I'm not going to nitpick and be like "The book took place in Edinburgh Glasgow not London 
," but it's hard to judge the movie without comparing it to the source. While I don't think the novel's theme were very profound or new the film paint-by-numbers and the story very rushed. This is despite a 2¼ hour running time that felt flabby in the middle. And despite the film being about Bella's growth as a person it omits the book's epilogue. This is the only part from Bella's perspective and it changes how you view the entire story 
This is also probably the least funny Yorgos Lanthimos film I've seen. I did get one good laugh and involved a character calling someone r-slurred. 
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Harry Potter
Lotr
Hobbit
All better than the books 🤔
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Shawshank was a great book and the movie was better
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I hate Stephen king
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he has never written a good book. Frick pet sematary. Frick the mist. frick Salem's lot. FRICK IT. FRICK ALL HIS BOOKS THEY WERE NEVER GOOD I'VE HATED HIM SINCE THE BEGINNING I FRICKING HATE THAT MAYO PEEPEESUCKER. THIS IS NOT A BIT HE SHOULD FRICKIN DIE.
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The Stand was also bad. As well as The Green Mile
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found the incel
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what if Marsey was actually an interdimensional being who fed on time from the future so you have to keep going backwards in time
Also the Hobbit movie ruined the point of Bilbos role. I'm not simping for the book but the movies were butt
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Yes it is a very sexist name. If he wasn't a nazi he would have changed his name to Stephen Xueen.
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never read or watched any lotr
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GOOD movies
Incredibly boring books
I get that they were influential and good contemporaneously but goddarn they have not aged well at all
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despite being frequently exposed to this opinion it briefly enrages me every time
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wtf
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me when i'm seething
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me when im ceiling
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Reading
LOTR is like reading 
Leviticus
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so true king. its crazy how they were able to make the hobbit movies so good working from such awful source material
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You're being /s but I'm being this but unironically
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The Hobbit movie actually ruined the role of the Hobbit himself
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TOP GUN: MAVERICK was better than the book
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From the trailer it looks like the movie would annoy me.
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This is probably the most accessible and least off-putting Lanthimos after The Favourite lol
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i watched dogtooth and i never figured out what it was about
he's a fun filmmaker though even when i don't understand anything they're still intriguing movies, i really liked the lobster
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IDK just something seeing Emma Stone's character made me already annoyed.
I usually don't mind her, but I haven't really seen anything with her recently.
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Comparing a movie to it's book in current year is a dog whistle chud.
For Wheel of Time, Amazon cucked one of the authors into saying the series was like an alternative telling that was still canon, a different turning of the wheel. (And frick you if you wanted a TV show about the actual books).
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i'm simple. i like sharpe. both the books and the adaptations.
sean bean kills all the french and gets all the girls
it's not highbrow or artsy in the first place, so it can't really be ruined.
As for this Yorgos fellow... I watched the lobster and thought it was okay. Haven't bothered with anything else he's made
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Panchinko the apple series was better than the book
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) was inferior to the book
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i love watching movie adaptations although 95% of them are worse. sometimes adaptations are better when there's something fundamentally changed about them; eg Annihilation's story made more immediately digestible, Romeo + Juliet transformed into modern psychedelia, The Hunger Games being made in a visual format so you don't have to read the author's dogshit prose. these are the kind of adaptations worth making
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if you liked Romeo+Juliet that much Baz Luhrman also made Moulin Rouge. unfortunately i hate Moulin Rouge even tho i generally like musicals; you might like it
. i did also enjoy his short-lived tv show The Get Down, which is about funk and the invention of rap in NYC in the 70s. he also adapted The Great Gatsby, which i haven't watched.
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I think a lot about Peter Greenaway and how he says most movies are just book illustrations. Even if you managed to do justice to a book's story there is very rarely anything done to justify doing it in a visual medium
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Brainlets think that tee vee is THE medium, so by adapting a novel you're actually elevating it
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