Grammar nitpick: Adaption is when something evolves into a different version, as when gills might adapt themselves into lungs over time – a natural process. Adaptation is when something from one medium is arbitrarily reworked to fit another medium.
gaslightguy, ALL of them are like watching a video game! My criteria? If there’s an explosion in the movie trailer, I don’t watch the movie. That just leaves British films and Disney.
Futabakun Premium Member over 9 years ago
Grammar nitpick: Adaption is when something evolves into a different version, as when gills might adapt themselves into lungs over time – a natural process. Adaptation is when something from one medium is arbitrarily reworked to fit another medium.
andrew5 over 9 years ago
Adaptation? Great movie ….
and BTW – great joke today – nail on head time!
Cary Rodda Premium Member over 9 years ago
Yep. Just shows how bankrupt Hollywood is for good, original ideas.
Packratjohn Premium Member over 9 years ago
True enough. Imagine a plot, then try to prove it hasn’t been done before, in some form.
hippogriff over 9 years ago
packratjohn: See Thirty-six Dramatic Situations, by Georges Polti. It isn’t the plot, but how it is developed.
gaslightguy over 9 years ago
The stuff they crank out now is hard to follow, too. Half of them are like watching a video game.
Ryan Plut over 9 years ago
gaslightguy, ALL of them are like watching a video game! My criteria? If there’s an explosion in the movie trailer, I don’t watch the movie. That just leaves British films and Disney.
KZ71 over 9 years ago
Having just watched Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies and sitting through ALL the previews… this is too too true.
Pedmar Premium Member over 9 years ago
…and they’re all dark and brooding.
Tomato Dog about 2 years ago
I could make better script than them