Posted: 11/23/2018 6:07:52 AM EDT
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Someone reads a great novel, or trilogy, says, "Man this is brilliant! Will make a great movie!"
Then step one is to chuck the whole thing in the bin, except the character names and maybe a few unimportant details, and step two is write some other story entirely. WTF? |
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Effort, of the physical kind is lacking in the types who make movies. They just want to dress some nobody in an iconic way, have them spew a few lines their buddies said were cool and employ the tech guys to cgi everything. This is just part of the reason I have not seen any movies in the last 5 years, would be more but Wife still likes them. |
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The people making the movies don't give a shit about the book. They just make money making movies. Name a movie made from a book that was a real passion project, produced and directed by a super-fan of the original. Harry Potter Dances With Wolves |
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Just thought of another: The Shawshank Redemption
Don't tell me it can't be done, because it has been many times and they are almost always great movies. It's just not at all usual, and it winds up another steaming pile of shit every time, but hey, you rope in all those fans that came to see the book and got Ass! instead. 
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Something someone actually watched? Just kidding, I watched the Atlas Shrugged movies 
Seriously, though, it's about the money. |
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The Atlas Shrugged trilogy. Harry Potter Dances With Wolves Quoted:
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The people making the movies don't give a shit about the book. They just make money making movies. Name a movie made from a book that was a real passion project, produced and directed by a super-fan of the original. Harry Potter Dances With Wolves The first few were shit if we are being honest. They also left out yuuuuuge chunks of the books. The last movie was pretty legit tho. |
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Quoted: Harry Potter got better as the movies progressed. The first few were shit if we are being honest. They also left out yuuuuuge chunks of the books. The last movie was pretty legit tho. |
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They had to, that's a given. Books are hundreds of pages and scripts are about 60, max. But they followed the story. Quoted:
Quoted: Harry Potter got better as the movies progressed. The first few were shit if we are being honest. They also left out yuuuuuge chunks of the books. The last movie was pretty legit tho. It could be done better now if the want was there as 2.5 hour movies are more common then they were when Harry Potter was first released. |
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Starship Troopers. Quoted:
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The people making the movies don't give a shit about the book. They just make money making movies. Name a movie made from a book that was a real passion project, produced and directed by a super-fan of the original. Starship Troopers was made specifically to defile the concepts presented in the Starship Troopers book. It's an abomination only a disgusting commie could manifest into existence. All copies should be burnt. ETA: I
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| I'm actually not mad they wanted to do another story. Write a fuckin story, make a fun show. Don't tell me your doing Earthsea, based on the A Wizard Of Earthsea trilogy by Ursula K. LeGuin and then the only thing similar is a few character names and the geography. That means you bought the rights so no one else can ever do it properly, and you didn't do it either, so now it's never going to be done and you cheated me. Fuckers. Why did you bother to even reference it if you had no intention of even trying to do it at all? |
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Starship Troopers. Edit, French, Dutch, Belgian, whatever. 
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Starship Troopers. Quoted:
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The people making the movies don't give a shit about the book. They just make money making movies. Name a movie made from a book that was a real passion project, produced and directed by a super-fan of the original. |
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Starship Troopers. Quoted:
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The people making the movies don't give a shit about the book. They just make money making movies. Name a movie made from a book that was a real passion project, produced and directed by a super-fan of the original. 
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| It's like making a dessert with raisins, cinnamon, thin pancakes, and maple syrup, on stewed prunes, but you call it "chocolate pudding" on the menu. That's what pisses me off. There is already a dessert called chocolate pudding. Your stewed prunes and raisins mess may be a perfectly nice dessert, but it isn't chocolate pudding, so don't call it that. People who want chocolate pudding are going to hate you when they get something else entirely. |
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