Happy Hump Day Survey!

Tanglebones wrote:
Grenn wrote:
garion333 wrote:

Except in the case of Tanglebones and Legend of the Seeker. That show is terrible.

Yes, but the book...

My point exactly

From this review:

Number of instances of characters' genitals being mutilated or removed, or a threat made to do so: 3
Number of instances of cannibalism: 3
Number of instances of consumption of human genitalia: 2
Number of extremely and needlessly dangerous magical objects: 3
Number of people who wanted to have sex with Richard: 3
Number of objectivists rants: 1 (that I can recall)
Number of times Richard did something earth-shatteringly stupid: too many to count
Number of times Richard did something morally abhorrent: do numbers go that high?
Number of times I wanted to slam my head into a brick wall rather than carry on reading: what comes after infinity again?

That's...Huh. That is not how I remember Wizard's First Rule at all. I mean, it got worse as the series went on (I tapped out after Temple of the Winds because it got past my Ridiculous Threshold™), but I definitely don't recall any cannibalism (genitalia or otherwise) or things Richard did that were morally abhorrent in the first book. 'Course, my memory isn't what it used to be.

My answer to the question this week was already taken by Garion. Although when I stop to think about it, I haven't read too many books that became movie adaptations. I've either read the book or saw the movie, but rarely ever at the same time.

Oh, wait...I do have one:

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(and that says something about the book. Both were terrible.)

Tanglebones wrote:
Grenn wrote:
garion333 wrote:

Except in the case of Tanglebones and Legend of the Seeker. That show is terrible.

Yes, but the book...

My point exactly

From this review:

Number of instances of characters' genitals being mutilated or removed, or a threat made to do so: 3
Number of instances of cannibalism: 3
Number of instances of consumption of human genitalia: 2
Number of extremely and needlessly dangerous magical objects: 3
Number of people who wanted to have sex with Richard: 3
Number of objectivists rants: 1 (that I can recall)
Number of times Richard did something earth-shatteringly stupid: too many to count
Number of times Richard did something morally abhorrent: do numbers go that high?
Number of times I wanted to slam my head into a brick wall rather than carry on reading: what comes after infinity again?

And yet I still think the tv series is much, much worse.

I don't have a horrible aversion to objectivism, it makes for some good reading.

CptDomano wrote:

Oh, wait...I do have one:

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(and that says something about the book. Both were terrible.)

I didn't think the movie was as bad as all the reviews and whatnot made it seem. It's faaaaaaar from good, but I thought it was funny.

Speaking of bad movies, I miss early/mid 2000's Uwe Boll.

Oh gosh, interesting answer, Grenn!!! I love the movie Stardust, but I've never read the book...
Garion, good point about the LotR movies, although, I have to say, there are some parts that really rubbed me the wrong way. (surfing down stairs?!? really??)

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Spoiler:

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Alright, I'm going to chime in early this week.

My answer to "when is the movie better" I'm realizing is if either
1) the source material is short, vague, or non-fiction or
2) if the movie (particularly acting) is just so well done that it takes it to a new level. So I'm going:

Stand By Me (on short story)
Clue (obvious)
Gangs of New York (on non-fiction)

And for ones I loved the book but really love the movie are
Silence of the Lambs
Mystic River

Oh, Shawshank Redemption!

I haven't read the short story it's based on, but Stephen King likes the movie version of The Mist better than the story he wrote.

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DiscoDriveby wrote:

Alright, I'm going to chime in early this week.

My answer to "when is the movie better" I'm realizing is if either
1) the source material is short, vague, or non-fiction or

I have neither read the book or seen the movie, but judging from ignorance and reviews, The Imitation Game and Alan Turing: The Enigma fall into that category.

Clue (obvious)

What about other movies based on games, say, "Battleship". And this short:

is better than the game it's based on.

I'm half tempted to say Princess Bride, but I like the book and the movie for different reasons.

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Commence the berating!

Final Fantasy!

Ha ha ha...

In all seriousness, I agree with garion. Never. At least, not that I've experienced. I was burned too many times in the past, that now whenever a movie comes out, I just check out source material and leave it at that. I did see "Edge of Tomorrow," but I had to suspend all knowledge of the short story in order to enjoy it, because they changed so much of it.

CptDomano wrote:

That's...Huh. That is not how I remember Wizard's First Rule at all. I mean, it got worse as the series went on (I tapped out after Temple of the Winds because it got past my Ridiculous Threshold™), but I definitely don't recall any cannibalism (genitalia or otherwise) or things Richard did that were morally abhorrent in the first book. 'Course, my memory isn't what it used to be.

It's accurate. Cannibalism comes from the weird tribe that Richard has to prove himself to by eating dried human flesh. The genital mutilation is part of a really gross magical ritual near the end of the book.

The funny thing is that I loved that book when I was a teenager. I'm unwilling to revisit it as an adult.

As to this week's question, I'm going to go with The Avengers and, really, all of the Marvel Cinematic Universe stuff. By abandoning the decades of continuity and batsh*t crossovers of the comics, as well as working with a small fraction of the characters, they've been able to make really great storylines that don't so much recreate the comics as evoke the idea of them while being considerably more friendly to follow and enjoy.

Katy, I keep thinking of The Princess Bride too! I left it off thinking they're pretty equal. I love the movie and grew up watching it, plus it's really well done. But I also like the book and enjoyed the parts that weren't in the movie (especially the Fezzik and Inigo back stories).

ClockworkHouse wrote:
CptDomano wrote:

That's...Huh. That is not how I remember Wizard's First Rule at all. I mean, it got worse as the series went on (I tapped out after Temple of the Winds because it got past my Ridiculous Threshold™), but I definitely don't recall any cannibalism (genitalia or otherwise) or things Richard did that were morally abhorrent in the first book. 'Course, my memory isn't what it used to be.

It's accurate. Cannibalism comes from the weird tribe that Richard has to prove himself to by eating dried human flesh. The genital mutilation is part of a really gross magical ritual near the end of the book.

The funny thing is that I loved that book when I was a teenager. I'm unwilling to revisit it as an adult.

Oh, I guess I do remember the tribe and the ritual at the end, just not the details of it. So weird--I would have expected that stuff to kind of stick with me. I'm with you, though--I loved the book when I first read it, but definitely would not ever go back to it.

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Because Gene Wilder makes everything better.

Touché, badchicken. But the Depp version? Not so much.

sometimesdee wrote:

Touché, badchicken. But the Depp version? Not so much.

Yeah; similar to what happened with the Stephen King approved version of the Shining starring the guy from Wings.

sometimesdee wrote:

Touché, badchicken. But the Depp version? Not so much.

If I am channel surfing and this is on, I will immediately start watching till the end, much to the dismay of my 14 year old. If the Depp version is on I will zip on by it.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

As to this week's question, I'm going to go with The Avengers and, really, all of the Marvel Cinematic Universe stuff. By abandoning the decades of continuity and batsh*t crossovers of the comics, as well as working with a small fraction of the characters, they've been able to make really great storylines that don't so much recreate the comics as evoke the idea of them while being considerably more friendly to follow and enjoy.

Oh man, this is so true for me. Didn't even occur to me. I even like Captain America now. Who knew?!?

garion333 wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

As to this week's question, I'm going to go with The Avengers and, really, all of the Marvel Cinematic Universe stuff. By abandoning the decades of continuity and batsh*t crossovers of the comics, as well as working with a small fraction of the characters, they've been able to make really great storylines that don't so much recreate the comics as evoke the idea of them while being considerably more friendly to follow and enjoy.

Oh man, this is so true for me. Didn't even occur to me. I even like Captain America now. Who knew?!?

Then you don't know cap. :p

Seriously, he has had some incredible moments in the comics. Of course when you're talking about almost 75 years of history, he's bound to have had a few. And there's plenty of garbage in there too... so... yeah.

Avengers and the MCU are a good call.

garion333 wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

As to this week's question, I'm going to go with The Avengers and, really, all of the Marvel Cinematic Universe stuff. By abandoning the decades of continuity and batsh*t crossovers of the comics, as well as working with a small fraction of the characters, they've been able to make really great storylines that don't so much recreate the comics as evoke the idea of them while being considerably more friendly to follow and enjoy.

Oh man, this is so true for me. Didn't even occur to me. I even like Captain America now. Who knew?!?

If Nick Fury's gravestone didn't win you over, nothing will. On a binge this week of all the MCU movies I missed over the last few years (GOTG, IM3, CA:TWS just now, and Thor 2 tomorrow).

Bonus_Eruptus wrote:

If Nick Fury's gravestone didn't win you over, nothing will. On a binge this week of all the MCU movies I missed over the last few years (GOTG, IM3, CA:TWS just now, and Thor 2 tomorrow).

We did the exact same thing with catching up on the MCU movies before Avengers 2 comes out. This weekend we'll watch the last one (Guardians, which we've already seen but why not watch it again?)

Wild at Heart and O Brother Where Art Thou. David Lynch ate the short story for Wild at Heart and spit out a twisted nightmare of a movie.

I like Philip K Dick's Second Variety.

For some reason I love Screamers.

YMMV.

I thought Apocalypse Now was better than Heart of Darkness. Possibly because Heart of Darkness was one of those books required for school before I could really appreciate it.

HAPPY HUMP DAY!

What are your "get pumped" songs for going out or just waking up?

Ok, might as well get my weird ones out of the way then...

DON'T JUDGE ME! :p

Mantid wrote:

DON'T JUDGE ME! :p

Corrected.

I'll have an answer when I have more time to link half a friggin' playlist I labeled "Cool sh*t".