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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 6047507" data-attributes="member: 926">As Umbran said, it's a blatant bait-and-switch.  If I saw that a movie titled The Shadow Over Innsmouth was playing in my local theatre, I should be able to go in to see it and reasonably expect the movie to bear a very large resemblance to the book.  If, however, I walked in and watched the movie only to discover that it was actually about a man named Hank Innsmouth and his large-breasted female companion fighting hordes of fish-men in the ruins of an ancient alien city in the mountains of Antarctica, it would not be unreasonable of me to quite upset.  And I should not then be told that it was wrong of me assume the movie would be anything like the original book simply because the producers of the movie legally paid for the right to use the title.   This movie is no different.(Even though the movie I described does sound like it'd be pretty rad.)</blockquote>