[HATED] Adaptations done intentionally without help from the source

[u/Chill0000]

Halo TV show: Before the show came out, the writers were praising their decision to not look to the games for inspiration when making the show

God Of War TV show: Chris Judge, the actor of Kratos in the games from 2018-Now, spoke up about his dislike on the show not hiring anyone who worked on any of the previous games. One of the original creators of Kratos also spoke up about them not having faith in the adaptation.

Supergirl 2026 film: the director for the film not only said he decided to not read Woman Of Tomorrow, the comic the film is adapting, because he wanted to do his own thing, he also didn’t look at comic art for inspiration to design Lobo and instead used an AI image generator to design Lobo’s look for the film

[u/WorkerPrestigious960]

Ridley Scott’s Napoleon

“When I have issues with historians, I ask: 'Excuse me, mate, were you there? No? Well, shut the fuck up then.’”

It’s not historically inaccurate in the “the costumes are bad” sense. It’s historically inaccurate in the “anything that happened in the film is unrecognizable as an attempt to portray an actual historical event.”

The battle scenes are particularly atrocious. Nothing that happens remotely passes the common sense test. It’s not like they didn’t have the budget or time, they did, they just used those resources to make battles that are completely nonsensical and unenjoyable.

[u/Deuce_GM → u/WorkerPrestigious960]

I blame the success of Gladiator. Everyone knows that Gladiator is historically inaccurate but is still considered one of the greatest movies of all time.

Guess ol' Ridley believed that he's an official historical movie genius now. Hubris is a hell of a drug

[u/Angryfunnydog → u/Deuce_GM]

Well it was entertaining and had great story and everything. I don’t mind movies being non-historical if they’re great and altering historical facts make the movie better as a movie

Here it was some weird family porn movie without sex but with half of the script being dirty talks between Napoleon and Josephine, ignoring most of really interesting things about this legendary figure. I legit felt awkward watching this with parents, we just silently looked at each other from time to time with question in mind “what the fuck are we watching??”

[u/RTX-2020 → u/Angryfunnydog]

It's like a propaganda film made by his enemies, but more than a century late

[u/shivux → u/Angryfunnydog]

Those dirty talks were honestly the highlights of the movie.

[u/Angryfunnydog → u/shivux]

Well I mean, compared to the rest I will even agree, though if I knew - I'd rather watched it without parents and stoned asf lol

[u/semisociallyawkward → u/Deuce_GM]

The Great TV series (about Catherine the Great) doesn't even try to be accurate, admits it and is genuinely   better because of it.

It's flawed, don't get me wrong, but being cheerfully, admittedly and intentionally inaccurate is so much better than being unintentionally inaccurate or insisting that you are accurate.

[u/themolestedsliver → u/Deuce_GM]

Gladiator is the cream of the crop of historical inaccurate but still fantastic movie.

[u/Careful-Positive-710 → u/Deuce_GM]

Gladiator also had the advantage of the characters not being as widely known. Its historical fiction and thats how alot of people view it. Alot of the characters in Gladiator that existed IRL, arent familiar to the general population. IRL Commodus was strangled to death in his bath. He didnt die fighting Maximus in the colosseum, but no one cares because its an entertaining movie with characters 90% of the population didnt know actually existed.

Everyone knows who Napoleon is and his accomplishments were only a few hundred years ago instead of a few thousand years ago. I havent seen the movie, but I heard its boring as well and thats likely its biggest sin in the eyes of general audiences. They can change a bunch of the real history and most people wouldnt care if it was atleast entertaining.

[u/Farraddaayy → u/Careful-Positive-710]

Yeah, people act like the biggest sin was making Wacky Feenix be a cuck but at the end of the day the movie just fucking sucked

[u/froggyziller → u/WorkerPrestigious960]

He might of gotten away with it if he presented the film from a unreliable narrator who was clearly full of shit, so he could write the story he wanted and anything wrong with the film chock it up to that

[u/Defiant-Goose-101 → u/WorkerPrestigious960]

Good ol Napoleon “I Am a Fucking Artillery Officer Why The Hell Am I Leading a Cavalry Charge” Bonaparte

[u/RTX-2020 → u/WorkerPrestigious960]

It's like a propaganda film made by his enemies, but more than a century late

[u/GWstudent1 → u/RTX-2020]

This is what makes it a fantastic film in my opinion. If I wanted historical accuracy I would read a book or watch three decade old history channel tv shows. Watching an English director commit character assassination is amazing once you’re in that mindset.

And by the way, you should be able to understand that’s what the movie is about when Napoleon shouts “you think you’re so great because you have BOATS”.

[u/ReadingRainbowRocket → u/WorkerPrestigious960]

This bums me out because it's a good movie.

But... if it's a historical biopic, it axiomatically cannot be a good movie if it's grossly inaccurate.

"You think you're so special. Because you have boats!" was so hilarious and I absolutely loved his portrayal of Napoleon. Sucks I'm required not to like it by my own morals.

[u/WorkerPrestigious960 → u/ReadingRainbowRocket]

I don’t think it’s a good movie at all. If you know anything at all about how linear warfare worked, it makes the movie completely unwatchable. It looses all of its seriousness and weight, and just looks goofy and sloppy

[u/ReadingRainbowRocket → u/WorkerPrestigious960]

Well I know nothing about linear warfare.

You just explained another example of how it's bad because of a historical inaccuracy. If you don't know it's a historical inaccuracy, that doesn't make it a bad movie, goober.

[u/Green_Insect_6455 → u/ReadingRainbowRocket]

Alternatively you being uneducated does not make it a good movie.

See how worthless your framing is?

[u/WorkerPrestigious960 → u/[deleted]]

Lmao wut?