DISQUS

Michael · 1 year ago

Ang Lee's Hulk immediately comes to mind as a good example of this. The US Godzilla
movie too.

Hell the original Batman, Superman, Superman II, Spider-Man, Daredevil - you name a
movie based on a comic book and there is plenty of stuff that is needlessly changed.

Senseless Babble · 1 year ago

JUMPER falls into this category. in the book he was the only jumper, the government was after him, but there was no secret brotherhood who hunted jumpers for generations. In th book, he used his power to fight plane hijaking terrorists. Then he ends up working for the government. -- oops, sorry, is that a spoiler? sorry if I ruined it for you! - Senseless Babble.

Robert Fure · 1 year ago

I think you are right on son!

mos · 1 year ago

you could say the same for final fantasy: spirits within. but jurassic park is the worst offender. in the book, malcolm and hammond die!!. then michael crichton just magically brings them back to life in the lost world

btw, senseless babble.....uncool with the jumper spoiler

Jason Dorough · 1 year ago

X-Men 3 filled me with righteous fan-rage. It was a complete bastardization of the classic Dark Phoenix character and story, and it irrevocably has ruined the X-Men film franchise for me. And I actually enjoyed the first two movies quite a bit!

Mike Rutschky · 1 year ago

Since it was really Jurassic Park the movie that I fell in love with and encouraged me to read the Crichton novel, I can't really call it the worst offender of this sort of title theft. It changed a few plot points, but as I recall, film adaptations did that consistently in the early days. It used to be the charm of it, you'd have the book version and then you'd get the movie version and you could compare them both with your friends. With the superhero movies it's different because you have filmmakers struggling to compress decades worth of plot into an hour and a half film and often times they don't have the necessary love for the characters to make it work in a way that appeases the fans.

Wanted may be a different story since it is a graphic novel and not a long running series, and no matter how the director tries to justify it I am more than a little miffed that the movie came out this way. I make sure to tell everyone that shows interest in the previews exactly how awesome the original was compared to how dreadfully ordinary the movie looks.

Other offenders: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (LXG my ass), Final Fantasty: Spirits Within, FROM HELL!!!

juggernaut · 1 year ago

x-men 3 couldn't even get the names and powers of most characters right. Ang Lee's piece of dog crap changed everything good about The Hulk. If Hollywood would stick to the source material we would all be a lot happier.

Rob Hunter · 1 year ago

Thanks Fure! Your rage in print has succeeded in doing what all the trailers, footage, and hype for the movie have so far failed to do... get me interested and excited about the story. Since none of the really cool parts are actually in the movie however, I'll happily skip the CGI poop-pile in theaters and wait for the dvd release. I may go pick up a copy of the graphic novel though...

Amol_Ghadi · 1 year ago

Batman, Batman and ...err... Batman in all the pre-Nolan Movies. I think don't have to explain it. It's in-your-face type of thing. I never knew Batman actually smiles or Bruce Wayne was more of jerk (Keaton) and less of a playboy until I saw those movies from 1989 to 1997. By the way, girls/women never really get attracted to jerks but always look out for confident males. But Vicky Vale was, in 'Batman Returns'. May be because the actress who played it was paid to do the role that way. Thanks to Nolan, he came along and set everything right.