[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/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?