Author Topic: I hate hollywood  (Read 9002 times)

May 12, 2005, 12:04:19 AM
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ziggot

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Within the last week hollywood has taken one of my favorite books from me, about five hours of my life and fourteen dollars. :angry:

They ruined my favorite book with Hitch Hikers Guide, and tonight they managed to screw up a medievel sword fighting movie.

Is it just me or are movies getting worse?

May 12, 2005, 03:19:05 AM
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hollywood has been ****ing up books by making them into movies for as long as anyone can recall. a great example is the movie that came out some few years ago called "simon birch". It's about a dwarfish kid who does interesting things. The movie is a pseudo-adaptation of a book by John Irving called "A Prayer for Owen Meany".
In the movie, the kid dies in an alley at about age 12 after a christmas pageant in which he was the part of baby Jesus due to his small size...and thats the end of the movie. That part happens to be at about chapter 5 in the book...and he doesnt die.  In the book, the main character (the dwarfish kid) goes on to grow up, join the army, is about to be sent to vietnam and gets killed by throwing himself on a grenade to save a group of vietnamese refugee women and children. They turned a first rate book with a heroic ending and a amazing plotline into a third rate joke of a movie that has been used as a punchline in the scripts of other movies (it's mentioned as being a sappy movie about "a goofy kid with problems" by david spade in the movie "Loser"). As a matter of fact, the movie was originally supposed to carry the title of the book, but John Irving was so pissed off about how badly they butchered the story that he revoked the contract rights for the name.
 I could easily name at least a hundred other movies which have followed the same pattern, but i wont bore you all. However, there have been some reasonably good adaptations, as evidenced by most of the movies adapted from John Grisham's novels (The Firm, The Pelican Brief, A Time To Kill, etc.)...but those are few and far between.
Yeah, hollywood sucks.
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May 12, 2005, 04:57:50 AM
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I think I speak for all of us when I say, "what sword fighting movie?"
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May 12, 2005, 07:31:04 AM
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Kingdom of Heaven, methinks.
God, I'm old.

May 12, 2005, 08:12:42 AM
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wut is a book?

May 12, 2005, 10:33:57 AM
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CryForMe, dude, I'm not the sharpest crayon in the box, so PLEASE use more paragraphs in your posts. It's too much for my brain to read those massive ginormous ones of dewm!
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May 12, 2005, 10:51:27 AM
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well I'm actually READING harry potter (go me!) and I have to say that they did those movies excellently.  I've heard people say the harry potter movies don't compare to the books but I think they do.  Sure the books contain a bit more - but the choices the movie makers made were great ones.

May 12, 2005, 10:51:44 AM
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i do use paragraphs. look again, not all the lines run to the end of the page (plus the forums dont allow for spaced indentation) and i refuse to doublespace. in addition, what does being smart have to do with using paragraphs?
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May 12, 2005, 11:03:38 AM
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yeah, it was Kingdom of Heaven.

They threw away all notions of history in order to make a point about modern day politics. That and Legolas didnt fire a bow once in the whole movie.

May 12, 2005, 12:27:13 PM
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i do use paragraphs. look again, not all the lines run to the end of the page (plus the forums dont allow for spaced indentation) and i refuse to doublespace. in addition, what does being smart have to do with using paragraphs?
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I'm not smart, I need spaces and stuff to read your posts better.
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May 12, 2005, 12:39:08 PM
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They also screwed up the Battlefield: Earth movie.  It's NOTHING like the book, and I hated it.  Don't waste your time on it.

May 12, 2005, 12:45:55 PM
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The worst book to movie adaptation? Stephen King's IT!
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May 12, 2005, 01:33:38 PM
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Hmm... movies? Haven't seen one of those in a while, and I'm talking about home TV watching. In a movie theater? Jeez. Must have been a year, if not more...
I don't enjoy watching movies, or at least starting them. If I magically get hooked, I might continue watching it (if it was at the beginning), but chances of that happenening are very low. I'd rather play some NS or read a book.
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May 12, 2005, 01:56:04 PM
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They also screwed up the Battlefield: Earth movie.  It's NOTHING like the book, and I hated it.  Don't waste your time on it.
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In all fairness, the book did kind of drag on for a while during the whole bomber bit.

May 12, 2005, 03:02:50 PM
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well at least star wars episode 3 is coming soon :)
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May 12, 2005, 03:07:03 PM
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well at least star wars episode 3 is coming soon :)
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amen to that!

May 12, 2005, 04:39:06 PM
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speaking of which, some guys photoshopped the whole trailer to ep 3 and gave it leetspeak subtitles, supposed to be really funny. if ayone has it or knows where i can get a copy, let me know! the guy who originally created and hosted it got in trouble with lucasfilms for unautorized use of their trademarks....they just cant take a joke.
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May 12, 2005, 05:30:27 PM
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Now I, I am a strong proponent of Hollywood.  YOU WILL GET NO SYMPATHY FROM ME.

(interestingly enough, I also saw both those movies within the past two weeks but I try not to hate movies because that only makes me lament the cash & time that I blew.)  



PS:  I'd let Orlando Bloom hammer me anyday, eh eh?

May 12, 2005, 05:45:31 PM
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Thats cool that you have decided on an alternative life style, i support you dubb

May 12, 2005, 06:07:51 PM
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Books are intended to take your mind through what the author is trying to tell.

Movies are intended to take your sight through what the director wants you to see.

These two never really mix because most directors make a book into a movie because they fell it can be better in little things that could only be added on through "his" or "her" vision. Then theres books which are written for ones who like or love to read, to take you to another realm, and so forth.

Then out of the blue, there are directors that love the book the way it was intended to be, and make movies exactly along the lines of the book.

Best Book Adaptation I've Seen = Lord of the Flies

Worst Book Adaptation I've Seen = Battlefield: Earth movie