'The Girl in Question'
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I have to admit I've never read The Dark Is Rising, but article boggles me on a few levels. The changes do seem horrible and I know people here are pissed by them, but would you say you're this attached to the story?
One heart-broken reader of the original books reported that upon watching the trailer, a part of them died.
You mean the agreement problem? Or that it's just not good PR - except that the curious might want to see just how bad it is.
Agreement with what?
I just meant having a part of you die because a crappy movie is made from something you love--I don't think I could ever love a story enough for that kind of hyperbole.
Assuming, of course, that it is hyperbole and not just gangrene somehow linked to the adaptation.
It's not something I would say, but I am utterly unsurprised that someone, somewhere said it.
reader/them
That agreement problem.
That is a little over the top - though I have to say, reading that article it does sound like they went out of their way to fuck it all up.
A friend of mine, when she first saw the trailer, reacted with shock and horror and horrific shock. She scrunched down in her seat and seemed slightly traumatized for the rest of the previews.
I don't think I would get that invested...though I have been known to growl "WRONG!" at certain licenses taken by comic book movies.
A part of me didn't DIE but got very sick at the "Horton Hears A Who" trailer, however.
That agreement problem.
Is that still considered a problem? I thought the pendulum had swung back to acceptable.
I'm going to keep using it until someone comes up with something better.
Oh, the article makes the movie sound disturbingly not like the book. I guess it makes a better article if you interview the people who're unhealthily attached to the work, but I'd be more sympathetic to the plight of balanced people than that.
I don't think I would get that invested...though I have been known to growl "WRONG!" at certain licenses taken by comic book movies.
Speaking of, Miracleman, have you seen these? You really, really need to. Start from the beginning. They're fucking hilarious.