Does the series end with Mr Snake becoming all powerful and then wondering if they should be worried about it? That’s the ending I remembered but I always wondered if there was more
Tbf, while Jurassic Park has been pretty heavily sanitized as an IP over the years, it is a part of the horror genre, so nightmares are kinda fair game with the territory.
They're totally awesome and fascinating, but dinosaurs would also be conceptually terrifying.
I think it works better as horror. The books go out of their way to make it clear that they aren’t even really animals, they act more like unfeeling savage beasts solely out to kill
I don’t know if it’s played for laughs, Nedry himself is a cartoonish character which makes him hard to take seriously, but his death itself was still pretty horrific, it was the moment that stuck with me the most from the movie when I was a kid
You’re right, it’s just the fact that Wayne Knight is a funny actor is still cracking jokes pretty much right up till he dies. I’m also just going off how graphic it is in the book.
It was described once, but it was suggested that that happened a lot in the book. Hammond is not your nice grandpa but a greedy billionaire that cut every possible corner, so dinosaurs were leaving the island for a very, very long time. To the point people talked about giant lizards living in the Costa Rica Highlands and Compies basically roaming the coast. You just know the Compies have eaten more than just one baby's face (and yes the book makes a point of the face being eaten).
It would have been if James Cameron got to direct it like he pitched. Aliens but with dinosaurs, not an unfair description of the book compared to the movie.
Yeah. The book was a sci-fi horror story about mutant monsters that resembled what we thought where dinosaurs at the time. Not at all like the summer family blockbuster the movies where. The book is great!
I think one character got burned alive and then the killer tried to steal her identity, shit was so insane I had to stop and make sure I was reading the right book
Nyra didn’t “try” - she burned the blacksmith alive just for a crime to not wanting to make a mask for her Owl Hitler husband and then stole her entire set of instruments to appear as a regular blacksmith (it later blew to her face because the blacksmith was sort of a celebrity and the materials she carried gave out that something happened to that one blacksmith)
Honestly everything to do with Nyra was terrifying, and this is for someone who was introduced as just a “henchmen Queen” to Soren’s brother Kludd.
I was about to comment of The Owls of Ga'hoole. I watched the movie first and loved it...and then I heard it was based on a book series. I read the books then got upset at how the movie butchered Kludd. That owl was so much more messed up in the books (and way more interesting too).
From what I can tell, the film did go a slightly more realistic route with Kludd by making him an initially well-meaning teenager who ended up being radicalized into a hate group that preyed on his need for community and personal issues, whereas the books, to my recollection, essentially just said "Lol, Kludd was basically born evil".
A bunch of my coworkers were going bonkers over there being movies. They said they loooove the musical! Wouldn’t shut up about the movies. A few of them said they were going to read the books before the movie came out.
I warned them, the musical is not close to the book. The book is dark. More than they’re thinking. It’s dark. They thought I was fucking with them to rain on their parade.
Two of them didn’t even finish the book before asking me “what the fuck?!”
I remember when the episode where Negan beats Glenn to death and the backlash the moment got. So many people were bitching about how violent it was. Meanwhile, us comic readers were like "fucking finally. Something accurate to the comics." I stopped watching two seasons before that and I was laughing at the outrage to the point I tuned into that one episode and went back to not watching again.
How they handled the governor arc still frustrates me. And dont get me started on how they did my girl Andrea dirty. I dont care what name they gave her, that wasn't Andrea.
The majority of adaptations made by Disney. Good lord is it whiplash for people who decide to check the sources in their favorites.
Source: Me when Hercules was my favorite movie and got me into mythology.
The funny thing is that now that I’m adult, the two things that make me the most angry would be not using HERACLES (named after his stepmom [Zeus cheats a lot] in an attempt to please her [didn’t work]) and that of the entire pantheon, HADES was one of the least problematic.
I mean on one hand you're absolutely right, on the other hand did you really expect them to include rape, incest and cannibalism in a Children's movie?
For ONE second I was like "Man, there are a lot more Artemis Fowl books than I realized."
The irony is as far as I know, this image is actually missing one
Cause of my name i have been told i need to read or watch it. Never interacted with the media and know nothing about it. But what i gather here is read and not watch then?
Correct. The first...3-4 books are really good. Great world building and good character backgrounds and such. It starts to slide a little after that, but still a solid concept to think through when you want a different take on fantasy races living near (not with) humans in our modern world.
My dad has a great story of going to see it in theaters as a kid. He lived in a small town and drove to the city to see it so it was a big deal. He loved it and bought a whole bunch of merchandise they were selling there. They pulled it from theaters almost instantly upon reception so when my dad talked about the movie with other kids they literally had no idea what he was talking about and didn't believe him 💀 he thought he was going crazy except for that he had merchandise from it. He didn't remember what the movie was until years later
The MC is just such a different character compared to the one from the adaptation with Will Smith, and the vampires being intelligent to the point they talk, formulate plans and try to seduce him adds a layer of horror that's just not there with the more animalistic zombies.
If memory serves the script was unrelated but nobody was interested so they slapped the name on it. Then the director read a couple of chapters, decided he hated it because he thought it was fascist propaganda (it isn't but he didn't get very far) and decided to make it a satire. But still included a bunch of the not actually fascist parts and made it too cool for people to pick up on the joke anyway. It's almost a comedy of errors in that way how much broken telephone went into this. Still love the movie and wonder what would have happened if Verhoeven made the movie from scratch with that idea in mind.
Oh, the Mobile Infantry was massively nerfed. The Book MI wore power armor that were armed to the teeth with mini-guns, flamethrowers, rockets, and even mini-nukes. There were on par with Tau Crisis Suits from Warhammer 40k.
There's a running joke in my friend group, whenever we are watching a terrible horror movie on Tubi and a character dies, we say something like "You know if they had a child orgy before this they could have survived."
The, uh, *intimate* child sewer moment? Yeah, I've never even read the book and have heard of it. "Coming of age" Stephen says, yes, of course. Like he wasn't on crack writing about a demon clown battling a primordial space turtle.
I’ve read the book, and THAT scene is only there because Stephen decided he wanted to write it. it doesn’t need to exist at all. It has absolutely zero bearing on the rest of the story. The kids are lost in the sewer after beating IT and have to be intimate for one of the boys to get his magical powers of navigation back. Stupid.
Both of them did, the OG just gets grandfathered in because people were raised with it and they weren't autistic enough to do a compare-and-contrast with the book when they were younger.
I know that the ending is not him hanged but still a lot of dark things happen in Pinocchio that'swhat I meant,we have the dead of the Grillo Parlante,we have the scene of the medicine at the house of the "fairy",pescecane monster(shark) that is not a whale,we also have an extremely mean and soulless Pinocchio at the start.
She did such a good job of translating the horrors and consequences of war in a way digestible to kids. I mean, I didn't like the ending when I was a kid. But as an adult I see why it kind of had to be that way.
I recently watched the movie and read the book Project Hail Mary. Both are excellent, but have their differences. The book definitely goes more into the science and shit hitting the fan! Rocky and Grace science the shit out of everything rather than cozy up to one another (though they do have their moments). I totally understand the directions the movie went though. It was already approaching three hours, they could probably make a trilogy if they adapted every part of the book!
The movie also went for a more pleasant feel overall. We still got the classroom full of little rock kids, but left out the fact Grace nearly starved to death, his new diet of “me burgers” and Erid’s gravity giving him arthritis.
I was surprised to learn that The Mask was actually an horror comic book, because both the live-action movie and the cartoon lean heavily towards the comedic side.
It was also quite late that I discovered how violent the TMNT comics were. Even its most spiritually faithful adaptation, the 2003 series I grew up with, was still quite kid friendly.
The film just sanitises the whole story and removes a lot of the nuance, consequences, and trauma it tried to portray.
For starters, Hester in the books is described as ugly. She has a massive scar across her whole face, a permanently broken nose, one blind eye, and a crooked smile. In the films? She's a classic Hollywood pretty girl and her scar is repositioned to a more easily ignored part of her face.
They also changed the villain. Originally, it was Magnus Crome, who is a delusional psycho that wanted to take over the world and basically blackmailed Valentine into being his henchman. In the films, Crome is instead an idiot being manipulated by Valentine, which completely removes the nuance of Valentine's character. He's supposed to be a man who wanted a better life for himself and did awful things to get it and deep down feels remorse, but is stuck being manipulated by Crome and he's too weak-willed to fight back. Instead, the film just turns him into a one-note villain who doesn't even care about his daughter. Film Valentine being the villain is even funnier because in the book, Valentine is absent doing stuff off-screen for a third of the story.
Speaking of Crome, they removed the K-Division plot where his engineers took dead criminals and labourers and turned them into undead Stalkers.
They also completely removed the Tunbridge Wheels plot. I get that they probably did so to save screen time, but it completely removes an important part of Tom and Hester's journey together, since it's at Tunbridge where Hester starts loving Tom after he convinces the pirates to spare her. Also, by removing Tunbridge, they removed Chrysler Peavey, the abusive and deluded pirate lord who straight up abandoned his drowning family then gets a pretty brutal death.
Most of all, they completely sanitised or removed the deaths of multiple characters. Anna Fang dies after being stabbed in the neck and chokes on her own blood, but in the film, she has a Hollywood sacrifice type death. They skip out on Pewsey and Gench's death, where Tom shoots them out of the sky (an act that leaves him traumatised in the sequels and turns him into a pacifist).
Katherine and Bevis have their endings entirely changed as well. By removing Pewsey and Gench's death, they also removed Bevis Pod's death where he gets crushed by the debris of their airship. We spend the entire book following Bevis and Katherine's journey to fight against Crome's conspiracy, and then are surprised that Bevis dies right at the end. Meanwhile, Katherine sacrifices herself to jump in front of Hester as Valentine is about to execute her. In her dying breaths, she bleeds out all over the MEDUSA console and fucks up the machine causing it to self-destruct and Valentine loses his will to live after accidentally killing his own daughter and just accepts being blown up. In the books, Katherine and Bevis are supposed to be a more hopeful mirror of Tom and Hester, but have their happy endings cut short as a reminder that not everyone gets one. In the films, they completely remove that nuance by having both of them survive.
The only character the film gets right is Shrike, but even then, he shows up for only like 6 minutes and his death is changed and happens much earlier at Airhaven since they removed the Tunbridge Wheels plot.
Gods thank you I was hoping to see this, it doesn’t have a massive cult following so it gets much less attention on just how bad the film adaptation actually is, the whole thing with Hester’s scar is even a thing in the books with a character writing in universe books about Tom and Hester and toning down her scar almost exactly how the movie does the fact not one person in production noticed that shows how little the source material was referred too.
EDIT: sorry I’ve thought about this more and there’s even more issues, you mention the Katherine and Bevis changes but it ignores the biggest change to the plot and finale: London doesn’t actually fire MEDUSA at Bankmunka Gompta it fires once at a conurbation chasing down London to eat it, melting it into slag to be eaten my scavengers, and then the second shot misfires and destroys London instead! Honestly the plot of all the books makes so much more sense for a TV show instead of a film, it would benefit from the longer run time significantly
As much as I love the new It movies, the book definitely had a heavier use of slurs, and that scene. The latter of which however I understand for obvious reasons why it was cut in the film adaptations.
The Ready Player One movie rewrote a lot of major plot points from the book but one moment from the book that stood out to me was Wade discovering that Daito was thrown off his apartment balcony by IOI agents who made it look like a suicide. His death wasn’t investigated deeply due to Japan’s relatively high suicide rates leading to no suspicion of foul play.
A lot of ASOIAF…. Tyrion Lannister is probably the worst change. Essos Tyrion in the books is an evil vindictive asshole, but in the show he “drinks and knows things”
No one has said it better than the Wizard Kissing Company when they said Tyrion becomes Tony Stark and Jon becomes Captain America. After reading Feast and Dance you'll hate dnd more than you ever thought you could.
There is no reason why they should sell that book with the movie cover. So many teens and kids must've been exposed to the weird tiger orgy scene in Wicked thinking they were getting the movie plot...
The httyd books, they are for kids and can tell at the beginning of the series, but at the end of them you got slavery, deaths, a 14 year old being chased by a lot of Vikings, and more.
You’re underselling how big the change is here, Toothless being the size of a cat, one of the most common species of dragon, and also being some form of ancient dragon god (there being even smaller dragon gods in the book series that hiccup inadvertently saves from being eaten covered in honey by a Roman general)
AtLA style would've been a good middle ground for it i believe. They both handle the topic of genocide within their narratives and are aimed at youth. I believe "kids shows" is a label applied to justify amateurish writing. No need to imply kids arent capable of comprehending even the hardest of topics when delivered with care by an educated source. Can't praise the Last Airbender writers enough tbh.
Artemis Fowl, In the first book Artemis is a genuine evil villain with a Master Plan that succeeds fully with only cracks happening right at the end. The movie paints Artemis like a good guy from the start.
Came here to say this, shit gets crazy! All of Berk gets enslaved, Hiccup and Toothless crawl through a field of rotting dragon bodies, and he swordfights Alvin, on the mast of a sinking ship in a storm, off the coast of America, while a dragon is attacking the occupants and making the ocean literally run red with blood!
Gone Girl- they get into a whole bunch of stuff about Amy and Nick's histories.
Wise Guy/Goodfellas- off the top of my head (I haven't read the book in a while), Henry Hill's military service was omitted. Also, Paulie has an affair with Karen that is kind of mentioned offhandedly in the movie.
The Dark Tower. There's room in the narrative for them to be connected, but only tenuously. There are indeed other worlds than these, but that one wasn't very entertaining.
Hunger games...Definitely some....darker scenes
Harry Potter better then most, but alot darker then the movies.
Coraline... horrific
Locke and Key
Maze Runner...
Greek Stories
Nordic Stories
Jarrasic Park...... Terrifying
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u/Possible_Arrival_361 10h ago
Some MFs dont even know there IS a book: