Or, you know, they could refrain from making so many adaptions in the first place

Jul 07, 2010 22:15

After seeing books and comics and TV shows obliterated year after year in movie form, I have come to a conclusion: Fans should not make movies of things they love. No, they shouldn't. They are too biased. Yeah, you'd think this means they'd do everything they can to preserve what made the original awesome, but what it actually means is they now get ( Read more... )

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hyena_says_rawr July 8 2010, 04:23:02 UTC
To be fair, the only thing from Silent Hill II that was thrown into the movie was Pyramid Head. Everything else was more a mash-up of Silent Hill I and "Have you ever played the games?"

And Airbender, well... he argues that he can't make racist choices because he's ~Asian~! Which is a bullshit excuse. It just makes him seem like a self-hating racist.

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mad_novelist July 8 2010, 04:28:57 UTC
He also makes the complainers out to be the racist ones because we apparently think Indian isn't the "right Asian." No, we're complaining because the Indians are all villains and the heroes are all white. Oh, and Eastern Asians get to be extras, how exciting for them.

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hyena_says_rawr July 8 2010, 05:36:31 UTC
And Inuits, who really cares about them?

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mad_novelist July 8 2010, 17:11:45 UTC
Shyamalan cares about them SO much that they get the very special part of being Southern Water Tribe members #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, and #11. Oh snap, and how could I forget #12? He's, like, the most important character in the whole movie, right?

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toxic_reality July 8 2010, 20:51:26 UTC
Not ALL fanboy/girls are bad, though - look at Geoff Johns.

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toxic_reality July 8 2010, 20:53:09 UTC
(Geoff Johns was a huge fan of Green Lantern (and DC) growing up, and a lot of people consider him the best thing to happen to the series in ages.)

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