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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4463863" data-attributes="member: 710">I haven't read the book, but I really found that movie enjoyable. Sure, some scenes were cheessy, but the satirist tone in many scenes were nice. I am not sure I would have liked a movie where were each trooper was armed with a personal nuke or whatever the book had."The mobile infantry made me the man I am today" *rolls on a wheelchair and shows off his missing limbs*. Maybe I shouldn't judge movies on their "memorable quotability", but sometimes, that's what I do. It is basically the "long-term"-enjoyment these movies bring to me and my friends. Just like Punisher wasn't really good, it still fulfilled its memorable quote quota. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> "Who brings a knive to a shoot-out" (paraphrasing, I only remember the German text <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ).Ultimately, the novel adaptations that I dislike most are those that do not only fail to be faithful to the original, but who are also bad in their own right. And then there are those that are faithful and suck nevertheless.But I think slapping on a novel or comic book title and still fail to make a good movie is just an extra-insult (adding insult to injury?) - as if they tried to rescue their bad movie with a good title, or if they believed a good title didn't require them to give some effort.I think that's why the LotR movies are so successful - you can see the love for the originals, even if some scenes are cut or changed, and the movie is just well-done (for the most part) and stands on its own.</blockquote>

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