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What’s the worst movie adaptation and why? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by bec1681@alien.top to c/books@metacritics.zone

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I think mine’s Z for Zachariah. The book is insane. A psychological survivalist thriller between a 14 year old girl and a strange man with unknown intent. The movie is… not this. They changed everything meaningful about the characters and lost all the tension. Hope someone does it properly one day. What’s your adaptation peeve?

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[–] Lucyjca@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The Golden Compass. I love His Dark Materials and remember feeling such rage watching the film and how they'd ruined it so unnecessarily.

[–] JustMeLurkingAround-@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I'm glad that I saw the movie before reading the books. I could ravel in the fact, how good they are, especially compared to the movie, instead of getting frustrated and angry.

[–] southpolefiesta@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The show was not bad though.

[–] Snulzebeerd@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Really? I couldn't get through it and quit about 2 eps into season 2. It's a lot closer to the source material but the lead actress' performance is sooooo fucking dull.

[–] Evolving_Dore@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

It wasn't bad or good. It wasn't anything. It barely even cared to try.

[–] Love-that-dog@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I still think the movie’s Iorek is better visually than the tv show’s. Probably due to cgi budget

[–] Potato271@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I enjoyed the film when it came out (probably because I was about 8 and hadn't read the book yet), but on rewatch it is really quite bad. The opening act is decent enough and does well to capture the feel of Lyra's world, but the pacing later on is atrocious. The last half hour of the film probably needs to be three times as long, it's just so rushed. And I'm not sure why they removed the ending of the book, especially since it would make it very difficult to set up a sequel