Don't like it, don't watch it.

[widescreen81]

"A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit. Everything else-- just tear that motherfucker apart." ~ Richard Price

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[widescreen81]

Then you always have the source to go back to. New audiences don't know any better, but if they liked what they saw, the source material is there for them to enjoy. Getting newbies into anime/comics is pretty hard to do unless they get in on the ground floor. Especially with popular anime/manga series.

[psychoanbu]

There are times (granted, few) when the movie is actually considerabl better than the book. For example: The Bourne Identity

Shy of that, I agree. I go into an adapted movie taking the presentation for what it is instead of what it should be.

[christ]

I generally have an open mind about adaptations, as long as it makes for a decent movie as a whole, but when people take so much artistic liberty that it seems more like they're just trying to use the name of something good to push their own crap writing, I feel dirty and used. I say keep some semblence of the story, and don't make up some alternative reality, which may only serve to confuse people who go to find the book later.

[widescreen81]

Well, to be quite frank, unless you're the creator of said source material, feeling "dirty and used" by the film is kinda ridiculous. And honestly, confusing people with changes to continuity didn't stop Spider-Man and Iron Man from increasing their readership.

And in the case of manga, it's not as if new readers are gonna start at volume five. They're gonna start at the beginning, and if the creator of the book is that good to warrant a film, the new readers won't care.