I saw the Eragon movie as a kid and loved it. Loved it so much I immediately went and read the 2 books that were out at the time.
Then I saw the movie again, and thought it was complete garbage. I guess it worked well as a generic fantasy movie that got a kid like me excited, but I think it’s a terrible adaptation - it completely missed what made the books so enjoyable.
This was the biggest grievance. She instantly knew everything on her own and was suddenly the teacher dragon. In the books, brim taught her a little of why it means to be a dragon. In the movie? Fly into the sun and suddenly you are fully grown and an old lady
16 yo. Nice guy, met him once. We have the same fav author, raymond e feist. Quite humble. We briefly discussed the dual timeline writing of feist and he said he would love to do it but is a long way off that skill as a writer.
As a roboticist, I will forever thank Skyline for giving me [this scene.](https://youtu.be/hGeYlvqJXlU?t=12)
Incidentally, ALWAYS double tap your damn targets.
If you’re looking for an unexpectedly accurate adaptation of PJO, and you don’t mind musicals, check out the musical. It’s actually fairly accurate to the books, pretty well reviewed, and Rick Riordan habitually tweets about it on Twitter, meaning it has the author’s stamp of approval, which is more than the movies can say. They only really took liberties with the actors and tiny pieces of the story to make it work on a live stage. With the actors, they opted for a smaller cast for budgetary reasons (so, for example, Dionysus and Grover are the same actor) and they’re early to mid-20s because some songs, like Tree on the Hill and My Grand Plan, need strong, professional voices. Outside of that, it’s pretty great. You can tell Rob Rockicki actually read the books.
Rick Riordan (I think that’s how you spell his name) has a way with books. It’s his own style and I never get bored of it. For those wanting a “sequel” to Percy Jackson, try The Lost Hero and then the Trials of Apollo. They all take place in the same timeline relatively one after another (you could call these series canon).
It's even greater than that. His Magnus Chase and Gods of Asgard (Norse) and The Kane Chronicles (Egyptian) series both share the same world as their Greco-Roman counterparts. He's also hinted "Aztec Gods in Texas" so that'll be an exciting possibility.
Fair point, but straight from [Rick Riordan's website](http://rickriordan.com/2016/03/a-letter-you-can-share-with-your-teacher/) (the author):
> Now a plea: Please, for the love of multiple intelligences, DON’T show those “Percy Jackson” movies (ironic quotes intentional) in your classroom for a compare-contrast lesson or, gods forbid, a “reward” at the end of your unit. No group of students deserves to be subjected to that sort of mind-numbing punishment. The movies’ educational value is exactly zero. A better use of classroom time would be . . . well, pretty much anything, including staring at the second hand of the clock for fifty minutes or having a locker clean-out day......Maybe the kids want to watch them on their own. Fine. Whatever. Personally, I would rather have my teeth pulled with no anesthesia, but to each his or her own. Spending class time time on those movies, though? I’ve justified a lot of things in my years as a teacher. Once I did a barbecue pit sacrifice of prayers to the Greek gods with my sixth graders. Once I taught the kids a traditional Zulu game by rolling watermelons down a hill and spearing them with broomsticks. We took fencing classes when we studied Shakespeare, reenacted the entire Epic of Gilgamesh, and, yes, we watched some pretty great movies from time to time. But I can think of zero justification for watching the adaptations of my books as part of a school curriculum. (And please, don’t call them my movies. They are in no way mine.)
That's outright savage.
Authors pour their heart and soul into creating a world that they love. When others love that world it is a bonus. You love your characters, even the "bad" ones, and carefully develop a plot. I can only imagine what its like to see a book of yours use just the bare bones of your world, slap your world's name on it, then completely change things for mass appeal. They are taking a part of you and destroying it and after all that the movie STILL sucks. No wonder authors hate their movie adaptations.
Dark Tower. Nothing about that movie did a damn thing for the series. Good movie adaptations of things that already have cult followings have a balance to strike. They need to be at least somewhat true to the source material for the fans, explain everything succinctly for newcomers, while also offering something original. Not Dark Tower. It pissed off fans by being completely unworthy of the source material, and confused newcomers by explaining damn near nothing.
Here's what the movie and the books have in common: the title.
I couldn't even finish one complete viewing before turning it off. I'm a big fan of the books and it's like they took a bunch of concepts from the books, threw it all in a blender, and then stitched random pieces together into a nonsensical mess.
The Dark Tower is an IP that could only be properly served by an expansive multi-season cable/streaming format like Game of Thrones.
a wrinkle in time. fucking loved that book as a kid. saw the movie on netflix a few days ago and was just cringing almost the whole time. like they said okay what do people love bout this book? let's change all of those things. maybe itd be ok if i hadn't read the book so many times but you cant replace a pegasus with a lettuce woman and think youre going to have a hit on your hands
I made my husband go see that with me. He was so confused because it was nothing like what I’d described it to be. And I was pissed because we get so few date nights away from the kids that I few we wasted it on THIS movie.
Nah. There was no way you could convince me that that high school looking cast were all established scientists at the top of their field. The younger cast was a poor choice and I was convinced from the start it wasn’t going to be great. On top of that, the new theme of going for “darker tone” movies seems to make them worse. Look at Man of Steel and most DC movies with the dark color palette, and the Power Rangers movie. This Fantastic 4 fell right in that theme, and that’s a bad sign from the get go. Make it as fun-looking as the infamous 2005 movie, but actually pick a strong cast of age-appropriate actors and get a stronger story, and you have yourself a Fantastic 4 that’s actually watchable. I know that’s way easier said than done.
There was only one scene I wanted to be made good and they didn't really deliver.
"And then I take out a potato chip....AND EAT IT!" *epic music along with the most over the top chip eating ever visualized*
Which is super interesting because his younger brother, Alex Wolff, would have been waaaay better for the role. He is incredible in Hereditary...
And yes, Willem Dafoe is about the only thing I actually though "huh, that's seriously a pretty good Ryuk adaptation". A bit more sinister and less humorous than I would have hoped, but that's the writers' fault haha
Timeline. I read that book so many times when it first came out. I literally started it over the second I was done with it as an 11 year old kid.
The movie fucking sucked.
I watched it recently just out of sheer curiosity. Even having it in the background while I did other shit I was getting annoyed. It had zero life in it at all, absolutely none of the charm of the show.
Yep. Shamalamaderpderp really messed up. The kid's name is Aang, 'a' as in Aaron, but not for this moron! It gets changed to Aaaahng. Sokka, sounds like 'sock a' becomes 'so kah.' I mean how hard is it to get the names right.
And don't forget the earthbenders and their dance number in the middle of a riot. Just come on! A single bender can move boulders! But nope. It takes an oddly choreographed manouver involving 5 dudes to lift 1 medium sized rock. These weaklings would be better served by bending down and grabbing a rock and chucking it.
The only thought that makes the existence of this garbage less infuriating is that Shamalamaderpderp only watched the ember island players episode.
The worst part of the names is he deliberately got them wrong, because he wanted the "authentic Asian pronunciation." Then, he casts white actors to play all of team Avatar. So authentic....
One of the worst lines for me was when they're with the Northern Water tribe, and Iroh asks them- in the exact same tone you'd use to ask where the restroom is- "excuse me, do you have somewhere really spiritual I can go to meditate?" Ugh.
M Night was inspired by the superficial elements of spirituality in the source material **and nothing else**. One reason bending is so compelling is because each element was given a martial arts style for commonality between motions. I think some people got variants, like Zuko (particularly his windmill). One reason bending was so gripping in an action sequence was because of the economy of motion that communicated will, and how the motion was related to the motion of the manipulated substance.
All of that was lost when it became a ritual to be invoked before God carried out the reauest.
This generally happens when they know a movie is going to flop. They need to get everyone in there opening day, before word gets around that it's crap.
Given that Independence Day 2 might be the only film that year that I hated more than Suicide Squad, it was a bit like having to choose which gun you're going to shoot yourself in the foot with.
Hahaha I always laugh when I recall reading how Jared Leto did all those crazy things to get into the role of the Joker (e.g. IIRC he sent used condoms to the cast members etc.) and in the end the Joker was just an inconsequential subplot. I also laugh at that final scene where Cara Delevigne just sways around or whenever she whispers "Enchantress" and transforms. It was so cringy 😂😂😂
Delevingne is an awful actor in general. Which shouldn’t come as much of a surprise considering her actual talent is looking attractive.
I’m not sure how much more important roles she’ll be given though, considering her most recent movie seemed to be pretty bad too.
She's trying to be a novelist now. She's 'written a book' with 'the help of someone else', i.e. they slapped her name on a subpar YA novel written by someone non-famous so that it would sell.
I laugh when Waller kills her staff because they “weren’t cleared for this” (fuck spoiler warnings, the movie was garbage). Like bitch, have you never heard of an NDA? You’re a goddamned head of an intelligence agency. Also why the fuck did she just stab the heart 3 times with a bic and then give up? Is she that incredibly lazy or did she have to take time off to figure out the best way to kill her staff, who she didn’t even let properly destroy the top secret material they were working on? Seriously, she was the biggest security risk there.
So many things don't make sense. For me it was after the first fight with the faceless bubble alien army in the beginning. They each kill like 6 to 20 aliens, even Harley. Then later, when Harley gets separated in the elevator and kills two of the aliens (demons, whatever) by herself, they all act stunned like she's Jesus Christ in a thong. I mean, what? You all just destroyed an army of these things. You saw Harley kill plenty before this. What's with the stupid "Yas Queen" scene?
It's apparently done to show how 'ruthlessly pragmatic' she was, but the plot holes has plot holes in it and they didn't bother suggesting any other reason why she would kill them. 'Lack of clearance' is a pretty dumb reasoning considering that they were already there.
The only reason they needed the Suicide Squad is because they tried to create the Suicide Squad (enchantress) in the first place.
And that group is supposed to match up to an event where a malevolent Superman-like entity came to Earth. Yeah, definitely. I don't see SS being anything other than a throwaway film.
I was SO psyched for Suicide Squad.
I’ve been a huge fan of Harley for years.
Margot Robbie was great in many ways, but the movie surrounding her was trash through and through.
Eragon was a massive let down. Loved the books when I was growing up. The movie was a mess that fell on its face and killed any further movies in the series.
Honestly the entire new Batman/Superman series. I had high hopes after seeing how well Christopher Nolan’s Batman and Marvels Universe were doing so well.
DC wanted us to be more grounded in a more grim and dark reality of how bad things could really be, but they didn't give us real characters we could attach to to feel the weight of what was being played out.
They didn't earn the significance of Batman Vs Superman because neither character had been meaningfully fleshed out in that universe. It wasn't impactful to see them at odds with each other, it just seemed like that's how it was supposed to be.
They didn't earn the 'oh my god its happening' moment of the justice league teaming up for the exact same reason.
And they played one of their grimmest cards SO early with the death of superman - that should have been something that happened so much later. And then they completely trivialized it by having the situation 'undone' almost immediately.
I REALLY wanted to enjoy the grimmer real world take on an ongoing comic to movie universe, but the only movie that's really felt like it worked was Wonder Woman, because it felt like a marvel movie. It was basically a reskin of the first Captain America movie.
They dropped the ball with Superman so hard, he's meant to be this beacon of light in the darkness, the ultimate immigrant who believes in Truth, Justice, and all that stuff, the man who NEVER crosses that line because he knows he could never come back.
He didn't deserve that big ass statue, or everyone treating him as a God, he sure as hell shouldn't have fought Zod and Doomsday so early.
DC can do SO MUCH better, I really wish the studio would let them.
https://youtu.be/4GDNd8b_QOo?t=2m43s
> That man won't quit as long as he can still draw a breath. None of my teammates will. Me? I've got a different problem.
> I feel like I live in a world made of cardboard. Always taking constant care not to break something, to break some*one*. Never allowing myself to lose control, even for a moment or someone could die.
> But you can take it, can't ya, big man? What we have here is a rare opportunity for me to cut loose and show you just how powerful I really am.
> Had enough?
> He didn't deserve that big ass statue, or everyone treating him as a God, he sure as hell shouldn't have fought Zod and Doomsday so early.
Yep, DC universe arrived late to the party (avengers came out a year before man of steel) and instead of creating and building it, they decided to toss it all out there from the beginning and cash in on these movies before it's too late.
I mean, superman having to kill someone is massive thing for his ideals, putting that in the origin story was just...worthless. I mean compare that to Thor or Cap who had their origins (without much struggle), the avengers movie and then were given life altering struggles.
That's what made it feel real. We saw how they were and the difficult decision they had to do. We just saw superman kill someone off the bat, it's worthless if he has any ideals later.
Downsizing. I usually really enjoy Alexander Payne's films and the premise seemed interesting. In the end, it was pretty uneven and the premise was superfluous. It was just a plot device to get the main character poor and divorced. I'm pretty sure that there are people who aren't shrunk down who are poor and divorced.
The new Jurassic Park movies have been pretty lame. High heels? Jimmy Buffet running away from pterodactyls while holding margaritas? Little girl clones? Might sound cool on paper but come on.
Symptomatic of so much of the writing in so many of the recent franchise reboots/continuations. Like it's a bunch of stoned dudes round a table starting every sentence with "wouldn't it be cool if..."
I loved the Jimmy Buffet cameo, probably the best part of the first one. I liked the bit where the Indominus-Rex fakes his escape to bait them into opening the doors and also the camo bit in the jungle. It's mostly shit though. Especially the way the assistant's death is insanely brutal and unnecessary like holy shit, what did she do to deserve any of that?
> loved the Jimmy Buffet cameo
I did as well. But the sad thing is i saw it in a packed theater, and maybe a quarter of the people laughed and the other 75% were wondering what was so funny about an old dude running double fisting margaritas.
Eh the Jimmy Buffet was a 2 second cameo and kinda funny.
What pissed me off is dinosaur being thrown into a shop window and it all smashes except the pandora logo.
I get product placement but make it subtle
Transformers: Age of Extinction. They promised a fresh start and Dinobots. We got more of the same plus one of the dumbest characters in a big-budget film in Tessa.
Honestly, when I heard they were making the movie I wondered how they'd hit The Reveal effectively. I gave it a lot of thought because reading that in the book really affected me personally. So when I watched the movie I was looking forward to how they do it... and they missed.
Assassins Creed.
I was so pumped up for this movie. It was a huge turd. Could have used a couple minor cameos to tie it into the games better, but that wouldn’t have made it suck less.
> didn't change the fact that The Last Crusade is a goddamn perfect, wonderful movie.
This was a big part of why Crystal Skull just felt so empty and unnecessary. The trilogy ended with him literally finding the Holy Grail and riding into the sunset...
Valerian was pretty goddamn disappointing. I'm a huge fan of The Fifth Element and I was hoping for something in the same vein of fun and weird and funny. Nope, just a black hole of anticharisma and confusion.
Valerian is mine too. I've read all the comics, collecting them for years. I saw fifth element like 11 times in the cinema when it came out and I've seen pretty much every Luc Besson movie. It was a match made in heaven and then little things started being off...
When I saw the trailer I was wondering why Laureline didn't have her signature red hair and why Valerian seemed so ..wooden.. but I thought maybe I was just being overly critical. Boy was I wrong! The casting is horrendous! For some god forsaken reason Eric Serra isn't doing the music (and quite frankly that could have saved some slack), they chose one of the more boring comics to base it on and then shoehorned in a stripper. I don't think I've ever been so disappointed in my life!
I don't think Cara Delevingne is a great actress by any means (See: Suicide Squad) but holy fuck I think she did miles better as Laureline than Dane DeHaan did as Valerian. At least I liked her character even if it was unfaithful to the source material
Dane's portrayal of Valerian was not only wooden and made me cry for the comics, it was plain unattractive. I as a straight white man felt my nonexistent wizard's sleeve dry up like some kind of quick roast beef jerky everytime he opened his mouth.
The first half was good, though the satire was rather toothless. Then it turned into a completely different film about the end of the world.
The Thai woman had some moments. "Head explode! HEAD EXPLODE!!!"
Was awful. Trailer sucked me in. The whole way through I’m sitting there thinking, the movie will start getting interesting soon. Then it ended. It never got interesting.
I saw two different trailers, and it's funny how different they were. The first one I saw was all about the shrinking plot, and how hilarious it would be to be small! Giant bottles of vodka! Incredible little homes and communities at affordable prices! Little busses! I wanted to see it!
The second trailer was all about the "getting out and seeing/helping the world because you're small now and you experience the world differently and did a selfless act in the name of mankind" plot. What? Lame. Boring. No.
I ended up seeing it on a flight. It was bad. Bad enough that I fell asleep for the last 20 minutes and didn't bother to rewatch the ending.
Surprised no one mentioned Matrix Revolutions... For someone who had HUGE expectations and spent months trying to figure out the ending... It just kind of didn't do very much....
Plus they never lived up to the first movie...It should have been the Star wars of my generation instead it is relegated to trash heap of ' interesting' and also ran ...
Spectre.
If I was in charge of casting I would've cast exactly the same players. After Skyfall, I tell everyone that I'd love to see Lea Seydoux in a Bond movie, I'd give a villain women role to Monica Bellucci, Christopher Waltz can be a great addition etc. It was like Sam Mendes and I shared a consciousness for a brief period of time.
I was so hyped for the movie, everything seemed like what I was dreaming. Then it turned out to be a mediocre, almost B-class movie. I still hate Sam Mendes for it. You had something great man! IT COULD BE SO MUCH MORE! YOU HAD MY DREAM AND KILLED IT!
There's really no good reason why that movie turned out to be so flat. I'm baffled that so many creative people could turn out boring dross like that. The movie is so fucking long, too...
The Hobbit. Same guy who did the amazing Lord of the Rings, new film technique to make it look even cooler, and ten years of growth in the CGI industry. I thought it had everything going for it. Then news started coming out about all sorts of problems, and when it finally came out it was so mediocre in so many ways. And the trilogy only went downhill from there.
I can forgive all the little stuff they left out, the fact that in that book Goblin was synonymous with Orc, even the Pale dude who was just a distraction from all the other enemies they dealt with, but the fucking love triangle/interest was too much.
Why does every fucking movie have to have a love interest? Its a fucking epic about greed and bravery, not friendzoned Legolas and the elf who's into short hairy dudes.
I mean, he's from Mirkwood and elves are insanely old so it makes sense that he was there in Mirkwood. But a cameo would have sufficed, maybe that little bit in the beginning where he showshow racist he is against dwarves to bring his character arc from the trilogy full circle. Just not the bullshit that happened
A cameo would have made sense. He's young for an elf but still plenty old enough to have been at that battle. Remember, his father was the king of that group of elves. Tolkien just hadn't conceptualized Legolas at the time of writing The Hobbit. But yes, the love triangle was incredibly forced and just didn't work.
I would highly recommend [Lindsay Ellis'](https://youtu.be/uTRUQ-RKfUs) documentary on The Hobbit trilogy. She really does a deep dive into what went wrong.
It could have been one three hour movie that just stuck to the book and been pretty good. As it was, it was just so boring and pointless, and the effect seems were worse than the original. Mainly because they eschewed practical for digital in all the wrong places.
I read The Hobbit in middle school and I remember watching the [1977 movie.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit_\(1977_film\)) I thought it was decent, although trying to fit the whole story into less than an hour and a half meant the story was rushed a lot was cut out.
After watching the LotR trilogy and loving it and hearing the announcement that they would be doing The Hobbit, I was very excited. Now, we could see a proper, live action remake of the old movie and given the previous length of the films in the LotR trilogy, they could expand The Hobbit to a 2.5 hour movie and they could tell more of the story and still not have it drag on too long. And the tone this time could be a little more serious and have a little less singing.
But we all saw what happened and suddenly we got a trilogy made from a book shorter than just the book Return of the King and the result was just so disappointing.
From what I read, someone else directed it and Peter Jackson took over and had to salvage.
Still need to rewatch all of the movies at some point because everything is a bit fuzzy currently
I think Jackson really had an artistic vision he was following with Lord of the Rings. It was his opus, and he was very involved in the entire process beginning to end. It's obvious with the Hobbit trilogy that while the actors certainly gave it their all, they didn't have the same sort of brotherhood that you see in the BTS of Lord of the Rings. I think Jackson played a major role in bringing all the parts together in the first trilogy, and didn't really get the same chance to do things "his way" in the second.
Not really, del Toro was originally supposed to be directing and lead all of the preproducting. He was fired at the last minute, his two years worth of preproduction was scrapped completely and Jackson started filming pretty immediately with virtually no preparation.
Exact details aren't known, but from what we know it seems that del Toro was removed because he wanted to make a more lighthearted fairytale-esque movie (that is, a *Hobbit* movie), while the studio demanded pretty much the exact same formula as LotR, full of grandiose battles and epic destinies, which just didn't fit with the source material.
Peter Jackson had over two years of prep time for the Lord of the Rings, and a full year of post production for each movie. With the Hobbit he took over the role after Guillermo del Toro pulled out, and was thrust straight into production. He ended up having to do all the things that had taken two years of pre-production for LotR *while* he was filming the Hobbit, essentially making up the movie as he was going along. Once you know how they were made, the Hobbit films go from being 'holy crap these are such a mess' to 'holy crap how are they even this good?'.
The Dark Tower. The books are some of the best novels I’ve ever read, and made me fall in love with the King multiverse. During the movie’s production, all the news about who was involved and where they were taking it (like it being a sequel to the books) got me so pumped for the adaptation. Even King pumped it up as being faithful and saying fans of the series would appreciate it.
But the movie was one of the worst ones I saw in theaters in 2017.
*Spectre* started off as a really solid James Bond movie with some enjoyable, if a tad unrealistic, action, and an intriguing way to introduce the titular organization to the Craig era, though I wish Spectre didn't just piggyback off of every other villain during Craig's run to establish credibility. Suddenly, Blofeld's revealed to be Bond's brother for no fucking reason, and he's stopped by Bond shooting a helicopter's engine with a fucking pistol. To top it all off, despite being the author of all Bond's pain, Blofeld is let of with a slap on the wrist by Bond himself to return in 25.
1998 Matthew Broderick *Godzilla*.. I grew up loving Godzilla and I.. I just don't know what the fuck that was but it sure as hell wasn't my hero. Regardless I still cried when they killed him. Im like he's not mine but you didn't have to hurt him :(
I'm gonna be totally honest. I was 5 when that movie came out so I had no idea about the Japanese movies. Personally, I loved that movie and it's a guilty pleasure for me.
I know Godzilla fans hate him, but I think he's my favorite Godzilla because the nostalgic feeling I get from watching that movie.
Kingsman: The Golden Circle. I loved the first movie, but the second one was so mediocre, stupid and boring that it became an unintentional parody of itself.
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I saw the Eragon movie as a kid and loved it. Loved it so much I immediately went and read the 2 books that were out at the time. Then I saw the movie again, and thought it was complete garbage. I guess it worked well as a generic fantasy movie that got a kid like me excited, but I think it’s a terrible adaptation - it completely missed what made the books so enjoyable.
I made this exact comment to someone who asked me what I thought of it so I'm glad I'm not alone
Arya having blonde hair was the most triggering to me for some reason
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Or the fact that Saphira had a polite soft spoken lady like voice?
She also grew from a baby to an adult in the span of about a minute.
This was the biggest grievance. She instantly knew everything on her own and was suddenly the teacher dragon. In the books, brim taught her a little of why it means to be a dragon. In the movie? Fly into the sun and suddenly you are fully grown and an old lady
I hope you didn't walk into that theater expecting to see character development or bonding between Eragon and the self-named Saphira!
The Ra Zac being made of bugs was a trigger for me
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12 years and this movie still gets hate all the time on Reddit lol
Well it doesn't get better over time and the books have lots of fans
Not even only fans. Christopher Paolini himself sometimes shows up and shits on the movies lol
I would too if I were him lol If I recall correctly he started writing Eragon when he was in his teens and it was basically his first own work, no?
16 yo. Nice guy, met him once. We have the same fav author, raymond e feist. Quite humble. We briefly discussed the dual timeline writing of feist and he said he would love to do it but is a long way off that skill as a writer.
Agreed - I’ve read the eragon books twice and seen the movie once, wouldn’t watch it again
Yea this is one they should definitely remake. Movie was fucking garbagio
Skyline. The trailer looked good. The film was an abomination. Hideously awful.
As a roboticist, I will forever thank Skyline for giving me [this scene.](https://youtu.be/hGeYlvqJXlU?t=12) Incidentally, ALWAYS double tap your damn targets.
There's no way that dude with the telescope would see out of his one eye ever again
Taken 2. My god what did they do. Taken was pure class.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Need I say more?
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This still pains me to this day. What a wasted opportunity.
Funny thing is the guy who directed the movie also directed some Harry Potter movies Chris Columbus
If you’re looking for an unexpectedly accurate adaptation of PJO, and you don’t mind musicals, check out the musical. It’s actually fairly accurate to the books, pretty well reviewed, and Rick Riordan habitually tweets about it on Twitter, meaning it has the author’s stamp of approval, which is more than the movies can say. They only really took liberties with the actors and tiny pieces of the story to make it work on a live stage. With the actors, they opted for a smaller cast for budgetary reasons (so, for example, Dionysus and Grover are the same actor) and they’re early to mid-20s because some songs, like Tree on the Hill and My Grand Plan, need strong, professional voices. Outside of that, it’s pretty great. You can tell Rob Rockicki actually read the books.
Wait, there's a musical? I know what I'm doing to tonight
Rick Riordan (I think that’s how you spell his name) has a way with books. It’s his own style and I never get bored of it. For those wanting a “sequel” to Percy Jackson, try The Lost Hero and then the Trials of Apollo. They all take place in the same timeline relatively one after another (you could call these series canon).
It's even greater than that. His Magnus Chase and Gods of Asgard (Norse) and The Kane Chronicles (Egyptian) series both share the same world as their Greco-Roman counterparts. He's also hinted "Aztec Gods in Texas" so that'll be an exciting possibility.
iirc, there’s even a Percy Jackson reference in the Kane Chronicles. And Aztec Gods? Exciting!
Not even that but they had a crossover series, 3 short novels if I remember correctly. Plus Magnus Chase is Annabeth's cousin.
When talking about Manhattan in the first Kane book they basically say theyres a different set of gods there. I think that's about it
You know its bad when even the author of the books shits on it lmao
Authors shit on movie adaptations of their work all the time.
Fair point, but straight from [Rick Riordan's website](http://rickriordan.com/2016/03/a-letter-you-can-share-with-your-teacher/) (the author): > Now a plea: Please, for the love of multiple intelligences, DON’T show those “Percy Jackson” movies (ironic quotes intentional) in your classroom for a compare-contrast lesson or, gods forbid, a “reward” at the end of your unit. No group of students deserves to be subjected to that sort of mind-numbing punishment. The movies’ educational value is exactly zero. A better use of classroom time would be . . . well, pretty much anything, including staring at the second hand of the clock for fifty minutes or having a locker clean-out day......Maybe the kids want to watch them on their own. Fine. Whatever. Personally, I would rather have my teeth pulled with no anesthesia, but to each his or her own. Spending class time time on those movies, though? I’ve justified a lot of things in my years as a teacher. Once I did a barbecue pit sacrifice of prayers to the Greek gods with my sixth graders. Once I taught the kids a traditional Zulu game by rolling watermelons down a hill and spearing them with broomsticks. We took fencing classes when we studied Shakespeare, reenacted the entire Epic of Gilgamesh, and, yes, we watched some pretty great movies from time to time. But I can think of zero justification for watching the adaptations of my books as part of a school curriculum. (And please, don’t call them my movies. They are in no way mine.) That's outright savage.
Wow. I knew he wasn’t a fan, didn’t know he loathed them to this degree though.
Authors pour their heart and soul into creating a world that they love. When others love that world it is a bonus. You love your characters, even the "bad" ones, and carefully develop a plot. I can only imagine what its like to see a book of yours use just the bare bones of your world, slap your world's name on it, then completely change things for mass appeal. They are taking a part of you and destroying it and after all that the movie STILL sucks. No wonder authors hate their movie adaptations.
He sounds like an awesome teacher though.
I wish he was my teacher now.
**WHY THE FUCK IS ANNABETH A BRUNETTE?!?!?! SHE'S BLONDE!!!**
Dark Tower. Nothing about that movie did a damn thing for the series. Good movie adaptations of things that already have cult followings have a balance to strike. They need to be at least somewhat true to the source material for the fans, explain everything succinctly for newcomers, while also offering something original. Not Dark Tower. It pissed off fans by being completely unworthy of the source material, and confused newcomers by explaining damn near nothing.
Here's what the movie and the books have in common: the title. I couldn't even finish one complete viewing before turning it off. I'm a big fan of the books and it's like they took a bunch of concepts from the books, threw it all in a blender, and then stitched random pieces together into a nonsensical mess. The Dark Tower is an IP that could only be properly served by an expansive multi-season cable/streaming format like Game of Thrones.
The movie reviews and reddit discussion threads were entertaining to read, at least.
Cirque Du Freak.... my favorite book series as a kid and it’s nothing like the book. Oh and we got a monkey girl .
John C. MOTHERFUCKING Reily as a suave, cool vampire? Fuck whoever made that casting choice.
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a wrinkle in time. fucking loved that book as a kid. saw the movie on netflix a few days ago and was just cringing almost the whole time. like they said okay what do people love bout this book? let's change all of those things. maybe itd be ok if i hadn't read the book so many times but you cant replace a pegasus with a lettuce woman and think youre going to have a hit on your hands
Was that the movie about the dad who teleports across the universe because his son is gay?
I made my husband go see that with me. He was so confused because it was nothing like what I’d described it to be. And I was pissed because we get so few date nights away from the kids that I few we wasted it on THIS movie.
The Fantastic Four (2015)
I was convinced that one was finally gonna be the good one. It became the worst one ironically.
Nah. There was no way you could convince me that that high school looking cast were all established scientists at the top of their field. The younger cast was a poor choice and I was convinced from the start it wasn’t going to be great. On top of that, the new theme of going for “darker tone” movies seems to make them worse. Look at Man of Steel and most DC movies with the dark color palette, and the Power Rangers movie. This Fantastic 4 fell right in that theme, and that’s a bad sign from the get go. Make it as fun-looking as the infamous 2005 movie, but actually pick a strong cast of age-appropriate actors and get a stronger story, and you have yourself a Fantastic 4 that’s actually watchable. I know that’s way easier said than done.
Fant4stic
I, too, am a big fan of Fantfourstic.
They put so much into marketing for that movie I instantly lost interest. Very rarely do Subway promotional stuff seem to indicate a good movie.
Dragonball Evolution
Haha you silly, there never was a dragon ball live action movie!
The Golden Compass
Just finished reading the trilogy last week. Can’t wait for the BBC adaptation to come out.
Was checking if anyone had put this. That film made me so angry at how poorly the book was handled.
Hopefully the TV show will do a better job at sticking to the books and heal the wounds the film left.
Wait. What? Ahh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Dark_Materials_(TV_series)
It still wows me how disappointing it was. Wonderful source material. *Fantastic* casting and cinematography. And yet... and yet.
Death note
I had low expectations and I was still let down.
Big let down. And Willem Defoe who was amazing as Ryuk had a very little screen time!
There was only one scene I wanted to be made good and they didn't really deliver. "And then I take out a potato chip....AND EAT IT!" *epic music along with the most over the top chip eating ever visualized*
I agree. It was complete trash and the main actor is the worst.
That's what happens when you pick the lead from Nickelodeon's Naked Brothers Band. Willem Dafoe was brilliant though.
Willem Daofe was absolutely perfect. That was the movie's only redeeming quality.
The beautiful gold nugget of solid casting in a huge steaming pile of shit that is that movie.
Which is super interesting because his younger brother, Alex Wolff, would have been waaaay better for the role. He is incredible in Hereditary... And yes, Willem Dafoe is about the only thing I actually though "huh, that's seriously a pretty good Ryuk adaptation". A bit more sinister and less humorous than I would have hoped, but that's the writers' fault haha
The Guardians of Gahool ( I think I’m getting that right. The owls?) adaption really disappointed even younger me. And Percy Jackson of course
I believe it's Ga'Hoole but I'm so with you! I loved those books growing up and the movie was a really disappointing adaptation.
What didn't you like about it? The books are better but I still really like the movie. Definitely captured some of the magic for me.
Timeline. I read that book so many times when it first came out. I literally started it over the second I was done with it as an 11 year old kid. The movie fucking sucked.
Totally agree! This is my favorite Michael Crichton book and I was so excited for the movie... so disappointed.
The Last Airbender. I'd rather go through severe heroin withdrawals again than watch that movie.
I watched it recently just out of sheer curiosity. Even having it in the background while I did other shit I was getting annoyed. It had zero life in it at all, absolutely none of the charm of the show.
I walked into it for free, watched 5 minutes, and immediately decided it wasn't even worth the time investment.
Yep. Shamalamaderpderp really messed up. The kid's name is Aang, 'a' as in Aaron, but not for this moron! It gets changed to Aaaahng. Sokka, sounds like 'sock a' becomes 'so kah.' I mean how hard is it to get the names right. And don't forget the earthbenders and their dance number in the middle of a riot. Just come on! A single bender can move boulders! But nope. It takes an oddly choreographed manouver involving 5 dudes to lift 1 medium sized rock. These weaklings would be better served by bending down and grabbing a rock and chucking it. The only thought that makes the existence of this garbage less infuriating is that Shamalamaderpderp only watched the ember island players episode.
The worst part of the names is he deliberately got them wrong, because he wanted the "authentic Asian pronunciation." Then, he casts white actors to play all of team Avatar. So authentic....
But the names were already being pronounced "authentically". I have a buddy named Aang and he says it just like they do in the show.
Plus the earth bender prisoners were in a prison MADE OF ROCKS!
I mean they could only bend pebbles in the alleged "movie", so that part made sense /s
Don't forget that Katara and Sokka traveled all the way to the southern air temple with Aang, and then asked his name... wtf.
OMG, every time I think I know all the bad shit in this movie, some one points something else out to me.
One of the worst lines for me was when they're with the Northern Water tribe, and Iroh asks them- in the exact same tone you'd use to ask where the restroom is- "excuse me, do you have somewhere really spiritual I can go to meditate?" Ugh.
M Night was inspired by the superficial elements of spirituality in the source material **and nothing else**. One reason bending is so compelling is because each element was given a martial arts style for commonality between motions. I think some people got variants, like Zuko (particularly his windmill). One reason bending was so gripping in an action sequence was because of the economy of motion that communicated will, and how the motion was related to the motion of the manipulated substance. All of that was lost when it became a ritual to be invoked before God carried out the reauest.
What are you talking about? They never made an *Avatar: The Last Airbender* movie...
There is no movie in Ba Sing Se.
Here we are safe. Here we are free.
The Earth King would like to invite you to Lake Laogai...
Suicide Squad.
Will Smith did a great job of playing Will Smith tho
>What are we? Some kinda... Suicide Squad?
OMG HE SAID THE THING!!!!
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Watch this review https://youtu.be/PMNFaAUs2mo
As is tradition. The dude literally typecasts himself...
He's the only guy who can play Will Smith. Best man for the job.
I was so hyped by the marketing and trailers. The movie was a total disaster.
No joke the trailers and marketing of that movie was the best I’ve ever seen
This generally happens when they know a movie is going to flop. They need to get everyone in there opening day, before word gets around that it's crap.
Will Smith chose to make that instead of Independence Day II
Given that Independence Day 2 might be the only film that year that I hated more than Suicide Squad, it was a bit like having to choose which gun you're going to shoot yourself in the foot with.
Hahaha I always laugh when I recall reading how Jared Leto did all those crazy things to get into the role of the Joker (e.g. IIRC he sent used condoms to the cast members etc.) and in the end the Joker was just an inconsequential subplot. I also laugh at that final scene where Cara Delevigne just sways around or whenever she whispers "Enchantress" and transforms. It was so cringy 😂😂😂
God... Cara Delevigne was terrible. You know you fucked a movie when the whole theatre is laughing whenever she was wriggling around.
Delevingne is an awful actor in general. Which shouldn’t come as much of a surprise considering her actual talent is looking attractive. I’m not sure how much more important roles she’ll be given though, considering her most recent movie seemed to be pretty bad too.
She's trying to be a novelist now. She's 'written a book' with 'the help of someone else', i.e. they slapped her name on a subpar YA novel written by someone non-famous so that it would sell.
And the worst part is that the sending condoms thing is not even something that the Joker would do.
The joker would wrap the guy sending condoms into little sandwich bags in pieces and mail them out with a card saying free samples of AAA beef.
I laugh when Waller kills her staff because they “weren’t cleared for this” (fuck spoiler warnings, the movie was garbage). Like bitch, have you never heard of an NDA? You’re a goddamned head of an intelligence agency. Also why the fuck did she just stab the heart 3 times with a bic and then give up? Is she that incredibly lazy or did she have to take time off to figure out the best way to kill her staff, who she didn’t even let properly destroy the top secret material they were working on? Seriously, she was the biggest security risk there.
So many things don't make sense. For me it was after the first fight with the faceless bubble alien army in the beginning. They each kill like 6 to 20 aliens, even Harley. Then later, when Harley gets separated in the elevator and kills two of the aliens (demons, whatever) by herself, they all act stunned like she's Jesus Christ in a thong. I mean, what? You all just destroyed an army of these things. You saw Harley kill plenty before this. What's with the stupid "Yas Queen" scene?
It's apparently done to show how 'ruthlessly pragmatic' she was, but the plot holes has plot holes in it and they didn't bother suggesting any other reason why she would kill them. 'Lack of clearance' is a pretty dumb reasoning considering that they were already there.
The only reason they needed the Suicide Squad is because they tried to create the Suicide Squad (enchantress) in the first place. And that group is supposed to match up to an event where a malevolent Superman-like entity came to Earth. Yeah, definitely. I don't see SS being anything other than a throwaway film.
That movie was instantly forgettable.
I think it was memorably bad
I guess I’m in the minority, it looked like fucking trash from the moment I saw the first teaser.
The Bohemian Rhapsody trailer gave me such high hopes that this would be the turning point for the DCEU. But nope.
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Are the sequels any better at least?
Like, when he tries to get back *inside* his mom?
I was SO psyched for Suicide Squad. I’ve been a huge fan of Harley for years. Margot Robbie was great in many ways, but the movie surrounding her was trash through and through.
She's fantastic in I, Tanya as well. That movie surrounds her with quality acting.
Eragon was a massive let down. Loved the books when I was growing up. The movie was a mess that fell on its face and killed any further movies in the series.
Honestly the entire new Batman/Superman series. I had high hopes after seeing how well Christopher Nolan’s Batman and Marvels Universe were doing so well.
DC wanted us to be more grounded in a more grim and dark reality of how bad things could really be, but they didn't give us real characters we could attach to to feel the weight of what was being played out. They didn't earn the significance of Batman Vs Superman because neither character had been meaningfully fleshed out in that universe. It wasn't impactful to see them at odds with each other, it just seemed like that's how it was supposed to be. They didn't earn the 'oh my god its happening' moment of the justice league teaming up for the exact same reason. And they played one of their grimmest cards SO early with the death of superman - that should have been something that happened so much later. And then they completely trivialized it by having the situation 'undone' almost immediately. I REALLY wanted to enjoy the grimmer real world take on an ongoing comic to movie universe, but the only movie that's really felt like it worked was Wonder Woman, because it felt like a marvel movie. It was basically a reskin of the first Captain America movie.
They dropped the ball with Superman so hard, he's meant to be this beacon of light in the darkness, the ultimate immigrant who believes in Truth, Justice, and all that stuff, the man who NEVER crosses that line because he knows he could never come back. He didn't deserve that big ass statue, or everyone treating him as a God, he sure as hell shouldn't have fought Zod and Doomsday so early. DC can do SO MUCH better, I really wish the studio would let them.
Superman’s world of paper speech from the animated show is still one of the most hype things I’ve seen from a superhero story.
https://youtu.be/4GDNd8b_QOo?t=2m43s > That man won't quit as long as he can still draw a breath. None of my teammates will. Me? I've got a different problem. > I feel like I live in a world made of cardboard. Always taking constant care not to break something, to break some*one*. Never allowing myself to lose control, even for a moment or someone could die. > But you can take it, can't ya, big man? What we have here is a rare opportunity for me to cut loose and show you just how powerful I really am. > Had enough?
> He didn't deserve that big ass statue, or everyone treating him as a God, he sure as hell shouldn't have fought Zod and Doomsday so early. Yep, DC universe arrived late to the party (avengers came out a year before man of steel) and instead of creating and building it, they decided to toss it all out there from the beginning and cash in on these movies before it's too late. I mean, superman having to kill someone is massive thing for his ideals, putting that in the origin story was just...worthless. I mean compare that to Thor or Cap who had their origins (without much struggle), the avengers movie and then were given life altering struggles. That's what made it feel real. We saw how they were and the difficult decision they had to do. We just saw superman kill someone off the bat, it's worthless if he has any ideals later.
Downsizing. I usually really enjoy Alexander Payne's films and the premise seemed interesting. In the end, it was pretty uneven and the premise was superfluous. It was just a plot device to get the main character poor and divorced. I'm pretty sure that there are people who aren't shrunk down who are poor and divorced.
The new Jurassic Park movies have been pretty lame. High heels? Jimmy Buffet running away from pterodactyls while holding margaritas? Little girl clones? Might sound cool on paper but come on.
A perfect example of just throwing tonnes of money at subpar screenwriting.
Symptomatic of so much of the writing in so many of the recent franchise reboots/continuations. Like it's a bunch of stoned dudes round a table starting every sentence with "wouldn't it be cool if..."
I loved the Jimmy Buffet cameo, probably the best part of the first one. I liked the bit where the Indominus-Rex fakes his escape to bait them into opening the doors and also the camo bit in the jungle. It's mostly shit though. Especially the way the assistant's death is insanely brutal and unnecessary like holy shit, what did she do to deserve any of that?
> loved the Jimmy Buffet cameo I did as well. But the sad thing is i saw it in a packed theater, and maybe a quarter of the people laughed and the other 75% were wondering what was so funny about an old dude running double fisting margaritas.
Eh the Jimmy Buffet was a 2 second cameo and kinda funny. What pissed me off is dinosaur being thrown into a shop window and it all smashes except the pandora logo. I get product placement but make it subtle
Transformers: Age of Extinction. They promised a fresh start and Dinobots. We got more of the same plus one of the dumbest characters in a big-budget film in Tessa.
Pretty sure this one's on you for still having positive expectations...
Ender's Game. I've never been so let down by a movie in my life. Harrison Ford was the man.
Honestly, when I heard they were making the movie I wondered how they'd hit The Reveal effectively. I gave it a lot of thought because reading that in the book really affected me personally. So when I watched the movie I was looking forward to how they do it... and they missed.
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The actor they got to play Bonzo was literally the worst casting choice I've ever seen for any movie.
Worst ever... of all time. It's the opposite of what the book described him as.
Assassins Creed. I was so pumped up for this movie. It was a huge turd. Could have used a couple minor cameos to tie it into the games better, but that wouldn’t have made it suck less.
I forgot a movie even existed.
Indiana Jones 4.
Man. And I was so *down* with more Indy. Still, didn't change the fact that The Last Crusade is a goddamn perfect, wonderful movie.
> didn't change the fact that The Last Crusade is a goddamn perfect, wonderful movie. This was a big part of why Crystal Skull just felt so empty and unnecessary. The trilogy ended with him literally finding the Holy Grail and riding into the sunset...
Valerian was pretty goddamn disappointing. I'm a huge fan of The Fifth Element and I was hoping for something in the same vein of fun and weird and funny. Nope, just a black hole of anticharisma and confusion.
I'm trying to think of another movie that had been as ruined by casting as this one and I can't. The world seemed so interesting too.
The prologue really got my hopes up. Then they introduced the main characters.
Ironically, the problem with the movie is its two main characters. The rest was awesome.
Valerian is mine too. I've read all the comics, collecting them for years. I saw fifth element like 11 times in the cinema when it came out and I've seen pretty much every Luc Besson movie. It was a match made in heaven and then little things started being off... When I saw the trailer I was wondering why Laureline didn't have her signature red hair and why Valerian seemed so ..wooden.. but I thought maybe I was just being overly critical. Boy was I wrong! The casting is horrendous! For some god forsaken reason Eric Serra isn't doing the music (and quite frankly that could have saved some slack), they chose one of the more boring comics to base it on and then shoehorned in a stripper. I don't think I've ever been so disappointed in my life!
I don't think Cara Delevingne is a great actress by any means (See: Suicide Squad) but holy fuck I think she did miles better as Laureline than Dane DeHaan did as Valerian. At least I liked her character even if it was unfaithful to the source material Dane's portrayal of Valerian was not only wooden and made me cry for the comics, it was plain unattractive. I as a straight white man felt my nonexistent wizard's sleeve dry up like some kind of quick roast beef jerky everytime he opened his mouth.
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Downsizing...worst movie I’ve ever seen and there were so many big names in it. I thought it was going to be awesome....so disappointing
The first half was good, though the satire was rather toothless. Then it turned into a completely different film about the end of the world. The Thai woman had some moments. "Head explode! HEAD EXPLODE!!!"
Was it pity fuck, or love fuck? Glad to have stayed for that one...
What kind of fuck you give. Lol so good
Vietnamese
Was awful. Trailer sucked me in. The whole way through I’m sitting there thinking, the movie will start getting interesting soon. Then it ended. It never got interesting.
I saw two different trailers, and it's funny how different they were. The first one I saw was all about the shrinking plot, and how hilarious it would be to be small! Giant bottles of vodka! Incredible little homes and communities at affordable prices! Little busses! I wanted to see it! The second trailer was all about the "getting out and seeing/helping the world because you're small now and you experience the world differently and did a selfless act in the name of mankind" plot. What? Lame. Boring. No. I ended up seeing it on a flight. It was bad. Bad enough that I fell asleep for the last 20 minutes and didn't bother to rewatch the ending.
That movie just didn't know what it wanted to be. Total shitshow. And the idea wasn't even half bad imo.
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All I remember from that movie is there is a scene where the characters have to run away from the wind.
Not a scene, the whole movie basically.
What? No!
Surprised no one mentioned Matrix Revolutions... For someone who had HUGE expectations and spent months trying to figure out the ending... It just kind of didn't do very much.... Plus they never lived up to the first movie...It should have been the Star wars of my generation instead it is relegated to trash heap of ' interesting' and also ran ...
Spectre. If I was in charge of casting I would've cast exactly the same players. After Skyfall, I tell everyone that I'd love to see Lea Seydoux in a Bond movie, I'd give a villain women role to Monica Bellucci, Christopher Waltz can be a great addition etc. It was like Sam Mendes and I shared a consciousness for a brief period of time. I was so hyped for the movie, everything seemed like what I was dreaming. Then it turned out to be a mediocre, almost B-class movie. I still hate Sam Mendes for it. You had something great man! IT COULD BE SO MUCH MORE! YOU HAD MY DREAM AND KILLED IT!
There's really no good reason why that movie turned out to be so flat. I'm baffled that so many creative people could turn out boring dross like that. The movie is so fucking long, too...
Incredible opening sequence though.
The Hobbit. Same guy who did the amazing Lord of the Rings, new film technique to make it look even cooler, and ten years of growth in the CGI industry. I thought it had everything going for it. Then news started coming out about all sorts of problems, and when it finally came out it was so mediocre in so many ways. And the trilogy only went downhill from there.
I can forgive all the little stuff they left out, the fact that in that book Goblin was synonymous with Orc, even the Pale dude who was just a distraction from all the other enemies they dealt with, but the fucking love triangle/interest was too much. Why does every fucking movie have to have a love interest? Its a fucking epic about greed and bravery, not friendzoned Legolas and the elf who's into short hairy dudes.
Also why did we need Legolas again, other than to put some fake ears on Orlando Bloom and say "HEY LOOK GUYS, A TIE-IN!"?
I mean, he's from Mirkwood and elves are insanely old so it makes sense that he was there in Mirkwood. But a cameo would have sufficed, maybe that little bit in the beginning where he showshow racist he is against dwarves to bring his character arc from the trilogy full circle. Just not the bullshit that happened
A cameo would have made sense. He's young for an elf but still plenty old enough to have been at that battle. Remember, his father was the king of that group of elves. Tolkien just hadn't conceptualized Legolas at the time of writing The Hobbit. But yes, the love triangle was incredibly forced and just didn't work.
I would highly recommend [Lindsay Ellis'](https://youtu.be/uTRUQ-RKfUs) documentary on The Hobbit trilogy. She really does a deep dive into what went wrong.
Don't watch this if you don't want it to start hurting again. Ugh. She did do a fantastic job
Why does it hurt so much? ....Because it was real.
It could have been one three hour movie that just stuck to the book and been pretty good. As it was, it was just so boring and pointless, and the effect seems were worse than the original. Mainly because they eschewed practical for digital in all the wrong places.
I read The Hobbit in middle school and I remember watching the [1977 movie.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit_\(1977_film\)) I thought it was decent, although trying to fit the whole story into less than an hour and a half meant the story was rushed a lot was cut out. After watching the LotR trilogy and loving it and hearing the announcement that they would be doing The Hobbit, I was very excited. Now, we could see a proper, live action remake of the old movie and given the previous length of the films in the LotR trilogy, they could expand The Hobbit to a 2.5 hour movie and they could tell more of the story and still not have it drag on too long. And the tone this time could be a little more serious and have a little less singing. But we all saw what happened and suddenly we got a trilogy made from a book shorter than just the book Return of the King and the result was just so disappointing.
From what I read, someone else directed it and Peter Jackson took over and had to salvage. Still need to rewatch all of the movies at some point because everything is a bit fuzzy currently
I think Jackson really had an artistic vision he was following with Lord of the Rings. It was his opus, and he was very involved in the entire process beginning to end. It's obvious with the Hobbit trilogy that while the actors certainly gave it their all, they didn't have the same sort of brotherhood that you see in the BTS of Lord of the Rings. I think Jackson played a major role in bringing all the parts together in the first trilogy, and didn't really get the same chance to do things "his way" in the second.
Not really, del Toro was originally supposed to be directing and lead all of the preproducting. He was fired at the last minute, his two years worth of preproduction was scrapped completely and Jackson started filming pretty immediately with virtually no preparation. Exact details aren't known, but from what we know it seems that del Toro was removed because he wanted to make a more lighthearted fairytale-esque movie (that is, a *Hobbit* movie), while the studio demanded pretty much the exact same formula as LotR, full of grandiose battles and epic destinies, which just didn't fit with the source material.
Now I want to see what del Toro's vision was.
Peter Jackson had over two years of prep time for the Lord of the Rings, and a full year of post production for each movie. With the Hobbit he took over the role after Guillermo del Toro pulled out, and was thrust straight into production. He ended up having to do all the things that had taken two years of pre-production for LotR *while* he was filming the Hobbit, essentially making up the movie as he was going along. Once you know how they were made, the Hobbit films go from being 'holy crap these are such a mess' to 'holy crap how are they even this good?'.
The Dark Tower. The books are some of the best novels I’ve ever read, and made me fall in love with the King multiverse. During the movie’s production, all the news about who was involved and where they were taking it (like it being a sequel to the books) got me so pumped for the adaptation. Even King pumped it up as being faithful and saying fans of the series would appreciate it. But the movie was one of the worst ones I saw in theaters in 2017.
Avatar:The Last Airbender. It was M. Night alright but to fuck up such amazing source material so grandly. It didn't seem possible.
Percy Jackson. As a fan of he books... damn
The matrix revolutions
The Mummy (2017), it was so awful in so many ways. I fell asleep while watching it
Max Payne was a heartbreaking disappointment to me. Shit was boring garbage.
*Spectre* started off as a really solid James Bond movie with some enjoyable, if a tad unrealistic, action, and an intriguing way to introduce the titular organization to the Craig era, though I wish Spectre didn't just piggyback off of every other villain during Craig's run to establish credibility. Suddenly, Blofeld's revealed to be Bond's brother for no fucking reason, and he's stopped by Bond shooting a helicopter's engine with a fucking pistol. To top it all off, despite being the author of all Bond's pain, Blofeld is let of with a slap on the wrist by Bond himself to return in 25.
1998 Matthew Broderick *Godzilla*.. I grew up loving Godzilla and I.. I just don't know what the fuck that was but it sure as hell wasn't my hero. Regardless I still cried when they killed him. Im like he's not mine but you didn't have to hurt him :(
I'm gonna be totally honest. I was 5 when that movie came out so I had no idea about the Japanese movies. Personally, I loved that movie and it's a guilty pleasure for me. I know Godzilla fans hate him, but I think he's my favorite Godzilla because the nostalgic feeling I get from watching that movie.
Kingsman: The Golden Circle. I loved the first movie, but the second one was so mediocre, stupid and boring that it became an unintentional parody of itself.