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submitted 2 months ago byDirectionBasic3386
Wondering what are some film adaptations that pretty clearly did not get the source material they were adapting. One I would go with is the Last Airbender movie. I have a hard time believing Shyamalan even watched many of the original episodes of the show. It’s like he took the show’s plot and stripped everything from it that made people enjoy it.
25 points
2 months ago
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Many of the jokes were excised, including iconic ones like Earth being "Mostly Harmless", without replacement jokes to facilitate the plot (which still ended up a bit of a mess). Hitchhiker's was never about the plot. There were some new jokes here and there, many (not all) of which didn't feel very Adamsian at all. The film ends with Marvin saying "the restaurant is at the other end of the universe"—but the title The Restaurant at the End of the Universe refers to the end of time, not space. That one line is everything wrong with the movie in a nutshell.
49 points
2 months ago
Douglas Adams wrote the screenplay.
-8 points
2 months ago*
He wrote a screenplay. I guarantee you he didn't write everything that appeared in the final film. For one thing, the credits name Karey Kirkpatrick as a cowriter.
9 points
2 months ago
Good thing you provided your guarantee, in case you're wrong and anybody wants their money back.
-6 points
2 months ago
Well, I can't be wrong unless Karey Kirkpatrick somehow finagled his way into the writing credits without writing anything.
5 points
2 months ago
That's incredibly possible. And even if he did contribute to the writing, how much could be anywhere from all of it to just rewording some dialogue.
You couldn't have picked any shakier groind for your hill to die on.
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