale? Unless you like mocking it mercilessly. because the movie wasn't a childish revenge fantasy with a nonsensical ending about how the reader apparently condones the character's actions just because they read about them. seriously, that book is everything wrong with modern superhero comics. I'll agree with this. While the loom was goofy, it wasn't nearly as mean spirited as the original book. That story was just distasteful. It's why the original Kickass movie was better than the book it was based on too. Millar has some great ideas conceptually, but his execution often is just bad. |
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Post by agent817 on Aug 18, 2014 23:12:27 GMT -5
because the movie wasn't a childish revenge fantasy with a nonsensical ending about how the reader apparently condones the character's actions just because they read about them. seriously, that book is everything wrong with modern superhero comics. Yeah, Mark Millar is pretty terrible... everything I've read of his generally ends up as the exact same shit in vaguely different package. I remember that I liked "Wanted" at first, and I am referring to the comic version, and then after another read or two, the comic really shrank on me. I really didn't enjoy it anymore because there were a lot of messed up things about it. Well, I will admit that I did enjoy the bit with the protagonist's girlfriend before the guy finally dumped her, but then you read the ending. It was almost as if Mark Millar was in a way making fun of comic readers. I can mostly do the "Kick-Ass" series when it comes to Mark Millar, but I might be biased because I like the movies as well. I still have not read any of his other comic books. |
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Post by jagilki on Aug 19, 2014 0:15:25 GMT -5
 No Cap, No Thor, No Hulk, No Iron Man. What a rip off. |
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Aug 19, 2014 0:16:05 GMT -5
Nonfiction example: the film Green Zone is supposedly based on Imperial Life in the Emerald City, though having seen the former and read the latter, the connection is dubious. Logan's Run the film basically takes the premise of the book and not much else, adding a rambling old man, senile robot, a Carousel ceremony, and so much gratuitous fan service, it feels like a porno spoof at times. Wasn't Sanctuary on Mars in the book? I bought a copy a while ago but an too lazy to read it. |
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Post by Banjo Is Broken on Aug 19, 2014 0:25:00 GMT -5
No Cap, No Thor, No Hulk, No Iron Man. What a rip off. Uma Thurman doesn't make a very good Black Widow either. |
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Post by bibboid on Aug 19, 2014 0:30:38 GMT -5
The Running Man was a slow paced Richard Bachman (Stephen King) book with a depressing ending. The Schwartzeneggar movie was flashy and campy and non stop action. The movie is SOOOOO much better than the book.
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Post by Danimal on Aug 19, 2014 1:10:39 GMT -5
I Am Legend with The Last Man on Earth, The Omega Man, and I Am Legend. What's funny is that the movie that actually used the title from book is the one that is otherwise most different from the book. The Last Man on Earth isn't that far from the source material, by I am Legend you had a movie that was just inspired by the book. |
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Post by Shark on Aug 19, 2014 2:06:32 GMT -5
While I kinda liked the book, the movie smokes it's ass in about every way possible. It should almost be used as textbook example of "Sometimes a movie improves on the source material". The characters in the book were all very wooden and unlikeable, while the movie gave them far more depth and made them sympathetic. The book also had far too many subplots going on that robbed the main story about the shark of its thrust, while the movie cut all that out and kept the focus entirely on the man vs nature struggle. I will argue that those subplots are 100% connected to the shark. The Mayor's mafia connections were brought to light and reached a boiling point because the shark appeared and the beaches remained open. Matt Hooper comes to Amity because of the shark and it led to {Spoiler}{Spoiler}
his affair with Ellen brody. The fact that the shark showed up brought all these things to light. It's stated a few times in the book that the shark is there because of God's will and one character says that it's there to test them. Several fail that test. |
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Post by Hit Girl on Aug 19, 2014 7:59:38 GMT -5
Had they adapted JAWS faithfully it would have seemed like Peyton Place with a shark hunt
They were correct to cut everything except Man vs Shark
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Post by Crimson on Aug 19, 2014 9:46:52 GMT -5
I Am Legend with The Last Man on Earth, The Omega Man, and I Am Legend. What's funny is that the movie that actually used the title from book is the one that is otherwise most different from the book. The Last Man on Earth isn't that far from the source material, by I am Legend you had a movie that was just inspired by the book. Speaking of which, I, Robot too. |
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