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The Wheel of Time (2021)
Doesn't Follow The Books
What's the point in adapting a beloved series like The Wheel Of Time if you're not going to follow the books?
Potential Writers/Showrunners out there, learn this lesson. If you're going to adapt something, follow the source material. If the author (or one of the authors in the case of TWOT) is alive, go to them for advice and take it.
Just like The Witcher series, it seems that the Showrunner and Writers for TWOT have a hatred for the source material. If you do, why write for it? Develop your own thing. Not every fantasy story needs to be Game Of Thrones. Wheel of Time had dark moments, to be sure, but they weren't pointlessly or needlessly dark, such as Perrin accidentally killing his Wife (a character created for the show and who's sole purpose was to be fridged in an uncompelling and ridiculous way) in the first episode. Doing that completely changes the characters motivations in the series. I could go on with the various displays of character assassination in this show done to beloved fantasy characters, but that one example sums it up nicely.
This show is not worth the viewing. Read the books and skip this steaming pile of garbage.
Predestination (2014)
Disregards basic concepts of science and twists suck
So I won't criticize the whole time travel portion of the story since I'm of the belief that you can do whatever you want with time travel in a movie as long as it follows the logic you set up for it in your story. What I will criticize is the science behind one of the big twists. Since this will involve spoilers, there's the warning up top, and then I'll leave some space after this sentence so that you can avoid it. Ready? Here we go...
There is no possible way that any human can go back in time and give birth to themselves. I'll give you the fact that if it was possible for an individual that has both sex organs to impregnate themselves (most recent studies have shown that there would be a dominant sex organ so one or the other would function exactly the way its supposed to), there would be no way for someone to be able to give birth to themselves (unless they were the already fertilized egg that was implanted into a host body). You would create an entirely new human. An idiotic twist that defies any semblance of logic that was simply made to be a "bet you didn't see that coming" moment (God knows this movie needed one of those considering all the other twists were easy to guess). Ugh, this movie sucked. The plot doesn't kick into gear until almost two thirds into the movie, the twists all come rapid fire after that (and if you've seen even one time travel movie involving crime in the past, you'll guess all them). Avoid at all cost.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
The movie is funny, why do fans of the book have a problem with it?
I don't see why so many Douglas Adams fans have a problem with this movie, yes I have read the books, yes I will admit the books are funnier, the first three anyway, but you cannot say the movie is bad because the screenplay was written by Douglas Adams. To say that the movie was stupid because it didn't follow the books exactly is dumb, Adams wanted to make a movie that would be funny to every one, and he wanted to add stuff to his creation. I give this movie 9/10 stars because it is funny. The acting is great, Mos Def makes great Ford. The only problem with the movie is the decision to have zooey deschanel play trillian. She acts the same in every single scene, it gets annoying after a while. Alan Rickman was great choice for the voice of marvin, he did it perfectly. I do wish they would have drawn it out and either made it longer or turned it into three movies. great movie, if you have the time get it, and then get the bbc version too.