The Hunger Games. They had such an interesting world to play with, and with a few tweaks to the story could have delivered a satisfying trilogy that would have been better than the books.
Unfortunately, they fell into the Hollywood trap of going cash grab over substance and split the third book into two deeply flawed movies, trashed several characters with bad writing (including the star), and snuffed out any wavering interest that might have remained.
Agreed, except Katniss was equally unlikeable in the book version of Mockingjay. Did the movie make her even worse? I don’t remember, and don’t want to do the research (ie, rewatching or rereading) to verify. 😏
The overall main events are still exactly the same. But Mockingjay (like the first two books) are short. It didn’t need to be two movies, so they had to pad it with a bunch of unnecessary and repetitive scenes. So many film series think they’re Harry Potter, where there’s actually materials for two movies for the last book.
It’s unfortunate because Catching Fire was a fantastic movie, at times even better than the book.
Agreed. Catching Fire is still my favorite, and I can think of several ways - with minor deviations - that they could have made Mockingjay better than the so so book that it was.
No one has said Marvel yet?!? Okay fine. Drumroll pleeeease…the Marvel movies. 😎😁
It was eyerollingly questionable even before the woke, condescending, all-girl power pukefest in Endgame. But let me restrain myself from telling you what I REALLY think. 😏
I admit, I loved the original (even if it is Disney we're talking about here 🤢). It was SO creative! Then they just kept going, and going, until all things good were gone.
I love the irony though of people taking a mandatory vaxx in order to gain admittance to a movie about non-conformity, in a franchise that defined red pill blue pill.
The Hunger Games. They had such an interesting world to play with, and with a few tweaks to the story could have delivered a satisfying trilogy that would have been better than the books.
Unfortunately, they fell into the Hollywood trap of going cash grab over substance and split the third book into two deeply flawed movies, trashed several characters with bad writing (including the star), and snuffed out any wavering interest that might have remained.
And then a prequel nobody wanted.
Ah, what could have been...
Agreed, except Katniss was equally unlikeable in the book version of Mockingjay. Did the movie make her even worse? I don’t remember, and don’t want to do the research (ie, rewatching or rereading) to verify. 😏
Safe bet that the movies strayed from the books then?
The overall main events are still exactly the same. But Mockingjay (like the first two books) are short. It didn’t need to be two movies, so they had to pad it with a bunch of unnecessary and repetitive scenes. So many film series think they’re Harry Potter, where there’s actually materials for two movies for the last book.
It’s unfortunate because Catching Fire was a fantastic movie, at times even better than the book.
Agreed. Catching Fire is still my favorite, and I can think of several ways - with minor deviations - that they could have made Mockingjay better than the so so book that it was.
Ah, gotcha! Thanks for the insight as I did not read the books :)
Nor should you. 😁
Certainly Star Wars
And it seems to just get impressively worse and worse with every new turd from Disney+.
What’s unfortunate is anything that’s good (like Andor) is buried under all the crappy products.
Andor was a slow-go for me at first, but then I got drawn in and at times forgot I was in Star Wars World :)
No one has said Marvel yet?!? Okay fine. Drumroll pleeeease…the Marvel movies. 😎😁
It was eyerollingly questionable even before the woke, condescending, all-girl power pukefest in Endgame. But let me restrain myself from telling you what I REALLY think. 😏
Jaws.
Probably should have stopped at one, although I have some nostalgic respect for Jaws 3 in 3D. 😁
Four was unwatchable garbage.
Toy Story.
I admit, I loved the original (even if it is Disney we're talking about here 🤢). It was SO creative! Then they just kept going, and going, until all things good were gone.
Probably should have stopped at the first one. 😀
I love the irony though of people taking a mandatory vaxx in order to gain admittance to a movie about non-conformity, in a franchise that defined red pill blue pill.
There are certainly poor sequels by the truck loads! What series do you think got progressively worse? :)
There are surprisingly a lot to choose from.
Oh, I thought your answer was fine! I genuinely wanted to read your opinion about a series :)
Well, there's always The Hobbit.