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Adaptation distillation is not YMMV trope, moving to main page


* AdaptationDistillation: The film cleaned up quite a few inconsistencies in the book, tightened the storyline considerably, and gave Andre Marek and Lady Claire's romance some much-needed depth, but at the expense of removing much of the fascinating exposition about time travel and [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderizing]] the characters into stock stereotypes of their books selves. General audiences and critics alike panned the film, with many saying that at best it was SoOkayItsAverage.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: Crichton has a medieval historian character internally reflect on seeing knights that real ones were big, the same as average modern men or larger. The suits of armor which you see in museums he also claims are reconstructions, not originals, explaining their smaller size. All of this is nonsense--people in the past ''were'' smaller on average, due to lower calorie intake, and we do have original armor in museums. Just where he got this notion is anyone's guess.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: Crichton has a medieval historian character internally reflect on seeing knights that real ones were big, the same as average modern men or larger. The suits of armor which you see in museums he also claims are reconstructions, not originals, explaining their smaller size. All of this is nonsense-people in the past ''were'' smaller on average, due to lower calorie intake, and we do have original armor in museums. Just where he got this notion is anyone's guess.

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* CriticalResearchFailure: Crichton has a medieval historian character internally reflect on seeing knights that real ones were big, the same as average modern men or larger. The suits of armor which you see in museums he also claims are reconstructions, not originals, explaining their smaller size. All of this is nonsense-people nonsense--people in the past ''were'' smaller on average, due to lower calorie intake, and we do have original armor in museums. Just where he got this notion is anyone's guess.

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* CriticalResearchFailure: Crichton has a medieval historian character internally reflect on seeing knights that real ones were big, the same as average modern men or larger. The suits of armor which you see in museums he also claims are reconstructions, not originals, explaining their smaller size. All of this is nonsense-people in the past ''were'' smaller on average, due to lower calorie intake, and we do have original armor in museums. Just where he got this notion is anyone's guess.



* {{Squick}}: The description of the tannery. Pretty much TruthInTelevision.

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The description of the tannery. Pretty much TruthInTelevision.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: One of the castle ruins at the beginning of the film look like something on a poorly photoshopped postcard.
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** The protagonists stumbling upon the dead bodies of a woman and her children.
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* InformedWrongness: The book reveals that the CorruptCorporateExecutive who owns the TimeMachine at the center of the novel is planning to market it to the rich and powerful, to host tour groups to the past. AndThatsTerrible, so much so that the heroes use the time machine strand him in the middle of the Bubonic Plague as punishment. Except, as the novel repeatedly reminds the reader, this form of time travel doesn't cause paradoxes because the past can't be changed: instead, it's more like traveling between identical {{Alternate Universe}}s that are out of historical sync with one another (this is presented a little inconsistently, since the heroes first got involved via a letter from the past, but the book holds to that explanation regardless). So, apart from an assumed AlienNoninterferenceClause towards those other timelines that doesn't actually exist in the book (since it takes place in today's world), there doesn't seem to be anything really wrong with his plan. It's just confirmed as wrong by the horrified reactions of the heroes. This apparently wasn't lost on the movie producers: TheFilmOfTheBook instead has the villain [[HoistByHisOwnPetard accidentally stranding himself in the past]] while trying to kill the heroes.

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* AdaptationDistillation: The film cleaned up quite a few inconsistencies in the book, tightened the storyline considerably, and gave Andre Marek and Lady Claire's romance some much-needed depth.
** At the expense of removing many of the fascinating exposition about time travel and [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderizing]] the characters into stock streotypes of their books selves. General audiences and critics alike panned the film, with many saying that at best it was SoOkayItsAverage.

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* AdaptationDistillation: The film cleaned up quite a few inconsistencies in the book, tightened the storyline considerably, and gave Andre Marek and Lady Claire's romance some much-needed depth.
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depth, but at the expense of removing many much of the fascinating exposition about time travel and [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderizing]] the characters into stock streotypes stereotypes of their books selves. General audiences and critics alike panned the film, with many saying that at best it was SoOkayItsAverage.
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* {{Squick}}: The description of the tannery. Pretty much TruthInTelevision.

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* {{Squick}}: The description of the tannery. Pretty much TruthInTelevision.TruthInTelevision.
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** At the expense of removing many of the fascinating exposition about time travel and [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderizing]] the characters into stock streotypes of their books shelves. General audiences and critics alike panned the film, with many saying that at best it was SoOkayItsAverage.

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** At the expense of removing many of the fascinating exposition about time travel and [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderizing]] the characters into stock streotypes of their books shelves.selves. General audiences and critics alike panned the film, with many saying that at best it was SoOkayItsAverage.
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** At the expense of removing many of the fascinating exposition about time travel and [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderizing]] the characters into stock streotypes of their books shelves. General audience and Critics alike panned the film, with many saying that at best it was SoOkayItsAverage.

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** At the expense of removing many of the fascinating exposition about time travel and [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderizing]] the characters into stock streotypes of their books shelves. General audience audiences and Critics critics alike panned the film, with many saying that at best it was SoOkayItsAverage.
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** At the expense of removing many of the fascinating exposition about time travel and [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderizing]] the characters into stock streotypes of their books shelves. General audience and Critics alike panned the film, with many saying at the best it was SoOkayItsAverage.

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** At the expense of removing many of the fascinating exposition about time travel and [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderizing]] the characters into stock streotypes of their books shelves. General audience and Critics alike panned the film, with many saying that at the best it was SoOkayItsAverage.
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** At the expensive of removing many of the fascinating exposition about time travel and [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderizing]] the characters into stock streotypes of their books shelves. General audience and Critics alike panned the film, with many saying at the best it was SoOkayItsAverage.

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** At the expensive expense of removing many of the fascinating exposition about time travel and [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderizing]] the characters into stock streotypes of their books shelves. General audience and Critics alike panned the film, with many saying at the best it was SoOkayItsAverage.
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** At the expensive of removing many of the fascination eposition about time travel and [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderizing]] into stock streotypes of their books shelves. General audience and Critics alike panned the film, with many saying at the best it was SoOkayItsAverage.

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** At the expensive of removing many of the fascination eposition fascinating exposition about time travel and [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderizing]] the characters into stock streotypes of their books shelves. General audience and Critics alike panned the film, with many saying at the best it was SoOkayItsAverage.
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** At the expensive of removing many of the fascination eposition about time travel and [[Flanderization Flanderizing]] into stock streotypes of their books shelves. General audience and Critics alike panned the film, with many saying at the best it was SoOkayItsAverage.

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** At the expensive of removing many of the fascination eposition about time travel and [[Flanderization [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderizing]] into stock streotypes of their books shelves. General audience and Critics alike panned the film, with many saying at the best it was SoOkayItsAverage.
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** At the expensive of removing many of the fascination eposition about time travel and [[Flanderization Flanderizing]] into stock streotypes of their books shelves. General audience and Critics alike panned the film, with many saying at the best it was SoOkayItsAverage.
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* IdiotPlot: A really big one. The time machine can send travelers to any place and time on Earth. A professor traveled back to a specific time and place. So they send his students to retrieve him a few days ''after'' his arrival, instead of setting the destination time about a minute ''before'' the professor's arrival.
** Averted in the film, where the two ends of the wormhole are [[SanDimasTime locked in position a certain distance in time away from each other.]] They sent him back in time three days ago, so they can only send his rescuers back to three days after he got there.
** Also, they have to take into account the potential problem of a GrandfatherParadox: if the professor had been rescued by his students as soon as he arrived, he would have not written that note and would have not left the bifocal lenses, and thus the students would have not gone to rescue him. Thus, they have to wait until the professor writes the note.
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* AdaptationDistillation: The film cleaned up quite a few inconsistencies in the book, tightened the storyline considerably, and gave Andre Marek and Lady Claire's romance some much-needed depth.
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** Also, they have to take into account the potential problem of a GrandfatherParadox: if the professor had been rescued by his students as soon as he arrived, he would have not written that note and would have not left the bifocal lenses, and thus the students would have not gone to rescue him. Thus, they have to wait until the professor writes the note.
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** Averted in the film, where the two ends of the wormhole are locked in position a certain distance in time away from each other. They sent him back in time three days ago, so they can only send his rescuers back to three days after he got there.

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** Averted in the film, where the two ends of the wormhole are [[SanDimasTime locked in position a certain distance in time away from each other. other.]] They sent him back in time three days ago, so they can only send his rescuers back to three days after he got there.
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** Averted in the film, where the two ends of the wormhole are locked in position a certain distance in time away from each other. They sent him back in time three days ago, so they can only send his rescuers back to three days after he got there.
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* IdiotPlot: A really big one. The time machine can send travelers to any place and time on Earth. A professor traveled back to a specific time and place. So they send his students to retrieve him a few days ''after'' his arrival, instead of setting the destination time about a minute ''before'' the professor's arrival.

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