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Why do movie directors/producers feel the need to butcher any licensed property they bring to the screen?

I'm thinking of such recent movies as the so-called "adaptions" of Transformers and G.I. Joe, but also older flicks like the Flintstones, etc... Any time a hollywood director (such as Michael Bay) makes such a film, he always screws it up by making the characters look stupid and/or radically different (i.e. making Megatron look utterly unrecognizable, making the Honeymooners black, or casting Rosie O' Donnell as Wilma, etc.), adding inappropriate elements not found in the original (usually sex or foul language), and basically doing whatever he can to alienate the fans of the original show or comic. In Transformers 2, not only is Devastator stupid-looking, but he is actually given TESTICLES!!! (Yes, Michael Bay himself admitted that that is what the metal balls hanging down were!) And the director of the G.I Joe movie has indicated in an interview that he doesn't care what the old-time fans think of his film, as long as he makes lots of dough off it like Michael Bay did with Transformers 1 and 2. There ought to be a law prohibiting people who don't care about the original material from making films based on it... I mean, look at the guy they cast for Duke in G.I. Joe; he looks nothing like the real Duke, who has blond hair and blue eyes. Would it have been too much to ask for the guy to at least dye his hair blond? I mean, c'mon!

Public Comments

1. most people have run out of good ideas and stick to stories that once worked. plus they know many nostalgia lovers will see it anyway!


2. written stories often don't have the visual detail necessary to make a good movie, so creators adapt a story to make it more visually enticing while trying to stay on the original story. People who watch movies don't/haven't always read the story in print, so they know the film. The visual details necessary for film are often not adequate for the transition, so movie-makers take a little creative license, and add or alter details as they see fit without breaking the law.


3. Laws that prevent people from making movies, writing books, or recording music is what Republicans want, and what Nazis did.

   It's called censorship.



4. I agree with you, I do not like how hollywood screwed all the classics like Transformers, G. I. Joe, Flintstones, and X Men. I also did not like the extra inappropriate elements like the sex and the language and I feel that there was too much goofing off when they made those films (particularly the Transformers movies). They all could have been way better than they were.

   X Men super-sucked when they didn't have Gambit in it, they made Wolverine the main guy and none of them wore the original colors on their costumes.

   These movies are tragedy's of our time. and they all SUCKED!

   I like the originals and that's the way I want to keep and remember them by.