This is what I mean when I say that people who shit on movie adaptations being "always worse than the book" are just noticing regression to the mean If the book is really good then of course the movie is usually worse If the book sucks then usually the movie ends up better
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Of course, people will argue that this means the movie adaptations are still generally worse because if a book gets famous enough to be adapted at all then it must be a good book They say this because they have no awareness of how the world actually works
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Replying to @arthur_affect
i definitely do not think this, but i still think there are very few movies that are better than books, even when the books are very bad. HP may be an exception but i can't imagine watching four million hours of HP movies to find out.
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Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect
Mostly Hollywood wrecks its source material EVEN IF its source material is appallingly bad to begin with. Which, of course, is the case with MANY bestselling books.
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Replying to @iridienne
Nah tons of movie adaptations are better than the books, especially the wacky surprise successes like, say, Twilight and 50 Shades of Gray
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I mean, we continue to disagree on this because i absolutely hate Hollywood and i think they ruin everything.
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Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect
how do you "ruin" an E.L. James book
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect
You expose more people to the fact that it exists?
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect
Arthur talks about "regression to the mean" but like, i don't think Hollywood's mean is a good one. What Hollywood does is a) film crap books, making them no less crap but giving them a wider audience; and b) film great books, inevitably ruining them in the process.
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The 50 Shades movies are not great but they are significantly better than the books (for one thing they make Anastasia much less of an obvious case of taking a teenage character and just calling her an adult)
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