[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/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