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When is the adaptation better than the source material?
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AnathemicOne
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Debatable, but Peter Jackson's LotR trilogy. Man was a genius for cutting out Tom Bombadil and adding Haldir/Elves at Helm's Deep.
DrForester
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Sorry Carl, book was a bit boring.
Cut out boring first half of the book
Cut down on the amount of angst that plagued 80% of the book.
Nodame Cantabile
Pretty much becasue the subject matter being classical music, both the anime and the live action show did better than the manga source which could not have the music.
Live action also deservs extra credit for the most accurate portrayal of a famous German conductor in film. An old Japanese guy dressed like a pimp.
Duane Cunningham
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Yes, of course I'm just kidding about the third one ten minutes from now.
HomerSimpson-Man
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Die Hard
Worth reading at all, even if it's not as good as the movie? I loved the movie.
DrForester
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I only posted the first film. And I stand by it.
SolarPowered
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Color me surprised.
I didn't love the book (not a big sci-fi fan), but the movie was just horrid.
Also, they cut the most interesting idea from the book
that there's a code in pi
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Transhuman
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Drive, Children of Men, No Country for Old Men, Social Network, Batman: Year One, High Fidelity.
If you loved The Prestige, yeah.
If you loved The Prestige, yeah.
Duane Cunningham
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True Blood.
Dexter.
Game of Thrones.
Dexter.
Game of Thrones.
Vulcano's assistant
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When is not an adaptation, but a work in of its own doing things that can only be done in its medium. And the author is more talented in this medium than the creator of the original in its own. Or when the original is less than 10 pages like the Polar Express
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EliteArtist
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Yep. I agree. Mainly because of the performances and the glut of little details. It's a film I can appreciate just for those two things, let alone it being an adaption.
Yes and No.
They got rid of the stupid
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What's not better is that the 'badguy' is not nearly as charismatic.
I love the movie.
Takamura-San
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So much wrong on one post.
Supermanisdead
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Yeah, a lot of superhero origin movies are better than their original comics, just because most were written in the 60s or earlier and just plain garbage.
Wow, no. No no no no no.
This is a no, too. GoT is a great show, but the books are amazing.
SCULLIBUNDO
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I came for The Prestige and am satisfied.
PhoncipleBone
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Agreed. I was indifferent to the movie on first viewing, but each viewing makes me love the movie more and more. But the comic is just hard to read. Overrated and annoying. Thank god Edgar Wright was there to make a good movie.
Hell yes. Yes yes yes yes yes.
UpperCaseN
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I agree with Scott Pilgrim. Volume 6 is godawful
QualityPixel
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DrForester
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Agree, and I think it makes a good point of comparison with Watchmen. Scott Pilgrim's movie is much better movie that what Scott Pilgrim is as a comic book. In the other hand, even if Watchmen's movie is not bad compared to Scott Pilgrim or compared to the original material, the graphic novel is beyond the realm of 99% other comic books, so it is much better comic book (compared to what exists) than what its movies is compared to other movies.
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
It was pretty cool how he plagarized Enter the Dragon.
Supermanisdead
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The movie poorly abridges 6 books worth of plot with Michael Cera playing Michael Cera instead of Scott Pilgrim. It was embarrassing.
Weapxn
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This. So much this it hurts. The first book, while a fun quick read, is mediocre at best. I never got the second, and I heard the third was downright awful.
I made the mistake of watching Game of Thrones on TV first. Now I'm making my way through the books. I'm not sure I agree that the TV show is better, but they are at least about on par with each other. Both are very solid.
So he made a better adaptation of Enter the Dragon AND Mortal Kombat.
The movie awesomely summarizes all of the books and makes a hell of a funny movie with less cynicism and more heart.
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
Wait... is this a real thing?
speculawyer
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No fucking way. Ellie learning about her father and doing experimental theology at the end of the book was SSSSSOOOOOOOOOO much better than that shitty out-of-place shoe-horned in love story.
Contact deserves to be redone . . . as a TV mini-series so it can go into some better depth. I don't hate the Contact movie . . . it is OK. But it drops some of best of the book and inserts some crap that must have been required by the movie studio.
Yeah, Fight Club and Blade Runner are great examples. And source materials are also very good in their own right but those movies just really came together and worked.
RockAction
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The Prestige definitely, was really hoping for an elongated version of the story/telling and characters from the film but it was a bit of a let down, i wouldn't recommend it unless you really want to check it out
I'd say maybe The Dreamers, never read the proper original The Holy Innocents but they basically rereleased it to coincide with the film with minor edits i believe, as The Dreamers, love Adair's book but i think Bertolucci nails it
Maybe Into The Wild if thats a fair comparison, never read the book but if its just a factual account then obviously the film really helps bring that story to life
I'd say maybe The Dreamers, never read the proper original The Holy Innocents but they basically rereleased it to coincide with the film with minor edits i believe, as The Dreamers, love Adair's book but i think Bertolucci nails it
Maybe Into The Wild if thats a fair comparison, never read the book but if its just a factual account then obviously the film really helps bring that story to life
NathanMcMahon
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Game of Thrones.
Come at me.
Count Dookkake
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I really liked the four-armed dude and the guy with the spiky hands in ENTER THE DRAGON.
lol
Parallax
best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
I disagree. There were a lot of character interaction that was lost in the translation. it makes me wish scott pilgrim the animation would have happened.
The Technomancer
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Well its not really a hard bar to surmount.
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