What's the worst change made in a movie adaptation of a book?
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I really liked the audiobook form. The story is basically told through an interviewer asking people what they experienced and the audiobook has different voice actors for all the characters.
The audiobook was good except for the Chinese characters. For some insane reason they decided to have white voice actors do a bad Chinese accent instead of just hiring actual Chinese voice actors.
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tv series rather than film but: The Dresden Files
worst change? everything
harry's staff -- carved from a lightning struck tree from the property of his mentor, iirc, and carved with various runes -- is replaced with a hockey stick
bob the skull -- a constructed sprit of intellect bound to a skull -- is now a ghost of some guy
they made lt murphy a brunette
probably more idk I didn't get more than an episode in and that was years ago
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Seek the truth, always.
As someone who didn't read WoT, the tv series is... on average "okay" with some scenes being great.
Like idk I don't "hate" it, but certain scenes felt kinda awkward, and I'm always like "wtf is going on", I also had that with watching GoT, but that was only 40% of the time, with WoT, I feel the "wtf is going on" 75% of the time, not sure if it's a adaptation thing or just the story thing.
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A few of the visuals in the movie were stunning to me!
I also didn't mind it in either medium. It's not like it's a novel of a generation. Fun silly book, fun silly movie
On the other hand, it could be called a novel of a generation because the entire thing was basically built on millennial nostalgia. It has no appeal at all for anyone who doesn't get all of the pop culture references of the 80's and 90's.
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I think since the Jurassic World series started, all of the reboots have mostly been "remember this" from the first movie, and none could really be anything more than that. Every one has to include a scene that's a homage to the original. Honestly feels like the franchise needs to have a genre switch up to force it to be something original.
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Ditto the vast majority of Stephen King adaptations.
Nah, there are some solid adaptations. Green Mile comes to mind. The two Pet Semtary's aren't off the mark. The Shawshank Redemption was brilliant. Plenty more. But we will not speak of The Lawnmower Man.
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Oooo as someone who has seen the movie and never read the book, any sales pitch for me for the book?
You already got great responses. I'll add that World War Z is a direct ripoff of Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation. And I mean that in a good way.
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All the WTFery in that War of the Worlds thing Amazon just crapped out.
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Can I flip the script? Black Hawk Down was the most faithful adaptation of a book I've ever seen. As to the book, the author wanted to tell the story of the Battle of Mogadishu, faithfully. He had unprecedented, at the time, access to Defense Department files, interviewed everyone involved, strived for perfect accuracy.
When those guys are on that street corner, that's what happened.
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I think they would have gotten away with that movie if it wasn't for the ending. Like yeah they completely destroyed the source material, but at least it's possible to have an interesting movie. Except like the last freaking third of the movie is just boring. Crushingly boring.
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Every single aspect of that show is just straight garbage. It is no redeeming features. At all
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Just pick a scene from The Hobbit movies and there's your answer. Any scene.
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The Dark Tower. Good movie in its own right, especially if you like Idris Elba.
First, they took 8 Stephen King books, some of which were like 2" thick, and decided to turn it into a 90-minute PG-13 film. A single film.
Second, because the racist element was so offensive (a Black woman taken out of the 1970s, who has personally experienced racism toward her, is taken to a foreign world, an alternate reality, where she basically is led by an old white man (modeled after Clint Eastwood) and naturally she feels a certain type of way about that) they decided they were going to change it up. Make her white, and him Black. Hence casting Idris Elba as a guy based on Clint Eastwood. Then they dropped her character entirely. I will argue that Elba made a hell of a Gunslinger, but the reason they cast him was because they wanted to turn the whole racism plot on its head. For no good reason. It was fine in the books (this would be The Drawing of the Three, and The Waste Lands, the second and third books).
But for all that, it was an entertaining action flick with a bunch of Stephen King references. I quite like it. As a reader of the books and a fan of Stephen King, I shouldn't, but the movie itself was good.
Honestly that the movie exists at all is the worst change, though.
I love the Dark Tower series and hadn't seen the movie yet. They dropped Susannah out ENTIRELY? Seriously???
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Jurassic Park. The original was a horror/thriller that would have had to be unrated if they made it literally from the book. Instead, we got a PG-13 family film that really did not live up to the book.
In fact, it’s the first time that I read the book before seeing the movie, and I learned to never ever do that again.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Honestly? Gotta disagree. It's been a long time since I've read the book but I remember being disappointed by it after seeing the movie. Maybe I'll give it a reread and see if my opinion's changed. ETA: fuck all the movie sequels though, no one needed that shit.
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OK, here's the thing. Overall, Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy is extremely good. I think it's the best Tolkien adaptation we're likely to ever get.
HOWEVER.
The random "Arwen is dying!" subplot was incredibly fucking stupid and while it didn't ruin the movies for me, it did dampen my enjoyment of them. There had to be a better way to get more screentime for Liv Tyler, surely.
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Literally every single detail of the Eragon movie. God I hope someone actually adapts it well some day. Not that it's the world's best prose or anything but I truly believe it would be a great series with the proper director and cast. You know, where literally any of them had read and appreciated the source material.
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Yeah, IIRC it was the first Bond made after Star Wars and somebody must have gone "Hey, this one has 'Moon' in the title!"
When they inevitably reboot Bond, it would be cool to see period adaptations of all the Fleming novels. The Connery films come the closest.
When they inevitably reboot Bond, it would be cool to see period adaptations of all the Fleming novels.
That'd be very cool, and it'd make me very happy if they started with making a seriously good adaptation of Moonraker.
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Please don't fuck up project hail mary.. please don't fuck up project hail mary..
that book was practically written for tv, I think it will probably go well enough
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Literally every single detail of the Eragon movie. God I hope someone actually adapts it well some day. Not that it's the world's best prose or anything but I truly believe it would be a great series with the proper director and cast. You know, where literally any of them had read and appreciated the source material.
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All the adaptations of I Am Legend are bad, but 2007 movie was insulting. It gave the illusion of following the book, but then did a u-tutn and completely changed the meaning of the story and the title itself.
In the movie the protagonist becomes a legend because he sacrifices himself to cure vampirism.
In the book he is the last man in a world of vampires, he kills vampires, and understands that he is like a legendary monster that kills people in their sleep. He is then executed.
