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⌈ Secret Post #6747 ⌋

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Favorite/Least Favorite Adaptions

[philstar22]

Semi-inspired by secret 1. What are your favorite and least favorite adaptions, and why? Also, what adaptions made changes that actually worked? What changes really didn't work?

LotR

[(Anonymous)]

It is blasphemous to say, but I actually found the books pretty boring to read but loved the movies. I felt they stayed true to the story but just took out all the boring bits.

Least Favorite

[(Anonymous)]

The champion of Worst Adaptation will forever go to Ella Enchanted for me. What a travesty of a film. I suppose it could have been fun if they just said it was a made up story and not based on the book, but as a book adaptation? Oh hell no.

That book was my favorite for a long time when I was younger.

It's not my favorite, but I did enjoy the latest A Wrinkle in Time movie. It was like watching an AU version of the book. I'd like an adaptation that was more accurate, but I enjoyed the movie and understood the changes they made.

Re: Favorite/Least Favorite Adaptions

[philstar22]

Favorites: LOTR, Rings of Power. Jurassic Park. Both animated and live action How to Train Your Dragon. Legend of the Seeker (better than the books by far). David Suchet's Poirot.

The Dune tv adaption was really, really good. I enjoy the recent movie adaption as well, but the tv version is best.

Least favorite: Wizard of Oz. Making it a dream ruins things. And the books were such a big part of my childhood, and I'm sad there is no faithful adaption.

The new Poirot movies.

The Last Airbender movie. Unspeakably bad.

The DCU, especially that version of Superman. Just total misunderstanding of the character.

Re: Favorite/Least Favorite Adaptions

[kaijinscendre]

World War Z was horrible and I'm sad we will probably never get a faithful adaptation. I also really hated the The Giver adaptation. Just....awful.

The Schindler's List movie was great. The book is good but can be a bit of a slog. My Sister's Keeper completely changed the ending of the book and made it 100 times better.

The Witcher

[(Anonymous)]

I despised the Netflix show. And I wouldn’t have cared at all except the showrunner and studio both invested a lot of time and money into promoting it as a faithful adaptation. I’m super happy that it will ultimately go down as a major failure and the showrunner’s reputation is damaged.

Re: Favorite/Least Favorite Adaptions

[(Anonymous)]

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

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: Favorite/Least Favorite Adaptions

[(Anonymous)]

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

Re: Favorite/Least Favorite Adaptions

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: Favorite/Least Favorite Adaptions

[(Anonymous)]

Favorite - the 1980s Anne of Green Gables adaptations. It kept the spirit of the books, had some excellent casting, and cut out the slightly repetitive parts. (We don't need to see Anne win over quite so many local curmudgeons.) There'll never be another Anne Shirley for me, Megan Followes was it.

Re: Favorite/Least Favorite Adaptions

[(Anonymous)]

Holes is a top-tier adaptation.

Re: Favorite/Least Favorite Adaptions

[thewakokid]

Ok, lets do this:

BBC America's "The Watch". That his daughter let it happen was... Unforgivable.

The Kenneth Branagh "Halloween Party" adaption (Venice something). All his Poirots fail to some degree, but TINA FUCKING FEY as Ariadne Oliver, and Ms Oliver BETRAYING Poirot... Fucking disgusting.

The new Lilo and Stitch. Obviously going after any of the Disney Live actions is low hanging fruit and completely beneath me, but this one is special...

Anything by Adi Shankar. (Except Laundry day. Can't deny him his props there, but everything else has been horrible) The man is the Uwe Boll for the 2020's. And at LEAST Uwe Boll had the excuse he was doing a "springtime for Hitler" tax scam.

Re: Favorite/Least Favorite Adaptions

[(Anonymous)]

A Series of Unfortunate Events

One Piece

[(Anonymous)]

thank you to all the people who have chattered about this show on FS. There has been so many comments of praise that I finally went to watch it today and it is so much fun! I absolutely love the style and vibe of the entire thing and am excited to have a new show to watch.

Re: One Piece

[(Anonymous)]

Woohoo! I'm one of those people and I'm really glad you're enjoying it!
If you want to chat about it, let me know.

What is something puzzling you in fandom?

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: What is something puzzling you in fandom?

[(Anonymous)]

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....

Re: What is something puzzling you in fandom?

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Late night venting

[(Anonymous)]

For all your venting needs.

Re: Late night venting

[(Anonymous)]

We should start mornings later in the day, like the afternoon.

5am is too early for anyone to get up.

Re: Late night venting

[(Anonymous)]

I used to have bipolar but the kind that with some effort I could ignore. Then it became hard to ignore and I started on meds. Then the meds stopped working. And lately I feel like it’s gone from rapid cycling to “I just need to take sedatives and sleep for 2 years so that everyone forgets me <3”

[(Anonymous)]

A Series of Unfortunate Events

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't realize this was a sad occasion