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0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
Just awesome like that
#301: May 24th 2011 at 9:50:33 PM

Partially on topic, but not a reply to [up] — Lapsedtreker, I threw that one in the ring above, but it was ignored. No need to be a jerk about it.

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Lapsedtreker Call me Lappsed from Internet Since: Apr, 2011
Call me Lappsed
#302: May 25th 2011 at 7:12:48 AM

Didnt mean to be

Proveing 12 year olds are the filthist people around
RobinZimm Since: Jan, 2001
#303: May 25th 2011 at 9:00:29 AM

Before people forget: the current adaptation is "Justice League Unlimited: The moe slice-of-life anime. (Don't forget which character gets which moe archetype.)" courtesy SKJAM.

AwesomeZombie22 Shaggy haired shaman from somewhere over the rainbow Since: Apr, 2010
#304: May 25th 2011 at 8:51:44 PM

We Are In A Moe Anime is better than this, and it's not even animated! Or made by a professional studio! Or has any visuals! Or- you get my point.

Twilight: The Tabletop Game!

edited 25th May '11 8:53:52 PM by AwesomeZombie22

Usually here.
RhymeBeat True colors from Eastern Standard Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
True colors
#305: May 25th 2011 at 8:56:50 PM

An actually fun, if In Name Only adaptation. The Literature characters still suck but the ability to play as monsters in the modern world is enhanced by adding new races and buffing humans a bit.

The World Ends With You. The Novel.

The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.
StephanReiken Since: May, 2010
#306: May 29th 2011 at 8:31:39 PM

Turns out to be a romantic comedy with shipping pairs nobody likes.

Starcraft2 the TV series.

RobinZimm Since: Jan, 2001
#307: May 29th 2011 at 8:56:58 PM

Remember the Starship Troopers film? The props are different, and the battles are divided between Protoss and Zerg, but yeah - pretty much a Spiritual Successor.

Freebird: The Novel.

EaterOfPizza somethingsomething from a place Since: Apr, 2011
somethingsomething
#310: May 30th 2011 at 10:48:07 AM

Actually pretty hilarious, but they got derailed waaaay to early and started talking about other stuff.

Harry Potter 4koma.

tennessean Since: Jan, 2001
#311: May 30th 2011 at 12:22:26 PM

A pretty hilarious riff on the source material, so much so that J.K. Rowling herself has retroactively authorized it.

Star Wars: The 1970s low-budget stoner flick.

Lapsedtreker Call me Lappsed from Internet Since: Apr, 2011
Call me Lappsed
#312: May 30th 2011 at 1:16:26 PM

Is Vader luke's father or all are father's and is the millenium really a Falcon

Quantum Leap the First-Person Shooter

Proveing 12 year olds are the filthist people around
Blurring One just might from one hill away to the regular Bigfoot jungle. Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
One just might
#313: May 30th 2011 at 7:33:18 PM

That could work. Sam could leap into various characters in major conflicts of the world. Wide range of weapons and tactics. Unfortunately, the hero went mad from all the killing at the end of the game.

Pokemon, a Michael Bay movie.

edited 30th May '11 8:32:39 PM by Blurring

If a chicken crosses the road and nobody else is around to see it, does the road move beneath the chicken instead?
EarlOfSandvich Since: Jun, 2011
#314: May 30th 2011 at 8:27:34 PM

Essentially, this is a live action take on Pokemon, WITH EXPLOSIONS! Really Mr. Bay, not every attack a Pokemon makes involves explosions. Really a mindless film.

Now that we have these two stinkers, how about:

Titanic: The Anime

edited 30th May '11 8:29:37 PM by EarlOfSandvich

I now go by Graf von Tirol.
SKJAM Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#315: May 30th 2011 at 8:45:09 PM

A World Masterpiece Theater presentation, actually taking its plotline from Leviathan, the remarkably prophetic novel written some years before the sinking of the Titanic. In order to fit in a 26-episode season, a lot of flashbacks to events in the passengers' lives leading up to sailing are included. It's generally well-received, but none of the music becomes a Breakaway Pop Hit.

Next: Emma as a Stan Lee / Jack Kirby Marvel Comics (*early* Marvel) presentation.

edited 30th May '11 8:45:30 PM by SKJAM

0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
Just awesome like that
#316: Jun 3rd 2011 at 12:22:55 AM

The story is more or less the same, though moved to mid-20th century NYC and filled with stilted dialogue and cheesy jokes that even a cheesemaker would be embarrassed to make.

This Film Is Not Yet Rated, the disaster movie.

edited 3rd Jun '11 12:23:23 AM by 0dd1

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RobinZimm Since: Jan, 2001
#317: Jun 3rd 2011 at 6:56:11 AM

This Film Is Not Yet Rated, the disaster movie.

...

*head explodes*

Okay, okay. As the giant asteroid is approaching the Earth, the MPAA is commissioned to select movies to be preserved in the underground bunker, and Kirby Dick and his team of detectives have to Race Against the Clock to prove that the MPAA is using a biased process in time to save the best independent films of the era.

Hot Fuzz as Film Noir.

tennessean Since: Jan, 2001
#318: Jun 3rd 2011 at 1:32:48 PM

It becomes both a deconstruction and a reconstruction of the buddy-cop genre, and proves to be one of the biggest hit movies since Titanic.

Forrest Gump, the shounen manga.

Jonny0110 Since: May, 2011
#320: Jun 3rd 2011 at 3:40:23 PM

Jack Chick's the Passion of the Christ.

Premonition45 Since: Mar, 2011
#321: Jun 3rd 2011 at 6:26:23 PM

What were your thoughts of the prior adaptation? As for your adaptation, good lord indeed!

Ang Lee's Don Quixote?

RobinZimm Since: Jan, 2001
#322: Jun 3rd 2011 at 6:53:59 PM

[up][up]Many people are surprised to discover it to be a tolerably good comic book adaptation of the relevant part of the Gospels, although why they would think that a passionate Christian wouldn't strive to be as accurate as possible is unclear.

[up]A horrifically unpopular work, it is widely considered boring, tedious, and repetitive. Despite being a faithful adaptation of the book.

I'm giving "Christian Weston Chandler's The French Revolution" from [up][up][up] to the next poster, because I can't answer that one.

tennessean Since: Jan, 2001
#323: Jun 4th 2011 at 10:32:37 AM

For "CWC's version of the French Revolution," I'll say that there's so much Critical Research Failure that this particular Author Tract that it becomes the Most Triumphant Example of Snark Bait.

Mythbusters: the light gun shooter.

edited 4th Jun '11 10:32:47 AM by tennessean

Premonition45 Since: Mar, 2011
#324: Jun 4th 2011 at 10:39:05 AM

You don't wanna play as Tory.

Highlander: the Broadway musical.

tennessean Since: Jan, 2001
#325: Jun 8th 2011 at 10:21:24 AM

It's surprisingly rather good. At least part of that may be due to the subtle spoofs of the sequels, the good special effects, good acting, and the catchy numbers (Didn't "There Can Be Only One" win a Grammy or something like that?).

Retsupurae: the big-budget Hollywood action movie.


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