Back in the day when you would find out they were adapting something you liked into a movie or show? Anticipation and excitement has been replaced by apprehension and dread. We really are in the dark ages of entertainment.
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I dunno, man. I have never been able to look at it that way. Flash Gordon! Yay, retro planetary adventure! Oh... Well, it's kinda campy fun, anyway. Dune! Yay, awesome literary SF! Oh, well, it looks a bit like Flash Gordon. And, how about the history of pulp heros both before and after Raiders of the Lost Ark (Which nailed it)... I give you: Doc Savage (AWFUL), The Shadow (not actually awful...), The Phantom (Glittering mediocrity with a great star and a crappy story), The Green Hornet (Holy, shit-farm!)
Anyway, I am constantly fighting a sense of pessimism about adaptations of fantasy, SF and pulp adventures.
I'm not saying everything used to be great, but there's a difference between being disappointed by incompetent filmmaking and dreading anything new, especially now that Bad Robot (the cinematic equivalent of a strip mining company) has gotten their hooks into it.
shareIf Bad Robot are behind this, then I'm dead set against it. They've produced NOTHING but CRUD over the last 11 years.
Hmm.. I looked up a list and the only thing I liked, movie or series, was the original Cloverfield (I got through one season of Lost and gave up)... That is a pretty sorry track record.
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It was a long time ago, though, certainly. Maybe that's just cynicism increasing as I get older? Maybe it's experience, I've seen a bunch of really awful adaptations, so I'm wary now.
Could be external, too. More and more adaptations are being used to alter existing properties to preach sermons and make political points, undermining the source material for a propaganda film.
Or, maybe it's the internet. An abundance of critical voices clamouring together has dialed up the trepidation and pickthankery of the nations.
Do you have a theory?
Is JJ Abrams and his Bad Robot company still involved with this series? If it is, I don't hold out much hope. I'm sick and tired of his derivative and unoriginal reinterpretations of original stories. Nevermind that he can't redux original movies or TV shows, having him involved with Professor Tolkien's Legendarium is like allowing a 12 year old and 100 of his spoiled friends free reign in a museum.
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