so, a chick that i know on facebook posted about how the newest episode of Game of Thrones upset her because a horse died, a 7 year old was still breast feeding, there was still incest, and an actor she likes took a pike through the knee.
she then continued on with "i'm reading the books so i can skip the parts i don't like" essentially.
That was when i realized that she was one of the illiterate, intentionally stupid, horrible people who don't deserve to share things like my oxygen. -_- she is the reason that Tom Bombadil was not in the movies in any way shape or form. She is the reason there is suddenly a gryphon aided night-time sneak attack at the end of Prince Caspian now. She is the reason that every book i've ever loved has been turned into one of the worlds worst movies. Her. Specifically. Because there are producers, and directors and probably writers out there who have seen comments from her or people like her enough that they seem to think that that's what people want. For them to take a book - a perfectly good, enjoyable, sometimes scary, sometimes creepy, sometimes awesome, sometimes terrible book - and make a mostly mediochre half-assed movie variation on it that has little/nothing to do with the original.
and really the only true downside to this is that i am pretty good friends with her sister and i don't want to hurt her sister's feelings by calling her up and saying, "Hey, you're sister is so stupid it hurts me, and i'm going to do everything in my power to never EVER speak to her, or hear from her again _E_V_E_R_." but GOD do i want to. If i could find a way to do it without causing pain to other people, i would illiminate this girl from existance.
also, this leads into something i wanted to talk about anyway; Peter Pan.
I've always liked Mary Martin's Peter Pan which was a video of a production of the play essentially, and it was my FAVORITE movie of all times as a kid. then eventually i saw the disney movie and just wanted to shoot myself. THEN in about 2008, someone (maybe even Disney) made a NEW movie version, that had a lot of the lines from the play that i loved and a bit more. And i really liked that a lot. and now, i've finally read the book. And it turns out that for the most part, that movie was the closest to the book over all. There were certain bits that the play had that the movie didn't - Tinker Bell asking the children of the world to clap to save her life, the lost boys followed by the "red skins" followed by the pirates followed by the animals (altho in all fairness it should have gone lost boys, pirates, "red skins", animals, but whatever
- but more than 90% of the book was in that 2008 movie. and they did a damn good job. and as i read the book and realized that, it made me incredibly happy ^.^ the movie did add some things. and there were some things lost from the book, but the book is also INCREDIBLY dated... to put some of that stuff in would have made it actually not make sense within the boundries of current society.
So, long story short, i love the 2008 Peter Pan movie, i LOVE the HBO series of George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones, and i HATE people who are purposefully stupid to the point where it affects someone else. ^.^ yay! Now... to go to work
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