Bad Adaptations - And why they are bad

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

I feel like in Hollywood there is a rule that any modern adaption of anything just either insult the established fanbase, rape the source material, or just be demoralization material. I have no idea if this is be a Marxists screenwriters doing the Gramsci shit of ensuring that everything be a vessel for the revolution or just retarded faggots thinking they are improving something.

Videogames suffer the worst of this, but it feels like every adaption suffers from people being unable to put the fries in the fucking bag.

Honestly the best adaptations are usually divisive to fans (LoTR, Raimi Spider-Man, The Godfather, and a host of others). They usually however aren’t offensive, most fans will nitpick. I’ll argue that basically every Stephen King adaptation is better than the book, typically.

 

[Safir]

Marxists screenwriters

OP's smoothbrain is an example of a bad adaption.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

OP's smoothbrain is an example of a bad adaption.

Hollywood has been full of unironic communist retards since before WW2. They follow the Gramsci philosophy of ensuring you can never avoid their bullshit.

 

[HeyYou]

OP's smoothbrain is an example of a bad adaption.

You forgot to call him solzhenitsyn babe

 

[Kulee Baba]

Honestly the best adaptations are usually divisive to fans (The Godfather)

I have never in all my years heard anyone argue the Godfather novel is better than the movie. Mario Puzo's The Godfather is a trashy albeit entertaining little novel, very much consumed with writing about sex in particular Sonny's big cock. Coppola improved upon the source material in every way possible.

 

[Rango Dango]

I have never in all my years heard anyone argue the Godfather novel is better than the movie

the novel doesnt insist upon itself or something

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

OP's smoothbrain is an example of a bad adaption.

Why are you so fucking insufferable? Is it because your're a commie or a woman?

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

It's pretty obvious why they are usually bad. Cinema is wildly different than books/games. You need to deal with a budget, actors and adapting a 20 hour novel/game into 2 hour fling.

And that's before the actual differences between the mediums. Books have the ability to deliver exposition and complexity way better than cinema. Especially as the reader can backtrack to previous scenes, or take a break to think things other.

Games are more about player feeling than story. They have a gameplay loop that won't translate to films but very satisfying in person.

The good adaptions are ones where the director is talented enough to use the advantages of movies to bridge the gap from the source material. The Harry Potter films are a non ironic example, the soundtrack and casting makes the films great to rewatch despite cutting a ton of stuff.

 

[Epikusername4]

the wwz movie is a terrible adaption barely anything to do with the book other than the name being the same

 

[Incitatus]

Fight Club is a pretty spot on adaptation, and I love the book and movie equally. Jurassic Park is an example of the book being wildly different from the movie but both are pretty great in their own way so no one takes much of a gripe with either.

 

[Ed Special]

the wwz movie is a terrible adaption barely anything to do with the book other than the name being the same

WWZ the movie is fine if you go into it thinking of it as its own completely independent thing, if you ask me. Fails at every level as a film adaptation, yes, but it's far from a proper terribad film.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

It's pretty obvious why they are usually bad. Cinema is wildly different than books/games. You need to deal with a budget, actors and adapting a 20 hour novel/game into 2 hour fling.

And that's before the actual differences between the mediums. Books have the ability to deliver exposition and complexity way better than cinema. Especially as the reader can backtrack to previous scenes, or take a break to think things other.

Games are more about player feeling than story. They have a gameplay loop that won't translate to films but very satisfying in person.

The good adaptions are ones where the director is talented enough to use the advantages of movies to bridge the gap from the source material. The Harry Potter films are a non ironic example, the soundtrack and casting makes the films great to rewatch despite cutting a ton of stuff.

Most video games are fairly simple plots or rather pretty straightforward. Dead Space, Halo, most fighting games centered around a tournament, Resident Evil, and a lot of others can be easily adapted in under two hours.

Halo has a terrible adaption when in reality all you’d really need to do is Keyes giving exposition, crashing on the ring and recovering some marines before rescuing Keyes, control room, 343 Guilty spark, and then blowing up the Autumn. Chief is a silent protagonist to an extent, but you could focus on a random marine or even Keyes if you wanted to adapt it.

You have outs to Chief teleporting because in the game it handwaves Cortana teleporting you.

Any fighting game adaption is dependent on eye candy and not being retarded.

 

[TheHarbinger]

The Amazon Fallout series is awful. Especially comparing it to the West Coast games of F1, 2, and New Vegas. Amazon is also responsible for the abysmal Wheel of Time and Lord of Rings series as well. But the Fallout series barely resembles its source material at this point.

You could argue that all of the Dune movies fall into being bad adaptations. The 1984 version strays too far from the original books. And the newer ones aren't even trying to adapt the story properly nor portray the characters accurately.

The Hobbit films are bloated and mediocre. The Lord of the Rings trilogy is not any better with its constant Marvel quip dialog, dwarf tossing and other stupidity, and girl boss moments. But most people seem to like the changes to the movies from the books like altering the ending or making some of the characters comic relief.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

A Wrinkle in Time goes here. The fact that it exists is a slap in the face to the original book and the author herself.

 

[2mm and 99 others]

Going postal (the Discworld). It was like authors of the movie had only read this book from the series, or, just a half of it and then forgot it in a train and made up the rest by pulling it from ass and by browsing the fandom. The key elements weren't there, and jokes that wouldn't cost them anything, as well. And I did not like the cast.

 

[Stratorroz]

The Electric State film is absolute hogwash and dumbs down the somber atmosphere the source material had into a quippy, Marvel-esque action film.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Wheel of Time

See the thread on this show later tonight for how bad it really is.

 

[Jace on ice]

The Netflix Resident Evil show is famously awful and low quality but my favorite bit of the writers not giving a fuck is a computer terminal mentioning Wesker's death in Africa implying RE5 is canon in the setting but the show supposedly takes place before the Raccoon City incident.

What a piece of shit.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

I'm going to mainly talk about adaptations of source material I am very familiar with, and will go over ones that botched a completed story since while FMA 2003 is a bad adaptation, it was made while the manga was still ongoing and not even at the halfway point yet so it has some leniency. Honestly this is more of my top 10 worst adaptations list but I'll leave it at 6

Heathers (TV show) - Based on the source material about how high school hierarchies are an extremely toxic mindset and the dangers of mass media exploiting tragedies becomes a series about persecuted white girls against evil SJW school bullies who somehow are at the top of the high school hierarchy despite being the type of people to be bullied. It drags itself out way too much for a story that can be told in 2-3 hours.

Percy Jackson Movies - Completely misunderstands the source material by removing a lot of the villains that were from the books, replacing Ares in the first movie with Hades while the second film introduces the overarching antagonist way too early only for him to betray his top henchman and be defeated early while still setting up sequel bait in the end. All of this in a desperate attempt to cash in on the success of the Harry Potter films. Literally the only good scenes between both films was the stuff that was actually faithful.

Death Note (2017) - An americanized movie that tries to turn evil megalomaniac Light Yagami into bullied school shooter kid Light Turner who lets the goth girl he simps for be more evil than him while making the neutral spectator demon into an evil villain who uses psychic powers and the super smart shut-in detective with autism into a dumb autistic retard who shows his face to the public and survives by plot armor. Not to mention, ignoring the themes of justice and the cat and mouse game that was prevalent in the source material.

Cowboy Bebop (2021) - Episodic anime about a cast of mostly adults turned into dumb serialized MCU slop where all the main characters devolve into MCU wannabes with the lead being way too old for the role he's playing and turning the main villain into a whiny manbaby with daddy issues whereas the girl both he and the MC loved that was meant to be dead is now alive and is set up as the bad guy for a non-existent Season 2. Literally the only good things about this were Jet, the Dog, and I guess the kid who would've played Ed could have had potential if directed better.

The Live Action FMA Trilogy - Tries to condense a 110 chapter manga and 64 episode anime into 3 movies that remove and water down so many characters. Special effects are all bad and a one-off villain basically becomes one of the main antagonists of the trilogy. The short runtime cuts out so much of the downtime that is necessary for a story like this and really takes away a lot of the depth the characters would've had. Just goes to show that even the Japanese can make bad live action adaptations.

Mulan (2020) - A story about a girl in the military who proves that women are strong too becomes slop about a super powerful superhero with chi powers being able to solo everything and all the life is taken away from all the side characters because they are too comedic and the love interest is gone because performative activism in removing the original relationship due to #MeToo. Adds a random witch villain with a "you're not so different, you and I" quote while being more on your nose about the message despite undermining it with superpowers.

 

[Skitarii]

OP's smoothbrain is an example of a bad adaption.

Marxism was a shit ideology and Leninism was an even shittier adaptation