YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
also yeah bob hoskins died and it's sad because people dying always sucks
even if the mario movie was godawful
"I like girls, but now, it's about justice."the mario movie made want to throw myself in a wood chipper
i know what mario looks like and that isn't mario
"I like girls, but now, it's about justice."yeah totally
now seriously i mean "mario" as in the franchise
why bother making an adaptation if you're just gonna make everything up
edited 1st May '14 5:00:46 AM by WackyPancake
"I like girls, but now, it's about justice."but still
i mean if what those guys created was actually good i would cut them some sack but sadly it's not the case
"I like girls, but now, it's about justice."It's the sad sad thing about adaptations.
They'll always change something.
Like Griffin's entire personality, remove the entire "First Day of Invisibility" part and the lead-up to his discovery, ADD IN A FUCKING LOVE INTEREST who if they were just a girlfriend I'd be fine with but Flora was a fiance of Griffin (Seriously, the fuck? Griffin would barely make time for a girlfriend, I doubt they'd be far enough for a fucking marriage), Kill off Kemp (I liked this), Change how Griffin died (Admittedly being brained by a sailor is pretty shitty, and I quite liked how the movie ended), and finally they left out Thomas Marvel. (Starting to think that Kemp just absorbed him...)
still not as bad as the mario movie
- bob hoskins about the mario movie
"I like girls, but now, it's about justice."Yeah.
But I was just giving an example of an otherwise good movie- being a terrible adaptation.
It really... Didn't work for me as something inspired by the book.
Because it didn't focus enough on Griffin, and they changed him far too much.
His entire backstory was basically re-written so they could get away with duplicating the success of the Frankenstein movie's love triangle.
And to leave out really important parts of the book (I.E. Thomas Marvel) just doesn't sit well.
Hell- they even change how successful Griffin was to begin with.
Book: He's a loner working out of a London apartment completely on his own.
Movie: He is an actual scientific assistant to a (as the film says) good scientist. Who just allows him to do a side-project on his own. I guess it makes it more tragic as it shows that if Griffin wasn't so mad about making the invisibility potion- he would've had a pretty decent job but- still.
1.5 imperial gallons of tea were consumed during the writing of this postoh yeah that
there are many films that are awesome movies on their own but terrible adaptations
like about every film in the Disney Animated Canon
edited 1st May '14 5:26:36 AM by WackyPancake
"I like girls, but now, it's about justice."Indeed.
But given that The Invisible Man ranks at the top of my favorite novels (Who knew?), it really eggs me that there isn't a proper adaptation for it yet.
Hollow Man (The one with Kevin Bacon) was close to the tone, I reckon. Despite it being changed to a modern-day thing, and that Sebastian Caine (Not Griffin... But then they didn't have the rights to The Invisible Man apparently) was legitimately funded by the government and it was an entire science team who knew what they were working on.
Though putting them in an underground facility where they were easily trapped was a very smart move.
Though- it wasn't a direct adaptation, which I appreciate. It wasn't saying "Based on H.G.Well's Novel The Invisible Man" like The 1933 film did at the start... Before chucking around 2/3rds of the book out the window and changing a whole load of details. Though I appreciate that they gave Griffin the highest on-screen killcount out of all the Universal monsters. Because he de-railed a train. That was fucking awesome.
edited 1st May '14 5:32:23 AM by RegularDefender
1.5 imperial gallons of tea were consumed during the writing of this postMeenah and Haru
Hoo boy.
And screw anyone who said A Series of Unforunate Events was a crappy adaptation.
edited 1st May '14 5:38:04 AM by SR3NORMANDY
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?Whoa, what?
I can think of few others who could have pulled off what the role demanded.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?The problem was, you could tell where he was on-script, and where he was ad-libbing. The latter seriously took away from it.
Jim Carrey is like Robin Williams. They're incredibly talented actors, but the director needs to keep a tight leash on them if they want to see said talent on the screen.
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistFair point. But he did a hell of a lot better than anyone else would have.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?

i feel asleep
@tats: did i not tell you
were you not god damn told