*sigh* Hollywood...what have you done now?
So we went to the $2 theater tonight and saw Inkheart tonight. I just can't help myself! I know it will be disappointing EVERY time I go to a movie made from a book...and yet I keep going! hoping they'll get it right. Thinking MAYBE it will be just as amazing on screen as it was in writing.
*grumble* I just don't understand! Twilight, Inkheart, Golden Compass, the list of messed up book-to-movies goes on and on. What makes these producer/director/screenwriters so self obsessed that they feel the need to remove, rearrange, and hack into a good story, only to CREATE their own scenes?! I'm sorry....but if you're going to make a movie, with the same title, BASED ON THE BOOK, then why don't you FOLLOW THE BOOK?! Do these people even READ the story before jumping into script writing, or do they just skim it and take some highlights?
*shakes head* I know that I should stop seeing these films. Sadly I can tell you right now that I will be right there for the rest of the twilight series in film because I LOVE the story...even though I know it will be killed with every drop of passion drained from it right in front of my eyes. Did you know that the same HACK that mutilated Golden Compass is directing the third Twilight movie? *sigh* I think directors should stop remaking books and start working on their OWN stories if they feel the need to put their own "creative" spin on things.
Before I just worried about the movies not being as good as the books because things were cut for time or technical difficulty...now the movies aren't as good as the books because the story isn't the same story anymore. If the story "would have been better this way" then why didn't the author write it that way?!?! I don't care that you rented equipment to shoot scenes high up in the trees and you wanted to use it...don't freaking cut the most pivotal chapter in the book and replace it with a not so touching moment and spidermonkey reference...or KILL one of the main characters throughout a series because it would make a "better" (more dramatic)ending to your film...or re-write the ENTIRE first 200 pages of a book so people can "better understand" and get into the movie.
*head explodes*
*grumble* I just don't understand! Twilight, Inkheart, Golden Compass, the list of messed up book-to-movies goes on and on. What makes these producer/director/screenwriters so self obsessed that they feel the need to remove, rearrange, and hack into a good story, only to CREATE their own scenes?! I'm sorry....but if you're going to make a movie, with the same title, BASED ON THE BOOK, then why don't you FOLLOW THE BOOK?! Do these people even READ the story before jumping into script writing, or do they just skim it and take some highlights?
*shakes head* I know that I should stop seeing these films. Sadly I can tell you right now that I will be right there for the rest of the twilight series in film because I LOVE the story...even though I know it will be killed with every drop of passion drained from it right in front of my eyes. Did you know that the same HACK that mutilated Golden Compass is directing the third Twilight movie? *sigh* I think directors should stop remaking books and start working on their OWN stories if they feel the need to put their own "creative" spin on things.
Before I just worried about the movies not being as good as the books because things were cut for time or technical difficulty...now the movies aren't as good as the books because the story isn't the same story anymore. If the story "would have been better this way" then why didn't the author write it that way?!?! I don't care that you rented equipment to shoot scenes high up in the trees and you wanted to use it...don't freaking cut the most pivotal chapter in the book and replace it with a not so touching moment and spidermonkey reference...or KILL one of the main characters throughout a series because it would make a "better" (more dramatic)ending to your film...or re-write the ENTIRE first 200 pages of a book so people can "better understand" and get into the movie.
*head explodes*