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.
Re: Favorite/Least Favorite Adaptions
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.