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This is a panel at Silicon Valley Comic Con Unfortunately I only went on Saturday.Adaptation: The Good, the Bad, and the UglySunday April 23, 2017 1:00 pm to 2:00 pmIs it a crime to make female Ghostbusters? A slap in the face to fans? What about a massive rethinking of print series like Earthsea or Superman? New Battlestar Galactica or Westworld? What about Star Trek? When do the old name and new premise play “bait and switch” and offend classic fans? Can the new version become definitive? In essence, do Cylons have to be chrome?
Some I like a lot more than I thought I would: Hannibal, Man in the High CastleGreat things that came from not-so-great (IMHO) material: Die Hard, the Bourne seriesThings I liked but don't like as an adaptation: Shawshank Redemption, I Am Legend.Quirky adaptations that still worked: Tristam Shandy, O Brother Where Art Thou.Ones that make me curl into a ball and cry: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Spirit.
Thanks for the link! I often find the same to be true about things like comics based on video games, at least in terms of motivation. Injustice would be a counterexample. Like many of the comments on io9 I liked the first Silent Hill and the first Resident Evil, RE especially had some nice gaming nods.Sometimes I will read things that I think would make better video games than movies. Princess of Mars is the example I always come back to, and it has so many elements like an RPG. There's some intro stuff you don't care about, then you wind up naked in some weird place. You have these new abilities that you have to learn how to use. You unlock achievements, you get a pet, at some point you learn a color code that is important later on. There's even a stealth level. Plus the John Carter of the books doesn't really have any sort of personality, when they made it into a movie they had to give him one. There's a great chat between Stellan Skarsgård and the director/cowriter Erik Skjoldbjaerg where Skarsgård talks about the ideas and potential that were lurking there, worth watching for the look on the director's face.You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginInsomnia is a complicated one, I definitely see where Nolan took the ideas in the original film and made a better movie overall but I don't know how I feel about the difference in the main character's decision at the end. The way things end in the original was so deliberate and unconventional, it's always going to bug me that they changed it. There were a number of Scandinavian subtleties in the original that I liked but could not survive the transposition, happy to trade that for the wonderful (and mostly subdued!) pairing of Pacino and Robin Williams. No argument on Let the Right One In, I really should read the book at some point. Dare we discuss Thomas Harris?
People really can't leave The Ghostbusters film alone can they?!It was an entertaining and funny sequel. It's a sequel, not a remake or reboot. It really angers me that people hate on that film for reasons that don't make any sense. Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk
“You have to go in knowing you’re not going to please everybody, but you want to make something cool for the next generation,” Ché told Feig.“Before Ghostbusters, I had this really lovely relationship with the internet,” Feig said, addressing the internet backlash more directly. “When that first volley of just terribleness came in, honestly it threw me off for a couple of years-I wasn’t used to it-where I could go back in a time machine now, I just would go, ‘Don’t even read it, just put it away,’ and I never would have referenced it. That was the biggest mistake I made. A year in, I took on one of the trolls, and they can fire at you for a year. You dare say one thing back at them, and it’s all over. You’re a victim and you’re a monster...”“It is frustrating, because why is there any kind of litmus test on this?” He asked.