I am forever bitter about Eragon…

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    1 year ago

    Since you brought up Kubrick I’d say pretty much his whole filmography is better, with the Shining being the lone debatable exception

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      1 year ago

      Oh definitely. These were just of the top of my head, there’s plenty of other good book movies.

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      1 year ago

      Kubrick…good adaptions

      You mean Stanley “I didn’t even read the entirety of A Clockwork Orange” Kubrick? Mister “Actually let’s age up the girl in Lolita and spend time focusing on how sexy she is”? That Kubrick? Dude completely ignores the point of both books and does the one thing the authors very specifically do not want you to do

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        Yeah it seems like he just makes movies to his own crazy standards and doesn’t care too much about the source material.

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        I should’ve phrased that differently, Kubrick doesn’t adapt the work well but the films he made are, in my opinion, better and more interesting artistically than the work they are based on. And he did read Clockwork but his version didn’t have the last chapter, and having read the full book I still think the film is more compelling. And I’ll cite Dr Strangelove and Paths of Glory as additional evidence, I also prefer his Lolita to Nabokov, even though he aged Dolores up, I’m pretty certain that’s because of standards and practices and he still managed to capture how rotten and disgusting a human Humbert is

        Just my opinion but adapting a work of literature perfectly to the screen isn’t always the best choice. Sometimes it is I’ll happily concede that, but they are different mediums so some things are changed out of necessity and others because of differences in artistic perspective or even societal sensibilities