What's the worst change made in a movie adaptation of a book?
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Like yappy, but with a disrespectful attitude for no reason.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I'm familiar with the word... I just think it betrays a bit of misogyny. Probably not even consciously.
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I, Robot.
Asimov was explicitly trying to get away from the trope of "robots take over humanity". To be clear, the first short story that became I, Robot was published in 1940. "Robots take over humanity" was already an SF trope by then. Hollywood comes along more than half a century later and dives head first right back into that trope.
Lt Cmdr Data is more what Asimov had it mind. In fact, Data's character has direct references to Asimov, like his positronic brain.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Asimov came up with the three laws of robotics.
He then spent the rest of his life writing examples of how they don't work.
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Dune.
Turning the Bene Gesserit power of Voice into some weird gun was fucking stupid.
Edit to add: first film adaptation from the 80s. The latest movies have been good.
and the rain at the end
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True enough. I do not like their Tolkien fantasy series, it's clunky in some way, or the actors are not right, something is off. WOT, I quite liked most of the casting, loved the sets and landscapes and costuming and took the edits in stride, thought of it as an "inspired by".
My hope would be an animated series.
And as a William Gibson fan, oh I am used to disappointment.
And they did the right thing by calling it Rings of Power and treading new ground instead of warping old stories.
That's what they should have done with WOT.
"Another Turn of the Wheel" where we see a group of young people mentored by a grizzled Moridin(see where I am going here) after their village is raided by Trollocs that haven't been seen for 500 years.
I would watch that even after seeing what they did to WOT.
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I Am Legend
The ending was completely and utterly different than the book, which destroyed the gut punch at the end of the book that was kind of the whole theme of the book.
I don't even remember the book as a whole. But I remember the ending. Then they Hollywooded it and it was awful.
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Dune.
Turning the Bene Gesserit power of Voice into some weird gun was fucking stupid.
Edit to add: first film adaptation from the 80s. The latest movies have been good.
As a Dune lover, I have a soft spot for the 1980s version. The thing I tell people before watching is, "this isn't Dune, this is a fever dream David Lynch had about the idea of Dune."
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I'm familiar with the word... I just think it betrays a bit of misogyny. Probably not even consciously.
wrote last edited by [email protected]No, it was certainly deliberate (and a little cheeky), but without any generalized hatred. Zendaya's Chani just happens to exhibit it and, as such, she cannot realistically be the idealised extremely mature, softly feminine (but realistic and pragmatic because she's a Fremen still) and self-sacrificial teenager both Muad'dib (another teenager but a princeling infused with excess, inhuman knowledge) and the story need for it to make sense. Paul needs someone of his caliber, but a yin to his yang, and OG Chani is exactly that. The sexes are different and our shortcomings come in different shades: needlessly argumentative and difficult "lippy" is to women what arrogant "mansplaining" or physical and erratical "brutish" is to men, for example.
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Dune.
Turning the Bene Gesserit power of Voice into some weird gun was fucking stupid.
Edit to add: first film adaptation from the 80s. The latest movies have been good.
Yeah, the 80s version took a lot of liberties, most of which didn't work out. The ending specifically.
But I still like the visuals and the music and the actors more than the new movies. Yeah, I know the new ones have crazy CG visuals, but the set designs from the 80s version were just more....unique in my opinion. That made the world feel more interesting. And I liked the 80s Baron way more than the new Baron, despite really respecting Stellan Skarsgard. Kenneth McMillan played a really psychotic Baron.
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I Am Legend
The ending was completely and utterly different than the book, which destroyed the gut punch at the end of the book that was kind of the whole theme of the book.
I don't even remember the book as a whole. But I remember the ending. Then they Hollywooded it and it was awful.
Sympathetic antagonist -> brainless monster
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I Am Legend
The ending was completely and utterly different than the book, which destroyed the gut punch at the end of the book that was kind of the whole theme of the book.
I don't even remember the book as a whole. But I remember the ending. Then they Hollywooded it and it was awful.
I believe they did so because people didn't like the original ending.
Not saying it's right, just that that's the reason why
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Honestly, I'm not even going to see it. The book was so insanely good that I cannot entertain the possibility of a movie straying even one millimeter from the source material.
I don't know if the same people are involved in this one, but I love the movie version of the Martian - I think it's a very faithful adaptation, with acceptable changes for the medium. Slightly more grandiose and optimistic ending, possibly to be palatable to a wide audience, but nothing that ruined the experience.
If it's even close to that balance of good adaptation and good movie, it will absolutely be worth watching.
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The fact that gods and magic also seemingly exist really fucks me up because its explicit in Tue original book that god is just a tool for smarter people (Foundation) to manipulate dumber people (everyone else).
Obnoxious atheist take? Sure I guess.
But it feels as if someone rebooted harry potter and made the kids saying something nice about trans people or Jews.
The religion of technology was something that I especially enjoyed in the books. There were many highlights that Goyer chose to ignore.
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Just finished reading the books. But i started book one and season 1 together and quickly saw they were completely different. But i watched the show first and it cemented how characters looked which is what i wanted before i read it.
After finishing all 14 and now on new spring im glad the show gave me direction to imagine a lot of them.
Yeah the casting and costuming was pretty good for the most part with the very slight exception that I felt Rosamund Pike was a bit tall for the diminutive Moiraine. Apart from that I loved how faithful they were to the characters' descriptions even if they did go wildly off the rails with the story.
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Yeah the casting and costuming was pretty good for the most part with the very slight exception that I felt Rosamund Pike was a bit tall for the diminutive Moiraine. Apart from that I loved how faithful they were to the characters' descriptions even if they did go wildly off the rails with the story.
Well i never knew the audio book was done by moiraine herself. But i do ageee, especially after just finishing new spring tonight everyone mentioned how short she was and i never thought to much of that difference while reading the books. I guess when she got her ageless face no one spoke to much of it.
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As a Dune lover, I have a soft spot for the 1980s version. The thing I tell people before watching is, "this isn't Dune, this is a fever dream David Lynch had about the idea of Dune."
That's a really good description.
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and the rain at the end
Ugh yeah
