In regards to something similar to that, another thing that ticks me off is "comic book fans". Not fans in general, just the ones who constantly whine, piss and moan about their comics being destroyed by turned into movies or complaining when the film doesn't do "this story" or portray this character "right accurate way".
To me, that annoys the hell out of me more then anything. In my opinion the only thing that matters about a movie based on a comic, remake, or anything else is IS IT ENTERTAINING? That's all I care about. It's pointless to nitpick over every little change, what's the point in going to the movies if your going to frustrate yourself by obsessing over it?
So what if they change things from the comic or use this story instead of this? If I like what I see, I don't really care what they change so long as its not a complete and total departure from the source material. Does it really matter if they change a few things if in the long run you enjoy the movie? I mean why can't you just enjoy something for what it is?
The way I see it, if I don't feel like I wasted my time at the theaters, that's all the satisfaction I need. I don't need perfect carbon copies of comic books or anything else to enjoy a movie based on comic which usually ends up having material, stories, and characters that just won't work in the movie universe no matter how you slice it and sometimes, the material isn't that good.
People complain like how movies aren't more accurate. Well since when does accuracy translate to quality? The new Peter Pan movie with Jason Isaacs that came out a few years ago was supposedly (or so i heard) totally accurate to the original Pan story, I thought it was boring as hell! Or "The Client" with Tommy Lee Jones, supposedly its really close to a book of the same name.
I didn't care about the movie because the characters, story put me to sleep. It doesn't matter the movie was or wasn't accurate to the book, the point is I didn't like what I saw and I didn't feel entertained. I'd rather be entertained by something that's inaccurate to a source material then be bored by something that is accurate and just flat out not interesting to see.
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