When someone makes a trash movie, usually I’ll just laugh it off. But Last Airbender and Dragonball Evolution actually pissed me off. Because what these people did through sheer arrogance is they ruined other people’s work. If you wanna come up with your own little shitty story and make a shit movie out of it, go ahead, but to fuck around with other people’s hard work like that is a real dick move.
Basically any western live adaptation of an anime. They just need to stop. Now that they have all of the money and resources to get shit done correctly, they still can’t get it right and it’s not worth it. Especially since it’s clear they still don’t care. On top of that there are some things that just don’t need a live action interpretation because it’s not the proper medium for some of these stories. Much more using a director that didn’t even respect the source material enough to absorb as much of it as possible before making its live action counterpart.
Edit: just fixed the grammar in the third sentence.
Went to watch it with a girlfriend on her suggestion, and I stopped it like 15 mins in and turned on the anime. She was blown away, thought it was amazing. She also changed her opinion on the movie a lot.
There’s definitely a lot more. Basically every video game movie, Eragon, Percy Jackson, Artemis Fowl, lots of Stephen King adaptations, etc. There’s just so many disrespectful directors and producers who just don’t care one bit about the original works they are adapting, the creators of those works, or the fans of the original works.
You’ve got some good points there. I guess if I look back, video game adaptations are starting to improve. The bulk of the previous three decades just left a bad taste in my mouth, more or less.
One of the biggest driving factors is that directors and actors are now old enough to have grown up with video games and grow a deeper appreciation for them. We've still got a long way to go, but they are improving compared to the days of Max Payne and Doom.
Personally, I don't think direct video game adaptations should be made into movies at all, generally. Video games are an interactive medium, and removing the interactivity of it removes a vital part of what makes it good in the first place. Zelda, for instance, works great as a game. The whole silent protagonist bit would not translate well to film at all, and making him speak is how you get the monstrosity that is the CDI games.
If you really can’t see how a ridiculously terrible product with your work’s name forever attached to it doesn’t degrade the overall quality of the brand, then I can’t help you there.
Also, it makes it much harder for someone to come along and do a good adaptation later, both because the market needs some breathing room between reboots and rights need to be negotiated and because execs are as liable to think the first adaptation's failure is due to demand for the brand not being that high as they are to think the adaptation was just bad.
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u/Guilty-Message-5661 18d ago
When someone makes a trash movie, usually I’ll just laugh it off. But Last Airbender and Dragonball Evolution actually pissed me off. Because what these people did through sheer arrogance is they ruined other people’s work. If you wanna come up with your own little shitty story and make a shit movie out of it, go ahead, but to fuck around with other people’s hard work like that is a real dick move.