As time goes by more and more things that we used to love in our childhood, are slowly but steadily stopping to give money to their, not creators, but rather new masters and owners. It place where art and care about fans used to be now is one and only greed to get some more money. One after another adaptations fail especially if creators aim to please some weird and usually marginalized groups of people that just so happen to be most vocal.
I will ask you just once:
1. Do you agree that not everything needs a movie adaptation?
2. Do you know a movie adaptation of something you really like? How did that go?
3. Do you have something on your mind that you would love to see a movie adaptation of ?
1. Do you agree that not everything needs a movie adaptation?
2. Do you know a movie adaptation of something you really like? How did that go?
3. Do you have something on your mind that you would love to see a movie adaptation of ?
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It's hard for me to remember an adaptation, but I can't wait for a new movie about the Lion King. The trailer pulls from the seats.
I would definitely like to see the adaptation of the Witcher - Polish production series that Netflix will try to beat and I hope that I won't be disappointed.
Yes, I agree that not everyone needs adaptation.But if we don’t do this, we won’t understand whether the film was successful or unsuccessful.
2. Do you know a movie adaptation of something you really like? How did that go?
I really like the adaptations of The Chronicles of Narnia.Most of the books have been adapted very well.On account of Harry Potter don't know,I haven't read the books, only watched all the movies 4 times)
3. Do you have something on your mind that you would love to see a movie adaptation of ? I would very much like to see the film adaptation of the first part of the game Resident evil 1996 or the adaptation of the book Resident Evil Underworld.
I personally have some favorite adaptations which I'm happy were created. Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Stardust, Daredevil and many others. But of course, as with every kind of movies, there are some really bad adaptations. Those which I hope to forget. I don't like what they did to Harry Dresden books, I also watched Dune and Eragon and I'm pretty sure it could have been done so much better.
But I think people should keep trying. We don't burn the books once an adaptation has been filmed, so why not. Worst case, it will be poorly remembered. Best case - we will be amazed at how the film's director was able to understand the source material and present it to a wider audience. And if you're worried it's just a money grab, can always just wait for reviews and not go to the cinema - vote with your money.
I liked the book "The Martian", but the movie based on it disappointed me. The main character was played by Matt Damon that I'm not really a fan of and the whole story was presented in a bit cheesy way.
I would love to see the biography of Elon Musk on the big screen. His story is really interesting for me.
Hell yeah! There is A LOT of books that I can't imagine as a good adaptation. For example, because how much time they are covering or how much beauty is in the words used, not the story or action.
2. Do you know a movie adaptation of something you really like? How did that go?
Have you heard about the Witcher series? Not the netflix one. The old. Polish one. Never watch that. Never. Oh my good it still hurts my eyes. On the other hand, The Lord of The Rings is great movie trilogy. I loved it more then the books.
3. Do you have something on your mind that you would love to see a movie adaptation of ?
The Invincible of Stanislaw Lem. THAT WOULD BE EPIC. Oh my god, the scenes, the robots, ships, story. Would be amazing.
Like games, is very hard to adapt a game into a movie because they re focusing on interaction. Interaction between player and word made. Game named: "Hitman" is very good example. Agent 47 is perfect assassin, for player it is amazing to feel such power, but for movie it would be boring to watch a guy that is always winning and never doing mistakes. But i like 1 adaptation, it's: "Punisher". I love how they presented his brutality and hate for criminals.
If i could pick 1 adaption that i could see it would be Spawn adaptation, but not movie adaptation. I would prefer to see it animated.
How i think , everyone would like to see the adaptation of their favorite book or story. Because it is interesting to compare your ideas after reading with adaptations.
2. Do you know a movie adaptation of something you really like? How did that go?
I am mostly a fan of watching anime series.
Naturally, there were adaptations ... And the films what I watched were “Bleach”, “Death Note” and “Attack of the Titans”. Before watching, I had an impression that the films would be really cool, however, after watching it, I thought that all of them could have been much better. I remember watching two more adaptations, according to the games of "Mortal Kombat" and "Doom". But at that time they were very good.But this is just my personal opinion.
3. Do you have something on your mind that you would love to see a movie adaptation of ?
I would certainly see an adaptation of the anime "Devil May Cry." But after watching those adaptations, the desire to watch some other adaptations disappeared.
• Yes, some things should be left the way they are.
2. Do you know a movie adaptation of something you really like? How did that go?
• I really liked the Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings series.
3. Do you have something on your mind that you would love to see a movie adaptation of?
• Nothing particular. Although, I think that some of the criminal novels by Jo Nesbø could be pretty interesting.
I can't remember any movie adaptation in particular. I liked the original War of Worlds although it's 2005 movie adaptation feels like a completely different story. I would rather say that the story of the film was "inspired" by the book. But I don't think that the movie was bad although it had problems. At least alien tripods looked really scary and that I think the best thing they borrowed from the book.
I would like to see the new movie adaptation of Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" in the near future.
I really like an adaptation of Narnia but for example I don't like adaptation of "Niezgodna" written by Veronica Roth. Books were ok but an adaptation didn't show what I liked in a book and I just couldnt bare watching it and stopped after 40 minuts.
I can't think of any adaptation that I would love to see. I guess I will just wait for something good to come out.
I’ve seen a movie adaptation of my favorite opera and it was pretty good. Maybe because of great actors, that really CAN sing and accuracy of adaptation.
Well, as most of us I’m waiting for a Witcher series ;)
Yeah, why would everything needed a movie adaptation
2. Do you know a movie adaptation of something you really like? How did that go?
Dune. It is shown in the video. Let's just not talk about it. There was one ambitious attempt to make it. Such a shame it didn't worked:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0cJNR8HEw0
3. Do you have something on your mind that you would love to see a movie adaptation of ?
I would like to see a good adaptation of Pratchett's book. I think it is possible to do but needs to be done by someone who also loves this type of humour.
„The Hobbit” trilogy is widely used as an example of bad adaptation but I disagree with that. It has followed the book pretty well in general but it added lots of secondary plot lines. It was an adaptation that used the source material and built on top of it, which is fine by me.
An example of a totally bad adaptation for me is the „Eragon” movie. After reading a couple of books in the series as a kid, I went to the movie theatre and watched the movie. Even though I was just a kid, I remember that the adaptation was so furiously bad, it felt offensive to the readers.
I agree with most commenters that the adaptation I’m most excited for is the Witcher TV series produced by Netflix. I read the books, played the games, never watched the Polish series and now I’m waiting for the Hollywood one.
Generally, I think that if movie is good and have well constructed story, then why it wouldn't need adaptation?
2. Do you know a movie adaptation of something you really like? How did that go?
Sure, I just love El laberinto del fauno, Harry Potter, The Godfather, The Silence of The Lambs and a lot of Stephan King's book to film adaptations.
3. Do you have something on your mind that you would love to see a movie adaptation of?
Emm... I guess no. Maybe something like The Witcher or Achaja.
I really waiting for movie adaptation of my life. I just need to write book about it. It's still in progress.
Yes - especially after I have seen the examples from the youtube's video You have attached.
2. Do you know a movie adaptation of something you really like? How did that go?
Lord of the rings ! I think that in this examle I even prefer to watch movies than books
3. Do you have something on your mind that you would love to see a movie adaptation of ?
I really like to read books from "Fabryczna Zona" series - books action is happening in Chernobyl. I like post-apocalyptic books, and if any one of them would got a movie adaption, I would be the first in cinema
Yea, for sure I agree... I'm fan of manga/anime and while making an animation based on manga is in most of the cases really good, that movie adaptations are... awful... I find those really baaaaad...
2. Do you know a movie adaptation of something you really like? How did that go?
Yup, many of them and I was dissatisfied. For example latest adaptation of FullMetal Alchemist on Netflix or JoJo's Bizarre Adventure . That was... disgusting, awful... can't find words that would describe my disappointment.
3. Do you have something on your mind that you would love to see a movie adaptation of?
I'd really like to see movie adaptation of few games that I like!
Those will be:
1. The world ends with you
2. NieR: Automata
3. Final Fantasy XV (not KingsGlaive, cause it's telling a story before events from game)
Also Kingdom Hearts would be nice to watch :)
Hmm, I remember that The Hunger Games was not bad. Have you ever read/watched it? As I said, I don't like adaptions so I am trying to not watch them a lot.
Last question is very interesting. On the one hand, I love Jo Nesbo detective stories and I would like to watch movie but I don't want to change my opinion so... it's too hard to take a decision.
I don't think that anything needs a move adaptation. If the book is good it doesn't need an adaptation, if it's then it shouldn't have one at all. I think that the issue is that some of the books are really hard to translate onto the big screen. Some directors don't think it through when they try to film a book adaptation and that is why we get some awful ones so often. They just see that a book is popular and think: "let's make a movie, people like that story so what can possibly go wrong?". However, sometimes it is not that easy.
2. Do you know a movie adaptation of something you really like? How did that go?
Well I really like book written by Philip K. Dick called "Man in the high castle". There is a TV series that is an adaptation of that book. I tried to watch it but I didn't enjoy it at all.
3. Do you have something on your mind that you would love to see a movie adaptation of ?
Probably some stories written by Stanisław Lem deserve to get their own movie adaptation. However, since those are Sci-Fi genre that might be quite a challenge for many directors.
When it comes to failed adaptations i want to forget for me it was Eragon, a poorly made film that tried to fit too much into one feature instead on focusing on the delivery and longevity of the adaptation.
I wish for good lengthy adaptation of "The Ender's game" series, its an 8 novel story that tackles very interesting aspects of future and very though dilemmas, i hope creators that adapted first book will do a follow up expanding on the story in future films.
I do agree that not everything needs a movie adaptation. Very often it happens that a book far more elaborates on a given topic that any movie could do so.
2. Do you know a movie adaptation of something you really like? How did that go?
My favourite movie adaptaion is The Lord of The Rings. This movie was so epic and dashing that almost was better than the book.
3. Do you have something on your mind that you would love to see a movie adaptation of ?
A good adaptaion of Dune. There was a lot of adaptaions of this book so far, but none of them was good enough.
Of course. I keep in my head a list of films more than a kilometer long. And they were all not worth adapting to the film. Sometimes it comes out just disgusting, and this despite the fact that the book was excellent.
2. Do you know a movie adaptation of something you really like? How did that go?
I was sure I knew a couple. But now nothing comes to mind. Maybe Harry Potter movies, but only the first three parts.
3. Do you have something on your mind that you would love to see a movie adaptation of?
I love many books. But it's hard for me to present them in the form of films. Perhaps in the format of the series.
Yes I agree 100%, many times I have been disappointed when some of my favorite book gets adaptations.
2. Do you know a movie adaptation of something you really like? How did that go?
In most cases, this is a disaster, movies are much nicer to watch without reading the book beforehand. I remember when I saw a trailer in the cinema of Percy Jackson and the Olympic gods: Lightning thief, made such an impression on me that I bought a book and read it before the premiere, which was a big mistake because the film was very average.
3. Do you have to see a movie adaptation of?
I would love to see the film adaptation of Trudi Canavan's guild mages, but we will not see it.
I really like Lord of the Rings movie adaptation. I love music there, LOTR special effects were so good in its times and world created for the movie was a perfect fantasy world.
I would love to see a Dune adaptation made by Denis Villeneuve.
Yes, I do. The perfect example of great book-based movie is “The fight club”, that was originally written by Chuck Palahniuk who himself admired the beauty of the film and even said it to be better than his novel.
No, I don’t really want to watch anything that I’ve ever read, because it’s not going to be the same thing anymore. That’s not going to be my impressions of described characters, actions and places. Somehow seeing the same thing I’ve read on the screen through the vision of someone else makes the plot less intimate, less appealing, it loses the part that reader’s imagination creates itself.
1. Do you agree that not everything needs a movie adaptation?
Definetely yes, but on the other hand if you don't like it you haven't to watch. Sometimes I think is good book for movie adoptation but it was poorly made.
2. Do you know a movie adaptation of something you really like? How did that go?
Yes for example Harry Potter or hobbit but it is too long it can be one movie not 3 like The Lord of the Rings which adaptation has similar length but it's much bigger book.
3. Do you have something on your mind that you would love to see a movie adaptation of ?
Currently, I haven't any ideas.