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minttown1Okay. So, I try not to be one of those fans who gets bent out of shape when a movie is different than the source on which it's based. I'm generally not. For example, the Harry Potter films are a somewhat lacking adaptation, but I love them fiercely, and I consider them good enough that I probably won't ever reread the books unless I have children. The Silent Hill movies are totally dumb compared to the horror of the games, but I still really like them, and I'm not gonna complain about missing details as long as I get me some Pyramid Head. But man, regardless of my general laidback attitude toward film adapations, I am so disappointed in John Dies at the End.
Not everything about it, of course! Dave and John were excellent, the monsters were excellent, Korrok, so many other things. But Amy. I know that I am irrationally attached to this character from the books, because she reminds me so much of myself (great big nerd, lives her social life on the internet, chronic pain from the rods in her back, likes diet mountain dew, driving phobia, etc.), but that attachment made it impossible not to feel like the film adaptation stripped her of all personality. For the sake of turning a somewhat serialized novel into one coherent story, certain things were shuffled around or combined, and movie!Amy was actually two or three characters from the novel put together. Fine, except that she didn't have any of the character traits of any of them. She was bland, to put it kindly. And she didn't even have red hair, wtf.
And they made Molly a boy dog and changed her name, ugh, I don't get it.
So, I worry that this movie will have no happy audience. Fans of the novel are going to have things to complain about -- something they love will have been cut or altered, whether it's Amy or Las Vegas or Dave's job at the video store or something else. And I'm not sure the movie necessarily stands alone all that well, since my primary moments of glee came from the fact that I was seeing John and Dave doing stuff. idk. At least Dave's actor managed to subtly convey the whole bromance John and Dave have going.
Not everything about it, of course! Dave and John were excellent, the monsters were excellent, Korrok, so many other things. But Amy. I know that I am irrationally attached to this character from the books, because she reminds me so much of myself (great big nerd, lives her social life on the internet, chronic pain from the rods in her back, likes diet mountain dew, driving phobia, etc.), but that attachment made it impossible not to feel like the film adaptation stripped her of all personality. For the sake of turning a somewhat serialized novel into one coherent story, certain things were shuffled around or combined, and movie!Amy was actually two or three characters from the novel put together. Fine, except that she didn't have any of the character traits of any of them. She was bland, to put it kindly. And she didn't even have red hair, wtf.
And they made Molly a boy dog and changed her name, ugh, I don't get it.
So, I worry that this movie will have no happy audience. Fans of the novel are going to have things to complain about -- something they love will have been cut or altered, whether it's Amy or Las Vegas or Dave's job at the video store or something else. And I'm not sure the movie necessarily stands alone all that well, since my primary moments of glee came from the fact that I was seeing John and Dave doing stuff. idk. At least Dave's actor managed to subtly convey the whole bromance John and Dave have going.
