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So, you know how original fictional works (usually novels or comics) that get adapted into another medium, like film or TV, there'll be some that seem to be really non-controversially universally beloved, but which you didn't like? Or adaptations that are generally sneered at, but which you loved?

Sherlock BBC/The Great Mouse Detective

The Great Mouse Detective is awesome. It's been a while since I've seen it though.

Sherlock. I can't wait until it goes it away forever.

Does Sherlock still count as a popular adaptation?

At least on F!S, the general opinion seems to be very open to criticism of it, at least.

It's not universally beloved anymore, at least not in fandom circles, but it's certainly still very popular, and still acclaimed by critics. For some reason.

I put all of the 21st century Holmes adaptations into the same category of things that are almost, but not quite, utterly unlike the Conan Doyle stories I read as a kid.

LOL :) Your description is rather accurate, but tbh -- that's exactly how I like my adaptations. Almost totally different, but not quite. And the not quites have to hit the really good 'not quites' from canon (which all three of the big 21st century adaptations have really pleased me with in different ways, I'm glad to say).

I've always been a tad baffled by the weirdly widespread, uncontested assumption that adaptations should be faithful, as if faithfulness was a prime virtue of an adaptation. I mean...why? I love canon. Canon is my favorite. There will never be an adaptation that holds a candle to Doyle for me. But if I want canon, I can go read canon. Why would I waste my time on something that is a transmedium approximation of canon? I guess some people like it, which is totally fine, but it just feels kinda like pointless canon-masturbation when I do it.

This doesn't just apply to Sherlock Holmes either. It applies to most adaptations. Almost all my favorite adaptations take the idea from canon and run with it to explore all the ground and possibilities canon didn't cover while sticking close to (or even uncovering and dusting off) certain canon elements. But it's apparently an unpopular opinion. Hence why I could so very, very many of my favorite/least favorite adaptations that could fall under this thread ;)

sa

btw, I'm not the anon you were replying to. Just realized that might confuse you ;)

To Kill a Mockingbird. Gregory Peck was great, I can't imagine anyone else being Atticus, but barring that I didn't really get the same feel I got from the book.

IA, except I liked the movie a lot better than the book. It was a lot more subtle and musical and elegant and well-paced.

And I never, ever ever like movie adaptations better than the original book. Not for any other book/movie I can think of. To Kill A Mockingbird is the only one.

I do miss the absence of Miss Maudie Atkinson in the movie though. She was awesome :(

Hollywood movie Troy = what are you doing no

USA miniseries Helen of Troy = pretty awesome actually

I didn't really like the Granada TV adaptation of Sherlock Holmes. I didn't hate it, but everyone loves it, so "didn't really like it" seems to be just as rare.

Admittedly, there were several scenes from/expanding on canon scenes that I totally frickin' adored, and the actors were excellent, but mostly I felt it was rather too limited and superficial to be satisfying, because it portrayed the stories faithfully to canon, but didn't come up with a live-action equivalent of Watson's narrative voice and reflections.

Didn't care much for Hobbit (2012), liked Hobbit (1977).

I'm not sure what the general opinion of it is, but I absolutely love the old, animated Lord of the Rings.

It's usually not looked on very fondly, if I recall. I myself was weirded out by it when I was a kid and I never was a big fan of Ralph Bakshi's animation.
That being said, there are still a fair number of people who like it.

The weirdness is a huge part of its charm for me and I thought the music and background animation was really cool. But yeah, I can see why people don't like it much.

I loved The Hunger Games film. I think I like it more than the book. Most people seem to think it was just alright.

I hated Deathly Hallows Part 2, for a long list of reasons, but most people consider it the best in the film series.

I hated, hated, HATED Alfonso Cuaron's A Little Princess, which plenty of respectable critics adored.

I haven't seen this one but the original story is a fave of mine and now I'm curious: elaborate please?

Basically, he takes away what you probably found cool about Sara (I know I did)--her dignity and self-control, the whole thing where she makes believe that she's a princess to remind her to act like one--and makes her this precious moppet who says things like "all girls are princesses" to bolster her self-esteem. And she does annoying things like pretend to put a curse on Lavinia and Jessie, and encourage Miss Amelia to run away with the milkman. And then there's this whole stupidly melodramatic denouement where Miss Minchin calls the police to have Sara locked up, and she has to crawl out the attic window and across the areaway to Mr. Carrisford's house on a plank that Becky holds in place for her, and she almost falls to her death. In the rain.

Waaaaaiiiit I HAVE seen that one before! Totally didn't realize that was Curan. Huh. I watched it when I was pretty little and liked it, but even then I was well aware Sara bore basically zero resemblance to the original Sara. Yeah, not so good. Didn't it also copy the Shirley Temple ending where her dad was actually alive but had amnesia or something from being injured in a war and was just reported dead?

Yes, they did!

Fucking. Hannibal.

I hate it with a fucking passion and will only stick to the books and films.

B/

Jurrasic Park film trumps the book in every way, even though I love the book.

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