"I wholeheartedly believe that a Death Note film adaptation is possible in a way that could be well done."
"The Shawshank Redemption... made by people who clearly knew exactly what made the book appealing."
"Peter Jackson was wrong, some of the monsters you've seen in the film adaptations of the Lord of the Rings were not what Tolkien described in his book."
"I'm not a filmmaker, but if you're going to adapt a highly successful franchise to try to create another highly successful franchise, maybe you shouldn't ignore the guy who made that franchise highly successful. Just a suggestion."
"One of my personal favorites is Stephen King's 'It,' which they're making into a movie again."
"The Force Awakens and its Lego game adaptation have one unexpected thing in common. They each hewed closely to an established and familiar formula, but it was a comforting and welcome one."
"GoldenEye 007 excelled in its recreation of the film's action scenes, its stylistic flourishes, and its balanced tone."
"Why this movie didn't work as an adaptation of a Broadway musical and what it can tell us about other adaptations and the task of doing that in general."
"Floyd Mayweather still showed you why he's the greatest boxer of all time."
"The movie hits all the notes you would have wanted from a Simpsons Movie adaptation."
"Zola captures the raw audacious very online energy of its source material in a saga about two strippers heading to Florida to dance together that goes very very awry."
"But then there was Dune remaking Frank Herbert's far future saga of galactic colonialism thundering across all the big screens and the loudest sound system since late October this sci-fi epic part 1 operated at a magnitude like little else."
"Matt Reeves has reimagined the Riddler as a serial killer in the tradition of the Zodiac Killer."
"For 'The Batman,' Robert Pattinson will be driving a reimagined Batmobile that looks like it could've been driven straight out of a high-end garage."
"Tom Cruise brought the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt to life in the film adaptation of Anne Rice's novel 'Interview with the Vampire.'"
"A movie has the potential to rocket a series' popularity but also completely ruin it; it's a huge risk versus reward situation."
"The greatness that you've seen on the stage for the last 30 or so minutes is just magnified in the movie."
"Everything looks and feels like the Resident Evil movie we should have gotten in the first place."
"Blade Reboot: Introducing new members of the Midnight Sons and possibly tiptoeing into R-rated territory."
"The MCU Avengers are some of the greatest examples of how to translate characters from the page to the screen."
"Thank heavens these changes were made as the Back to the Future we did end up getting is an absolute masterpiece."
"Glenn Close was matching what the character was in the '60s film."
"The changes gave the film a more positive buddy comedy quality."
"The MCU Ant-Man movies smartly made it so Hank Pym kept his edge and his arrogance but didn't come with the dramatic weight his comic character had to suffer through."
"Kong: Skull Island's greatest accomplishment is how it modernizes a classic character while still maintaining the feel of a classic monster movie."
"If you're going to make a movie where all you give a crap about is, like, 'oh man this death's so cool,' then why are you adapting Death Note when clearly those are conflicting ideas?"
"It's truly a good enough treatment that if they wanted to film it the day after handing it in, they could have, and it still would have been an excellent film."
"Duncan Jones took about a lot of the exposition, turning an overcomplicated premise into an accessible, well-paced action/psychological drama film."
"The visualization of Azeroth and bringing these characters to life is a big win for this movie."
"Velma is historically the brainy character... but in this film she's finally fed up with Fred undervaluing her contributions..."
"The casting for the whole gang and even Rowan Atkinson as the villain was pretty much perfect..."
"Stephen King's books have been adapted to film or television over 100 times, making him the all-time 'King' of adaptations from a living author's work."
"'All work and no play' might make Jack a dull boy, but The Shining most certainly isn't dull."
"The fantastic four franchise has never quite found a comfortable space within cinema."
"This film, which just moved forward a few years without any big fuss, became one of the rare examples of a film handling the structure of a multi-year story better than a book."
"A cousin of the gleefully lurid Creepshow movie." - Shudder's Creepshow Series
"Reacher's size in the books is a metaphor for an unstoppable force, which Cruise portrays in his own way. With another actor you might get 100% of the height but only 90% of Reacher. With Tom, you'll get 100% of Reacher with 90% of the height."
"They found a way to give us an interesting new take on the character that's purely a high schooler."
"Temple of Doom and I think with a reimagine film you want to leave some of what's there and I think you get that with Beetlejuice time all right."
"It's Deadpool in the Marvel Cinematic Universe."
"It makes fans less nervous about this movie by showing off, he looks less purple they make him a lighter shade of blue."
"COVID came along, and we lost a year of production. So we put our heads together and thought that it would be a good idea to do a movie instead of doing series seven."
"This might actually be the most quintessential, most apt depiction of Bruce Wayne Batman for a feature film."
"The pod racing sequence, which felt tailor-made to serve as the basis of a great video game."
"It’s a genuinely good translation of a classic film series into a classic video-game genre."
"That's how I know this movie's not trying to add anything new, because they're just trying to hit all of the Wikipedia major events."
"Everybody wants a thriving comic book movie industry."
"There had been talks of a Samurai Jack movie dating all the way back to 2002."
"Sometimes by shaking off the shackles of source material, a film can become something totally new and better suited for the silver screen."
"The Batman felt like the animated series come to thrilling life."
"I almost dropped everything... start making dreams stuff."
"I enjoy how different Mariposa is from Alina and it's always nice to see a book lover portrayed in a film in a way that isn't nerdy."
"It's a straight-up love letter to the Canon Universe outside of the film's."
"It's probably one of the best adaptations in terms of taking what Shakespeare wrote and then just refashioning that and keeping the heart of Macbeth intact."
"Soylent Green resonates with current world issues."
"The controversy here is that Lavender was originally cast as a young Black girl until 'Half-Blood Prince' where Lavender becomes a much more prominent character as Ron's love interest."
"If you're gonna do an American remake and you're not gonna take it a step further, what's the point at all?"
"I thought Affleck was a tremendous choice to play older coming out of retirement Batman."
"It might not be too much of a stretch to suggest that Marvel took some notes from the failures of the Green Lantern film while adapting Captain Marvel."
"You could also just make an original sci-fi film that had some of these concepts in it, you know? Just have another premise with the shower scene and I'd be just as happy."
"I think he'll be able to make it more modern without losing all that 80's cheese."
"The movie consistently opts to make the threats more present and the danger more immediate."
"The lengths they went to make sure that the scale of the hobbits versus the long shanks were believable."
"I'm still on board with Joss Whedon's Justice League."
"Film and literature are very different art forms, and the things that make for great literature don't necessarily make for very compelling cinema."
"It's a remake in the same way Christopher Nolan's Batman films were a remake of the Batman comics."
"It's perhaps the most enjoyable video game movie ever made."
"Of all the video games that have been turned into films I mean I think that's that was the most successful attempt yeah and it was it was just a good fun fun movie really worked."
"Maybe someday we'll really upset the status quo and make a good Hulk movie. We can only hope. Hulk Smash!"
"This guy is definitely beefed up to play the role, I see the vision and I approve of this."
"The gameplay is solid and a lot of fun, capturing the spirit of the movie."
"It's everything a video game adaptation should be."
"It's possible to make a good video game movie adaptation."
"It's such a neat way of going through what it is to become spider-man without having to go through the same thing that we've gone through with Tobey Maguire with Andrew Garfield."
"This feels like the film D&D fans would want."
"The Captain Underpants movie is just so good. It perfectly captures what made the original book special."
"Turtles co-creator Peter Laird... stresses that the film will return the turtles to their darker, edgier comic-book roots."
"I think it's gonna happen. I think it's been talked about more and I think with the success of guardians of the galaxy they made it more realistic that they could do something like this." - Kristian Harloff
"Alexandra Shipp was really well cast as Storm."
"The Langella version is the only one that actually has the nerve to depict a dead baby. Geez, we get the idea. Van Helsing confronts the vampire Lucy."
"The 1977 BBC version Count Dracula is the most faithful to the book."
"It still feels like Star Wars but takes in some really great new directions."
"If this is how you're going to do justice to the legacy of Star Wars, then this is how it should be done."
"What Matt Reeves has delivered here is what I describe as the most Batman jumping off the pages of the comic Batman story I've ever seen put to screen."
"When it came out, nobody took comic-book movies seriously mostly because they followed the source material even less than this film did."
"Instead of the cast being whitewashed it's full of Asian and Indigenous people and many can't wait to see how familiar faces of beloved actors will interpret just as beloved characters. Overall the casting looks like a win."
"Spielberg thought that the idea would actually be better on the big screen..."
"The results are possibly the greatest Pinocchio adaptation since the Walt Disney version."
"This was the best iteration of Batman as a detective."
"Who would have thought just going back to basics with Joker-esque makeup could make for one of the best live-action Joker designs?"
"Atomic Breath: The Legendary Godzilla retains
the character's trademark atomic breath, however
it appears to be used as a weapon of last
resort rather than [as] his primary weapon."
"The turtles themselves have these exaggerated proportions that really look just like they did in the Mirage Comics."
"It felt like a Dune movie more than the other one."
"This is not just another cartoon movie... changed the nature... into a film."
"The rings of power is a masterpiece, an epic Saga Tolkien would be proud."
"If there's one thing I can say about Jason Blum it's that he's a smart businessman he knew exactly how far to go to make the most serviceable palatable adaptation of Five Nights at Freddy's possible and it worked."
"He turned Green Lantern because they wouldn't make Deadpool."
"Tony Todd of Candyman fame will be voicing Venom. Sick, yes, that guy rules."
"Fox and Bryan Singer are going to be able to produce a film that can give good credit to the Days of Future Past storyline."
"Universal finally figured out how to do their classic character justice."
"That's pretty much what happened with the Percy Jackson movies. They were so bad compared to the books."
"This whole chapter, I would say, is like the film adaptation of it is true to form."
"Deadpool's cinematic makeover: from weaponized villain to lovable anti-hero, a refreshing change."
"I really don't think so, however if Mr. Ryuji Kitaura... wants to make a Metroid movie and if the concept and methodologies he presents are agreeable with me then I might be okay with the idea."
"If you do it respectfully and actually try to make it feel like Ghostbusters, people will like it."
"I just wonder how they're going to do a movie, like, oh, the news of the live action - is it going to be like, you know, that Disney movie Zombies?"
"Word on the street is that Lionsgate is developing a film adaptation of the series."
"Watch the original. This is a very good example of how material can be elevated with someone with a vision."
"Everybody got what they wanted all along: Willem Dafoe looking like the Green Goblin."
"This charlie and the chocolate factory looks absolutely gorgeous."
"And actually at the end of the day it might be one of the most faithful adaptations that Marvel has made."
"The film was based on Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's popular graphic novel."
"The scene that changed this movie from another spider-man movie to add to the collection into possibly the greatest story of the bunch eat your heart out maguire."
"For a movie that was obviously very like slap to get like they had to rewrite a ton of stuff obviously with Chadwick passing away it felt it didn't feel like that to me at all."
"Oh my god Wonder Woman finally on the screen...they gave us Wonder Woman that looks like the one...from the comics."
"Batman's ability to kill enhances the strength of the adaptation rather than hindering it."
"The live-action version of Mulan was more of a movie about the character Mulan."
"Jurassic Park translates that aspect perfectly to screen."
"They're bringing a contemporary adaptation of the Scorpion King to the world."
"None of the zain enos would have worked if they hadn't based that movie on zero hour which was an actual disaster film and an actual with an actual real heartfelt plot."
"Some of these were even big enough to get their own film adaptations."
"I really love the look of this robot mode... it's almost identical to what we saw in the film."
"One Night in Miami doesn't shy away from its theater roots, but that to me is what makes the screenplay just so, so good."
"Matthew Vaughn takes these weird kind of properties and turns them into something infinitely watchable."
"Disney's never smart enough to do that and they just add new elements not taking into account how they might take away from the main story or derail a narrative."
"This film captured that perfectly just like Frank Miller did in his Dark Knight books."
"Zodiac is director David Fincher's unsung masterpiece, skillfully made, perfectly cast, and shockingly faithful to the source material."
"You see this total perfect 180 between how Zuko was presented to us versus what he is at the end of the show."
"It's imperative to maintain authenticity to the original source material, especially when dipping into a small pool of roles for actors of color."
"Cinderella, to me, was the perfect transfer from classic Disney movie into live-action film and I think that's kind of what they're going with with Beauty and the Beast and what they're going to do it with Jungle Book."
"They'll never be able to replace Alan Rickman as Snape unless they get Adam Driver."
"Despite HP Lovecraft's difficulty in adaptation, 2019's Color Out of Space perfectly invokes the cosmic horror for which the chello creator is renowned."
"A masterpiece when it comes to adaptations of War and Peace."
"The 2012 movie trilogy, called the Golden Age arc trilogy, adapts the same arc from the 1997 anime."
"Inspired by the events of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Easy A stars Emma Stone as a high schooler who lies about losing her virginity."
"Whoopi Goldberg is really good casting for Mother Abigail."
"Before and after it was a movie, the Star Trek revival was planned as a TV series."
"This is not the fantasy barf that the live-action Cinderella was."
"It's very authentic, more so than the animated movie."
"I'm glad this came out at a time where it could get made because it might well be the only adaptation of Dune and children of Doom that we ever get."
"Peter Jackson's Trilogy is the best adaptation we'll ever get of Lord of the Rings."
"The Peter Jackson Trilogy is the best adaptation we'll ever get of Lord of the Rings."
"Potential Flagg: Christopher Walken, James Woods, Jeff Goldblum, and Willem Dafoe were considered for playing Randall Flagg."
"Judge Dredd takes his helmet off a lot, Judge Dredd: When news of this film first broke in the 90s, fans of John Wagner and Carlos Esquera's comic book icon had reason to be excited..."
"Once called unfilmable, Watchmen ushered in a new age of comic books."
"I have a lot more faith in James Gunn handling how that storyline will play out in separate movies."
"I wonder how people who have never played Dungeons and Dragons will feel about this movie, and I loved hearing from so many people who have never played D&D that they loved the movie too."
"Reeves just does a fantastic job into getting us into the mind of Batman."
"I predict that in about five years video game movies are gonna pick up and suddenly be awesome."
"The film captures the over-the-top zaniness of the games in such a way only a Japanese production could pull off Christmas."
"I can see a good chunk of these IPs eventually getting some filmic fanservice."
"I liked how Xavier's character was still true to what he was like in the Fox movies."
"The pure impact of having a front intake fan and a rear exhaust fan, how important that traditional setup is if it's unobstructed with an actually good case."
"His dedication to making sure the fans are happy with the project literally saved the Sonic movie."
"It's amazing to see it first of all on a screen all those months ago and then suddenly it's the finished product."
"thank you Wes 4.99 the novel Darth Plagueis by James lucino makes the prequels much better"
"Renfield is a fresh twist on a classic gothic tale."
"This is one of the few video game movies where the license doesn't hurt the film."
"A major Five Nights at Freddy league is going to change what you thought you knew about the FNAF movie."
"This is the most animated live-action adaptation I've ever seen."
"Alien Isolation did a stellar job of completely capturing the spirit of the film."
"The next logical step seems like a live-action remake."
"I've been saying it for years, make it like Mad Max Fury Road but with Dinosaurs."
"If anybody were to be able to pull it off it would probably be the people that do Deadpool."
"It was like character redemption, it was like, we'll just do the character again but closer to what people liked about that character."
"Joker's origin story involves him failing as a stand-up. It mirrors what happened in the film."
"It seems fitting that two of the famous Batman stories are influencing this new chapter and the film mythos of Joker."
"Wouldn't you want to see Lance Reddick as Professor X and Giancarlo Esposito as Magneto in a movie?"
"It's hard for me to put into words how much I like that show... so to see her actually come in and be on the big screen I think is great."
"It's a tough racket, making movies from novels."
"Rorschach is one of the scrappiest toughest cookies in comic book history regardless of your thoughts on Snyder's Watchmen you gotta admit that actor Jackie Earle Haley did his best to bring the trench-coated masked hero to life."
"In fact, the biggest challenge they had with the movie trilogy was deciding what to cut out of it."
"The Banana Splits movie is the Warner Bros FNAF movie."
"One of the most faithful to the novel adaptations."
"Reservoir Dogs as a plot structure reference for a Doom movie."
"This is like the best live action adaptation of an anime that I've seen."
"This film basically is based on the real lives and real stories that are self-told, self-narrated by these individuals."
"Quentin Tarantino once said he wants to make a film adaptation of Half-Life."
"This film's visualization of spice is the first time I get it."
"Sam Raimi really honored the character of spider-man."
"I actually think this Batman is gonna be the best Batman. It's based on the original newer take of Batman."
"Ryan Reynolds was born specifically for this role."
"Evil Dead... tells its own story and not just being a cheap imitation of a classic."
"Marvel can do no wrong so they got Spider-Man and they doing Spider-Man right."
"It felt like the most correct distillation of Spider-Man comic books to the movie."
"The story is kind of interesting here in the way that it is replicating the events of the movie but then on the other hand it's also kind of not changing things up in some pretty fundamental ways."
"Marvel Studios finally gave us the Spidey that we deserve."
"A Batman Beyond movie is exactly what will inject new life into this story and give us the greatest iteration of this classic hero ever."
"Winter Soldier skewed a little bit and made a 70s spy thriller in the MCU."
"This new direction finally convinced Warner Brothers to go with a meaner version of the Dark Knight."
"I am curious to see this movie though... Lynch's version was very strange."
"Right now, we're focusing on for the first season everything you know about the 23 movies in the infinity saga and adding one twist to them and seeing how everything turns out different."
"That said, I actually really like the choice of Joaquin Phoenix to play the Joker."
"This movie is kind of the best you can do with what you're given."
"The book had become a bestseller while we were shooting the picture but still no one had any thought or even dared to think that it would become what it became."
"Wicked is discernably a bigger deal than a lot of the shows that have been adapted for film recently."
"I cannot wait to see what they're going to do with this."
"Wonder Woman takes the world of Themyscira and makes it real."
"Horizon movie in the works and a Demon Souls movie."
"An entirely new approach to video game movies as a whole has come about."