I really don’t want to be one of those writers that
I, myself, would criticize. I always threaten the Universe that I’m going to
start a blog on all the injustices and gigantic mistakes that some of my
favorite filmmakers and writers have made over the years.
Here’s a mini-rant to give you an idea of what I’m
talking about:
Indiana Jones 4: Really? From the get go I knew I
was in trouble. A gopher mound as the Paramount Pictures mountain, uggh! It
just got worse from there: from a fridge that apparently can protect you from a
nuclear holocaust, to swinging with monkeys, to the Aztecs worshiping aliens.
Yeah, pretty horrible.
Aliens 3 & 4: There are only two Alien movies:
Alien and Aliens. 3 & 4 shouldn’t
even count. I mean in the beginning of 3, Fincher completely made the second
movie meaningless by killing off Hicks and Newt. Stupid. Seriously. Only two
Alien movies. Possibly three if Prometheus ends up being a good as it looks,
but I could be jinxing myself!
Harry Potter book 5: Book not the movie. The movie actually ended up fixing the things I
hated about the book. Now don’t get me wrong, the Harry Potter series is one of
my favorite books series of all time, but five was a mess. Who can really blame
Rowling? I mean the entire world was waiting impatiently for the fifth book,
that’s an enormous amount of pressure! But the way she killed Sirius was… well…
it was lame. Not sure of how else to put it. At least Gary Oldman gave it some
emotion in the movie. In the book: nothing. Not even a single tear. And Sirius
was one of my favorite characters! There were so many issues with book five I
can’t even go into it, but needless to say, six and seven more than made up for
it!
I could go on, but I’ll stop. My worst fear is
that as soon as I spout my ramblings, I’ll have an ear load of everything I messed up in my books. No one is
perfect. And as writers and creators sometimes we lose the bigger picture. It’s
nice when you have a group of people you can run things by, but I feel a lot of
these people are so famous that no one wants to be honest with them anymore.
They tell them everything they do is great, so they don’t have anyone to give
them critique anymore. I’m just grateful for all the people in my life that are
willing to tell me if I write a piece of crap, lol!
Here’s to honesty!
Hi Rebecca! I loved your honesty in this post. I especially can relate to the part about the Harry Potter 5 book. I agree with you that the movie was much better than the book. I enjoyed reading your post and I'm thinking I will enjoy reading your series as well!
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