Discussion YMMV / Uncharted2022

Regarding this entry:

• Author's Saving Throw: A common criticism of the video games, even by many fans, is how violent they are, and how casually Drake and the other characters mow through endless waves of mooks without a second thought for the lives they are taking. The film tones this down considerably; Nathan only briefly uses a gun and doesn't directly kill anyone with it, and the big action scene that does involve a brawl with enemy mooks makes it relatively ambiguous as to whether they are actually killed or not. And the big set piece sequence on the cargo plane has only one enemy be directly knocked to his death by Nathan, who actually apologizes for doing it.

The games, while violent, really aren't any worse than literally any other video game with enemy mooks or action-adventure films that inspired it; the "common criticism of the video games, even by many fans" is actually a meme among the fanbase at Nate being a Memetic Psychopath, but its not something that's taken particularly seriously.

I've not actually seen anyone praise the film for this, nor them specify they made this change because of the aforementioned criticism of the games. In fact I've experienced the opposite; fans of the games seem annoyed that the movie whitewashed Nathan's actions in order to make him less of an antihero and better suit the casting of Tom Holland (who is most famous for playing good guy Peter Parker, in what's Sony's biggest cash-cow).

In that regard I don't think this is an Author's Saving Throw. In fact it's probably a case of They Changed It, Now It Sucks!.

I will concede however that my experience is probably not universal and I've seen Tom Holland's fanbase jump through hoops to defend it's other changes, so I can imagine someone thinking this, so it might be more appropriate under Broken Base when that's OK to add.

Regarding Fanon discontinuity, I’m pretty sure this film is actually an alternate continuity from the main games…