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An adaptation completely botches the original theme and message
Mulan(2020)-They give Mulan superpowers which is not only lame it goes against the message of the original about equality and struggle,plus they removes Shang because apparently having Mulan date her superior was "problematic" even though Shang genuienely respected Mulan and their rank was never brought up
I am Legend(2007)-You know why the story is called "I am legend"? SPOILER ALERT the protagonist is the actual monster,humanity is gone and the vampires have a actual society and the protagonist kills and terrorize them
Animal Farm(2026)-On the very slim chance that Andy Serkis ever sees this,here's the thing Andy,Animal Farm was not a children work it was not supposed to have a happy ending,you never heard of cautionary tales before?
The Lorax (2012) returns to Thneedville after just one Trufulla seed is planted and congratulates the Onceler for doing good. In the original story, the seed is given to Ted with the warning "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not."
The better example is giving the Onceler a face and backstory rather than that, because the movie actually has the Onceler ponder about that lesson and thankfully pass it to the right person....which is kind of iffy a bit but ehh.
Mind you, all of the changes to Mulan 2020 were meant to specifically pander to China, which is ironic because China ended up fucking hating this movie.
I’ve listened to multiple retellings of the original Mulan stories and I have no idea why they made those decisions. All they had to do is take the Disney Mulan and change it so she has more of an active combat role, and beat the enemy general in single combat like she does in one of the original stories. Not add in some magic chosen one bs.
My theory is that Disney wanted Mulan to be seen as a personification of China and that meant they could not have her had any flaws, because that would mean that China has flaws and the Chinese government does not like that, so Disney then made a person that was always perfect, super powerful and that just needs to "believe in herself " to do anything that way they could do some pandering, but to the detriment of the story.
They were mad that they made the best animated kung fu movie such that it spurred lots of new developments in their own entertainment industries. I mean, Kung Fu Panda 1-3 were insanely good so it was well deserved praise/envy!
It seems like she was designed by a weird committee. It introduced weird sexism like the superpowers being gendred, witches being a thing (not really from Chinese stories, especially not Mulan!), etc..
In one of my favourite retellings she doesn’t have many flaws and it works great. She’s hard working, talented, disciplined and loyal. She does almost everything right. She steps in to save her father, goes off to war, rises through the ranks, leads the assault on the rebel general, bests him in single combat then quietly retires.
The live action version makes it a journey of self discovery, owning her femininity and claiming her destiny and screwing what anyone else thinks of her. But she’s a character defined by what other people think of her. She goes to war out of duty, and it is a sacrifice. She knows who she is, and has to endure it so eventually she’s allowed to retire and finally be herself.
I mean that's often what happens when people not in the group try and pander to a group. They fail miserably at the attempt and it becomes insulting.
Another example: Miles Morales Thor. Basically did a "if Miles was Thor and everyone was black it would basically look like Harlem." A Hispanic creator was responsible. Black comic fans were not impressed.
I think their idea was that it would be pronounced like fo' sho .... which is pretty bad all things about this run considered.
Side note, what is up with his shoes, does he have his socks pulled up OVER his tights? They know that when it's on other superheroes those are the boots right? Just.... wow.
I don't know the specifics of this project, but I was on as an extra in an incredibly bad sci-fi movie ego project, and pretty much everyone on set, from directors to actors new they were making something really stupid but were just doing their jobs and getting paid.
I suspect a lot of people writing and drawing this new it was a terrible idea but a gig is a gig.
I dunno what's worst "he got so many rings, check out all rings." OR the shoes hanging from the powerline, I swear the writers were like "Okay let's Google hoods and use them as inspiration, surely having a black character act like those harmful stereotypes IS GONNA SELL LIKE HOT POCKETS YOU DIG ME DAWG!"
It might sound racist but I think if someone want to focus on black characters then they need at least a lot of black consultants for reviewing. Otherwise the risk of it becoming a caricature.l is just too big.
Then they need to make the original ending release more readily available instead of leaving it trapped on a DVD release from when the movie first came out
It still misses the point completely because he's not the last human in the movie. There are still other uninfected humans that are set to rebuild the old version of humanity, his death is no longer making way for the new one.
Not only that but the vampires truly are monsters, in the books it ends with him seeing they were basically just people, they had a society, they just happened to enjoy his blood, kids were playing in the streets, they were afraid of him because he was a monster to them
I would imagine that Hawaii is actually the best place to study marine biology, because you know... HAWAII IS SURROUNDED BY THE VAST OCEAN, also native Hawaiians get a good tuition deal, fucking take up that amazing damn deal and stay in Hawaii with your sister!
People go to Hawaii to learn marine biology. It's the world's best program. Nani didn't even need to leave. She could've lived at home with Lilo and commuted to uni.
Honestly the original animated movie, sequel movies, and the series, are all pretty solid. At its worst the series is just fine but I never felt like it had a dog shit moment. It really felt like one of those series that ended good and didn’t need to be continued or remade.
Not just marine biology schools, the University of Hawaii has arguably the best Marine Biology program on the planet. It's an absolutely insane plot point.
Hawaii also doesn’t just have some marine biology school, it has some of the best marine biology programs in the world as well. This makes Nani leaving for mainland to study marine biology an even bigger fumble
No, but of she’s good enough for a full ride scholarship to California, Hawaiian universities would probably bend over backwards to get her in. These scholarships are specifically meant to prevent brain drain like this.
I almost thought sticking to the more "realistic" ending was ballsy, but then of course they decide to end it with Nani being able to use Pleakly's portal gun thing to visit in person whenever she wants anyway. So none of it matters, I guess.
Also, fuck Disney for being cowards and not letting Pleakly crossdress.
The irony is they still could have used the portal gun, just in reverse.
Have Nani be using the portal gun to commute to school. Do a slow pan through the house with David seeing Nani off to school, Jumba helping Lilo with a school project (and Pleakly freaking out about him including some comedic sci-fi element), Stitch teaching tricks to the neighborhood dogs or some other sight gag, and you're golden. Nani is able to go to school now because she's not alone trying to raise her sister, but she's still there for Lilo, not just visiting regularly but together as family.
The moral is still that Nani shouldn't have had to give up her future to take care of her sister, but it doesn't forget that Ohana means family... not just the family that you're born with, but the family you make.
As an adopted person myself, it’s so awful to make it seem as if giving up a child is something that should be done casually. Some adoptees have PTSD due to being taken from their families at a young age and not having a parental unit as a child until later (only if they’re adopted). It’s such a serious subject matter and it just makes me ick. I know it’s acting and all but…poor kid.
Like, what the hell is Disney trying to do with these live action “adaptations” that are nothing like the original story they’re based on?
Now, I’ll admit that the Jungle Book adaptation was actually a decent movie, and I’ve heard mixed reviews about the Lion King movies, but, as you said, they COMPLETELY butchered everything Lilo and Stitch represents to make a new version of the original(and extremely well made) movie that got so popular it not only got a semi-successful cartoon series, a sequel film AND a prequel film, but it also got a friggin anime. Like, why? What do you have to gain by damaging your own work with a message you can’t seriously think people are going to accept?
And this is the first I’m hearing of Mulan getting friggin super powers(all I knew about that movie before hand was that Mushu got cut out).
Don’t know much about the The Little Mermaid or Snow White remakes, but everything I’ve heard about them suggests they were straight up awful.
Why did they decide to make animal farm a kids movie? When I think of Orwell, "kid friendly" isn't exactly the 1st thing that comes to mind.
You're allowed to make media featuring anthropomorphic animals that isn’t explicitly for children, I promise. We aren't doing to draw and quarter you out in the street for being a furry
It comes down to the tragic fact that animation is simply not respected as an art form. A lot of studio execs simply see animation as a medium for children. This leads to nonsense like the terrible marketing for Transformers One.
I think there’s a cognitive dissonance when it comes to cgi vs animation. The lion king remake is a perfect example of this. It’s more or less presented as a live action remake, however it’s so heavy on the cgi that it’s effectively still an animated film just made in a different style of animation. Something about the photo realism (or at least the attempt of it) comes off as being above animation even if it’s effectively the same thing.
Animal Farm is already kids appropriate enough, in Poland we read it in primary school. Not everything kids will read has to be "friendly". It's okay to make kids media challenging
Cause if you make an animated movie featuring cute looking animals, kids end up wanting to see it. Same issue End of Oak Street faced when a decent portion of the audience that went were families cause "oh look new dinosaur movie" when it very much was NOT a family movie
The average parent absolutely is incompetent enough to show their kids a movie about the ruling class having cannibalistic orgies because there's talking pigs in it. When I saw Joker 2019, the whole theatre was full of parents and young children- just because it was about a comic book character.
Most people only interact with art on a completely surface level, aesthetic pov in general
Animal Farm itself was already a children’s novel (or at least it’s encouraged for children to read it in my experience), they tried to simplify it to appeal to a wider audience and it didn’t work.
My extremely conservative father (tea party at the time, maga now) reacted to me wanting to read Animal Farm by comparing it to "smoking cigarettes to find out why they're bad for you when you already know why." I'm genuinely unsure why he thought that, beyond his being an idiot.
In the more recent series, they turned her into a lesbian simply because she is big and masculine, thereby discarding the show's original message: she was married to Howard (a smaller, more nervous man), and while they had reversed gender roles, it didn't matter—they were a happy family.
Ugh that's lame. She was always about empowerment and strength and independence, and making her a lesbian sorta feels like female empowerment is a "gay" thing, rather than "any woman can be strong" thing.
Did she get divorced in this series, or are Phil and Lil adopted/surrogate babies?
There was also a funny bit of dichotomy between Betty and Charlotte (Angelica's mother).
Betty is a classic power feminist. She takes charge in her house, she's big and loud and athletic, she marches for the cause, and she...doesn't do a whole lot. She works at a coffee shop. Her parenting is...questionable at the best of times, though she does love the twins more than anything, she fawns over them and excuses concerning behavior (granted, they ARE babies).
Charlotte, by comparison, is a businesswoman. She's strong-willed, career-driven, and happens to be the CEO of Mega Corp. She's also a total badass. Of course, you'd imagine a woman in her position would struggle to make time for her family, and you wouldn't be totally wrong. She's got a lot of responsibility to juggle. However, compared to Betty and even her own husband, Charlotte is an incredible parent when Angelica has her attention. In fact, she may be the only adult in the show who consistently corrects Angelica's behavior, and in a very nurturing way at that.
Huh, it's been years since I watched but I could swear angelica's mom being too busy happens often throughout the show since she's always talking on the phone and dropping her off elsewhere. Don't remember much about betty lmao
Yeah but she is at every neighborhood and family event in person. She may be on call for work but she is there and doesn't push her daughter away for it. There's even times like in the first movie where she is hanging at the cookout and trying to be friends with the other adults.
It also just kinda pushes stereotypes; Oh the loud deep voicied woman with short hair and broad shoulders, let's make her specifically a lesbian.
It's like the Velma series where they made the smart and unattractive (in that version) character indian, made the exotic and beautiful character east asian, and kept the leader white. They tried to be inclusive but just conformed to stereotypes
Or when they released the first look at the cast for the new Harry Potter series: the only black person (hell, the only dark-skinned black person) in the new cast announcement was Snape, the child-abusing wizard nazi.
It's gonna be so awful cause Harry gonna be suspicious of Snape in first season cause in the books he found Snape creepy. In the TV show its gonna come off hella racist. "ITS SNAPE TRYING TO KILL ME! HES WORKING FOR VOLDEMORT!" bro gonna accused the sole black teacher as being an agent for wizard world's HITLER.
I honestly am baffled that Velma got made at all. It feels like they specifically crafted it to be rage bait but when you hear Mindy Kaling talk about the show she's so eager and enthusiastic about it in a way that comes off as out of touch and tone deaf.
It's rare that something is so genuinely terrible it pisses everyone off.
The worst part was the Velma show insisting on being a Scooby Doo property instead of just being its own thing. People probably would’ve been way more receptive to the show if it didn’t fully butcher everything that made Scooby Doo great
I HATE the movement that all burly or strong or tomboy women are immediately lesbian. Lesbians can, in fact, be feminine. Straight women are not all 100% girly and feminine. Good lord
There’s a consistent theme throughout the games that while demons are inherently evil, theyre able to grow, change, and develop compassion and emotion through the experience of human compassion, hence the title “DEVIL MAY CRY.”
In Netflix DMC, not only are humans distinctly related to demons, but are called “Makaiins” (which in Japanese is related to the underworld) and used as an allegory for genocide.
"We can't open the portal to the demon realm because the bad demons might get in and hurt people" reads very uncomfortably when used in a immigration allegory.
The "demons" are both poor wittle woobies and people eating monsters. At the same time. It just doesn't work for either message. This is the second time DMC got screwed over by overtly political messaging.
Making all the demon designs (Devil May Cry has some of the most unique and awesome designs for demons) utterly BORING and lifeless was definitely a choice.
Having the titular demon hunter do basically no demon hunting and just be stuck working for the government.
Oh, and the power consistency is all over the place (Loathe to use the word power scaling, but the lead character for example went from dodging automatic gunfire to basically forgetting he can dodge bullets within the space of a single scene).
As soon as that clip of Dante’s “pretend I shot those guys” I just knew this was gonna be abysmal ass cheeks
Dante makes stupid jokes that don’t make sense plenty of times, but he doesn’t care because he can back up his trash talk anyways while being charismatic and cool about it. Nante’s based on TikTok attention span’s version of a badass
Initially when the series was first revealed I was under the impression that this was Dante pre-DMC 3 (aka. Tony Redgrave) given the White Rabbit and lack of Ebony and Ivory. So, I was willing to faintly give him benefit of the doubt as it being at his most inexperienced. But, well...it just got worse as time went on.
Thing is though, the series itself is kinda weird as it feels like it tried to merge Pre-DMC 3 dante with DMC 3 Dante in terms of his development for some reason which is probably why Dante feels so inconsistent.
That he’d be the one to revive the franchise (and reportedly disliked DMC5 doing it before him) and that he is a hack who needs to have people rein him in instead of letting him do whatever the fuck he wants.
His tantrum over DMC5’s announcement is hilarious; a grown man throwing a fit like a little, spoiled child all because he didn’t get the attention he wanted is both insanely hilarious and ridiculously embarrassing. It’s not like the game wasn’t known prior to 2018, Dan Southworth accidentally leaked the game back in like 2015 at a con, I believe. So the game had been known for quite a while, but Shankar still threw a fit over it because his narcissism wasn’t satisfied LOL.
I'm starting to think he took too much credit for Castlevania's success. Though I question if Warren Ellis's style would've worked for Devil May Cry's usual tone.
Yeah, seems like he and his circle have been retroactively trying to make it seem like he was part of the creative team for Castlevania. It’s easier for them now after Warren Ellis’ own controversies.
Turned himself into the most rancid Ouroboros with that comment, yikes💀
He might stain the reputation of Dante’s Divine Comedy if he keeps that crap up. And him talking about “rearranging the body” is crazy, you can’t rearrange something you took apart with a chainsaw and then a wood chipper.
We’re witnessing levels of narcissism I didn’t think were possible.
If I want to sit down and watch something reasonably entertaining, or have something on in the background while I'm working out or doing meal prep, it's great. The characters feel compelling, the world is fleshed out. It's fine.
If I look at it as adapting the source material, it's barely a fan-fic. What happened.
It's like that first season of The Witcher. I love it, but I'm also deeply confused by where they were going.
Aladdin’s remake absolutely bothers me for a similar reason. We’ll consider the Disney Aladdin the “original” here, even though I know it’s technically an adaptation as well.
Aladdin is supposed to be the hero, and he’s on a Hero’s Journey. At the very end of the animated film, it is Aladdin the Street Rat who wins. He is stripped of everything he thought made him worthwhile and won with his own two hands, his own skill, his own abilities. No genie. He outsmarts a literal sorcerer by himself. Abu is turned into a toy; Carpet is turned into thread. Genie is incapable of helping. Aladdin is ALONE. Jafar even says “Without the Genie, boy, you are NOTHING.”
The live action remake took ALL of that away from him. The ending gave the win to literally everyone else. Aladdin just sort of stands around while Jasmine has a badass fight and then Genie beats Jafar by himself. Aladdin doesn’t even get a chance to prove that he was worthwhile the whole time. They wanted Jasmine to be a Girl Boss so bad when she was freaking awesome in the animated film by herself. Girl was resourceful and smart and cool.
There were only three things in the movie, that I liked:
Will Smith didn't tried to imitate Robin Williams and made his own Genie.
The Sultan made the impression of being at least some kind of ruler and not the totally naive man-child that he was in the animation.
Jasmine seemed to be a good educated princess, who knows the surrounding kingdoms and called Aladdin's bluff with his fake kingdom after she studied some maps. It needed the intervention of the Genie, that his bluff didn't blow up.
On point three I will once again bring up his wish was to BE A PRINCE not to larp a prince not to lie about being a prince not to have all the wealth of a prince, by all means he should have taken over a nearby kingdom or one should have gotten retcon'd into existence for him from the wish
The adaptation of The Foundation by Aasimov. The best part of the show is something that wasn't even in the books, while it basically treats the books like decoration while its core themes are completely ignored.
I have not seen the new Animal Farm, and I'm not excusing what this one did, but none of the adaptations have ever gotten the ending right. Every single one ends in an uprising. The book just ends on a dark, somber note that this is how things are now.
Also, George Orwell lived at a time when Joseph Stalin ruled unopposed and appeared to be there to rule forever.
It was a genuine surprise to some that he could actually die.
Too many of these stories in a dystopian setting tty to end the thing on a "happy" note after an uprising and it just feels so lame every time.
I feel like 1984 has the best twist on this idea: let you believe the main character stumbled upon the underground resistance, only to tell you at the very end that it was all a carefully orchestrated illlusion to "course correct" the main character into total submission. There's no hope; once freedom has been completely taken away from the individual it's too late to change anything.
Way more impactful than "good guy found other good guys hiding and he's JUST who they've been waiting for to bring down an entire system built on subjugating the masses.
A major theme of the Halo games and novels is seeing how far someone is willing to go for survival, shown in how Master Chief and the other spartans are child soldiers who willingly accept their role as weapons and the last hopes of humanity
This falls apart in the Paramount show when Master Chief abandons the war against the covenant because he doesn’t like that he’s a child solider
My "favorite" part of the TV Series is how right after the bad haircut girl (I don't remember her name) got done doing shrooms in the forest and saying how she wants to abandon her home planet, watches her father get brutally murdered by the Covenant, then suddenly just becomes a die hard Insurrectionists against the UNSC (even though the Covenant killed her father, not the UNSC).
But why are the Insurrectionists even a thing in the TV Series? Because her father was told to do it by a bunch of desert witches.
I think it’s even worse than that. In the original lore, I believe Catherine Halsey (the one in charge of the Spartan program) and captain Keyes talked about whether or not to use something to make the kids completely obedient to them like altering their memories or mind control. They rejected the idea on the off chance that if any of the Spartans ever recover their memories or break out of the mind control, there’s a high chance they’ll betray the UNSC. So they decided that the children will all be told the cold truth that they’ve been kidnapped and will never see their families ever again on day 1
A lot of Spartans see it as a necessary evil, and have accepted being child soldiers because humanity lives, and it would have fell and doom everyone to extinction if it wasn’t for the Spartans.
There was one of them I enjoyed the ending of more than the anime and it was where L prevented Light from killing him with the Death Note by writing his own name in it first and saying he would die in like a month or so. That said, seeing a real person eat all those sweets that L does is pretty gross.
This is one-half "Missed the point" and one half "Dude, you had something pretty good!"
The Nani vs. Social Services conflict worked in the original because in that version? Nani & Lilo had nobody but each other. They GAINED an 'Ohana in the film and showed "Yeah, they can take care of Lilo and Stitch".
The remake attempts to be more grounded in reality - but adds Tūtū. See, when you add a pre-existing 'ohana in the form of Tūtū & David (instad of David being a coworker / close friend of Nani)? You fundamentally change it. Why doesn't Tūtū help out more...? It just feels more like she's just there to act as a deus ex machina.
And I don't think Lilo being in Tūtū's care is a bad thing - this is actually hānai. The "Dude, you had something good here!" part -they could have easily had it be established that Lilo's in Tūtū and David's care, but Nani's arc isn't "Social services will take my sister away" so much as "If I take this opportunity, I'll be abandoning my family" while we see moments of Tūtū speaking to Nani as an adult. The experience shows "Goodbye" is not forever and they will still be 'Ohana.
Artemis fowl. The secondary character Holly was supposed to be the first female member of the fairy police. In the live action they genderswapped her boss casting Dame Judi Dench, completely undoing Holly's main character arc.
I'm not even going to discuss what they did to Artemis.
Definitely The Electric State, the book has more eldritch horror tone that explores the consequences of mindless consumerism, humanity addiction to technology and corporate influences
Netflix and Russo Brothers however turned it into the most generic corporate marvel style buddy action movie that somehow cost as much to make as an Avenges movie, didn’t help either that it had a character that was basically a product placement as well as having the cast comprise of the most overcasted actors in Hollywood playing the exact same roles they already had done.
I’m sorry I need to complain about Mulan as well - just because the original is one of my favorite movies and one of the best of the Disney Renaissance.
Mulan wasn’t a “princess” she was a HERO. She was brave and strong but more than that, she was CLEVER. She didn’t overpower her enemies, she outsmarted them. She was extremely competent and good at her job, not because she was the strongest but because she was really good at spotting her opponent’s weaknesses, and effectively taking advantage of them.
And Shang respected her as a solider way before he started to admire her as a woman. Reducing him to “love interest” really doesn’t do either of them justice. Their relationship was much more equitable and charming than that. I could imagine they actually LIKED each other, like, as people.
And it’s so funny that after she leaves, the Emperor basically tells Shang, “GO GET HER YOU IDIOT!” He knows ball haha 😆
Anyway Mulan is goated and deserves better then what it got
ALSO ALSO...the Chinese "phoenix", the Fenghuang, DOES NOT RISE FROM THE ASHES! That's Greek and Egyptian myth! If anything, her spirit animal should've been the Qilin!
As soon as I found out they cut the music I was out. Be a Man has always been my favorite Disney number and Mulan was one of my favorites growing up because she was so awesome
Idk if this is the right name in English cause I only know the german name
The infinite story? (Die unendliche Geschichte)
Basically the movie ends after about half the book and thus looses the message that staying only in your fantasies isn't good either. Still a dope movie tho.
The Wheel of Time series has a complicated magic system where each gender has a different manifestation with different specialties, and the male half of the system had been horrifically disfigured in a way that anyone who uses it will eventually go mad, leading to societies where woman hold a lot more power as they're the only ones to use magic safely.
The chosen one prophesized to save the world is specifically a man, creating an interesting contradiction where he's supposed to save everyone but is also doomed to go mad. As such people are less eagerly awaiting his coming as they are fearing the coming of this incredibly powerful wizard who might level a country when he snaps. It leads to an incredibly hostile environment for our protagonist when he learns he's the chosen one and shapes much of the series.
But in the Amazon series they throw that out the window and make the chosen one unisex so they could have their stupid mystery box plot where they tease every important character as being potentially the chosen one to generate buzz on social media. This also involves neutering great moments from our protagonist so it's not too obvious, leaving him feeling like a complete wimp even if he hadn't spent the entire first season whining about his girlfriend (which also wasn't in the book). God these books deserved better.
I actually like the fact that it was so bad it got cancelled. This being my favorite series ever, I was extremely disappointed after S1 thinking the general public will now forever relate this wonderful tale with whatever happened in the show.
Luckily, they made it even worse, got cancelled, and everyone ever completely forgot about it.
I’m optimistic that in 20, 50, or even a 100 years, the entertainment industry will evolve to the point where they will be able to adapt fantasy series (any other genres as well) as good as LotR was done.
I read I am Legend when the movie was first advertised, just getting a vibe for what the movie would be like. Not only did it have clever concepts about a post-apocalypse I had never thought about, that last chapter and that last line goes hard AF! The last line just completely flips the concept of protagonist and antagonist, and completely changes your perspective on the character you have grown with and empathized with for hundreds of pages. Blew my mind to punch a reader in the gut like that on the very last line.
Then the movie happened, and I did not feel those feelings. Decent infected movie with some cool scenes, meh ending, but did not have the punch (or even the same plot or themes but whatever) of the book.
I also love that, in the book, Robert is just a guy. Just a dude from LA who survived and tried to make what he thought was the best of things to try and survive.
It sort of made his experiments both more meaningful and more chilling in context of the final line. Having him be a doctor in the most recent adaptation killed that.
Right?! He was an Everyman survivor that decides to improve himself in the apocalypse. Not just survive, but learn and hypothesize, for no one, why things are the way they are. He taught himself the skills to do so. I forgot about how that stuck out when I read it, so thanks for reminding me!
I love the book and cannot stand the film. The first half of the movie is pretty good; everything up til the rampaging drive at the pier is fine. It does a great job of showing how Neville is deteriorating and how he latches onto Sam for any sense of emotional support.
However, the survivors being guided by visions from God COMPLETELY misses the point of the book. The book held religion as an object of curiosity, as Neville tried to theorize why the vampires feared the cross. What he learned was that people, in their final desperate days of illness, turned to religion in droves, and it offered them nothing. It made them fearful of the major symbols (the cross, the star of David, the crescent, etc.) because they felt unworthy of being saved, given that they all died despite their devotion. The film ignores that nuance entirely and just has the girl survivor be like "god told me there is a survivor compound" and never interrogates where that vision came from, or how utterly amazing it would be if a person did serve as an oracle.
I think you mean flips the concept of hero and villain? Because he’s still the protagonist at the end. Protagonist doesn’t have to be good and antagonist doesn’t have to be bad.
The movie itself or the song? Cause I think How Bad Can I Be does a great job of showing how vicious and careless big business is, and how easy it is to get swept up in the hype of a new product while downplaying all the damage it does.
If you're talking about the movie as a whole, I get it though
The original is a chilling thriller about how men treat women. It's also a mystery, as we don't know what is happening to these women and experience it alongside the female protagonist as her friends change personalities and her husband grows more distant. It's a fantastic movie and I would recommend it to anyone.
The remake is a joke. Actually though - they tried to make it into a comedy for some unknown reason?? Every character is super rich and campy, they add in a gay couple which doesn't even make sense because it's about misogyny* (also all these crazy sexists are apparently fine with gay people), and in the end everything is instantly fixed and everyone is now happy since the main husband decides not to turn his wife into a slave so he's a hero, and the main villain isn't a misogynistic society, but one woman who wants everyone to be a tradwife.
I don't understand how you could misinterpret the original so badly.
Not to mention how the remake can't can't even decide if it wants to go with the original cyborg replicates or if the human-women are just being mind controlled. The 'changed' women can do things like be a literal atm or have their rubber hands melt if they leave them on the stove, but once the hero-husband flips a switch it turns out all the women only had chips put in their head and are now back to normal! Even the one who's hand melted??? I hate this movie so much.
The remake is a bit of a guilty pleasure movie for me but it's certainly not something I would consider to be a good or thoughtful movie. I really have to keep the two as separate entities in my mind
Volver mujer a Shun de Andrómeda (Caballeros del zodiaco Netflix/Crunchyroll)
Literalmente no entendieron nada al personaje. La idea de Shun es que, a pesar de ser sensible y un poco afeminado, no le quita que sea fuerte (el más fuerte de los bronces, de hecho). En una época donde la mayoría de los personajes del shonen eran hombres musculosos, Shun era un soplo de aire fresco a este tropo tan quemado. No tienes que ser un súper macho para ser un hombre fuerte.
Al hacerlo una mujer eliminan todo este mensaje y lo reemplazan con uno más genérico de "las mujeres también pueden ser fuertes", quitándole todo lo especial al personaje.
Si querían hacer mujer a un caballero del elenco principal hubieran elegido a Shiryu. Una mujer asiática de cabello largo, que se quita la armadura a cada rato para demostrar que la fuerza va más allá de la armadura, con rivalidad con Seiya (que podría dar paso a un Ship) quedaría muy bien.
O incluso a Hyoga. Una rusa súper ruda, cuyos movimientos en batalla se basan en ballet, que puede ser shipeada con Shun sin restricciones, con una rivalidad con Ikki, también hibeira quedado bien.
Pero nooooooooo, tenían que volver mujer al único personaje que no tenían que volver mujer
The quoted comment in particular made me lose a lot of respect for its historical ignorance and exceptionalism.
Animal Farm was published in 1945. The Second World War wasn't even over yet. Tens of millions of people were dead, millions more were internally displaced, and most of Europe, East Asia and the Pacific were in ruins.
But yes, clearly kids nowadays have it much worse and deserve a happy ending to cheer them up, unlike those spoilt war orphans.
The "Percy Jackson" movies: you can fuck up the plot all you want but fucking up the literal mythology that's thousands of years old is some BULLSHIT!!!
"The Golden Compass" movie: If you're gonna adapt a young adult series about killing literal God, then fucking COMMIT!
The "Artemis Fowl" movie: The book series is about a teen villain. He may not be evil, but he's still going to steal as much of your shit as he can while being intelligent as fuck about it. Yet the movie somehow made him a damn "hero" while completely ignoring the book plot.
The "Eragon" movie: I have never regretted wasting my time to watch a movie in theaters more.....and we literally saw it for free because I was an employee. 😭😭😭
Netflix’s White Fang. In the original book, White Fang goes with his nice new master to California, where he eventually saves his nice new family from danger and gets a nice new family of his own. In the Netflix adaptation, White Fang gets released back into the wild despite living with humans for most of his life.
There was a biography about Jack London that I read in high school, where I remember it says that White Fang was supposed to complement Call of the Wild. White Fang is a wolf who gets domesticated, while Buck is a domesticated dog who becomes wild.
I think the V For Vendetta movie is well made and a fun time but it is wild that the movie doesn’t mention anarchy* at all when it is the driving philosophy of the comic. The movie is anti-authoritarianism, whereas the comic is anti-government as a whole.
(*Not anarchy as in chaos, but anarchy as in the political theory of a society without rulers)
Given the studio behind Animal Farm 2026's previous works and real-world affiliations, I have an unconfirmable and far-fetched suspicion that butchering the story and message may have been intentional.
James Bond in the novels: A blunt instrument in the hands of British intelligence. Morally ambiguous, often brooding and fatalistic about his unattached lifestyle and his short life expectancy as a disposable asset. Themes include the morally questionable nature of Cold War espionage and Britain's changing status in a postwar world.
James Bond in the films (up until the Craig era): Cool spy man with crazy gadgets and a babe on each arm. Themes include lasers, cackling villains, scantily clad women, and how awesome it is to be a spy.
Someehere in the middle is the Timothy Dalton films who, so far in my experience with the Fleming novels (I've just started reading them; I'm on Diamonds are Forever), does sort of capture that a bit better than some.
We've had versions of animal farm with happy endings before, but the thing is they understood the assignment. The ending isn't the issue with the 2026 movie.
The original (1991) is a phenomenal commentary on freedom vs society and how extremes can cost your everything. Bodhi and Johnny are both extremes in different ways and the movie shows that and how you can have a deep respect for one another despite your stance. The remake completely butchers it and takes a story about surfers, bank robbers, and conformity vs individuality and makes it about extreme stunts.
In the comic it's based on, Kara teaches Ruthye that killing and vengeance won't resolve her painful past, and that true strength comes with helping others and restraint.
In the movie she just slimes the main villain of the story.
Books are about how individuals cannot affect the ultimate fate of a galactic civilization of trillions over millennia. TV series is about how they can do that.
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u/Detective-27 8d ago
The Lorax (2012) returns to Thneedville after just one Trufulla seed is planted and congratulates the Onceler for doing good. In the original story, the seed is given to Ted with the warning "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not."