Les Mis has a much larger target audience than The Color Purple. Not only that, the people who are going to see Les Mis already know it’s a musical, and they’re probably going because they like both Les Mis and musicals in general. Not to mention that the 2012 adaptation had a budget $40m less than The Color Purple.

So…

Wonka did surprisingly well, but The Color Purple was never going to be a major box office hit regardless of whether they advertised it openly as a musical or not. Even among black audiences (who tend to not engage in a massive way with musicals), it wasn’t a remake (musical or not) that was really in demand, and…

The movie is a frame story. Oliver is recounting the story to someone, then we see what happened in the story he’s recounting, similar to The Great Gatsby, Wuthering Heights, and Forrest Gump.

My misunderstanding then. Lord knows Kinja’s formatting can lead to that haha

To be fair, Don Johnson has seen a rather significant career resurgence in the last 10-15 years.

He was absolutely hilarious in Django Unchained, was good in Knives Out, and I personally liked him a lot in Dragged Across Concrete.

He’s working a hell of a lot more than he did in the early post-Miami Vice and Nash…

To be fair, Don Johnson has seen a rather significant career resurgence in the last 10-15 years.

He was absolutely hilarious in Django Unchained, was good in Knives Out, and I personally liked him a lot in Dragged Across Concrete.

He’s working a hell of a lot more than he did in the early post-Miami Vice and Nash…

I don’t believe anywhere in my responses did I imply or advocate for a 1:1 adaptation of novels. The main novel I referred to, American Psycho, had a brilliant movie that decidedly wasn’t a 1:1 adaptation. The crux of my argument is to push back on the notion that novels, due to word count, need TV adaptations, or…

How you derived any of that from what I said is confounding, but I’ll bite.

But to get a good sized novel into a 2 hour movie you have to cut out a lot, like 75%.

As someone else replied, it really depends on the book.

To add, length is less of a factor than most people think. For some genres, much of the fluff is merely visual worldbuilding that is more easily condensed in a visual medium such as a movie than a book. Dozens and dozens of pages describing visual details can…

That’s one of my main points.

People are acting as though this is a new phenomenon necessitating a new, pithy name. Neither one of those things are true, and just because technology has made it easier to disseminate perceived examples doesn’t mean it’s objectively worse. In fact, I’d argue it was worse in the past…

Thank you for the kind and well-reasoned responses thus far, and I’ll do my best to hit the points you made and hopefully provide some clarification if I’ve been unclear.

Did those things not exist before the creation of the term? I’m absolutely certain they did. Hence, the term has no value.

Further, what you’re describing is again a phenomenon that can purely be explained by capitalistic impulses mixed with clearly understood human psychology. Colleges and universities are, in this…

Did those things not exist before the creation of the term? I’m absolutely certain they did. Hence, the term has no value.

Further, what you’re describing is again a phenomenon that can purely be explained by capitalistic impulses mixed with clearly understood human psychology. Colleges and universities are, in this…

I think that term is more specifically the idea of widespread and speedy condemnation for some alleged transgression within the public sphere (not by the government!) led by predominantly by group dynamics as opposed to rational assessment.

That loss of (some) opportunities and (some) audience members is obviously something, no? That’s being canceled. I hate this griping about the word — it is the laziest sort of arguing semantics while not risking any sort of actual discussion. Yes, “canceled” has entered the lexicon with this meaning, and no amount of…

Haha, I didn’t even notice my double post. This damn site.

Excluding the movie he made with Madonna (Swept Away), I really enjoyed Ritchie’s 1st four films (Lock, Stock, Snatch, Revolver, and RocknRolla). I never got into his Sherlock Films, The Man from U.N.C.L.E was okay, and out of his last releases, the only one worth a damn was Wrath of Man (which admittedly could’ve…

Excluding the movie he made with Madonna (Swept Away), I really enjoyed Ritchie’s 1st four films (Lock, Stock, Snatch, Revolver, and RocknRolla). I never got into his Sherlock Films, The Man from U.N.C.L.E was okay, and out of his last releases, the only one worth a damn was Wrath of Man (which admittedly could’ve…

I’d say she’s great, maybe not yet exceptional in my eyes, but perhaps we’re splitting hairs.

When it comes to her performance in Barbie, the issue is that these performances (as you alluded to correctly) aren’t qualitatively assessed in a vacuum. They’re compared to other performances in any given award year. So, for…