ooli3Mar 10

I Am Legend scrapped its original ending because test audiences 'felt cheated' by the big twist

https://sopuli.xyz/post/42347364

I Am Legend scrapped its original ending because test audiences 'felt cheated' by the big twist - Sopuli

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Show threadEch
The ending to the book is one of the best reveals I’ve read/watched. The movie discarding it was such a huge disservice.
Mar 10 at 3:57amWeb
Show threadpanda_abyssMar 10

On this topic: The Hobbit movies.

What the fuck?

I’m rereading the book for the first time since childhood. They retconned all of Thorin’s character traits and Bilbo did not play for time to save them from the trolls.

It’s frustrating.

Show threadhalcyoncmdrMar 10
The animated Hobbit movie is infinitely better than the live action abominations the studio created.
Show threadsomethingsnappyMar 10
The animated are undeniably better than than the entire series, just based on music alone.
Show threadMasterMar 12
the greatest adventure is top tier movie music!
Show threadhemkoMar 10
Hobbit movies in general were stupid with how much they padded the story
Show threadLianodelMar 10
There’s a good movie in there, spread thinly over three. Like butter scraped over too much bread…
Show threadhemkoMar 10
Yeah, there’s lot of good stuff there, some scenes are absolutely beautiful, and I enjoy them enough to rewatch every couple years, but they’re absolutely garbage in how they respect the source material
Show threadIlandarMar 12
Have you tried watching any of the fan edits, such as this one, that condense the trilogy down to a single film following the plot of the book?
M4's The Hobbit Fan Edit – Tolkien Inspired Recut

The M4 edit recuts Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film trilogy into a single movie that follows J.R.R. Tolkien's book more closely.

Show threadValmondMar 10
Please spoil me, I have neither read the book or watched this movie.
Show threadEchMar 10
I’d suggest reading it instead. It’s pretty short (130 pages depending on printing) and a good read.
Show threadMycelialMassMar 10
Basically the main character is the sole survivor in a word of vampiresque monsters. He tries a bit to find a cure while strugging with intense loneliness. During the night he hides in his fortified house. By day, he goes out and hunts them as they sleep. At the end of the book he is captures and put on trial for his heinous acts. They arent monsters really, its a new society, and he is their boogeyman, killing inocent people while they slept. He is the monster. In this new world he will become a legend of old, the monster in the day.