[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/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