I've seen some over the top, turn off your brain, hollywoodized stinkers in my life, but Gray Man might take the cake. What a piece of crap that movie was.
I only just learned of the grey man series a little while a go and have been binging them ever since, only got three left to go (the whole time thinking "they should make these movies")… then I learned of this film. I'm not going to lie, I'm disappointed to see the changes to the characters, I expect changes to the stories, you just can't fit a 16hr audio book (how I've consumed them) into a 90 minute film without chopping some stuff out pretty brutally, but all the same, I'm a fan of these books, so changes aren't completely appreciated. That being said, I'm going to go watch this film but not as a retelling of the book, as a new cinematic universe, enjoy it for what it is, and look for the cool stuff it brings that a book just can't, rather than look for the ways that a film can't deliver what a book can. I remember seeing another book adaption once, a low-ish budget film of a book I loved, and I liked the film too, even though it had to miss some of the plot from the book, but the making of extra on the dvd made a great point that stuck with me when watching adaptaions, they talked about a scene they were filming, and how it was the crux of the film, because if the audience don't buy this, the rest of the film will look silly. They had five pages of dialogue to "sell" the concept of the film, the book covered the same subject in 105 pages. After that dvd extra I've been much more forgiving of adaptations. Movies can tell a story in a way that no book can, books can tell a story in a way no movie can, they are inherently different and we should enjoy them for what they bring, rather than what they can not.
I've seen some over the top, turn off your brain, hollywoodized stinkers in my life, but Gray Man might take the cake. What a piece of crap that movie was.
I only just learned of the grey man series a little while a go and have been binging them ever since, only got three left to go (the whole time thinking "they should make these movies")… then I learned of this film.
I'm not going to lie, I'm disappointed to see the changes to the characters, I expect changes to the stories, you just can't fit a 16hr audio book (how I've consumed them) into a 90 minute film without chopping some stuff out pretty brutally, but all the same, I'm a fan of these books, so changes aren't completely appreciated.
That being said, I'm going to go watch this film but not as a retelling of the book, as a new cinematic universe, enjoy it for what it is, and look for the cool stuff it brings that a book just can't, rather than look for the ways that a film can't deliver what a book can.
I remember seeing another book adaption once, a low-ish budget film of a book I loved, and I liked the film too, even though it had to miss some of the plot from the book, but the making of extra on the dvd made a great point that stuck with me when watching adaptaions, they talked about a scene they were filming, and how it was the crux of the film, because if the audience don't buy this, the rest of the film will look silly.
They had five pages of dialogue to "sell" the concept of the film, the book covered the same subject in 105 pages.
After that dvd extra I've been much more forgiving of adaptations.
Movies can tell a story in a way that no book can, books can tell a story in a way no movie can, they are inherently different and we should enjoy them for what they bring, rather than what they can not.
they're being too nice, movie was complete garbage
Ryan Gosling on JRE please
Holy shit my man's just referenced The Man From Nowhere. Banger of a movie. Top 5 action movies of all time for me