An adaptation completely botches the original theme and message

[u/Morr4Seiya]

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?

[u/cunt_dykeula]

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

[u/tylerjehenna → u/cunt_dykeula]

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

[u/cunt_dykeula → u/tylerjehenna]

Good point.

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

[u/tylerjehenna → u/cunt_dykeula]

Yeah theres still this stigma with general audiences that "animated=children" and especially "animated animals=children"

[u/ProfWilliam82 → u/tylerjehenna]

Yeah. That's why a lot of anime also has that stigma too. Back then I remember when our class go to see the Ninja Scroll in a movie theather because of this. Well I really enjoyed it... Our teachers not really...

[u/MissninjaXP → u/ProfWilliam82]

Ninja Scroll movie class trip has me in stitches that's amazing lol

[u/M1ck3yB1u → u/tylerjehenna]

Well, 99.9% of the time it’s correct.

[u/Tk421AtHisP0st → u/cunt_dykeula]

When was the Cannabalistic orgy? Do you mean the ham in the farmer's fridge?

[u/Nick_Wild1Ear → u/cunt_dykeula]

Plenty of people took their CHILDREN UNDER TEN to see Fuckin’ DEADPOOL. And he went through a strip club! I had a family friend who took their 6 and 8 year old to see DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE. I told them it’s inappropriate and had 145 F-bombs, did they listen to me? Noooooooo

[u/cunt_dykeula → u/Nick_Wild1Ear]

I would 100% rather show my kid a movie with swearing and strippers in it than a movie with a realistic scene of a man being shot point blank in the face idc

[u/ChaosAzeroth → u/tylerjehenna]

I mean maybe it's just cause my wiring is weird but... How is that not a family movie? (Genuine question not snark) Cause like I can see not a children's movie, but it felt like it could definitely be classified as a family movie to me.

[u/RobNobody → u/ChaosAzeroth]

Yeah, it was rated PG-13, and was pretty explicitly a throwback to the "family adventure movie" genre of the '80s.

[u/tylerjehenna → u/ChaosAzeroth]

Which movie?

[u/ChaosAzeroth → u/tylerjehenna]

End of Oak Street

Seriously that would have been pretty at home with other movies that were considered fine as family movies when I was a kid at least. And there's definitely a wilder example of supposed to be a family movie by Ralf Bakshi lol

[u/ChaosAzeroth → u/[deleted]]

That was true even when I was a kid though, like definitely parents should know what their kids can and cannot handle. That's a whole separate issue imo.

Like I mean I'm definitely not purely basimg it off just what I watched as a kid. I was watching stuff like The Beyond and People Under the Stairs and Company of Wolves as a kid. I'm basing it more off what I noticed seemed to be generally understood to be family movies.

[u/MizStazya → u/tylerjehenna]

Yeah, we took our 15yo and 12yo, because we looked up the movie and determined they were both mature enough to enjoy it. My younger two kids were at a babysitter, because they were emphatically NOT. (Ironically, my 11yo has been happily watching zombie movies with me since she was 8 or 9, but she doesn't handle anything involving animals getting injured, and i wasn't sure if that reaction would extend to dinosaurs lol)

[u/offhandaxe → u/tylerjehenna]

Art should not lower itself because people are shitty parents.

[u/tylerjehenna → u/offhandaxe]

But at the same time art should take the audience into mind as well.

[u/LizLemonOfTroy → u/tylerjehenna]

The End of Oak Street isn't much more intense than, say, Jurassic Park, which very much was regarded as a (great) family film.

[u/Cold_Ebb_1448 → u/tylerjehenna]

huh, I had it my head that it is a family movie and thus I wasn’t interested in going to see it 😄