successfully transitioning from one to the other requires more than frame by frame reproduction.
See also: Sin City.
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Steph L. - Aug 02, 2008 10:09:09 am PDT #7467 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Frankenbuddha - Aug 02, 2008 11:43:12 am PDT #7468 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Thank you, Jess for articulating EXACTLY what I was thinking (and what I am fearing).
See also what drove me crazy about some of the craxier LotR critics (however the story changes played out as a movie or not for me personally) screaming about being unfaithful to Tolkien.
See also: Sin City
I was avoiding that one, because I hadn't read the source, and enjoyed the movie. But with 300, I kept hearing about how apart from some of the Lena Headey political/waiting at home stuff (which I enjoyed more than a lot of the other parts of the movie), the rest was practically frame-by-frame true to the comic. And I just couldn't believe how horrifically fatuous it all was.
bon bon - Aug 02, 2008 1:07:09 pm PDT #7469 of 10000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I agree it's a limiting criticism, and not just for comic book adaptations. Would you apply it to the adaptation of the Godfather? Mann's Last of the Mohicans? Stanley Kubrick's version of The Shining?* I don't understand the necessity of slavishly reproducing something that already exists.
*Eyes Wide Shut, on the other hand, is incredibly faithful to the source, FWIW.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 02, 2008 1:14:39 pm PDT #7470 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
See also what drove me crazy about some of the craxier LotR critics (however the story changes played out as a movie or not for me personally) screaming about being unfaithful to Tolkien.
I'll cop to being one of the purists with regard to Eowyn's big dramatic revelation, but really, how much more screentime would five extra sentences by Miranda Otto have stolen away from all the CGI of vast armies massing and Legolas surfing down elephants' trunks?
Connie Neil - Aug 02, 2008 1:18:55 pm PDT #7471 of 10000
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I'll cop to being one of the purists with regard to Eowyn's big dramatic revelation
Sigh, yes. They would have had time if they'd dumped some of Arwen's stuff t still not over my Arwen issues
Jessica - Aug 02, 2008 1:54:28 pm PDT #7472 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The most faithful book-to-movie adaptation I've ever seen is Battlefield Earth. Watching the film was exactly like reading the book.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 02, 2008 2:07:37 pm PDT #7473 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
The most faithful book-to-movie adaptation I've ever seen is Battlefield Earth. Watching the film was exactly like reading the book.
Reading the book makes you feel horrifically embarrassed for Forest Whitaker?
quester - Aug 02, 2008 4:30:22 pm PDT #7474 of 10000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I just saw The Dark Knight. I thought it was okay, but I wish I'd seen it sooner, so I wouldn't have had so much build-up time. It was neither as dark or as powerful as I had been led to believe. I'm going back to read the white-font.
Jessica - Aug 02, 2008 5:33:31 pm PDT #7475 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Reading the book makes you feel horrifically embarrassed for Forest Whitaker?
Reading that book made me feel horribly embarrassed for all humanity, and therefore by extension, Forrest Whitaker.
sj - Aug 02, 2008 6:08:20 pm PDT #7476 of 10000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
quester, I was coming in here to post just about the same thing. I thought there were too many explosions and not nearly enough plot. I thought the first one was far superior.