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      Lets Fix Films and Books that were Screwed Up

      Lot's of great films, adaptations, prequels, sequels and so on have been detrimentally ruined despite having good premises or source material to work with. I'm going to list some examples and you can add your own.

      Spoiler for The Dark Knight:


      Spoiler for Star Wars Revenge of the Sith:


      Spoiler for Harry Potter 7 part 2:


      Spoiler for Spider Man 3:
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      Quote Originally Posted by Omnis Dei View Post
      Lot's of great films, adaptations, prequels, sequels and so on have been detrimentally ruined despite having good premises or source material to work with. I'm going to list some examples and you can add your own.

      Spoiler for The Dark Knight:


      I think the reason why they took this road was to play on the Joker's assumption that even the most honest amongst us can be corrupted.

      Spoiler for Star Wars Revenge of the Sith:


      The only thing I can say about this is movie is that Hayden Christensen's wooden acting killed it for me.

      Spoiler for Harry Potter 7 part 2:


      Never watched any of these movies, so I can't comment on it.

      Spoiler for Spider Man 3:
      I hate it when producers feel that they need to have two super villains. It usually causes the movie to lose it's focus.

      Sorry for the weird format. I Can't seem to get it right
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      How about The Matrix Revolution?

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      As Grant Morrison would say, they should have just kept copying him. The Matrix was actually based on The Invisibles (though the Wachowski Brothers won't admit it, if you read the comic the similarities are well beyond coincidence.) The Matrix Sequels parted from the source material in all the wrong ways, and that is why they sucked.

      Another story that did this is Full Metal Alchemist. Because the manga was taking too long to finish they decided to just ignore it after a while. When the manga was nearly finished they came up with Brotherhood to more closely follow the story. Brotherhood also failed a bit in the beginning because of the way it summarized so much of the epic build up. The original is salvageable, all you have to do is watch the original Full Metal Alchemist until they introduce Dante, then throw away the rest or better yet burn them, and start watching Brotherhood. The first 15-20 episodes will be a little redundant but you'll understand why it was worth it to watch the original version of this part of the story. Then it'll get good. Then it'll get really good.

      Honestly anything based on source material tends to fuck up every time they change anything. Game of Thrones is one of the few pieces that seems to improve with changes, albeit while losing some depth. But marvel and dc based films tend to fuck up whenever they don't follow the story arc of the comics (see X-Men, Green Lantern etc, etc, etc...) I believe Star Wars wouldn't have fucked up if it was based on a book series authored by a single person. As it was the original story was a success due to having so little to do with George Lucas, writing and directing wise. The prequels failed for the opposite reason. Harry Potter is an exception, JK Rowling just proved sort of shitty at the end. But even so it probably would've been even worse had they derided from the book's plot.
      Last edited by Omnis Dei; 07-05-2012 at 09:18 PM.

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