Diseased Rowling Derangement Syndrome - "TERF/Woke Author Bad!!1"

[Chandelier]

Crossover from the Colin Montgomerie thread.


Archive.

 

[FrancineCansMcGee]

Petition to rename Trans Visibility Day to Normal People Visibility Day.

 

[The Skeksis Emperor]

they were probably locked into doing Gormenghast at the time.

Which was a waste too because they fucked that up so badly, it's my most hated adaptation and I love Gormenghast dearly. I'm still butthurt, lmao.

*an example from many.
The Dursleys. Richard Griffiths? Uncle Monty? Fantastic actOrr.
As Mr dursley?! About 35 years too old for a first shout

I know it's heresy to say but Alan Rickman was 30 years too old for his role too. And it was weird, especially when the character is next to Dumbledore and McGonagall and they're all the same age. They tried so hard to make him look younger but my god, the poor man was in his 60s at some point you can only do so much.

 

[Mayhem]

I think trannies are harping on about Jo and the kids’ relationship so they don’t have to talk about the Cass Report and the coming legislation. And “journalists” should be reporting on that instead of this nonexistent celebrity feud. [insert rainbows here]

 

[Mola Ram]

I know it's heresy to say but Alan Rickman was 30 years too old for his role too.

By the final movies he looked like the postmortem photos of Uday and Qusay Hussein, who had to be made recognizable with the help of several pounds of mortician's makeup.

Badly, too.
The whole thing honestly, bar a couple of roles, was awfully cast.

I will never forget correctly predicting who would be cast as Horace Slughorn. That would be Jim Broadbent, whom I predicted on the basis of his appearance in Moulin Rouge!, where he had both a (realistic) fatsuit and a spectacular walrus mustache.

And when Slughorn showed up in the movies ... he had neither. Bizarre.

 

[AfghanBlue]

I'm not British but the third movie ruined it for me. They left out stuff for no reason and it looked like shit. I also didn't like the guy they cast for Lupin or Arthur Weasley at all. I think I stopped watching after the fifth one and the atrocious battle at the ministry. The books were always "better"

Once again-great actors in and of themsleves. Terribly used in that.
Honestly? You'd think the casting director was living in a time warp, almost every actor of the main adult cast was at LEAST 20 years too old.
If it was made around 1990 and not in up through the 2010s, fair do's.

And I mean, too old for thr parts cast, not like, off the boil as such.
But too old for the parts, and bad fits for thr parts. Really is amazing how you can misuse that many great people.


Whatshisname who was also in it.. The Scottish cunt, guy who played Dr Who. He was fucking embarrassing in it.
He's also been a creep as regards "trans kids" nowadays too.
Pandering to his tumblr pervs and opening his massive gob on shit he'd (you would hope only) ignorant on.

 

[Mola Ram]

Whatshisname who was also in it.. The Scottish cunt, guy who played Dr Who. He was fucking embarrassing in it.

I'd love to know whether it was actor's choice or director's instruction to give Fake Moody a recognizable tic, and then make that tic "lick your lips like you just gave a blowjob."

 

[The Skeksis Emperor]

He's also been a creep as regards "trans kids" nowadays too.
Pandering to his tumblr pervs and opening his massive gob on shit he'd (you would hope only) ignorant on.

Oh yeah, wonder if David Tennant's going to walk back his "Leave trans kids alone you absolute freaks" or if he's just gonna pretend it never happened. One of his kids is non-binary so he might double down.

 

[AfghanBlue]

Oh yeah, wonder if David Tennant's going to walk back his "Leave trans kids alone you absolute freaks" or if he's just gonna pretend it never happened. One of his kids is non-binary so he might double down.

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"The front line". These people have no clue at all. Terrible over-actor, poncing around in a bubble.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

The books were always "better"

This is true of most adaptations.

Good Omens (season 1 only, not getting into the other stuff), the good Discworld ones, all the Blyton stuff, Lord of the Rings (yes, the actual good films not just the Hobbit), every Roald Dahl thing they did and more. Never mind the absolutely dire stuff like The Dark Is Rising where that movie should have been considered an actual crime.

Mostly because books can do far more in terms of showing motivations, character, history etc. It doesn't mean the film equivalents are bad but it's rare they are as good as the books. I still watch and enjoy many of those but I prefer the books.

Oh yeah, wonder if David Tennant's going to walk back his "Leave trans kids alone you absolute freaks" or if he's just gonna pretend it never happened. One of his kids is non-binary so he might double down.

They're trying to flog Doctor Who to Disney, he'll double down.

 

[Lone Star]

Fucking Albus Dumbledore dropped dead and they ruthlessly recast him with nary a backwards glance.

I mean...what exactly were they supposed to do? Just stop the movies because one actor died? Not even the main character?

 

[Mola Ram]

I mean...what exactly were they supposed to do? Just stop the movies because one actor died? Not even the main character?

I refer you to the clusterfuck reaction to the death of Chadwick Boseman. There are definitely very bad ways to handle an actor's passing. I didn't mean to imply that the HP producers made the wrong decision, just that they did what had to be done and didn't waste much time on sentimentality.

 

[quokking]

Which was a waste too because they fucked that up so badly, it's my most hated adaptation and I love Gormenghast dearly. I'm still butthurt, lmao.

It was really bizarre that it was that dire, because they absolutely nailed it with the casting. Christopher Lee and Richard Griffiths as Flay and Swelter! Ian Richardson as Sepulchrave! Fiona Shaw as Prunesquallor's sister! Stephen Fry before everyone was sick of him! Warren Mitchell! Eric Sykes! Spike Fucking Milligan!

My expectations were sky high after I saw that cast list, then the actual series came out and it was a giant wet fart

 

[AnOminous]

She has become a bit of an edgelord shitposter, and why shouldn't she? Why should she care about what dumb people on the internet thinks of her? Internet popularity is the fakest and gayest redditor currency that ever existed. She should instead join the farms and sneed with the rest of us. Imagine the flashflood of pure troon seething.

She's mega-Hitler forever to these scum even if for some reason she actually wanted to get back in their good graces, and there's less reason than ever to give a flying fuck about troons and their disgusting enablers.

 

[Glossy Paper]

Oh yeah, wonder if David Tennant's going to walk back his "Leave trans kids alone you absolute freaks" or if he's just gonna pretend it never happened. One of his kids is non-binary so he might double down.

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Why is trans bullshit such a spellbinding issue for these big-ish celebs? I don't remember many of them going this gung-ho continuously for other political issues.

 

[AfghanBlue]

Which was a waste too because they fucked that up so badly, it's my most hated adaptation and I love Gormenghast dearly. I'm still butthurt, lmao.


I know it's heresy to say but Alan Rickman was 30 years too old for his role too. And it was weird, especially when the character is next to Dumbledore and McGonagall and they're all the same age. They tried so hard to make him look younger but my god, the poor man was in his 60s at some point you can only do so much.

Thing about gormenghast is, I haven't read it. The adaption LOOKED amazing from an aesthetic perspective. The cast was great, and felt like it would be well fitting but again, significantly, I haven't read it.
I will say it dragged and was a bit weird structurally even going into it with ignorance.
It would be good if they had Harry Potter instead I reckon. What little I do know about Peake suggests it would maybe be a difficult thing to adapt well generally and they might have done better with a mroe straightforward book, like Potter.

@Morethanabitfoolish have you seen the animated channel 4 disc world things, again from about 2000?
I haven't read any pratchett at all but I thought those were alright as things go. Again, with no attachments. The animation looks dated now but it would have been interesting at the time. I was out of the country when it was on, ditto gormenghast.

Caught them both on YouTube for the first time... Well, in 2001 I saw some of Gormenghast- a couple episodes taped by my dads mate- then forgotten about, before the end. No love lost... Getting through the last few epsidoe on a YouTube watch recently was a slog.


Totally off topic but you want the worst adaptation ever, ever, ever?
The man in the high castle. Wonderful Philip K Dick book unfathomably, infuriatingly appalling adaption! Like wtf

 

[holyhandgrenade]

Why is trans bullshit such a spellbinding issue for these big-ish celebs? I don't remember many of them going this gung-ho continuously for other political issues.

Do you not remember how hard every institution lobbied for faggots before they "won" faggot marriage?

 

[Surfin Terf]

I mean...what exactly were they supposed to do? Just stop the movies because one actor died? Not even the main character?

Why is trans bullshit such a spellbinding issue for these big-ish celebs? I don't remember many of them going this gung-ho continuously for other political issues.

The love-bombing is very effective on weak minds. Most celebrities don't get big without having some kind of need for validation.

This is true of most adaptations.

Good Omens (season 1 only, not getting into the other stuff), the good Discworld ones, all the Blyton stuff, Lord of the Rings (yes, the actual good films not just the Hobbit), every Roald Dahl thing they did and more. Never mind the absolutely dire stuff like The Dark Is Rising where that movie should have been considered an actual crime.

Mostly because books can do far more in terms of showing motivations, character, history etc. It doesn't mean the film equivalents are bad but it's rare they are as good as the books. I still watch and enjoy many of those but I prefer the books.

Also, most books that get turned into movies were better than average books while most movies are average. It's like how good movies rarely have sequels that are better, but mediocre movies often have better sequels.

 

[behindyourightnow]

*an example from many.
The Dursleys. Richard Griffiths? Uncle Monty? Fantastic actOrr.
As Mr dursley?! About 35 years too old for a first shout, and the house, Privet Drive?
It was supposed to be a brash, LoudsaMoney character , uninterested type of fucker. All new shite, big bloody telly, not some weird ancient conservatives home.
It's not THAT sort of tory.

Yeah, it was like the whole film was set in some American theme park representing the burgerland idea of Britain, which annoyed the hell out of me even as a dumb American myself. I don't know why the Brits put up with it.

I know it's heresy to say but Alan Rickman was 30 years too old for his role too. And it was weird, especially when the character is next to Dumbledore and McGonagall and they're all the same age. They tried so hard to make him look younger but my god, the poor man was in his 60s at some point you can only do so much.

I liked Rickman so I can maybe forgive that, but do you remember how the parents in the flashbacks looked like 40 years old? The actor playing Harry Potter's dad was 43 at the time of the first film! And they were dressed/styled to look even older somehow. It's like the director and casting director couldn't imagine "British parents" as looking like young people even when their first child is a literal baby. Did James and Lily devote themselves to their magical careers for two decades before finally settling down and then going through magical fertility treatments?

It ruins the intergenerational drama that is supposed to play out in the back of the series when the people making the movies can only imagine Brits as "twee children" or "twee sexless middle-aged couples" with a big temporal void in between. It's forgivable to not want to imagine Brits having sex, but come on, you can't just erase the entire reproductive period of the British life cycle.

 

[FinnSven]

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The love-bombing is very effective on weak minds. Most celebrities don't get big without having some kind of need for validation.


Also, most books that get turned into movies were better than average books while most movies are average. It's like how good movies rarely have sequels that are better, but mediocre movies often have better sequels.

Not exactly. I know what you mean, but it’s not like a movie of a book is a lackluster sequel.

The difference is more like a pen and paper RPG and a video game adaptation.

The pen and paper version is only limited by imagination. Even if there are clear descriptions, it’s still up to the imagination of the reader or player to fill in the gaps.

The video game or film can be inspired and incredibly good in its own right, but it limits the scope of the picture. It’s just that story, it’s just that interpretation.

Imagination can be a limitless resource. Setting boundaries ruins that.