Grammar nitpick: Adaption is when something evolves into a different version, as when gills might adapt themselves into lungs over time – a natural process. Adaptation is when something from one medium is arbitrarily reworked to fit another medium.
gaslightguy, ALL of them are like watching a video game! My criteria? If there’s an explosion in the movie trailer, I don’t watch the movie. That just leaves British films and Disney.
Futabakun Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Grammar nitpick: Adaption is when something evolves into a different version, as when gills might adapt themselves into lungs over time – a natural process. Adaptation is when something from one medium is arbitrarily reworked to fit another medium.
andrew5 almost 10 years ago
Adaptation? Great movie ….
and BTW – great joke today – nail on head time!
Cary Rodda Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Yep. Just shows how bankrupt Hollywood is for good, original ideas.
Packratjohn Premium Member almost 10 years ago
True enough. Imagine a plot, then try to prove it hasn’t been done before, in some form.
hippogriff almost 10 years ago
packratjohn: See Thirty-six Dramatic Situations, by Georges Polti. It isn’t the plot, but how it is developed.
gaslightguy almost 10 years ago
The stuff they crank out now is hard to follow, too. Half of them are like watching a video game.
Ryan Plut almost 10 years ago
gaslightguy, ALL of them are like watching a video game! My criteria? If there’s an explosion in the movie trailer, I don’t watch the movie. That just leaves British films and Disney.
KZ71 almost 10 years ago
Having just watched Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies and sitting through ALL the previews… this is too too true.
Pedmar Premium Member almost 10 years ago
…and they’re all dark and brooding.
Tomato Dog over 2 years ago
I could make better script than them