ivanaskye:

lenyberry:

fuckitandflee:

The real problem with books-turned-movies isn’t “omg they didn’t include every single word in the book” it’s “omg they completely overlooked the main theme, threw out any significant allegories, took away all the emotional pull, an turned it into a boring action movie with a love triangle in it”

“they left out the BEST PART which was MEANINGFUL and THOUGHT-PROVOKING, and which would have taken 2 minutes of runtime to do and was literally characters having dialogue… and instead we got a gratuitous extra half-hour of CG explosions”. 

I’m always very suspicious of complaints that every movie adaptation ever sucks, because they typically miss what I consider to be an important point—that different mediums of storytelling are, by nature, different, and are good at accomplishing different things.  And thus, for an adaptation to succeed, a lot is going to have to change.

But.

I also think there’s another problem going on here which is that film, as a medium, in its modern form*, kind of sucks.

(Cut for length, because hoooo boy, this thing is long.)

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