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What was the worst bastardization of a classic book into a movie? (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (14 children)

Not a classics, but:

  • American Gods: they made unnecessary changes and introduced unnecessary filler plotlines until it felt like a drag to watch. The book already explored social issues, but the showrunners decided to dial it up to 100 and spoonfeed it to the audience at the expense of the actual plot.
  • Ready Player One: they dumbed down the whole thing about hunting keys and portals, removed tons of important worldbuilding details, made pointless changes that ruined the spirit of the books. They should have made it into a series instead of a movie.
[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (5 children)

What made me mad at RP1 movie was they put the Easter Egg in Atari Adventure. Which is mentioned in chapter 0 of the book, and again in the fake town (not put in the movie) because it's so obvious, nobody who cared about games at all would hide anything there.

And no Tomb of Horrors.

Instead Spielberg put a bunch of lame movie references in, because he's too senile to understand the game references.

And the actors are far too pretty for the "but you're beautiful inside" plot.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not to mention the bastardization of the entire plot.

I liked the book because it felt like the villains had actual capabilities to accomplish their goals. The protagonists did everything right and it still wasnt enough to get the bad guys off their backs.

In the movie the protagonists make stupid decisions and the villain helper character which didn't even exist in the book just overhears them talking about it.

Fucking. Stupid.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Said it better than I could.

Exactly.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

And no Tomb of Horrors.

That's because the novel was about nerd culture in general, while the movie was almost entirely about video games. All the D&D, Rush, Monty Python, etc. references were absent. The Shining was in there because Kubrick was Spielberg's mentor.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Instead Spielberg put a bunch of lame movie references in, because he's too senile to understand the game references.

Have not seen the movie, but that sounds like Spielberg nailed the tone of the novel. The book reads like a thinly veiled essay by an aging Gen X geek about how pop culture peaked during the authors childhood and the world would be perfect if we could go back to the 80s.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

Thanks for your completely useless post.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

But Art3mis in the real world has a port-wine stain so she's ugly! Can't you see how disgusting she looks?!

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