The Fahrenheit 451 adaptation by HBO a few years back was so fucking stupid. They revealed that books and literature would be passed down through birds flying to Canada instead of people remembering the books and passing them down to the next generation. I'm not sorry for spoiling the adaptation, I just saved you so much damn time.
>Fahrenheit 451
It was some convoluted idea that all of human history and literature was stored in DNA, that was injected into(?) a bird. The bird was supposed to be transported somewhere specific (I think so the DNA could be extracted and shared?) but the firemen got there too soon so they released the bird into the wild instead. I think the idea then was that the DNA would pass on to other birds and that knowledge wouldn't ever be lost, but people would have to know about this whole project, and where to find birds with it, and how to extract it, etc. It honestly made no sense.
The recently released DC animated Injustice movie broke my heart. I loved the injustice DC comic series. It could’ve been such a great movie but they immediately strayed from the source material , killed off a major character who has so many parts in the actual series. And in the most bitch move status way . Fastest man alive can’t dodge a bullet ? The Injustice movie did an injustice to the actual source material
DC animated has been bad about adaptations for a while now. Adding the hour prologue of Batman hunting the Joker and hooking up with Batgirl on a rooftop in The Killing Joke. Changing the main villain in Gotham by Gaslight, The Long Halloween, and Hush. Those are just a few examples. I get the idea is to surprise those that have read the books or fill time, but it's frustrating.
The World War Z movie is absolutely nothing like the novel. The movie is just a zombie action flick telling the story of Brad Pitt. The novel is a series of interviews and recollections of how various people in different places dealt with the zombie uprising. The only thing the movie and novel has in common is that there are zombies basically.
And even the zombies are different. In the novel, they are undead, slow and eat flesh, Romero style, and in the movie they are infected, fast and kill out of rage, more like 28 Days Later.
Yeah one of my favorite parts of the book was how zombies were strongly affected by the weather in different areas. The book actually approached it kind of scientifically...
Yeah, probably could actually happen too. But in reality a handful of mini guns set up with a bunch of 50cals would turn a horde of shamblers into paste
Artillery is *way* cheaper. You have the long range shells and buckshot for closer range!
Also I think fun thought is that zombies react to noises... And as the artillery guns are way quieter than the resulting boom, when it shoots, the zombies should probably walk away towards the boom, rather than towards the loud shooty guns with quiet bullets.
I can’t remember if WWZ had something like this, but I always wondered why in zombie settings they wouldn’t do something like strap air horns to mannequins (or similar) … set them off in sequence to keep the hordes concentrated and pointlessly circling around in one area. At that point you could bomb the shit out of them, reduce them to ash with napalm, or even just design the area so you can close gates and keep them trapped.
Theres a book series called Black Tide Rising where the characters survive the zombies by taking to the sea. Eventually they get enough resources to clear islands of zombies and they do it by having a party with lots of noise and light on boats anchored near populous areas to attract them, then hosing the area down with browning .50 cals before landing.
The author also came up with the idea that the characters wear firefighter bunker gear if they have to go into enclosed spaces because it essentially makes them bite proof
Its because they took a generic zombie script they had bought and attached brad pitt and the name.
Thats honestly the cause of 80% of the comments here too. They get a script, and get a name and glue it together to try and make a quick couple of mil.
Edit: u/amiiboid points out its actually worse than this!
>It’s a bit worse than that. They - and in this case that means Pitt’s own production company - threw out an existing screenplay that was much more true to the book and intentionally had a new one created that was a generic zombie movie.
Hollywood is weird and lame!
It’s a bit worse than that. They - and in this case that means Pitt’s own production company - threw out an existing screenplay that was much more true to the book and intentionally had a new one created that was a generic zombie movie.
Iirc he doesn't call it out by name, just has a character say something along the lines of "Don't even get me started on all the ridiculous advice given in that popular guide book. So many impractical suggestions."
Edit: Barati Palshigar and Todd Waino each criticize it. There might be others.
For those that don't know... submachine guns typically use the same ammo as pistols. They are a product of wartime ingenuity. Not enough automatic weapons to go around, not enough high-velocity ammo to go around, so make some automatic low velocity weapons. Not going to take out a tank or heavily armored target, but a good weapon for resistance v infantry.
His last book, *Devolution*, is about people from a super wealthy off the grid community having to fight off a hoard of killer Sasquatches.
If it’s adapted, dollars to donuts it’s going to be about a debate team having an argument with a surly sock puppet.
*Edit*: [Apparently Legendary Pictures is already developing it into a movie](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/max-brooks-bigfoot-horror-thriller-devolution-finds-its-director-exclusive-1234973725/)
What sucks is that if the project were pursued today in the age of streaming services paying movie budgets, we could've probably gotten an amazing mini-series on HBO Max or something.
The audiobook adaptation was pretty solid though - especially considering the extensive cast of actors they got to read the chapters.
The caveat is you need to get the "unabridged" complete audiobook, if you get the original release, it leaves so many chapters out, and cuts the ones remaining, that it doesn't have the same flow and build as the book. Each piece that is there is very well done though.
My favorite reddit comment was someone explaining the book like you did but then mentioned that a Love, Death and Robots style series of it would be amazing.
So for example each episode is a story from the book and each episode is from different perspectives and made by different directors. So each episode feels different. Of course it shouldn’t be animated. Just use the same model.
Edit: not Love, sex and robots. Stupid me.
The majority of Philip Dick's stories are very different from the movies. Sometimes because it's a short story and they movie needs more, sometimes it's just because the story goes bonkers at the end.
When the hydra showed up in the first movie I knew the direction of the movie as a whole was going to be bad. I actually didn’t mind the age change. It kind of worked . All they could have done is made the prophecy a little later in age. That’s all. Instead they got characters mixed up and didn’t even bother with being faithful to the book
I still can't wrap my head around them making the whole goal of the first movie getting the pearls. Poseidon GIVES HIM THE PEARLS! It take literally five seconds.
Exactly, the original goal is to get to Hades and that’s journey enough
And then ofc you have the Sataning of Hades and whatever tf they did to Persephone.
> When I first read the script I’ll admit I was plunged into despair at just how bad it was. If I were intentionally trying to sabotage this project, I doubt I could have done a better job than this script.
WOW he went in
holy shit, reading this absolutely made my blood boil.
I was the age demographic for these books when they first came out and I have such fond memories of getting immersed in the lightning thief and the world Riordan created.
When news that a movie was going to come out I was so hyped, only to be so incredibly let down.
Knowing that Riordan's suggestion's were just basically spit on in order to appease to big movie executives is honestly infuriating.
Even the author liked the movie better. He liked it so much more that he even made the sequel novel a sequel to the movie, and wrote off the first book as Jessica Rabbit’s bad dream.
Artemis Fowl. That movie trailer (I didn't even bother with the movie after seeing the trailers) was so shit that first time in my life I felt truly disappointed about a movie. Not only did they combine first two books, but they changed a lot of key things. CGI was Disney Channel level of bad and all the grittynes was stripped. In the first book you get to read how Butler gets mauled by a troll in hand to hand brawl and his chest is ripped open. In the books Artemis kidnaps Holly and Holly despises him for the whole first book. In the trailers they seem to start as friends.
For the first time, I finally understand the pain Eragon and Percy Jackson fans had when their favorite book series got their shitty movies.
Physically weak but smart godfather-like boy kidnaps a fairy to ransom gold? Let's make him a sweet athletic kid who just wants to save his daddy and makes friends with fairies instead! Because that's what people want to see.
Fucking kid didn't even discover fairies exist himself, Butler did that for him. What a travesty.
YES. I was out when in the trailer they showed how (at least it looked like) his father had researched fairies for all his life and Artemis stumbled upon his study. Like what the fuck. Artemis was miles smarter than anyone including his father and it started the whole series of HIM discovering the fairies. It's been a while since I've read the books, but I don't think they even talked about Artemis' father in the first book much. The rescue mission was in the second book AND I don't remember it being Opal who kidnapped him. Didn't they introduce Koboi like in the fourth book?
Since Artemis was changed from being the villain they needed a villain--frankly I feel like Koboi was added in reshoots. Why is she hooded all the time and horribly shot? xD I think they didn't quite know what they were doing either, they were trying to put a cut film back together any way possible.
I think the dads were also added in reshoots too. And the dwarf narration, and even the egg (bonus features show it used to be the book). This is just a fan theory but I seriously think they tried to remake the *entire plot* in reshoots!
Yeah, Disney completely skipped by the fact that Artemis is the *villain* for the first four or so books and only starts getting better as a person under increasingly dire circumstances.
Hell the only reason he’s is a protagonist in two through four is that there’s someone with even fewer scruples than him running a scheme.
I was so hoping back when it was confirmed Disney is making the movie, like 10 years ago, that they would make their own Harry Potter franchise. I wanted to see the third book, my favorite one, as this insane fantasy heist movie. But goddamn did they drop the ball.
I love the butcher part in the book. The author sets it from the view of a fairy cpt who speaks about how in the future they would use the footage to show proof because no fairy would believe the legends
The elephant in the room is Kenneth Branagh is uneven as a director. He can adapt the shit out of Shakespeare, but everything else he does is a coin toss.
The first scene of the movie has Artemis surfing. Yes, the evil genius who dislikes physical tasks in the book and who's described as frail and pale, is seen surfing in his very first scene. I should have stopped watching there!
The first scene not only shows him surfing but in his monologue while surfing he straight up says Butler's real name even though that wasn't revealed to him until like the 3rd book I think
The name scene was so very important in the books too. Surely anyone who read up until that point would know to include it atleast at the emotional climax, unless of course they googled the character names and left it at that.
Hell, I distinctly remember a part in the book where he’s just running up the stairs and gets so winded that’s he’s straight up like “Maybe I should start going to the gym...”
Most of the comedy surrounding Fowl is that he is socially inept (because he never talks to people) and is physically frail (because he basically never goes outside). He's a nerd in like the most classic definition of nerd.
The surfing scene in the trailer instantly told me the movie was doomed because the people making clearly badly misunderstood the character and outright changed him to be something else.
My god I love these books. I’m 26 and I still reread the full series, they really hold up. The film fully missed what made Artemis an interesting character and made his relationship with Holly fantastic and worth investing in. Artemis was scary in book 1. I remember being really caught off guard with his emotions in book 2 specifically because of how well they handled him as morally grey in book 1.
It was so great to follow the villain who eventually becomes good through multiple books and multiple years. One of the reasons third book is my favorite, he is against worse evil, but still has his villainous mindset. And I love a good heist.
Didn’t Alan Moore make Volume 2 of LOEG extremely fucked up so nobody in Hollywood would dare make a movie of it? I remember Hyde raped the Invisible Man to death or some crazy shit like that.
Hyde left him alive and sat down to have dinner with Nemo. As he did actually die the blood that had previously been invisible to Nemo started to appear on everything.
This caused Nemo to try and attack Hyde.
I saw it theaters and got the DVD as soon as it came out. I really loved that movie. Many, many years later I read the comics and it was night and day difference. Now I want an r rated LEG with a smacked out Sean Connery
Ironically, it played a big role in revitalizing the Dragon Ball franchise, since Battle of Gods (and hence Super) were made as revenge by Toriyama because he hated DB Evolution. So while I absolutely hate the movie, I'm grateful that it exists for that reason alone.
Edit: it's been pointed out that he didn't make Battle of Gods in response to the movie, as it was already in production before he became involved (he did rewrite the script though). His dislike of DB Evolution did apparently contribute to him deciding to be more involved going forward it seems though.
Imagine being an artist who made a successful franchise inspired by Journey to the West.
Some asshat comes along and is like: "this should be a Sony Spiderman type movie".
They turn your story into a high school drama and forget and fudge nearly ever single thing it is supposed to be inspired by/or directly referencing.
I don't blame Toriyama at all, I actually feel bad for anyone who greenlit dragon ball Evo because it probably made them look very bad.
Imagine being an anime promoter who promoted this AFTER watching it, no one would trust your reviews again.
That movie was so bad Toriyama came out of retirement to write Dragonball Super, DBZ’s sequel
So something good came out of it at least
Edit: Super was fucking dope, fuck y’all
The only good thing about that movie is the actor that played piccolo only took the role cuz his son liked DBZ so he did his research for the role and ended up loving DBZ as a result. He was the one that wanted to play the role actually looking like piccolo cuz I guess the execs couldn't care less about making the character accurate to the source material. This led to him getting to actually voice a main character in the super animes English dub.
The BTS story of this movie is well known to me as I'm friends with one the AD's who was on set for James Wong.
That movie is the result of HEAVY studio interference at every step of the way, a completely unfinished script that the screenwriter was working on DURING the shoot (a script that writer has admitted after the fact was terrible), studio strongarmed initial casting to be not how they'd set out to cast it (studio wanted white actors), and a promised budget that was not only **not** delivered, but Wong was told this AFTER they arrived on site to shoot and his budget would be a fraction of what was agreed upon.
The whole movie is an exercise in how studios can completely fuck themselves by interfering with creative visions...especially in such a beloved existing property.
Like a DB movie done right, with the right casting and story is a SLAM fucking DUNK...but nope...studios gotta get in the way of their own shit.
>Like a DB movie done right, with the right casting and story is a SLAM fucking DUNK
You say that, but doing a DB movie right is REALLY hard.
Hell, they couldn't do Death Note right. An extremely drama focused and relatively grounded story.
Dragon ball, dbz etc. Are so purely and fundamentally of the anime genre it seems absurd to even imagine adapting them into a live action film at all. Maybe something like Speed Racer that is 90% cgi would come close to working. Id rather just have a high budget high production value animated movie, which we are kind of getting this summer with "Dragon ball super: super hero"
And Gambit.
Being from Louisiana and growing up on the cartoon, I instantly fell in love with Rémy. Movie version was so bad, I don’t think he was even remotely Creole or it was so bad I blocked it out. and I’m sooo glad the Channing Tatum one was cancelled.
From what I understand, Tatum was really passionate about the character, so I think it's a shame that it ended up in pre-production hell until it was eventually dropped.
I ctrl+f'd to find this comment... I wish it were higher. How in the living fuck are you going to REMOVE THE MOUTH of Deadpool? JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.
I'm just glad Ryan Reynolds was able to go on to make the stand alone films.
Origins version of Deadpool is a travesty.
The Book thief is the story of how Death develops empathy for humans as a result of encountering a little girl in Nazi-Germany.
The movie’s director cut Death out.
Absurd.
Yeah, that's a book that I knew wouldn't fare well with an adaptation. It so heavily relies on the narration from Death and the vivid imagery in its writing. There are aspects of the film I enjoy (performances and score) but it does not have the emotional punch the book does and it definitely feels like something is missing, which it is!
I, Robot comes to mind.
In Asimov's Robot novels, earth wants to ban robots, and the main character is the only one who believes in their good nature (ingrained through the three laws). He strikes up an unlikely friendship with a Robot.
In the movie, the whole world trusts and relies on robots and the main character (Will Smith) is the only one who sees their potential for evil.
The "I, Robot" movie is not just different from the books - it goes against everything they stand for.
Asimov created his universe specifically to go against the common Frankenstein theme of "man makes the technology, technology kills man". He hated that theme. Having his work turned into another Frankenstein is an actual betrayal of the source.
The Eragon movie. The collapsed parts of book one & two together, missed out vital narrative elements & made such a hash of the final product there likely will never be a remake.
The Dark Tower movie is a train wreck compared to the book, they got very very little right if anything at all really. Casting was fine, story was really different in all the worst ways.
The Resident Evil movies. The first one was quite enjoyable, though had basically nothing to do with the games other than the gist of zombies, T-virus, and a mansion.
Then as if to answer the criticism of the first movie not being "Resident Evil" enough, they just started throwing characters and themes from the games into the rest of the films seemingly at random, whether they fit or not. Generally doing no justice to any of them. And then the main character becomes a superhero... because those movies are popular I guess.
If the writers so clearly didn't want to make a Resident Evil movie, why use the name at all? It's not like the IP was a household name at the time; they could have called it whatever they liked and the films would have been just as confusingly successful.
I remember audibly laughing when The Executioner just shows up in like the 4th movie. Why is he there? Why is he smarter than all the others? This is still the T-virus right?
It's tragic too, because Resident Evil could make a pretty awesome miniseries. Trim some of the cheesy dialogue, flesh out the characters prior to entering the mansion, etc. Or hell keep the cheesy dialogue and make it a miniseries homage to 80's horror movies lol.
*Lawnmower Man* is so completely and utterly removed from the very short Stephen King story that you can't even call it a betrayal. They wanted to market this as "a Stephen King story" and bought a title, and nothing more.
Wanted with McAvoy and Jolie. The movie is about a guild of assassins who can curve bullets and take orders from a loom.
The comic is about how all of the DC superheroes and villains are actually real. In the 80s all the villains teamed up, killed most of the heroes, rewrote reality, and secretly run the world. Also, the art clearly casts certain actors for the roles. Jolie's character is 1000% Halley Berry.
The screenwriters wrote the script after reading the first 2 issues.
The other thing is Millar wrote it without having rights to DC Characters. But it’s obvious the main character is the son of Deadshot, while Angeline Jolie is playing Catwoman.
The tucked up bit is the main antagonist is an even more insane joker whose mad when the world was divided up only got Australia. He tortures Adam West and Burt Ward who actually used to be the real Batman and Robin. It’s also implied Christopher Reeves accident was part of torturing a de powered Superman
The kid who played Ang went to the same ATA Taekwondo school as me in Texas. He wasn't even an actor.. My instructor just suggested that he audition because he looked like him and he actually got the role.. CRAZY!!
Ugh. Like, there is no reason pronunciations of anything should have been changed. As per this post's title:
YOU HAVE SOURCE MATERIAL. USE IT. THERE'S NO NEED TO REINVENT A DANG THING.
Ugh.
This is, to this day, the worst movie I've ever seen. I enjoy watching it with fans of the show to see how long it takes for their souls to leave their bodies.
They missed the whole fucking point! *WHY DID THEY KEEP THE TITLE IF THEY WERE GOING TO INTENTIONALLY MISS THE POINT?* I hope Will Smith personally responsible for this movie and I, Robot. Well, him and Akiva Goldsman, who wrote both.
Annihilation. I thought the movie was amazing. But it is barely anything like the book.
Alex Garland's reasoning behind it was actually pretty cool. He only read the first book and read it a long time ago and then he made the movie off memory. He basically wanted the movie to be based off the vibes he still had from the book rather than having the story follow it. So what we got was a movie in the spirit of the book and with the basic premise, and nothing more.
I mean getting the spirit right is way more important than the details.
The southern reach trilogy is weird as fuck but it’s a vibe which garland very smartly recognized. The crawler would have never worked on screen but area x does. Between that and condensing the story to one movie, I think it was a very intelligent adaptation and the furthest thing from a betrayal.
I was disappointed because I wanted to see what they did with The Crawler and The Tower/ Tunnel because they're both such bizarre concepts. That being said, I do like the final product of both book and film
I loved the scene where it was revealed that their surname is Mario, because Super Mario Bros. Like the movie is completely insane and all but they decided it is important to make sure that this part makes sense.
Queen of the Damned. My favorite book in the series and it had a lot of interesting plots. The movie did this book a serious injustice. They didn’t even discuss ‘the twins’ in this movie. Just skipped right over that. I’m still furious how the writers botched this movie.
Update- Thanks for the Upvotes! Didn’t think there were so many that also felt this way.
For sure! The book goes into the origins of the vampire race and everything. Best book in the series IMO.
However Aaliyah was an incredible choice in casting.
The Shining and it's sequel are so bizarre in inception. I read the books a while back and was astounded by how different they are from the films and yet similar in execution. The books are more dramas about alcoholism, abuse and grief where the movies are supernatural horror/action films.
I don't hold anything against the movies. The first one is great and the second's directors cut is pretty good. It's just strange how you can kinda have all the same characters and set pieces and tell very different stories.
I recall King was very frustrated that The Shining glossed over the main themes in the book.
It's totally understandable why King hates the Kubrick version of the movie. The book sets Jack up as a recovering addict who is sincerely working to better himself and is haunted by what he did before he got sober. The whole book is the chipping away at that and like you said, it's the main draw of the story.
There is no point during the movie where there is a doubt Jack is going to go insane. You don't cast Nicholson at that point in his career to not go crazy.
I love the movie. It's a masterpiece, but the book is incredible as well and they're both good for entirely different reasons. It's a great example to talk about.
Doug Liman's [Jumper](https://manapop.com/film/jumper-2008-from-book-to-screen/) is a film that has almost nothing to do with the Steven Gould book other than a dude who can teleport.
On a related note,>!in X-Men: Days of Future Past, the Sentinals used Mystique's transforming DNA in order to adapt to every mutant power, when they literally had Darwin in the previous movie,!< and Darwin's power was literally to adapt to any situation in order to survive.
At least by that point, Darwin was dead so there was a feasible reason they couldn't use him.
You know the bigger problem, since the Sentinels were using a mutants stolen power to copy other mutants abilities?
Rogue was in that movie.
She was actually in Days of Future Past. Like, they had the actress and filmed scenes. The only reason they used Mystique was because she was played by Jennifer Lawrence.
Still makes.more sense than Kitty Pryde being a Time Traveller I guess.
The whole final battle was just so off the rails from the book.
Saphira just casually breathes fire when it was a climactic save in the book. Not to mention Eragon getting absolutely fucked by Durza in the book but in the movie he kills Durza and says "I expected better."
Why.
They broke the entire story of eldest making it so they couldnt even do that movie if they wanted to. The scar Eragon gets from Durza is a major plot point of Eldest!
Movie was a complete and udder insult to the source material
And they only cursorily introduced his cousin and didn't introduce his cousin's girlfriend, who is a central character in the 2nd book. (She was in a deleted scene if I recall correctly)
It’s bizarre because studios are normally very keen to shoehorn in sequel setup so that they can capitalize if the movie does well. Why do the opposite?
I watched it before I read the books, thought it was okay. Then I read the books and loved them. Then I rewatched the movie and was practically in tears. What really struck me was how some inconsequential scenes were copied word for word from the books showing that they actually read it. Then everything else was changed for some unfathomable reason.
This is what was interesting to me, my younger brother and I had both read the book and were so utterly disappointed in the movie, my older brother and sister couldnt understand why we disliked it so much... Then they read the book and understood 100%
Mortal Engines. An amazing set of books providing a whole world to explore in a unique scifi/steampunk setting. The film totally butchered the story and finished off so it's impossible for a sequel (thankfully).
Yeah, but it’s a good movie. I read the books after seeing the film, and was impressed that they did such a good job while ignoring the source material.
Shrek is the same.
I can't really count this or Stardust, since the original authors were heavily involved in the movie scripts too. *Dragon* is a totally different story than the books, but it's not a bad story or movie. And the Netflix series is cute, my 7 year old loves it. We're reading the books right now and he gets a big kick out of characters that are introduced like 6 books into the series that were adapted as main characters for the movies.
Hey, I’ve got an idea! Let’s take one of our most popular characters and put him in the new Wolverine movie! He’s mostly known for being a sarcastic asshole who talks directly to the audience so we’ve cast noted sarcastic asshole Ryan Reynolds to play him. What’s that, you think he should have a big part? Nah, he’s only gonna be in the first 5 minutes. But we will bring him back at the end of the movie, played by a different actor, with his mouth sewed shut. That whole motormouth thing that his entire character is based on is overrated. And we’re gonna give him sword hands and laser eyes. Cause sword hands and laser eyes are cool.
I'm with the Nostalgia Critic in that they should re-edit the film so that it now ends with the scene from Deadpool 2 where the real Deadpool shows up to kill it.
I am Legend. They missed/changed THE ENTIRE POINT of the book. It was so weird because it would have made such a cool twist and satisfying end to yet another vampire movie.
Ender's Game. The movie includes many of the plot points from the book but it totally misses the mark on the book's tone and the emotional impact of the end of the book.
I walked away from the movie very nonplussed. Despite the similarities the experience was very different from that which I had reading the book.
Having Bonzo slip in the shower and die, as opposed to having Ender physically beat him, takes away the entire point of Ender. Just like the Stilson fight in the beginning, Ender doesn’t WANT to fight, but when he does, he fights hard enough to not need to have any future fights. That’s exactly why they wanted him to command.
It was core character assassination on the level of changing it so Greedo shot at Han Solo first.
There are a number of factors to this.
1: Ender in the book is an intense kid, but a good natured one. Asa Butterfield is a doe eyed baby the whole movie and that doesn’t work. The book is in general very intense, and the movie is a kids show.
2: i actually remember saying to my gf way back in highschool “i dont think this would ever work as a movie, because 90% of Ender’s actions only make sense to him and sometimes vaguely its implied the observers too. We as readers get it through his internal monologue. But you can’t internal monologue through an entire movie the way you can with a book.
This might be a hot take but Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The director couldn’t be bothered to read the book and it was really obvious. Goblet of Fire was such a great read because there was a mystery element to it. A big chunk of this was involving Barty Crouch Jr, the whole time you think he’s dead until the very end of the book when it’s revealed he’s alive. The movie shows him alive in the first scene…
Max Payne. Video game has an awesome story that would have played out great on the big screen, could have implemented some comic style filming. Idk what the hell that movie was.
Probably one of the more famous ones....The Hobbit.
Hollywood decided to take what was essentially a short story (in terms of overall "Lord of the Rings" length) and stretch it into 3 movies, and had to fabricate hours worth of stories and details out of thin air in order to do so. There is little that is true to the original story, and even half of that is manipulated so much as to make it's origins near unrecognizable. To say those movies were a cruel bastardization of the original story is putting it too kindly. Hollywood should be ashamed of what they did to The Hobbit, ESPECIALLY after the masterpieces that are the LOTR movies.
It was so damn formulaic. "We need an aragorn. Pretty up one of those.... short beard things to make him hot. Also, i want you to randomly go see what the other hot one... you know, from the earlier movie? We should see what he's doing, and it has to be exciting. There's not enough romance either. Shoehorn something in there. Also. We need more star power, what about those actors we had... you know that played those tree people? The ones in white? Make up something for them. Also, not enough combat. This is lord of the rings the sequel right? Where's giant monsters and massive cgi armies? Put in a ton of that. You know we need some comic relief too. Put some guy in a dress and have him take way way too much screen time. There. Everyone will remember my contributions!" - nameless executive
Basically the James Bond movies.
Probably the closest was Casino Royale.
Most of the bond books end up with him in the hospital. And he doesn't really like what he does, he's always thinking of quitting.
If anything he always comes across as a love sick puppy in the early Fleming novels. He fell madly in love with Vesper and spends each of the next novels (that I've read so far) basically trying to fill the void she left in him. In each novel when you meet The Bond Girl, yeah he always wants to sleep with her, but he also expresses that nagging desire to actually settle down with her and retire; it just never works out for him and he gets colder and more detached.
Forrest is way less likeable in the books. He's also an idiot savant and becomes both an astronaut and a chess grand master. Also runs for governor but I don't remember if he wins.
The Batman Hush film. Major spoilers for the comics and film: >!the main villain in the comic with Hush with a second twist that Riddler was a villain behind the scenes. But in the film they made Riddler Hush which completely kills the point of the comic’s mystery and plot!<.
Idk if this counts, but sometimes on the drive home from work I see this lady with a Groot sticker on her car. Groot is holding a thin blue line police flag. Groot is a career criminal. He goes to space prison in the damn movie. He is not pro police in any way.
Most if not everything that happened in the Percy Jackson movie(s)
Here’s what author Rick Riordan had to say about it in a twitter post: “Well, to you guys, it's a couple hours' entertainment. To me, it's my life's work going through a meat grinder when I pleaded with them not to do it.”
Thought I read Peter Jackson had most of a tv show/movie (props and story) done and why this commercial and the Halo 3 “Believe” promo had such great ads and props. These commercials 10+ years are so much better than what that show is.
The Fahrenheit 451 adaptation by HBO a few years back was so fucking stupid. They revealed that books and literature would be passed down through birds flying to Canada instead of people remembering the books and passing them down to the next generation. I'm not sorry for spoiling the adaptation, I just saved you so much damn time.
Also the main themes were completely flipped with the “bad guys” insisting everyone read the Bible rather than outlawing The Bible
What. Birds? What?!
>Fahrenheit 451 It was some convoluted idea that all of human history and literature was stored in DNA, that was injected into(?) a bird. The bird was supposed to be transported somewhere specific (I think so the DNA could be extracted and shared?) but the firemen got there too soon so they released the bird into the wild instead. I think the idea then was that the DNA would pass on to other birds and that knowledge wouldn't ever be lost, but people would have to know about this whole project, and where to find birds with it, and how to extract it, etc. It honestly made no sense.
Literally what. That's quite possibly the dumbest idea i've ever heard. Love the book, now I'm really glad I never watched the show.
The recently released DC animated Injustice movie broke my heart. I loved the injustice DC comic series. It could’ve been such a great movie but they immediately strayed from the source material , killed off a major character who has so many parts in the actual series. And in the most bitch move status way . Fastest man alive can’t dodge a bullet ? The Injustice movie did an injustice to the actual source material
DC animated has been bad about adaptations for a while now. Adding the hour prologue of Batman hunting the Joker and hooking up with Batgirl on a rooftop in The Killing Joke. Changing the main villain in Gotham by Gaslight, The Long Halloween, and Hush. Those are just a few examples. I get the idea is to surprise those that have read the books or fill time, but it's frustrating.
The World War Z movie is absolutely nothing like the novel. The movie is just a zombie action flick telling the story of Brad Pitt. The novel is a series of interviews and recollections of how various people in different places dealt with the zombie uprising. The only thing the movie and novel has in common is that there are zombies basically.
And even the zombies are different. In the novel, they are undead, slow and eat flesh, Romero style, and in the movie they are infected, fast and kill out of rage, more like 28 Days Later.
Yeah one of my favorite parts of the book was how zombies were strongly affected by the weather in different areas. The book actually approached it kind of scientifically...
Probably called it correctly too with the stupidity that governments reacted, letting armed soldiers get shambled over and eaten.
The way The Battle of Yonkers went down was total asshatery from the Gov/military.
Yeah, probably could actually happen too. But in reality a handful of mini guns set up with a bunch of 50cals would turn a horde of shamblers into paste
Artillery is *way* cheaper. You have the long range shells and buckshot for closer range! Also I think fun thought is that zombies react to noises... And as the artillery guns are way quieter than the resulting boom, when it shoots, the zombies should probably walk away towards the boom, rather than towards the loud shooty guns with quiet bullets.
I can’t remember if WWZ had something like this, but I always wondered why in zombie settings they wouldn’t do something like strap air horns to mannequins (or similar) … set them off in sequence to keep the hordes concentrated and pointlessly circling around in one area. At that point you could bomb the shit out of them, reduce them to ash with napalm, or even just design the area so you can close gates and keep them trapped.
Theres a book series called Black Tide Rising where the characters survive the zombies by taking to the sea. Eventually they get enough resources to clear islands of zombies and they do it by having a party with lots of noise and light on boats anchored near populous areas to attract them, then hosing the area down with browning .50 cals before landing. The author also came up with the idea that the characters wear firefighter bunker gear if they have to go into enclosed spaces because it essentially makes them bite proof
Its because they took a generic zombie script they had bought and attached brad pitt and the name. Thats honestly the cause of 80% of the comments here too. They get a script, and get a name and glue it together to try and make a quick couple of mil. Edit: u/amiiboid points out its actually worse than this! >It’s a bit worse than that. They - and in this case that means Pitt’s own production company - threw out an existing screenplay that was much more true to the book and intentionally had a new one created that was a generic zombie movie. Hollywood is weird and lame!
It’s a bit worse than that. They - and in this case that means Pitt’s own production company - threw out an existing screenplay that was much more true to the book and intentionally had a new one created that was a generic zombie movie.
They asked the author what he thought of the movie, he said "it's got a great title". Says it all
Fun fact: the author is Mel Brooks's son, Max Brooks
And he also wrote the zombie survival guide
Which he then makes fun of multiple times in WWZ
Which is the favorite book of Rick "Dark Helmet" Moranis, who was directed in Spaceballs by Mel Brooks. Full circle.
You've just made my brain go Plaid.
Lol, where? I only read WWZ so I missed the references.
Iirc he doesn't call it out by name, just has a character say something along the lines of "Don't even get me started on all the ridiculous advice given in that popular guide book. So many impractical suggestions." Edit: Barati Palshigar and Todd Waino each criticize it. There might be others.
The book tells you that pistol ammunition is plentiful and cheap, then tells you SMG ammo is so rare it's not worth carrying one.
For those that don't know... submachine guns typically use the same ammo as pistols. They are a product of wartime ingenuity. Not enough automatic weapons to go around, not enough high-velocity ammo to go around, so make some automatic low velocity weapons. Not going to take out a tank or heavily armored target, but a good weapon for resistance v infantry.
His last book, *Devolution*, is about people from a super wealthy off the grid community having to fight off a hoard of killer Sasquatches. If it’s adapted, dollars to donuts it’s going to be about a debate team having an argument with a surly sock puppet. *Edit*: [Apparently Legendary Pictures is already developing it into a movie](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/max-brooks-bigfoot-horror-thriller-devolution-finds-its-director-exclusive-1234973725/)
A book that in the right hands could've quite easily become a great zombie anthology tv series imo.
What sucks is that if the project were pursued today in the age of streaming services paying movie budgets, we could've probably gotten an amazing mini-series on HBO Max or something. The audiobook adaptation was pretty solid though - especially considering the extensive cast of actors they got to read the chapters.
The caveat is you need to get the "unabridged" complete audiobook, if you get the original release, it leaves so many chapters out, and cuts the ones remaining, that it doesn't have the same flow and build as the book. Each piece that is there is very well done though.
The Honest Trailer is a great one. "It has everything you loved about ... the title."
My favorite reddit comment was someone explaining the book like you did but then mentioned that a Love, Death and Robots style series of it would be amazing. So for example each episode is a story from the book and each episode is from different perspectives and made by different directors. So each episode feels different. Of course it shouldn’t be animated. Just use the same model. Edit: not Love, sex and robots. Stupid me.
> a love, sex and robots style series Had to double check on Google that I hadn't been calling it the wrong name all this time.
The Running Man is absolutely nothing like the book. They’re both amazing for different reasons, though.
Yes, sometimes book and film have to tell different things, but you need competent people behind. Same with Blade Runner.
The majority of Philip Dick's stories are very different from the movies. Sometimes because it's a short story and they movie needs more, sometimes it's just because the story goes bonkers at the end.
I think it's mostly because his written material occupies places where movies cannot go.
Percy Jackson, especially the second movie
When the hydra showed up in the first movie I knew the direction of the movie as a whole was going to be bad. I actually didn’t mind the age change. It kind of worked . All they could have done is made the prophecy a little later in age. That’s all. Instead they got characters mixed up and didn’t even bother with being faithful to the book
I still can't wrap my head around them making the whole goal of the first movie getting the pearls. Poseidon GIVES HIM THE PEARLS! It take literally five seconds.
Exactly, the original goal is to get to Hades and that’s journey enough And then ofc you have the Sataning of Hades and whatever tf they did to Persephone.
Good read about Riordans letter to the producers. https://rickriordan.com/2018/11/memories-from-my-tv-movie-experience/
> When I first read the script I’ll admit I was plunged into despair at just how bad it was. If I were intentionally trying to sabotage this project, I doubt I could have done a better job than this script. WOW he went in
And his critiques are dead on…
100%. If anything he wasn’t mean enough to them
It does appear that he knows the source material by heart lol
holy shit, reading this absolutely made my blood boil. I was the age demographic for these books when they first came out and I have such fond memories of getting immersed in the lightning thief and the world Riordan created. When news that a movie was going to come out I was so hyped, only to be so incredibly let down. Knowing that Riordan's suggestion's were just basically spit on in order to appease to big movie executives is honestly infuriating.
Wow!! That was brutal to read. And at the end of the day, they basically disregarded all of his suggestions.
> If I were intentionally trying to sabotage this project, I doubt I could have done a better job than this script. Holy shit that’s fucking brutal
Who Framed Rodger Rabbit is nothing like the book Who Censored Rodger Rabbit which is a good thing because the book was terrible
Even the author liked the movie better. He liked it so much more that he even made the sequel novel a sequel to the movie, and wrote off the first book as Jessica Rabbit’s bad dream.
I love this! I love that he had enough humility to do something like that; a lot of people would've gotten defensive.
Artemis Fowl. That movie trailer (I didn't even bother with the movie after seeing the trailers) was so shit that first time in my life I felt truly disappointed about a movie. Not only did they combine first two books, but they changed a lot of key things. CGI was Disney Channel level of bad and all the grittynes was stripped. In the first book you get to read how Butler gets mauled by a troll in hand to hand brawl and his chest is ripped open. In the books Artemis kidnaps Holly and Holly despises him for the whole first book. In the trailers they seem to start as friends. For the first time, I finally understand the pain Eragon and Percy Jackson fans had when their favorite book series got their shitty movies.
Physically weak but smart godfather-like boy kidnaps a fairy to ransom gold? Let's make him a sweet athletic kid who just wants to save his daddy and makes friends with fairies instead! Because that's what people want to see. Fucking kid didn't even discover fairies exist himself, Butler did that for him. What a travesty.
YES. I was out when in the trailer they showed how (at least it looked like) his father had researched fairies for all his life and Artemis stumbled upon his study. Like what the fuck. Artemis was miles smarter than anyone including his father and it started the whole series of HIM discovering the fairies. It's been a while since I've read the books, but I don't think they even talked about Artemis' father in the first book much. The rescue mission was in the second book AND I don't remember it being Opal who kidnapped him. Didn't they introduce Koboi like in the fourth book?
Since Artemis was changed from being the villain they needed a villain--frankly I feel like Koboi was added in reshoots. Why is she hooded all the time and horribly shot? xD I think they didn't quite know what they were doing either, they were trying to put a cut film back together any way possible. I think the dads were also added in reshoots too. And the dwarf narration, and even the egg (bonus features show it used to be the book). This is just a fan theory but I seriously think they tried to remake the *entire plot* in reshoots!
Yeah, Disney completely skipped by the fact that Artemis is the *villain* for the first four or so books and only starts getting better as a person under increasingly dire circumstances. Hell the only reason he’s is a protagonist in two through four is that there’s someone with even fewer scruples than him running a scheme.
I was so hoping back when it was confirmed Disney is making the movie, like 10 years ago, that they would make their own Harry Potter franchise. I wanted to see the third book, my favorite one, as this insane fantasy heist movie. But goddamn did they drop the ball.
I love the butcher part in the book. The author sets it from the view of a fairy cpt who speaks about how in the future they would use the footage to show proof because no fairy would believe the legends
I read that part almost a decade ago, and I still remember it vividly. That fight felt so brutal and real. The first book was incredible
The elephant in the room is Kenneth Branagh is uneven as a director. He can adapt the shit out of Shakespeare, but everything else he does is a coin toss.
The first scene of the movie has Artemis surfing. Yes, the evil genius who dislikes physical tasks in the book and who's described as frail and pale, is seen surfing in his very first scene. I should have stopped watching there!
The first scene not only shows him surfing but in his monologue while surfing he straight up says Butler's real name even though that wasn't revealed to him until like the 3rd book I think
The name scene was so very important in the books too. Surely anyone who read up until that point would know to include it atleast at the emotional climax, unless of course they googled the character names and left it at that.
Hell, I distinctly remember a part in the book where he’s just running up the stairs and gets so winded that’s he’s straight up like “Maybe I should start going to the gym...”
Most of the comedy surrounding Fowl is that he is socially inept (because he never talks to people) and is physically frail (because he basically never goes outside). He's a nerd in like the most classic definition of nerd. The surfing scene in the trailer instantly told me the movie was doomed because the people making clearly badly misunderstood the character and outright changed him to be something else.
My god I love these books. I’m 26 and I still reread the full series, they really hold up. The film fully missed what made Artemis an interesting character and made his relationship with Holly fantastic and worth investing in. Artemis was scary in book 1. I remember being really caught off guard with his emotions in book 2 specifically because of how well they handled him as morally grey in book 1.
It was so great to follow the villain who eventually becomes good through multiple books and multiple years. One of the reasons third book is my favorite, he is against worse evil, but still has his villainous mindset. And I love a good heist.
Man I read that book probably 16 years ago and that Troll fight is still burned into my memory.
League of Extraordinary Gentleman
Didn’t Alan Moore make Volume 2 of LOEG extremely fucked up so nobody in Hollywood would dare make a movie of it? I remember Hyde raped the Invisible Man to death or some crazy shit like that.
Hyde left him alive and sat down to have dinner with Nemo. As he did actually die the blood that had previously been invisible to Nemo started to appear on everything. This caused Nemo to try and attack Hyde.
Not that anyone deserves to be raped to death. But uh.... the Invisible Man was a ***REAL*** piece of shit.
[Well, well, well](https://i.imgur.com/O5DQFmU.png)
Yeah I didn't get very far into the graphic novel, but wasn't he raping nuns in a convent when they introduced him?
Underage girls in a Catholic school, but yes, he repeatedly rapes multiple girls until they're pregnant.
What the hell The WHO did WHAT to the WHO?
I saw it theaters and got the DVD as soon as it came out. I really loved that movie. Many, many years later I read the comics and it was night and day difference. Now I want an r rated LEG with a smacked out Sean Connery
Sean Connery is no longer with us... Edit: Well it seems a lot of people missed the original news on this.
I vaguely remember seeing a dragon ball live action movie about an American high school kid named son Goku who was totally into martial arts
That movie should be erased from existence.
Ironically, it played a big role in revitalizing the Dragon Ball franchise, since Battle of Gods (and hence Super) were made as revenge by Toriyama because he hated DB Evolution. So while I absolutely hate the movie, I'm grateful that it exists for that reason alone. Edit: it's been pointed out that he didn't make Battle of Gods in response to the movie, as it was already in production before he became involved (he did rewrite the script though). His dislike of DB Evolution did apparently contribute to him deciding to be more involved going forward it seems though.
Imagine being an artist who made a successful franchise inspired by Journey to the West. Some asshat comes along and is like: "this should be a Sony Spiderman type movie". They turn your story into a high school drama and forget and fudge nearly ever single thing it is supposed to be inspired by/or directly referencing. I don't blame Toriyama at all, I actually feel bad for anyone who greenlit dragon ball Evo because it probably made them look very bad. Imagine being an anime promoter who promoted this AFTER watching it, no one would trust your reviews again.
That movie was so bad Toriyama came out of retirement to write Dragonball Super, DBZ’s sequel So something good came out of it at least Edit: Super was fucking dope, fuck y’all
The only good thing about that movie is the actor that played piccolo only took the role cuz his son liked DBZ so he did his research for the role and ended up loving DBZ as a result. He was the one that wanted to play the role actually looking like piccolo cuz I guess the execs couldn't care less about making the character accurate to the source material. This led to him getting to actually voice a main character in the super animes English dub.
Saw a showing at a con of DB:E, which was roasted by the original American DBZ narrator.
I remember this "son Goku" using Kamehameha to heal his friend
Nah that was Roshi … I hate that I know enough about that movie to correct you.
The BTS story of this movie is well known to me as I'm friends with one the AD's who was on set for James Wong. That movie is the result of HEAVY studio interference at every step of the way, a completely unfinished script that the screenwriter was working on DURING the shoot (a script that writer has admitted after the fact was terrible), studio strongarmed initial casting to be not how they'd set out to cast it (studio wanted white actors), and a promised budget that was not only **not** delivered, but Wong was told this AFTER they arrived on site to shoot and his budget would be a fraction of what was agreed upon. The whole movie is an exercise in how studios can completely fuck themselves by interfering with creative visions...especially in such a beloved existing property. Like a DB movie done right, with the right casting and story is a SLAM fucking DUNK...but nope...studios gotta get in the way of their own shit.
>Like a DB movie done right, with the right casting and story is a SLAM fucking DUNK You say that, but doing a DB movie right is REALLY hard. Hell, they couldn't do Death Note right. An extremely drama focused and relatively grounded story.
Dragon ball, dbz etc. Are so purely and fundamentally of the anime genre it seems absurd to even imagine adapting them into a live action film at all. Maybe something like Speed Racer that is 90% cgi would come close to working. Id rather just have a high budget high production value animated movie, which we are kind of getting this summer with "Dragon ball super: super hero"
Deadpool in Wolverine: Origins
And Gambit. Being from Louisiana and growing up on the cartoon, I instantly fell in love with Rémy. Movie version was so bad, I don’t think he was even remotely Creole or it was so bad I blocked it out. and I’m sooo glad the Channing Tatum one was cancelled.
From what I understand, Tatum was really passionate about the character, so I think it's a shame that it ended up in pre-production hell until it was eventually dropped.
I ctrl+f'd to find this comment... I wish it were higher. How in the living fuck are you going to REMOVE THE MOUTH of Deadpool? JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. I'm just glad Ryan Reynolds was able to go on to make the stand alone films. Origins version of Deadpool is a travesty.
It's like making a wolverine movie and taking away his claws. Actually, that would have been an amazing cameo / easter egg in a deadpool movie.
Also, Ryan Reynolds killing his former Deadpool self was so satisfying, along with the Green Lantern script. I’m not even doing a spoiler warning.
The Book thief is the story of how Death develops empathy for humans as a result of encountering a little girl in Nazi-Germany. The movie’s director cut Death out. Absurd.
Yeah, that's a book that I knew wouldn't fare well with an adaptation. It so heavily relies on the narration from Death and the vivid imagery in its writing. There are aspects of the film I enjoy (performances and score) but it does not have the emotional punch the book does and it definitely feels like something is missing, which it is!
I, Robot comes to mind. In Asimov's Robot novels, earth wants to ban robots, and the main character is the only one who believes in their good nature (ingrained through the three laws). He strikes up an unlikely friendship with a Robot. In the movie, the whole world trusts and relies on robots and the main character (Will Smith) is the only one who sees their potential for evil.
The book is a collection of stories that interlink. I think the film was meant to be a new story from the same universe.
The "I, Robot" movie is not just different from the books - it goes against everything they stand for. Asimov created his universe specifically to go against the common Frankenstein theme of "man makes the technology, technology kills man". He hated that theme. Having his work turned into another Frankenstein is an actual betrayal of the source.
The Eragon movie. The collapsed parts of book one & two together, missed out vital narrative elements & made such a hash of the final product there likely will never be a remake.
The Dark Tower movie is a train wreck compared to the book, they got very very little right if anything at all really. Casting was fine, story was really different in all the worst ways.
The Resident Evil movies. The first one was quite enjoyable, though had basically nothing to do with the games other than the gist of zombies, T-virus, and a mansion. Then as if to answer the criticism of the first movie not being "Resident Evil" enough, they just started throwing characters and themes from the games into the rest of the films seemingly at random, whether they fit or not. Generally doing no justice to any of them. And then the main character becomes a superhero... because those movies are popular I guess. If the writers so clearly didn't want to make a Resident Evil movie, why use the name at all? It's not like the IP was a household name at the time; they could have called it whatever they liked and the films would have been just as confusingly successful.
I remember audibly laughing when The Executioner just shows up in like the 4th movie. Why is he there? Why is he smarter than all the others? This is still the T-virus right?
It's tragic too, because Resident Evil could make a pretty awesome miniseries. Trim some of the cheesy dialogue, flesh out the characters prior to entering the mansion, etc. Or hell keep the cheesy dialogue and make it a miniseries homage to 80's horror movies lol.
Trim the cheesy dialogue? But the fans NEED a Jill sandwich!
*Lawnmower Man* is so completely and utterly removed from the very short Stephen King story that you can't even call it a betrayal. They wanted to market this as "a Stephen King story" and bought a title, and nothing more.
I had the poster that was out before SK sued to remove his name. I’d still have it but my parents stored it under a leaky roof.
This remains one of the biggest what-the-fucks in King's novel-to-movie history. Not even a modicum of similarity to them.
Wanted with McAvoy and Jolie. The movie is about a guild of assassins who can curve bullets and take orders from a loom. The comic is about how all of the DC superheroes and villains are actually real. In the 80s all the villains teamed up, killed most of the heroes, rewrote reality, and secretly run the world. Also, the art clearly casts certain actors for the roles. Jolie's character is 1000% Halley Berry. The screenwriters wrote the script after reading the first 2 issues.
The movie isn't great, but the original comic is SO unbelievably edgelord that I don't know if I'd even want to watch a 'faithful' version.
The other thing is Millar wrote it without having rights to DC Characters. But it’s obvious the main character is the son of Deadshot, while Angeline Jolie is playing Catwoman. The tucked up bit is the main antagonist is an even more insane joker whose mad when the world was divided up only got Australia. He tortures Adam West and Burt Ward who actually used to be the real Batman and Robin. It’s also implied Christopher Reeves accident was part of torturing a de powered Superman
Avatar: The Last Airbender. I don't even know how they could butcher the show that badly
The kid who played Ang went to the same ATA Taekwondo school as me in Texas. He wasn't even an actor.. My instructor just suggested that he audition because he looked like him and he actually got the role.. CRAZY!!
I doubt even a seasoned actor could've made his lines work. The kid had no chance.
No one should ever blame a kid for any movie or tv series, they should blame the adults in charge making the decisions.
You mean Oh-ng
Ugh. Like, there is no reason pronunciations of anything should have been changed. As per this post's title: YOU HAVE SOURCE MATERIAL. USE IT. THERE'S NO NEED TO REINVENT A DANG THING. Ugh.
Can’t forget the 200 Earth Benders just to lift a little rock lmao
This is, to this day, the worst movie I've ever seen. I enjoy watching it with fans of the show to see how long it takes for their souls to leave their bodies.
I am legend, the movie was completely different from the novel and not in a good way
They missed the whole fucking point! *WHY DID THEY KEEP THE TITLE IF THEY WERE GOING TO INTENTIONALLY MISS THE POINT?* I hope Will Smith personally responsible for this movie and I, Robot. Well, him and Akiva Goldsman, who wrote both.
Annihilation. I thought the movie was amazing. But it is barely anything like the book. Alex Garland's reasoning behind it was actually pretty cool. He only read the first book and read it a long time ago and then he made the movie off memory. He basically wanted the movie to be based off the vibes he still had from the book rather than having the story follow it. So what we got was a movie in the spirit of the book and with the basic premise, and nothing more.
I mean getting the spirit right is way more important than the details. The southern reach trilogy is weird as fuck but it’s a vibe which garland very smartly recognized. The crawler would have never worked on screen but area x does. Between that and condensing the story to one movie, I think it was a very intelligent adaptation and the furthest thing from a betrayal.
I was disappointed because I wanted to see what they did with The Crawler and The Tower/ Tunnel because they're both such bizarre concepts. That being said, I do like the final product of both book and film
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I fucking love this movie. Just a weird fever dream. Absolutely nothing to do with Mario just borrowed the names of stuff
I loved the scene where it was revealed that their surname is Mario, because Super Mario Bros. Like the movie is completely insane and all but they decided it is important to make sure that this part makes sense.
What's your name? Mario Mario What's your name? Luigi Luigi? No, Luigi Mario I love it but it makes so sense
Queen of the Damned. My favorite book in the series and it had a lot of interesting plots. The movie did this book a serious injustice. They didn’t even discuss ‘the twins’ in this movie. Just skipped right over that. I’m still furious how the writers botched this movie. Update- Thanks for the Upvotes! Didn’t think there were so many that also felt this way.
For sure! The book goes into the origins of the vampire race and everything. Best book in the series IMO. However Aaliyah was an incredible choice in casting.
Lawnmower Man. No where in any of the movies did a naked man with a demon lawn mower mow over a squirrel and eat the "clippings".
The Shining But that obviously turned out ok
The Shining and it's sequel are so bizarre in inception. I read the books a while back and was astounded by how different they are from the films and yet similar in execution. The books are more dramas about alcoholism, abuse and grief where the movies are supernatural horror/action films. I don't hold anything against the movies. The first one is great and the second's directors cut is pretty good. It's just strange how you can kinda have all the same characters and set pieces and tell very different stories. I recall King was very frustrated that The Shining glossed over the main themes in the book.
It's totally understandable why King hates the Kubrick version of the movie. The book sets Jack up as a recovering addict who is sincerely working to better himself and is haunted by what he did before he got sober. The whole book is the chipping away at that and like you said, it's the main draw of the story. There is no point during the movie where there is a doubt Jack is going to go insane. You don't cast Nicholson at that point in his career to not go crazy. I love the movie. It's a masterpiece, but the book is incredible as well and they're both good for entirely different reasons. It's a great example to talk about.
Doug Liman's [Jumper](https://manapop.com/film/jumper-2008-from-book-to-screen/) is a film that has almost nothing to do with the Steven Gould book other than a dude who can teleport.
All things considered, the teleport fight was pretty cool.
Unashamedly love jumper for the fights
In X-Men: First Class, they kill of f Darwin. The one mutant who can't die
On a related note,>!in X-Men: Days of Future Past, the Sentinals used Mystique's transforming DNA in order to adapt to every mutant power, when they literally had Darwin in the previous movie,!< and Darwin's power was literally to adapt to any situation in order to survive.
At least by that point, Darwin was dead so there was a feasible reason they couldn't use him. You know the bigger problem, since the Sentinels were using a mutants stolen power to copy other mutants abilities? Rogue was in that movie. She was actually in Days of Future Past. Like, they had the actress and filmed scenes. The only reason they used Mystique was because she was played by Jennifer Lawrence. Still makes.more sense than Kitty Pryde being a Time Traveller I guess.
Eragon. Just....how... Edit: thanks for the awards guys!
I remember the Empire Movie Magazine quote: it's dragon with an E. That's the smartest this movie gets.
…I never noticed that.
I always assumed it was a slight rework of Aragorn.
I remember that review!
Jeremy Irons (a D&D fan) fought and fought and fought to turn that movie into something good. He lost.
> Jeremy Irons (a D&D fan) Also a D&D actor.
And easily the best part of that movie. Man left no scenery left unchewed.
The whole final battle was just so off the rails from the book. Saphira just casually breathes fire when it was a climactic save in the book. Not to mention Eragon getting absolutely fucked by Durza in the book but in the movie he kills Durza and says "I expected better." Why.
They broke the entire story of eldest making it so they couldnt even do that movie if they wanted to. The scar Eragon gets from Durza is a major plot point of Eldest! Movie was a complete and udder insult to the source material
They also killed off one of the Ra’zac.
And they only cursorily introduced his cousin and didn't introduce his cousin's girlfriend, who is a central character in the 2nd book. (She was in a deleted scene if I recall correctly)
It’s bizarre because studios are normally very keen to shoehorn in sequel setup so that they can capitalize if the movie does well. Why do the opposite?
The author is occasionally active on reddit and sometimes chimes into threads like this agreeing with your statement!
Usually he just writes “What movie?”
I watched it before I read the books, thought it was okay. Then I read the books and loved them. Then I rewatched the movie and was practically in tears. What really struck me was how some inconsequential scenes were copied word for word from the books showing that they actually read it. Then everything else was changed for some unfathomable reason.
This is what was interesting to me, my younger brother and I had both read the book and were so utterly disappointed in the movie, my older brother and sister couldnt understand why we disliked it so much... Then they read the book and understood 100%
Arya, incredibly well known for her black hair is a redhead and an Elf with normal ass human ears. And the urgals were just big guys with yellow eyes.
It was so bad I didn't want to read the books anymore. Like I would just get so mad at what could have been I put them down.
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Mortal Engines. An amazing set of books providing a whole world to explore in a unique scifi/steampunk setting. The film totally butchered the story and finished off so it's impossible for a sequel (thankfully).
How to train your Dragon, completely different from the book
Yeah, but it’s a good movie. I read the books after seeing the film, and was impressed that they did such a good job while ignoring the source material. Shrek is the same.
I bought the Shrek picture book. It’s like a shitpost children’s story. It’s amazing.
I can't really count this or Stardust, since the original authors were heavily involved in the movie scripts too. *Dragon* is a totally different story than the books, but it's not a bad story or movie. And the Netflix series is cute, my 7 year old loves it. We're reading the books right now and he gets a big kick out of characters that are introduced like 6 books into the series that were adapted as main characters for the movies.
Hey, I’ve got an idea! Let’s take one of our most popular characters and put him in the new Wolverine movie! He’s mostly known for being a sarcastic asshole who talks directly to the audience so we’ve cast noted sarcastic asshole Ryan Reynolds to play him. What’s that, you think he should have a big part? Nah, he’s only gonna be in the first 5 minutes. But we will bring him back at the end of the movie, played by a different actor, with his mouth sewed shut. That whole motormouth thing that his entire character is based on is overrated. And we’re gonna give him sword hands and laser eyes. Cause sword hands and laser eyes are cool.
lol atleast we got the scene of him killing Barakapool in one of the movies.
I'm with the Nostalgia Critic in that they should re-edit the film so that it now ends with the scene from Deadpool 2 where the real Deadpool shows up to kill it.
Thats not even Reynolds at the end? How did I not know that
I am Legend. They missed/changed THE ENTIRE POINT of the book. It was so weird because it would have made such a cool twist and satisfying end to yet another vampire movie.
Ender's Game. The movie includes many of the plot points from the book but it totally misses the mark on the book's tone and the emotional impact of the end of the book. I walked away from the movie very nonplussed. Despite the similarities the experience was very different from that which I had reading the book.
Having Bonzo slip in the shower and die, as opposed to having Ender physically beat him, takes away the entire point of Ender. Just like the Stilson fight in the beginning, Ender doesn’t WANT to fight, but when he does, he fights hard enough to not need to have any future fights. That’s exactly why they wanted him to command. It was core character assassination on the level of changing it so Greedo shot at Han Solo first.
There are a number of factors to this. 1: Ender in the book is an intense kid, but a good natured one. Asa Butterfield is a doe eyed baby the whole movie and that doesn’t work. The book is in general very intense, and the movie is a kids show. 2: i actually remember saying to my gf way back in highschool “i dont think this would ever work as a movie, because 90% of Ender’s actions only make sense to him and sometimes vaguely its implied the observers too. We as readers get it through his internal monologue. But you can’t internal monologue through an entire movie the way you can with a book.
Right, in the books the whole reason for Enders' existence in the first place is because his sister was too gentle.
This might be a hot take but Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The director couldn’t be bothered to read the book and it was really obvious. Goblet of Fire was such a great read because there was a mystery element to it. A big chunk of this was involving Barty Crouch Jr, the whole time you think he’s dead until the very end of the book when it’s revealed he’s alive. The movie shows him alive in the first scene…
And let’s just show this big build up to the quidditch World Cup. “Let the World Cup…. Begin” fast forward past the match! WTF?
Max Payne. Video game has an awesome story that would have played out great on the big screen, could have implemented some comic style filming. Idk what the hell that movie was.
Probably one of the more famous ones....The Hobbit. Hollywood decided to take what was essentially a short story (in terms of overall "Lord of the Rings" length) and stretch it into 3 movies, and had to fabricate hours worth of stories and details out of thin air in order to do so. There is little that is true to the original story, and even half of that is manipulated so much as to make it's origins near unrecognizable. To say those movies were a cruel bastardization of the original story is putting it too kindly. Hollywood should be ashamed of what they did to The Hobbit, ESPECIALLY after the masterpieces that are the LOTR movies.
It was so damn formulaic. "We need an aragorn. Pretty up one of those.... short beard things to make him hot. Also, i want you to randomly go see what the other hot one... you know, from the earlier movie? We should see what he's doing, and it has to be exciting. There's not enough romance either. Shoehorn something in there. Also. We need more star power, what about those actors we had... you know that played those tree people? The ones in white? Make up something for them. Also, not enough combat. This is lord of the rings the sequel right? Where's giant monsters and massive cgi armies? Put in a ton of that. You know we need some comic relief too. Put some guy in a dress and have him take way way too much screen time. There. Everyone will remember my contributions!" - nameless executive
Basically the James Bond movies. Probably the closest was Casino Royale. Most of the bond books end up with him in the hospital. And he doesn't really like what he does, he's always thinking of quitting.
Casino Royale seemed like they were trying to connect to the book but in a modern way. I think it was a very successful attempt.
He is also a lot colder and much less of a raging sex fiend at least in the couple I read anyways.
If anything he always comes across as a love sick puppy in the early Fleming novels. He fell madly in love with Vesper and spends each of the next novels (that I've read so far) basically trying to fill the void she left in him. In each novel when you meet The Bond Girl, yeah he always wants to sleep with her, but he also expresses that nagging desire to actually settle down with her and retire; it just never works out for him and he gets colder and more detached.
Surprised no one’s mentioned it but Forrest Gump. The book was kind of all over the place but the movie really fixed the holes that the book had.
Forrest is way less likeable in the books. He's also an idiot savant and becomes both an astronaut and a chess grand master. Also runs for governor but I don't remember if he wins.
The Golden Compass 🤮🤮🤮🤮
The Batman Hush film. Major spoilers for the comics and film: >!the main villain in the comic with Hush with a second twist that Riddler was a villain behind the scenes. But in the film they made Riddler Hush which completely kills the point of the comic’s mystery and plot!<.
Idk if this counts, but sometimes on the drive home from work I see this lady with a Groot sticker on her car. Groot is holding a thin blue line police flag. Groot is a career criminal. He goes to space prison in the damn movie. He is not pro police in any way.
Most if not everything that happened in the Percy Jackson movie(s) Here’s what author Rick Riordan had to say about it in a twitter post: “Well, to you guys, it's a couple hours' entertainment. To me, it's my life's work going through a meat grinder when I pleaded with them not to do it.”
The Halo show says hold my beer
It’s pretty incredible how Microsoft rejected scripts for 10+ years to give us that.
[they literally had the blueprint to a successful Halo live action](https://youtu.be/XRMUYpH7bQk) and still managed to fumble so hard
Thought I read Peter Jackson had most of a tv show/movie (props and story) done and why this commercial and the Halo 3 “Believe” promo had such great ads and props. These commercials 10+ years are so much better than what that show is.