Why do filmmakers always feel the need to ‘darken’ a pop culture adaptation?

Or my body? That’s it........Easter’s cancelled!

Are you adopting by any chance? Asking for a friend me.

I saw Star Wars in ‘77 at the Chinese Theater, and Empire in 80 at the Egyptian. My oldest son informs me we saw Return of the Jedi in Kansas City in ‘83 — I was driving cross country from L.A. to Boston at the time. I saw all of the PT and every movie (include The Clone Wars movie) after in the theater when they…

She’s British, so presumably “no one had a good time” is her dryly understated way of insinuating that the director was beating the crew with lead pipes and using electric cattle prods on the actors.

Aliens 3 was one of the most depressing movie watching experiences I’ve ever had. I left the theater angry over how they wiped out the ending of the far superior “Aliens” in the first few minutes (being vague so as not to spoil this 25 year old movie). 

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Completely agree. If your Alien film makes me root for the alien over all the non-Ripley characters, you’ve messed up. Apparently in the early drafts they were supposed to be pacifist monks. But no one cares if a bunch of criminal scum get eaten, particularly if you make it clear how awful they are.

Curious — did you see Aliens in the theater? I’m just trying to figure out how someone could arrive at an opinion so wrong, and all I’m coming up with is that you saw it with the hindsight of the both the hype and all the other movies that followed it.

AN INTERESTING ARGUMENT. IT IS STILL A BAD, BAD MOVIE, FAILING IN ALL THE WAYS THE FIRST TWO WORKED. I WILL GRANT THAT THERE ARE GOOD PERFORMANCES IN IT.

In the “soundtrack” category of Queen’s catalog, I prefer “Highlander” to “Flash Gordon.

You shut your whore mouth. Flash Gordon was a great movie.

“I don’t want to be Gandalf the Grey! Why can’t I be Gandalf the Brown?”

“Potatoes, mother fucker! Do you eat them?!”

FRODO: You know what they call Elven waybread in Mirkwood?

...and they ended up creating this pile of shit underneath this little diamond. [Laughs.] It’s, like, I can’t wait for them to remake it and reclaim the potential for sequels. I mean, it’s just so rich with sequel material. As long as they don’t have them be aliens, I think they’ll be okay! That was so dumb…

I know it is unlikely this will ever be read...I met John Saxon at a convention in 2012 or 2013 and it was ABUNDANTLY clear that he was not all there...like I felt really bad after meeting him.

What bothers me is the assumption that we know at all how it all went down in Whedon’s private life. Maybe they had a truly terrible ill conceived marriage? I’ve witnessed some bad relationships in my family where both parties are at fault for different reasons. The only difference here is that if Whedon weren’t…

Thank you! I agree completely! If you look at his work, it’s still fantastic!

Yep, because he definitely didn’t torture all of his characters, just the female ones. Oh wait, that’s actually incorrect. Every character on Buffy and Angel, male or female, was broken at one time or another. If his work really were as sexist as you and Cracked making it out to me, I doubt people would have made that…