From: bleablah@mume.invalid   
      
   Sirius Black submitted this idea :   
   > On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:43:14 -0400, Chan Welbourne wrote:   
      
   >> Wilford Dumont expressed precisely :   
   >>> On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:14:08 -0400, Sirius Black wrote:   
   >>>> On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:05:27 -0400, Chan Welbourne wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> How so many times do we see the Moaning Myrtles sob "the films and book   
   >>>>> storylines diverted dramatically"...or "movie fail; the book had it   
   >>>>> right and the movie fails over and over"...or "in the book they did   
   >>>>> this and that and the film failed by portraying that as"...or "here is   
   >>>>> where the movie really failed me in telling the *real* story...or "why   
   >>>>> couldn't they do it like the book and say this or do that"...or "why do   
   >>>>> they always sacrificed My book to keep the action up"...or "why can't   
   >>>>> the film be as romantic as the book"...or "total epic movie fail, the   
   >>>>> book was sooooooo much more dramatic"... or "one day someone will   
   >>>>> remake those darn crappy movies into something more to my liking, the   
   >>>>> Book!...   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> ...and on and on and on in a perpetual state of elementary whine. :-Z   
   >>>>   
   >>>> lol   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> It makes no matter how often you tell these moaners that the film is an   
   >>>>> *adaptation* of the book, that the author (Rowling) had severe critical   
   >>>>> oversight to the *adaptation* - it pleased her but not you, who cares?   
   >>>>> - or that film simply cannot, will not, nor can it be made to *be the   
   >>>>> book*.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Cruel show, what else have they got to do after a decade of over   
   >>>> analyzing books published, to be published and yet to be published.   
   >>>> Superficial people do superficial things, you know, the Mark Of the   
   >>>> Idiot - doing the same thing over and over again and coming out with   
   >>>> the same results.   
   >>   
   >>> Is that a Dark Mark tattoo and all?   
   >>   
   >> The film did a terrible job of showing the Dark Mar, the book was   
   >> waaaaaaaaaaay better. Notice how the film never showed the Dark Mark on   
   >> the black Death eaters? :D :D :D   
      
   > This was solved in the book but the film fucked it up as horribly as   
   > eating fudge picked off asphalt. The Book said the Dark Mark on Black   
   > Death Eaters was actually pink!   
      
   > Dark Pink.   
      
   I'm beginning to think this thread was a mistake. A Dark Mistake. B-)   
      
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