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Originally Posted by jeritron5000
I hate when comic marks think complex and long storylines with dozens of characters and absurd twists would play out on screen. Not attacking anyone in particular, it just annoys me since they don't understand how things need to be brought to screen and why some things can't.
Its like LOTR marks bitching about things being changed or left out in those movies. Adaptation from one medium to film is a process that requires a lot of simplification, tweaking and change in order to make it work in a 2 hour live action movie, with empahis being placed on some aspects while others are omitted. Otherwise, you have complete shit and if they gave it to you exactly as it was written you'd bitch about how bad of a movie it was.
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Let's be fair. The Lord of the Rings movies were like 5 hours apiece. They had a shitload more leeway. on the other hand, the movies would have been 25 minutes long apiece without the ego-wank landscape shots. They chose to emphasise elements in those movies which are not conducive to an "epic."
Don't get me wrong, I find Tolkien to be boring as fuck. But I think you gave a bad example.
Another one is The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Why they needed to strip out elements from an 80-ish page book is beyond me, considering they didn't seem to actually put anything in to replace it.
And to be honest, I don't know why you need to simplify a comic book. It's a fucking comic book. That's like dumbing down pro wrestling for the four people on the planet too simple to understand it.