Quote (xmarksdaspot2124 @ Apr 10 2018 06:48pm)
I feel like you, as well as most, go into movies thinking it will be as good as one of your favorite books. How long did that book take you to read? Probably more than 2 hours and 15 minutes. How in the world would you be able to fit all of the emotion, tediousness, and repetitive actions of this book into a two hour block? Its impossible.
Where they left out certain critical moments of the book out of the movie (like the death at the end), they still had the bombing and those deaths. You see it's serious. I don't believe the end death is even necessary in the movie since it doesn't build a real strong relationship between the characters.
As for the challenges not replicating those in the book... good! To read it was great, to watch how it was written could be incredibly boring. I thought it was exciting watching the movie and being surprised at what the next challenge would be! I already know the backstory so i personally didn't mind the lack of detail, but it was like i got to experience two more challenges in addition to story.
It's not a great movie, it wasn't better than the book, but who really expected it to? If you did, shame on you. It was very enjoyable movie.
Edit: Josh not just meant for you, just quoted you. It is intended for anyone who posts: book>movie.... no shit sherlock
Like I said before, changing aspects or how things unfold is one thing, and depending on how it's done, it's something I have no problem with and I already explained all this. Making the main characters and everyone in the world mentally retarded, drastically changing the character dynamics (who they are, how they feel, how they act etc...), and changing the entire fucking point of the game and the book to sell some half-cocked braindead shit so the masses can stomach it better is what made it absolutely awful for me. If you would have seen my second post, you would have seen that I said I was fine with them changing every single one of the tasks along with many many other aspects as though are not the most important things to keep in tact when transferring something from one form of entertainment to another. That being said, butchering every aspect of the characters, the world (other than the visual component), and changing the entire purpose of the contest was just fucking
and made it unbearable, and I'm not sure how anyone who read the book could feel differently. I think on my first readthrough it took me about 220 minutes to finish, so ya, I think a lot more could have been done in 140 minutes.
Quote (Blah58 @ Apr 10 2018 07:12pm)
Lotr movies>books
Tolkien is great and the Hobbit book was amazing, but my God his writing style in the lotr books was so fucking boring.
You're not wrong lol. Parts of those books were painfully fucking boring, and will at times put even the most avid fan to sleep. Depends on what kind of mood I'm in, but I love the LotR books and the movies and I thought Jackson did a terrific job with them. He completely shit the bed with the hobbit and should have just never fucking touched it. Jackson spends 9 hours on a 300 page book and left out almost every awesome event (that actually happened), to give us a 9 hour movie about the fucking ring that we've already had 9 hours worth of movies about. Thanks Jackson, just in case we forgot that you made the LotR triology, it's nice that you took a book where the ring is found and used a few times (that's fucking it) and turned it into a 9 hour long teaser for a series you've already done, Bra-fucking-o.
This post was edited by jadeoshbogosh on Apr 11 2018 12:11am