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Favourites:
LoTR for an obvious one:
I love the books but they aren't the easiest thing to get through and there are parts of the books I don't care for that I preferred the change of in the movies. One: giving Arwen more of a character and not just turning up at the end to marry Aragorn along with her speech in Rivendell.

There are some bits of the movies I don't jive with, Gimli being mostly a burping joke factory for one and the Legolas+Gimli friendship is very toned down in the movies. But I largely enjoyed what they decided to do with the tone they went for and I think most of the changes make sense.

Mid fave, as in I liked them as movies but they missed some marks as adaptations:
The Hobbit movies:
An obvious crit: should have been 2 at most but irrc they were meant to be, got pushed into 3 and it messed up the pacing in movie 2 and 3. I think they're still decent given all the production mess that happened bts(theatrical BoFA is eeeeh, but extended is better imo). But there are bits I'd change and bits from the book I'd have included that weren't, because for the most part they do stick to the book, they just add scenes or take scenes that would be 5 secs long and expand them. But I love The Company as characters, I cry every time I watch Thorin die and given that they lost Del Torro as 1st director I think they made the correct choice to not ape his style and instead bring it in-line with the LoTR movies.

Idk man I just love middle-earth and the casting was fantastic. Also Smaug, my child.

In the same vein: Rings of Power.
I quite enjoyed the series, I'm looking forward to more but I also have my gripes with bits of it as they deviate in a way that makes me tilt my head(why the fuck does Gandalf not know who he is or how to use his magic???). But I love a lot of the characters and I want to see Numenor fall into the sea SO FUCKING BAD, lol. Also watching Sauron manipulate Celebrimbor? Yes thank you I'd like another.

The 2000's Hellboy movies:
Absolutely fantastically fun movies, they are however really not great as adaptations as they miss the mark on various bits of the setting. But the characters are so fun, and sure HB/Liz is not a thing AT ALL in the comics, but fuck it they're cute I don't care.

Couldn't stand:
World War Z. There's changing things to make it easier to work on-screen and then there's... that. It should have been a mini-series because it would work perfectly for it, a new PoV character each episode as an anthology? Yes! But alas.

The 2019 Hellboy movie:
Which is funny as fuck to me because it's more comic accurate and yet it was worse??? It mostly just felt like an excuse to be a gore-fest with Hellboy slapped on to it, and it was such a shame because I was looking forward to it but I didn't like it at all.

Otherwise I'm pretty chill with adaptations and will likely enjoy them as they're separate thing. I either won't know there was a source material, or I can usually roll with the changes making something on-screen necessitates.

What don't you like about the new Poirot movies?

Least favorite is the film version for Sophie Kinsella's book Can You Keep a Secret?. It's one of my all-time favorite books and I was thrilled when I heard they were going to make a movie, but they made way too many changes (including the bit where the MC finally stands up to her manipulative bitch of a cousin) and cut out my favorite supporting character. At least the two lead actors were hot and had good chemistry.

+1!

As a book fan that isn't watching the show, I'm curious what changes they've made that stand out to you?

Just found out that a 2021 RPG (?) game called Cookie Run is hugely popular on Ao3. AFAIK, you play as cookies and it's popularity is crazy to me.

Yes to this secret ♡

Ouch, that really sucks, but I didn’t think you were being a jerk here at all.

I also make a point of not downvoting anyone into the negatives. That feels shitty, when at best I want to adjust what rises to the top of the pile. I don’t like “what’s the best redemption story” being dominated by low-effort comments just naming the most popular movies or TV shows, especially when people lower down have given some thought behind their answers.

Oops, that was me, in case it wasn’t clear.

It’s Jennifer Tilly at her Jennifer Tilly-est. What’s not to love?

The key is to pretend it's an unauthorized in-universe fictionalization of Bharadwaj's documentary. It really helps. (There's already a few good fics on AU where the book characters encounter the show as an in-universe adaptation, if you need help sustaining that belief.)

The real tragedy is I've managed to separate myself from Marvel fandom enough that I missed learning there was M'baku show until now. I hope it is good.

Good: The Princess Bride, Lord of the Rings, Forrest Gump and To Kill a Mockingbird

Mid but I still like it: 12 Angry Men and The Lovely Bones

Worst: The Girl on the Train

AYRT
I think most would agree those are legit downvotes. I think because I’m in smaller subs I’m so accustomed to specific questions and requests. Anything with justification or qualifiers will get ignored and usually the single titles get upvoted just to show agreement instead of bloating the comments.

Least favorite is the BBC/Netflix Watership Down adaptation. Whoever decided that what the book about rabbits needed is a goddamn *romance subplot* needs to be slapped. The animated adaptation wasn't perfect but at least largely got the spirit right and didn't do shit like taking away major moments from other characters because we need ~romance~, I'm just really salty that they took the moment when Fiver finds Hazel after the farm raid, which the animated movie used for the famous Bright Eyes sequence, and gave it to Clover instead because again, useless added romance subplot. The miniseries also just doesn't get Hazel's arc during the trek to Watership at all, instead of being an unexpectedly strong leader who makes decisions he just constantly dithers and whimpers and doubts himself to the point it makes absolutely no sense that the miniseries version of these rabbits would name him Chief Rabbit, he didn't do anything! Or how they made Strawberry a girl but kept in the part where Strawberry did a lot to help dig the new warren so instead of the rabbits learning to do things outside their nature to survive -- normally male rabbits don't dig, and the initial group has no females -- it just becomes the girl bunny does girl bunny things (I once described it as 'imagine a book where a bunch of guys who always had their mom around to make them sandwiches go off on their own and have to learn to make their own sandwiches, and then the adaptation makes one a girl and treats it as a girlboss moment when she goes into the kitchen and makes sandwiches for all the boys'). Or how I finally get an adaptation that includes my favorite rabbit, Bluebell, and makes him into a complete idiot bumbling side character.

i can't speak to philstar22's point, but for me they seem to be using the popularity of poirot/christie to tell a more generic mystery story. like i am genuinely unsure if the creators actually like agatha christie novels, because they all seem stripped of anything interesting. the last one, A Haunting in Venice seemed to be more about creating religious drama for Poirot than a mystery ~~and since Ariadne was Christie's self-insert thoughts about being a mystery novelist, her being duplicitous in it really steamed me~~.

Oh I forgot the Dune TV series and the recent movies, those are fantastic and I love them.

And it's full of antis. They will scream about pedophilia because one of the cookies you ship is a "child." No, that's a cookie....

Love the books, hate the films (the scene where the beacons light up one after another was pretty good, though impractical in real-life terms.)

The adaptation that works best is the 1981 BBC radio drama. It's just about perfect (except for the first scene which is a bit confusing.) Christopher had input, so things that were a surprise at the time, like the Eagle's voice, became very clear long after.

The 1967 BBC radio Hobbit is absolutely excellent, too.

Hi from the only person on earth who loved both the book and the movie. It deviates a lot from the book, but I think its creative that way. And I like how unseriously it takes itself.

This is as baffling as it is hilarious.

I’m sorry anon but that’s hilarious.

To be fair Cookie Run takes the fact they're cookies and alive to its logical conclusion and does some hella good horror. Imagine that you are created just to be eaten DESPITE being alive. This is not only a plot point but a MAJOR one.

The Big Bullshit Bill got further nerfed today.

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/26/senate-medicaid-provider-tax-trump-thune

Also, Republicans are starting to get nervous about how shitty the bill looks to their constituents requiring medical care in rural areas. It's not much, but some of these fuckers are definitely up for reelection next year and I hope they're squirming and miserable every single day they choose to support this fascist regime.

Right? I was baffled there was so little interest, as if people don't realize how hot he is?

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