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.
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sumi - Aug 20, 2007 8:57:10 am PDT #960 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
§ ita § - Aug 20, 2007 8:59:26 am PDT #961 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Dana - Aug 20, 2007 9:00:15 am PDT #962 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
It's not something I would say, but I am utterly unsurprised that someone, somewhere said it.
sumi - Aug 20, 2007 9:01:13 am PDT #963 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
reader/them
That agreement problem.
brenda m - Aug 20, 2007 9:04:13 am PDT #964 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
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.
Polter-Cow - Aug 20, 2007 9:04:48 am PDT #965 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
Miracleman - Aug 20, 2007 9:06:59 am PDT #966 of 10000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
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.
§ ita § - Aug 20, 2007 9:07:38 am PDT #967 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Polter-Cow - Aug 20, 2007 9:07:48 am PDT #968 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
Volans - Aug 20, 2007 1:09:59 pm PDT #969 of 10000
move out and draw fire
Holy cow, that was Clive Owen as Sir Walter Raleigh?!? No wonder...