zexen_lowe on 10 February 2011
| Xen said: Then they damn well should. Not comparing LOTR with HP here, but LOTR movies certainly lived up to the books. |
Or they were actually better since they cut parts that were totally irrelevant to the general plot (I'm looking at you, Tom Bombadil).
Point is, you can do a book adaptation fine if you want, for example, yesterday I watched The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo after having read the book, they adapted a 600 page book into a 150 minute film perfectly, everything that happens in the film happens in the book, sure, some parts were shortened, but the essence of every scene was kept intact. That's how an adaptation should be. When you gotta make up parts that weren't in the book to justify your plot, you're messing up a bit the adaptation
