As funny as that was, it's less the anime industry, and more that either a media website or a friend of yours were misinformed.FalloutJack said:
A fiction with bad source material(s), that could be improved by making it into a movie?
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Panels at conventions, actually. They were trying to be informative, but I guess they generalized on a few points to save time.CoCage said:
The books are very, very different in plot and style. I wouldn't say strictly better, but they're very good children's books that get more mature as the series progresses. The first few are wacky comedies whose humor revolves around Hiccup being a loser, and he continues to be a loser well into the series.loa said:
OT: Eragon came to mind as a bad series, but to be honest I'm not sure there's any way the books could be improved to the point of being actually good without scrapping everything.
In a similar vein, a wheel of time tv series would be good if it (a) Cut out all the boring shit that happens (b) Skipped straight from book 7 to book 11 (c) Rewrote every female character to be... not how Jordan wrote them. Then it could be on Game of Thrones level. But then it wouldn't be the Wheel of Time we all love to hate to love. (I have never met someone who has read the entire series who doesn't hate it, yet they still read the whole thing)
Franchises that are based on toys, such as Transformers, G.I. Joe, He-Man, TMNT (yes, I know there was a comic book before but the version we all know is based on toys).
The "plots" that they came up with for the TV shows (a.k.a 30 minute ads) are really dumb and could easily be improved upon.
Unfortunately, a lot of these movies take the plots straight from those TV shows which is, in my opinion, the main reason why most of them (if not all of them) suck ass.
The "plots" that they came up with for the TV shows (a.k.a 30 minute ads) are really dumb and could easily be improved upon.
Unfortunately, a lot of these movies take the plots straight from those TV shows which is, in my opinion, the main reason why most of them (if not all of them) suck ass.
I agree with the person that mentioned Shaman King. Not only the ending was kind of meh, but other things were kind of dumb too. Example: one guy made himself blind so he could hear and smell better. I guess nobody has heard of headbands or just closing your eyes.
Also, Stephen Kings Mist. It is so much better at least because of the ending. The book has a boring ending where main characters hear the name of a city on a radio and decide to try their luck with it. In a movie, however, the group rides through the mist and sees nothing except for mist and monsters. They stop. Everyone asleep, except for Main Character and a woman. He pulls out his gun. There are only 4 bullets. There are five of them in a car. He shoots the woman, 2 people in the back and his son. It was a mercy killing, so that they won't have to live in this hopeless world.
He gets out of the car. He screams and begs to be murdered. And what comes out of the mist? The US army, along with refugees. The kicker? One of the refugees is a woman that refused to hole down in the supermarket in the beginning and ran away. Main Character is obviously having a mental breakdown, with tears, screams and so on.
This ending is (for me at least) is a lot more King-ish. More so, it was King himself who wrote it.
Also, Stephen Kings Mist. It is so much better at least because of the ending. The book has a boring ending where main characters hear the name of a city on a radio and decide to try their luck with it. In a movie, however, the group rides through the mist and sees nothing except for mist and monsters. They stop. Everyone asleep, except for Main Character and a woman. He pulls out his gun. There are only 4 bullets. There are five of them in a car. He shoots the woman, 2 people in the back and his son. It was a mercy killing, so that they won't have to live in this hopeless world.
He gets out of the car. He screams and begs to be murdered. And what comes out of the mist? The US army, along with refugees. The kicker? One of the refugees is a woman that refused to hole down in the supermarket in the beginning and ran away. Main Character is obviously having a mental breakdown, with tears, screams and so on.
This ending is (for me at least) is a lot more King-ish. More so, it was King himself who wrote it.
Transformers, I dont understand when people get mad at Michael Bay for it. He mostly improved the story from what I can tell. The source material has robots that live on a robot planet (real fast think about the concept of a mechanical planet.) that has an atmosphere of breathable air... yeah. Why they can transform is debatably worthless, and the whole source material has many problems. That isn't to say I think the movies are good, but rather that Transformer's source material is so bad that I don't think it is possible to make it worse.
I could at least watch Transformers 1 and 3 and find it mildly enjoyable. That is more than I can say for any other Transformers material.
I could at least watch Transformers 1 and 3 and find it mildly enjoyable. That is more than I can say for any other Transformers material.
The Harry Potter movies started great, faltered a little, then descended into a total shit fest with Prisoner of Azkaban. Prisoner of Azkaban could have worked as a movie two parter, but a single movie version could have worked too. They just cut so much out and ended it abruptly and cheesy, which made it feel awful. Starting with Goblet of Fire there is no excusing having one movie for each book. They almost got it with The Deathly Hollows but that might have stood had it been a three parter.BuildsLegos said:
Jo Rowling isn't up her own but with world descriptions like Tolkien was... Seriously Tolkien gave in depth descriptions of freaking tableware, which made his books a freaking slog to read.
The first books is alright, but the books totally different from the movies. For example Toothless is a "common/garden Dragon", like the terrible terrors in the movie. The dragons also talk, speaking a language called dragonese, and they're all much smaller than their variants in the movies. Tootheless in particular is a smarmy little shit, with an extremely bad attitude and is ungrateful in the extreme, no matter how much Hiccup tries to do good things for him. They both basically have to almost die in the first book for Toothless to have any respect for Hiccup. The second book isn't terrible, but by the time of How to be a Pirate the entire concept is off the rails at that point. Still seeing as these are children's books, a lot can be forgiven about them.loa said:
Still Dreamworks' Dragons are far better than the source material the franchise originates from.
OT: David Weber's Honor Harrington universe, while the source material is really good, fantastic even, a TV series would do really good things for the series. Edit: Like an actual, canon, physical depiction of Treecats.
Also BattleTech the way the lore is presented kind of sucks, as do the stories, a series of Movies would be really nice.
