Movie adaptations of your favorite IP

And now, the moment you've all been waiting for... An entire season of the Master Chief without his armor, having lengthy conversations and getting emotional about things he can't control. But he gets to wear his armor for the last episode.

...Who's Cortana?

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“If you don’t like the color red, you’re not a real fan of Blue” – Pablo Whatshisface, clown

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- wasn't his quote actually more like,
  
  "if you don't like the color red appearing in Blue, you don't like our version of Blue"
  
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- I’m out of the loop, mind sharing the original quote/source?
  
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I like those conversations about how Spartans came to be and all, but jesus even the ones that do have armor take of their helmet in the middle of battlefield, because dialogue coming up. Hollywood needs to get over it's childish need of showing actor's faces even when the plot doesn't demand it, if mandalorian can do it, so can you.

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- Dredd was awesome, and Karl Urban didn't show his face for a single frame.
  
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- That was one issue I had with Dune (part 2 in particular) their faces should be mostly covered when out in the desert, but they just had to show their faces at all times. Still, it's a great movie but I don't get why that has to be done.
  
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I tried watching it as an alternative universe from Halo, but the way they plainly portrayed the fall of Reach was so dull and fast that I had to stop there.

It was just like whoops, Covenant came, we can't do anything other than a dozen soldiers fighting in the city. Another planet, let's move on 🤷‍♂️

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- I mean... there are much better halo fanfics
  
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- For real. One of the best books in the lore and an amazing game in it's own right. But it felt like they were obligated to cover it. They were like, "how can we show this on screen for as little time as possible. "
  
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I refuse to watch that show, I was planning on bing in it once it was done but as soon as I heard about the absolute disregard for the IP I stopped caring and every time I see it mentioned it somehow gets worse over there.

All they needed to do is space John Wick with just 20% more high level plot

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- I read some of the books back in the day, there is definitely room to do a space opera, war focused scifi show without twisting the halo universe away from the games..... I have zero interest in watching it though because halo 1-3 were one of my most beloved childhood franchises, I know they could have found writers and directors who love halo as much as I do and would have updated and fleshed it out in a way that felt true to the games. As it is, it just feels like the show's target audience is people who don't really have any connection to halo which seems like a pretty dumb idea.
  
  I got star trek on paramount tho, so I don't need a shitty Halo tv series adaption.
  
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That's Paramount Plus though, right?

Every time I see one of their ads, I just think they haven't even got enough content to fill a billboard, let alone a whole streaming service.

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Adaptations are usually cash grabs because Hollywood is allergic to taking any risk or making anything that isn’t middle of the road, bland, mass appeal bollocks

“Lets take this unique ip, remove the unique bits and just have it be the same as every other shite movie we make”

They only want the name value and a guaranteed audience, sick of it. Make something new FFS.

Maybe I’ll get shit for this, but I really hate the whole “remake a movie but make the character black” purely because it’s lazy and makes it so you’re giving a black character a white story.

Take some fucking risk and make original black characters that actually represent real people and their heritage, rather than just wanting to remake a movie but mark off the black character checkbox. It’s a disservice.

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Maybe I’ll get shit for this, but I really hate the whole “remake a movie but make the character black” purely because it’s lazy and makes it so you’re giving a black character a white story.

I'm white af so I tend not to comment on stuff like this but I agree. It always makes me think, like wouldn't it be more productive to make a new character?

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- No, because that's risky, and lazy race/gender swaps allow them to play the "It's not a bad product, you're just racist/sexist" to both gaslight consumers, as well as explain to investors why they keep having massive critical and/or financial flops.
  
  "It's not our fault (Large Studio Remake of a classic IP) lost millions of dollars, we made a great movie! It's the consumer base being bigoted! Please keep giving us money."
  
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Hollywood: Let's make a movie based on a popular IP, so we can get some money from the folks who enjoy that popular IP.

Also Hollywood: Let's change popular IP to be like everything else we make.

Soon: J. J. Abrams presents: Battletech, starring Gal Godot as Greyson Carlyle.

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And writing a proper and engaging story is not needed because the white-to-black change covered with a thick layer of CGI is good enough to justify the existence of the movie. A two week rush job to knock out a script should do it

I don't go to the cinema much anymore.

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I know this is about video games but... When Netflix made Deathnote it's like they went out of their way to piss off the fans. Actively spitting on the source material.

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I liked Ryuk, but that's about it. I guess he's just good in anything.

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- He was killer as the voice... But the fact that they made ryuk a straight up villain as opposed to the impartial observer that he always was was just another level of rage.
  
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League of Legends Arcane is pretty damn good though!

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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners gave me anxiety and made me ugly cry on multiple occasions

It was awesome

Edit: I still tear up whenever I hear the song "I Really Want To Stay At Your House"

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I don't even like LoL, but Arcane is great.

Same with dota: dragon's blood

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- I feel like the pacing in dragons blood was pretty bad but I enjoyed it
  
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I too also enjoyed it. It didn't try and stuff characters and really focused on the story.

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Ya at this point, I'm too hurt. I dont acknowledge the existence of live adaptations until the reviews come out. Have seen Netflix One Piece and HBO TLOU. Still have not seen Netflix Bebop or the Avatar Netflix / shamalonanon movie.

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There is no movie in Ba Sing Sae

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- It's amazing how a huge fandom has so completely shut out a big entry.
  
  ...Hypothetically. Not that there is any movie.
  
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I'll be honest with you, the first episode of Netflix Bebop did actually feel like a Cowboy Bebop episode, I thought it was actually quite good. Then it... kinda went downhill, as I recall.

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- I mean I thought it was a pretty great adaptation, that being the keyword. An interpretation of the original. I mostly really enjoyed the cast, they definitely seemed into their characters. Shame we only got that season, I feel like it had a lot of room to grow from.
  
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Netflix One Piece and HBO TLOU

Those were both great though?

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- I think that's what they're saying.
  
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- Yaya i watched those ones once people confirmed that they were good.
  
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One of my dirtiest secrets is that I saw the Shamalang Airbender movie before I watched (or even somehow was very familiar with) the animated series...

And I thought it was fine! I didn't hate it!

Now, ATLA is in my top 5 favorite shows of all time and I've watched it like a half dozen times. Pretty sure if I went back and watched the film I'd hate it.

But still, I wonder if it really wasn't THAT bad if we weren't expecting it to be just like the show.

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- I wouldn't know
  
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pretty much all adaptations Netflix made themselves are like this, right?

most on the nose is the Witcher

foundation from apple was disgraceful to the source as well tho (exept the emperor, he rocks it)

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Yhea the witcher was a disaster even though they had a really good cast imo. There's basically only one company I "trust" to make a good adaptation and that's HBO.

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- the new dune gave me hope for the future. maybe it carries over to other films and series. maybe the success of an adaptation that tries to stay true to the vision of the source material will send a message. yes, i also dont believe myself
  
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I know Netflix adaptations are a meme at this point but they've been killing it lately. Just off the top of my head I can tell you Sandman, One Piece, The Last Airbender, Three Body Problem and Scott Pilgrim were all pretty respectful and well-made adaptations.

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- The Last Airbender was more of a quick and dirty cash grab that they sucked all the heart and soul out of with an outright disdain for the characters and message of the source material. But at least the effects were decent.
  
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- That's the Scott Pilgrim adaptation where Scott is only really in it at the beginning and end, the big bad is future Scott's toxic masculinity, the evil exes are mostly pretty cool about things and present and future Ramona fuse into a goddess at one point, or am I thinking of a different one? I wouldn't exactly call it an adaptation so much as an entirely different work in the same universe.
  
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I thought the love triangle between Red, Purple, and Brown was a nice touch.

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I kind of hate that Intellectual Property is a term that anyone other than lawyers and executives uses. Same as content and content creator.

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It's fallen into my lexicon as an convenient general term for something that spans multiple forms of media.

But I also agree that it feels a little gross to use. I'm blanking on an alternative at the moment... Franchise?

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I have a conspiracy that it's part of a psy-op to make individuals feel like they somehow hold stake in the corporation, so they're more likely to support corporate decisions.

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right? i heard someone refer to original games (as in "not a remake, sequel, or adaptation") as "new IPs" the other day and gagged. it's such a soulless way to talk about art.

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I’d say these are web startup terms. When you’ve got a team that looks like:

angel with a bunch of tech startups under his belt

ceo / biz dev / marketing guy

ceo’s roommate who’s doing sales, biz dev, media schmoozing

web developer

genius functional language purist who does server admin too

Those meetings are gonna have “content creators” connected with lines to Articles to Feeds to Subscriptions and then a line to “content consumers” all in little boxes up on the whiteboard.

“Content creator” is a term for a fungible model of a person whose role in your machine is to fill the content tank so the subscriptions engine can run. How many content creators by Q2 of this year.
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I have simply stopped acknowledging that there is any link between adaptations and their "source" materials. It has made things so much easier to enjoy. Netflix Cowboy Bebop has no connection to the original inside my head; they just happen to have the same name. Now, I can simply enjoy (or not) the adaptation for it's sake. It doesn't have to conform to whatever my preconceived notions are.

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Also one of the reasons I'm one of the 14 people that really like the 1984 Dune :)

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- There are ~~dozens~~ 14 of us!
  
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- The Duke will die before these eyes. And he'll know - he'll know - that it is I, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen who encompasses his doom!
  
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Sometimes it works well. I really enjoyed the movie 'Nimona' and found it fascinating as an adaptation because it feels like it captures the "spirit" of the original comic, despite making significant changes to the actual text (which I think were necessary to make the story work in this format)

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I guess I'm in the same boat.

Borderlands is about to get a movie. The trailer looks awesome, the cast is made of respectable actors, the characters seem to be as diverse and chaotic as in the source, and everything just seems sooo good.

Except, while we see many previous characters, there only appear to be one (two?) characters that actually resemble their source counterpart in both look and feel, and they don't even appear to be in the main cast.

Still gonna watch the movie in theaters though. I'm sure it's gonna be a blast, especially for those who don't know the games. And who knows, perhaps they manage to fix some characters, or they might not be as bad as in the trailers and hype material make them appear.

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- The fact they cast Kevin Hart for Roland, who was the straight-man in the games, is what really seems off. It should have been The Rock or Idris Elba.
  
  Jack Black as Claptrap makes sense, but it's one of the ones I've heard more people say doesn't. He's perfect in every way except the sound of his voice. 🤷🏻‍♂️
  
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Castlevania: Look how they butchered my boy!

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Wait I loved the animated Castlevania series 🥲

Was it not faithful to the source material?

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- It started out fine, but writing fell off a cliff for seasons 2 and 3. They decided to go for shock factor and edginess instead of keeping true to what people have loved about Castlevania for decades: a silly adventure of a cool hero fighting classic monsters.
  
  One moment that sticks as being particularly bad is Trevor vs Death. In the games, Death is cavalier and succint. For the animated series, they have him constantly shouting profanities.
  
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- I loved the animated series too as well as the games and lore.
  
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If it was good enough to stand alone then it wouldn’t need your favourite IP

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Does anyone remember In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale?

I rented that one on the same day as Love Guru and couldn't finish either one.

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Uwe Boll never tried to say that he was following the source, the movies are almost Asylum level of quality

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- The only Uwe Boll video game adaptation that was actually good was Postal. Especially the scene where Uwe Boll plays himself as both a Nazi and a pedophile.
  
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A Dungeon Siege Tale

If it were faithful to the source material, it'd just be a guy killing things and sorting through the loot they drop for an hour and a half.

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Maybe people have forgotten about this, but Neil Gaiman's Stardust was the worst adaptation I have ever seen. I watched Power Rangers (2017) and the Assassin's Creed movie each three times, but neither hurt me as bad as Stardust, and I will die on this hill.

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"If you don't like the color red, you're not a real fan of Blue" -- Pablo Whatshisface, clown

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