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Also, with film/tv adaptions, I think people in general have to learn that they're just that, adaptions. Ive never seen a TV/Film adaption where fans of the novel didn't complain that a scene was omitted, or something was added, and how they ruined the novel because they weren't 100% faithful to the material. I personally think it's next to impossible to create a 100% faithful adaption of a book and still have a film that's just as effective, because they're different mediums. There's things you can do on film that you can't do in a book, and there's things you can do in a book that can't translate into film. When it comes to adapting novels, I do think it's almost always best to try to capture the same story, spirit and tone that the original author was going for. There's a few exceptions (such as when you're adapting a rather weak work with a strong high concept idea like Jurassic Park), but most of the time when film/tv adaptors try something completely different it tends to fall on its face.
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This question sucks!
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I'm curious if there'll be a twist in store for how Season 8 plays out/set up so it's not Good Guys vs Ice Sauron. D&D have said they should arrive to the same destination as GRRM, and it just doesn't seem like GRRM's style to have most of his finale be a Good vs Evil crusade. I feel like something's bound to happen that shakes things up. It's possible Cersei and Daenerys survive the season, and they're stuck having to work together to defeat the White Walkers. That'd leave room for some real arm-twistings to go on.
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The Glass Castle | Destin Daniel Cretton | August 11, 2017
The Panda replied to Blankments's topic in Box Office Discussion
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Lol, nothing is locked yet. Not even Dunkirk, and especially not the Papers or CMBYRN. At best, the three of them are in strong positions.
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I saw this movie at the Alamo Drafthouse, the little pre-show where they do lists, countdowns and interviews was better than the movie imo. The movie is fine until you realize it's a Dark Tower adaption and the material deserves a movie 1000x better than this manufactured contraption. It's pretty meh and tries to cover way to much plot ground due to the short run time that it leaves no time for actual character or world building.
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The movie is fine, the real crime isn't that it's atrocious filmmaking but that it's a waste of truly great potential. It didn't even need to be a direct adaption of the first book, it just should have been an introduction into an awesome universe created by Stephen King. The real flaw with the movie is it feels like it's trying to introduce people to a sprawling 7 novel series, featuring a lifetime rivalry between two characters, while also trying to be the disappointing conclusion/culmination of them at the same time, while also only being 90 minutes. Theres not enough time to even scratch surface level with the characters, and so it comes off as cliche instead of a weird yet epic mashup of the fantasy genre. It's way to tame when it really should have gone wild. It lacks inspiration, which just cannot happen when you're trying to adapt a book series that's full of it. Matthew McConnoughey and Idris Elba are great as the title characters and really give into the nature of their roles. However the filmmakers and actors around them don't, which makes for a wash. The movie's fine when you watch it, but you can't help but just sit back and think how it's a giant heap of missed potential. C-