Originally posted by Cassius_Smoke
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With properties like this, we were that used to Hollywood producers taking the project "to put their own stamp on it" (read: "do what I want and not give a crap about the original thing"). Occasionally that worked, like with Starship Troopers.
Actually, thinking about it, I'll revise that:
Once it worked, with Starship Troopers.
But generally speaking it resulted in adaptations that were both bad, and barely resembled their source material. Remember the GI Joe movie? When they first released info about it, the director wanted to make a super-hero movie about a character named GI Joe, and for that to be the movie.
But that meant with TF1, I think many of us were bracing for it being (1) bad and (2) nothing like the source, so when we actually got Optimus Prime transforming and saying, in Peter Cullen's voice, "I am Optimus Prime", or Megatron saying "You have failed me for the last time, Starscream-", or a character swinging off a gun-turret in a shot-for-shot version of how Kup does it in the movie, it just bought the movie much good-will.
But in a world where we've seen things like The Hunger Games, Harry Potter and the MCU, which have all collectively done a great job of bringing their material to the big screen by people who clearly had respect for that original material, I feel that retrospectively the movie suffers.
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