Game of Thrones was able to make relatively faithful adaptation choices early on because it was adapting books that both existed and were relatively condensed. The last two books in the series are ostensibly one book split geographically with lots of new POV characters in many different places, and the very last book…

The Godfather is faithful. It doesn’t contain everything in the book (as is normal for any film adapting a novel rather than a short story), but the stuff that is retained is very often word-for-word identical.

I’m a fan of Flanagan’s movies, but it was a fundamentally bad idea to try to adapt that particular story as an 8+ episode family drama series, a genre that doesn’t permit retaining the book’s ending even though so much of the preceding material had been building up to that. There’s plenty of good stuff in that…

Carpenter’s version is closer to “Who Goes There?” than The Thing From Another World is.

I don’t think we “need” to check out the last movie Willis churned out for a quick buck before retiring. The formula has long been that he’s barely in it and most of the budget was spent on him letting them market the film based on his presence.

there’s so many young people doing it, you think, are they crazy? There’s no future. But they love doing it. Kids that are in eighth grade, college kids, they bring these puppets or characters or aluminum foil or clay, they can bring it to life. And the technology’s so cheap and easy that I think that the people…

every time Clarisse descends

There’s a link to Gray justifying his decision, but not to anyone actually complaining about it. Perhaps it’s not actually that controversial?

Because of his accent?

Most Arab-Americans actually aren’t Muslim. And I think most Muslim-Americans aren’t Arab either.

Is religion not “cultural”?

It wound up being less dark than I expected. Still very funny though. One big takeaway was that Kerry Condon was really underused on Better Call Saul.

Too much emphasis on the prison part? The dispute concerns whether someone can be transferred from a men’s prison to a women’s prison. If Catholic priests convicted of crimes claimed privilegium clericale to be housed in a juvenile facility instead, I doubt she would favor that (although I also expect she believes as…

Romero was mentioned above.. but only his Dead films. Martin, Creepshow & The Crazies are all worth checking out as well.

Wise’s adaptation of Jackson is better than Flanagan’s.

I miss Flanagan as a filmmaker, rather than a TV showrunner.

I can see the argument that it’s less likely for a gay creator to do it, but is that really a definitive refutation? If your theory of queerbaiting is that it’s done for mercenary reasons to attract an audience, wouldn’t that apply to all creators who like money?

The third season was so bad it retroactively lowered my opinion of the preceding material. I thought they actually had some idea of where they were going with Bedelia du Maurier, rather than to turn “the smartest person in the room” (for getting the hell out of Dodge) into a dummy who sticks around ever after she’s…

Cramming together BOTH the novels Red Dragon & Hannibal into season 3 meant there wasn’t much time for Alana & Margot’s relationship. Prior to that, in season 2 (which introduced Margot as an openly lesbian character) I thought it was a missed opportunity that she wasn’t a relatively butch bodybuilder since that would…

If he didn’t buy it to make money, that would be news to the people he borrowed money from to buy Twitter.