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Re: "Books > Film"

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AT4W is not online. AT4W
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04 Nov 2013 08:53 PM
This mentality pisses me the hell off. People are always complaining about films that are different from the book and they dislike them for the sole purpose that they are different from the book. What the hell? Do you honestly want the movie to be exactly like the book? If you want the freaking book, freaking read the freaking book!

Because a lot of people think that it's the filmmaker's choice to make it exactly like the book or not and they just change it to be a jerk. They don't. 99% of books would be terrible movies if you made it exactly like the book.

Another thing is this idea that books are somehow "more detailed than movies". How in the hell does that work? Films are SHOWING YOU WHAT HAPPENED. How the hell do you get more detailed than that?

So, stop berating film and then giving books the easy way because both mediums are equally valid.
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BobafrigginFeetAlt is not online. BobafrigginFeetAlt
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04 Nov 2013 08:55 PM
Who the hell said all books are better than its film adaptions?
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Ultracrash is not online. Ultracrash
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04 Nov 2013 08:55 PM
Will you calm the hell down, people are sleeping.
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AT4W is not online. AT4W
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04 Nov 2013 09:00 PM
>Boba

I've heard some people.

>Ultra

No, because people need to hear this.
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XxThundagaxX is not online. XxThundagaxX
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04 Nov 2013 09:01 PM
But they read this though
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AT4W is not online. AT4W
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04 Nov 2013 09:01 PM
SO
THEY CAN HEAR THROUGH THEIR EYES
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aznguyitran is not online. aznguyitran
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04 Nov 2013 09:06 PM
i only like books because they tell most of the story.

but i like movies better.
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AT4W is not online. AT4W
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04 Nov 2013 09:08 PM
>tell most of the story.

But they're telling their own story. Movies are telling their interpretation of it. There isn't a "most of the story" because every story is different.

This is why I don't look at adaptations as adaptations per se but rather alternate realities.
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Ultracrash is not online. Ultracrash
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04 Nov 2013 09:14 PM
The only thing that matters for me is if the essence of the story is intact.

"Constantine" is one of my favourite movies, it's a complete bastardization of the source material, but essentially it is Hellblazer.
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AT4W is not online. AT4W
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04 Nov 2013 09:16 PM
Yeah.

That's why I don't really like Nolan's Batfilms. They don't feel like Batman to me.
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swiftattak7 is not online. swiftattak7
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05 Nov 2013 02:46 AM
People just get annoyed because they think the film has to stay exactly like the book.


I don't really care for the big twists and turns, I just care about the small things that make the book or movie what it is.



For example the characters feeling towards something, their favorite food, their hate or love towards something.
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AT4W is not online. AT4W
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05 Nov 2013 06:41 AM
Those are ridiculously trivial things to adapt.
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stinky66 is not online. stinky66
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05 Nov 2013 06:44 AM
Both books and films have their own things to make them unique from each other. A film does not have to be ENTIRELY like the book, just based off of it and same plot line really.

But the book is the original piece, it is what the author chose what he/she wanted it to be about, look like, and for that type of genre reader.

A Film has some unadded sequences and a lot more added lines, this is because people want to be entriged when watching the movie, not watch the EXACT same thing they read in a book.

Check out the new trailer for Dimension Warriors http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bugOxTEdmOI&feature=youtu.be
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stinky66 is not online. stinky66
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05 Nov 2013 06:45 AM
So what I am trying to say is that they are equal and that each have their own type of unique spark.

Check out the new trailer for Dimension Warriors http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bugOxTEdmOI&feature=youtu.be
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swiftattak7 is not online. swiftattak7
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05 Nov 2013 06:48 AM
@At4w


They're important.
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Ultracrash is not online. Ultracrash
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05 Nov 2013 10:21 AM
"They're important."

Elaborate pl0x.
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swiftattak7 is not online. swiftattak7
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05 Nov 2013 12:59 PM
Alright fine.


Lets say they make a movie out of Artimis Fowl, a young adult book about a teenager which is incredibly intelligent and has found a race of underground high tech ferries (not the best book)


There is one ferry in the ground which loves human technology as much as ferry technology, the fact he likes it so much brings out hundreds of laughable parts which make the book likable.


Or lets say in the Hunger Games (also not a very good book, but since every one has read it why not), Heymitch and Katniss keep bickering each other because Katniss doesn't follow Heymitchs orders. In the movie she just acts like a self centered brat.

Or lets say if they introduce Finlick, and they make him some super hot guy so all the girls will fall for him. Taking away any sense of the witty character that could have been exposed from under him (even if the author didn't want to).

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Ultracrash is not online. Ultracrash
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05 Nov 2013 01:08 PM
I just want to add that the booking being better than the movie isn't always the case. Example? First Blood.

The movie improves on literally everything in the book.
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swiftattak7 is not online. swiftattak7
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05 Nov 2013 01:12 PM
To be honest I enjoy watching movies rather than reading most books.


Why, because after a movie I can easily talk about everything that happened.


In a book, I'm always the only one in the world who has read that type of book.


Although I do feel more intelligent after reading a book.
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Ultracrash is not online. Ultracrash
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05 Nov 2013 01:34 PM
I think we should agree that books and movies are two entirely different mediums and what works in one won't in the other. I don't automatically hate an adaptation and base the score on how accurate said adaptation is. We should base things on their own merits.
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AT4W is not online. AT4W
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05 Nov 2013 05:39 PM
That's what I've been trying to say.
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