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<blockquote data-quote="Ryujin" data-source="post: 6637829" data-attributes="member: 27897"><p>To me, adaptations from novel, play, etc. are a very different animal from remakes and reboots. As you state, adaptations require that the source be altered, sometimes in not inconsequential ways, from the source in order to work in a different medium. When it comes to adaptations I look more for whether the result is true to the feel and goals of the source, and if it's just a plain good movie. </p><p></p><p>For example I very much liked Jackson's adaptation of "Lord of the Rings", though many Tolkien purists lambaste those films. For them it can come down to the wrong colour for a character's clothing, which I find incredibly nit-picky. On the other hand the adaptation of "The Hobbit" annoys the crap out of me, because it stays far from the voice of the source. It might as well have been directed by Michael Bay.</p><p></p><p>When it comes to reboots, the "Star Trek" movies are prime examples of why remakes and reboots annoy me. They throw out the whole feel of the universe, without trying to honour the source material in any real way, while making these wry little call-backs to stories from the original. Rather than helping tie me emotionally to the current story, they instead make me think that the writers were too dumb to create their own original story.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ryujin, post: 6637829, member: 27897"] To me, adaptations from novel, play, etc. are a very different animal from remakes and reboots. As you state, adaptations require that the source be altered, sometimes in not inconsequential ways, from the source in order to work in a different medium. When it comes to adaptations I look more for whether the result is true to the feel and goals of the source, and if it's just a plain good movie. For example I very much liked Jackson's adaptation of "Lord of the Rings", though many Tolkien purists lambaste those films. For them it can come down to the wrong colour for a character's clothing, which I find incredibly nit-picky. On the other hand the adaptation of "The Hobbit" annoys the crap out of me, because it stays far from the voice of the source. It might as well have been directed by Michael Bay. When it comes to reboots, the "Star Trek" movies are prime examples of why remakes and reboots annoy me. They throw out the whole feel of the universe, without trying to honour the source material in any real way, while making these wry little call-backs to stories from the original. Rather than helping tie me emotionally to the current story, they instead make me think that the writers were too dumb to create their own original story. [/QUOTE]
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