________ to Film Adaptations
 

From books to cartoons to video games, almost everything gets put to film eventually. Among the most improbable: Super Mario Brothers with DENNIS HOPPER AS BOWSER. Then again, some are met with general acceptance, such as the LOTR trilogy.

Do these usually draw you in or are you a purist who prefers to leave your memory of the original media untouched?

If you're wondering, I got this idea from the news that the infamous anime Wicked City is getting a second adaptation, this time American, from the guy that directed Spawn.

So yeah, that could be discussed too.

*shudders at the mention of the Super Mario Brothers movie*
God, I wish I could erase that movie from my mind (and from our world while we're at it)...

That awful movie aside, I'm usually a fan of adaptions, especially the recent adaptations of fantasy (the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter movies come to mind). It's always enjoyable to compare the filmmakers' vision to your own.

Super Mario Brothers vs Street Fighter

I'd wipe the latter, thankyouverymuch =p I think it needs little-to-no justification.

Anything by Uwe Boll goes without saying.

And we'll see if Silent Hill rules or sucks horribly like all other VG=>Movies.

I like them as long as the filmmaker does a decent job of staying faithful and respectful to the source material. Some adaptations do this better than others, obviously. In the end, as long as the set adapted film doesn't modify the original material too much, only when needed to fit the big screen, then I'm all in favor of it.

I'm currently reading Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis and I'm hoping that they don't fuck it up with the translation to the big screen. They did a good job with American Psycho, but the only other Ellis story that I've seen as a movie was Less Than Zero which was pretty much crap.

The Rules of Attraction was pretty good.

I just hope if they ever finally start on any of the Palahniuk books the movies wont be dumbed down. Fight Club was great even with the few changes and left-out scenes. I usually don't mind changes unless they are retarded ones, which could possibly happen in any of Palahniuk's books. I'm really just hoping for a Survivor movie, though.

I don't mind most adaptations, though if I read or play the original before I see the adaptation, then I might have some nitpicking. Like with Minority Report. I sort of liked the dark humor it had in the ending rather than the typical happy ending that Spielberg injected.

Most video game adapted movies that I have seen I can nitpick to death on what they should've done differently.

Either way, adaptations I don't mind in the least. I'm still waiting for Powers and Y: The Last Man adaptations, and I hope for justice to be done to them!

Those would be awesome!

It's entirely possible for an adaptation to be better than its source material, though it's rare. Anyone ever read the original short story "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance?" It pales in comparison to the film.

Actually, it seems like short stories are almost always improved by filmed treatments, unlike video games, which are strained through the Shittofier.

I usually hope for my favorite books to be adapted by Hollywood, knowing full well that they'll butcher the source material and mangle everything I love about it. Sometimes it's not so bad (V for Vendetta wasn't a bad adaptation, in my opinon) but some ideas make me shudder (the Evangelion movie, methinks, will be quite bad -- but look very stylish). And some things are begging for adaptation/remake, especially the Japanese anime short film "Magnetic Rose" from Katsuhiro Otomo's short-film presentation, Memories. I think that it could be made into a very good, solid American sci-fi movie with effective directing and design.

So true for Jules Verne novels. I've read both 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the Center of the Earth, and I have to say, the books bored me to tears when I loved the movies. Especially Journey...I don't know how Verne made that boring, but it was. Great concepts, but maybe I'm just too modern to appreciate them.

I think Silent Hill will be the movie to bring Video Game to Film Adaptions out of the stigma, or at least I'm hoping so.

I would love to see Ender's Game as a movie, but I want it to turn out right. Painfully/Thankfully (Depending on your POV), Orson Scott Card is very protective of that book and has so far refused movie rights to anyone.

Comic Books to Film seem to have the most commercial success so far (Batman Begins, Spiderman, SM2, X-Men, etc.,) as there have been far more great movies be genre then compared to other ones... except books, since a lot films start out as books or private screenplays.

Film productions should aim for interpretation, not mere rendition. This preoccupation with maintaining aesthetic faith is bullshit. If people want the original creation, they can seek the original article, be it the first film, the book, the play, etc.

Of course this isn't commercially favourable blah blah shit sulk poo