#it's the worst movie adaptation ever

[thesweetnessofspring]

If Harry Potter and Twilight and Percy Jackson are all getting seasons and seasons of TV series someone can throw funding at one movie to give us the real Ella Enchanted--where ogres EAT PEOPLE and that's bad, Ella's best friend and confidante is a wise, smart middle-aged-looking fairy not some weird creepo elf man, Ella wins Char over with her humor rather than being Not Like Other Girls, Char is sweet and kind and involved in ruling his kingdom rather than an actual idiot, and THEY TREAT THE CURSE LIKE THE SERIOUS THREAT IT IS TO HER INSTEAD OF A JOKE.

What I desperately need is a proper movie adaptation of Ella Enchanted. With banister sliding friendship and Ella refusing to marry Char when ordered because she knows her curse could be used against him

The 2004 movie can go die in the pits of hell

[thearunadragon]

Okay the big one: IC characters reacting too...The Eragon movie

This honestly needs a whole structured little react book to answer fairly. That’s why it took me so long to figure out how to answer this. But, until I get to writing that properly, here’s a little rundown 😂

ERAGON wants to know why he’s blonde

ARYA wants to know why she’s blonde/ginger and wants explanations for literally everything else also

RORAN is angry because “this isn’t how this happened at all!” referring to joining the army and the conscription scenes. Eragon agrees.

ANGELA is obscenely amused and munching on popcorn.

MURTAGH doesn’t hate his character portrayal ENTIRELY, but wants to know why the FUCK the scar is on the side of his stomach and basically just a little paper cut of a sword wound compared to what actually happened. He also wants to know why it has two curves and why he was put in a cage.

NASUADA wants to know what’s going on with the strange ceremonial headgear in one of the scenes

AJIHAD find his portrayal accpetable

ORIK wants know where the actual f**k he and Hrothgar are

The TWINS are only in the special edition I believe and are very unhappy about it

SAPHIRA wants to know why she has feathers and why she grew in a half second and why her scales are not shiny. She will half-accept her personality in the film, though she thinks they could have captured her much better.

ORRIN is just here for the drama.

[cantsayidont]

There have been approximately one billion stage, film, and TV adaptations of THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, and most of them (save for the 1998 French TV miniseries*) fail in exactly the same ways for most of the same reasons. The new 2024 iteration, by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellière, is no different, and about the only thing it has going for it is that it isn't AS actively offensive as their ghastly THREE MUSKETEERS adaptation last year.

(* The 1998 French TV version fails instead because it stars Gérard Depardieu, who was and remains a massive creep.)

I love the book, although I haven't read it often because it's a project — well over a thousand pages, full of what appear to be tangents and aren't — but nearly all the adaptations try to boil it down to a simple-minded, contrived drama about wrongful imprisonment and lost love, discarding most of the novel's sprawling melodrama and changing its narrative center of gravity, and by the end I always wonder why they bothered.

MUSKETEERS benefits most when screenwriters keep their grubby little fingers off the plot beyond whatever condensation is needed to fit the running time. To make MONTE CRISTO work as even a 2½-hour movie, I think it might need a more dramatic restructuring of the story.

[bunnybonesstudio]

Uh oh guess who watched the Goldfinch again and was immediately sucked back into the void

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[snazzycicada]

Me everyday all the way through the oscars knowing Dune only has 5 nominations

[disaster-priestress-sumire]

People insulting fanfictions is even more aggravating when movie adaptations can be thousand time worse than the most OOC fic, like THEY never saw canon (it looks they don't even get a summary of canon, but just had a list of the characters' names) and yet they are paid and (worst) praised for it.

I believe there's a special place in hell for those who pretend to adapt a book, betraying its spirit, its themes and its characters (everything, in fact, except the characters' names).

[picklepie888]

I will never forgive Dracula (1979) for what they did to Mina.

[reincarnatedasacupcake]

For those of you who are like me and are sad that Dracula Daily has concluded for the year and are looking for more Dracula to fill the void: I present to you Dracula: the original living vampire

This adaptation of the classic we have come to know and love is probably the WORST I’ve ever seen! It’s so bad that I thought about turning it off multiple times but was so bad that I needed to know what happened.

So first things first. This takes place 100 years after the original story and by original story, I mean the one they made up for this. So a rich nobleman’s wife dies on the day of their wedding and he goes on a killing spree of all the women in the town that looks like her (redheads)

Now 100 years later the killings have started again and it’s up to Detective Amelia Van Helsing (yup Van Helsing is a woman and a detective in this) to solve the case.

So here’s the cast

Amelia Van Helsing - Detective/skeptic/redhead

Renfield - police captain/Amelia’s boss

Jonathan Harker - chemist/occultist

John Seward - police mortician/lab assistant

Mina Murray - solicitor/Amelia’s girlfriend

Dracula - British nobleman/secret vampire

So there is no timeline in this and the visual clues are all over the place.

It takes place in a gothic style town and everything is grey or black or brown.

All the women are wearing mid calf skirts but modern jewelry (Mina spends most of the movie in a see through nightgown with a big modern watch on her wrist)

They have telephones and lamps but also rely on candles and lanterns a lot

No one blinks an eye at a lady detective or the fact that the two women are living openly gay so it’s pretty progressive

They are able to run blood testing and can separate different things from blood samples

All the photos are sepia toned and look like long exposure from when cameras were invented

The only sign we see outside is in French despite everyone speaking with terrible British accent’s including Dracula

Also they live in the shadow of a gothic castle which turns out to be Dracula’s

So while Amelia is investigating the murders of all these redheads and worrying that she’s next, Mina is Dracula’s solicitor and is showing him houses around the area. It turns out that she is also a secret redhead who dyes her hair blonde because she used to get teased. So she gets targeted instead of Amelia and turns out to be the exact double of Dracula’s wife who died.

After Mina gets taken, Amelia and Jonathan go to the hotel where Dracula is staying: Hotel Carmilla. And they walk into a room to find that Dracula has turned a bunch of redheads into vampires and they are just in this room draining guys of blood and the only sound is really loud slurping. Oh man, it was so loud and ridiculous and amazing.

They kill all the vampire brides and all the guys they were draining who may have also been vampires…. It’s unclear.

Amelia gets bit by Dracula but doesn’t consume any of his blood.

Mina does the whole “if you let her go I will stay with you by choice” monologue and then stabs Dracula in the heart and her and Amelia tackle him and knock him into a sun beam. It’s nice to finally see Mina get a bit of agency

It ends with Amelia safe at home and turning into a vampire with absolutely no emotion

All in all a terrible and hilarious movie. I don’t know if I recommend it but I needed to share it with everyone else.

If you’re looking for a good Dracula movie, I suggest The Invitation. Both of these movies are on Prime

[abc13mae]

I hate movie adaptations of books so so much

[irregularjohnnywiggins]

Been doing my annual re-read of The Dark is Rising (yes I do not read it at Christmas, I realise this may upset some of you) and naturally enough this has dragged me back to the godawful movie adaptation of it, and two things have jumped out at me this time around:

God, the Signs are boring. Like, they clearly tried to make the Signs visually distinct instead of the same circle-quartered-by-a-cross, but then they don't actually bother differentiating them in the script, so I can't tell which of their redesigns are supposed to be which. It's possibly one of the only actually creative changes they made, and the script kills it as much as it kills everything else. Also, this movie is like Dragonball Evolution in many ways, but especially in the realm of 'revealing something about the protagonist at the end of the movie that both wasn't in the source material and profoundly fucks up the timeline they've been trying to establish.

Somehow I only caught now that the Ginny Girl Stanton was named Gwen, which is... a choice. Look, there are three Stanton daughters in the book - Barbara, Gwen and Mary. I'm not going to claim any of them are especially well-developed, it's one of the problems of the Sequence, but Barbara at least has a personality. Mary has something plot-relevant to do in this book (which they can't include because for reasons lost to me they put the first beat of the most obvious character arc in the book at the end of the movie). Gwen is the literal definition of 'Just There'. I'd ask why the hell they named the younger girl character Gwen, but I think we all know it's because everything about the Stantons is supposed to be the Weasleys from Harry Potter, which is an adaptational decision that only gets worse with age.

[personalzombie-tv]

sometimes i think about how much i love the world war z book and get so very angry about that travesty of an adaptation

[clarascuro]

okay so my bob dylan thoughts are this: he's a huge pretentious phoney who pretends to be a world weary truth telling troubadour because he thinks it's funny to trick people and also he thinks he's better and smarter than everyone else. At the same time he IS a world weary truth telling troubadour and a once in a generation songwriter. and then also at the same time as that he's a smug petty asshole. Timothy chalamet appears to be playing it completely straight, like he's playing bob Dylan the character, the very top layer that all the talk show hosts in the sixties thought he was, so basically the exact same energy as his stupid Wonka movie just with more flannel

[youremyonlyhope]

I'm not a "new musical theatre style music" person. Never have been.

Even when I was doing voice lessons, I'd steer towards the golden age or jazzy musical theatre songs. My voice teacher would have to drag me kicking and screaming towards adding anything new musical theatre to my repertoire. For a while, the most modern song in my book was I Know The Truth from Aida, and I wouldn't count that as new musical theatre style since I mean more the Pasek&Paul or Joe Iconis type.

And now I have an audition coming up for a small production of a show in that style and I'm supposed to sing a song in a similar style. And I'm looking at all my sheet music like... let me do some Cole Porter... or Gershwin... at least Sondheim please...

[allamericanb-tch]

me bc (one of) my fav book series is becoming a tv show

[optimistc-apathy]

wait that's actually so cool

Take a shot each time it says year.

HTTYD fandom, this year we RISE.

quick meme i made in the dead of night, sleepy as hell. Honestly it was waaayyy funnier in my head.

[akiraofthefour]

Begging my one book club lady to either read the book before the meeting or not come.