January talking meme

[scripsi]

icecoldrain asked: Name one movie you absolutely hate and why you dislike it so much.

I can’t say that there is any movie I hate. If I don’t like something I simply stop watching it. I don’t much care for certain kind of movies, and avoid explicit violence and gore. As a rule I don’t enjoy horror movies (funnily enough as I like reading horror). The last movie I didn’t like that I still saw the whole of was Dagon a movie adaptation of Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Too much rape, too much blood and a general disregard of the source material.

Comments

[icecoldrain.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, there is often a big difference between horror novels and horror movies, especially when they're movie adaptations. Sometimes I wonder why they bother "adapting" a book to a movie when the movie clearly didn't use the source material. Like did they just want the title? lol.

[scripsi.livejournal.com]

Indeed. And though I can understand why you have to change things as what works for a novel may not work in a movie, but mostly I feel they make things just worse.

[icecoldrain.livejournal.com]

Resident Evil is one of those movies. They took a few things from the books/games and then created something that was just not Resident Evil at all. They tried adding characters and such later, but it was clearly an afterthought. While I did like the first one, it still baffles me that this was supposed to be an adaptation. idk why they couldn't have just made the movies without it being an "adaptation" lol. From what I've heard, the later games tried to be more like the movies. idk about the later books in the series though.