Elementary - Dear Watson:

WWmelb:

Buuuut... yeah.. we'll see. One of my favourite serieseses of all time... If they fuck Oi... i'm going to hurt someone.

That's the thing I am woried about... there is a lot to try and pull off!

Who whole section with Susan and the backstory there... will that be done justice...

And I agree with the worry about Oi! I can see him just ending up as a bad CGI version of a poodle, rather than the honey-badger-esque version I have in my head! :/

With any luck they'll hire the same VFX crew that did Antebus in King's Kingdom Hospital. That was an awesome CGI character.

I'm "hoping" that drawing of the three / wastelands will be one of the tv seasons, because those two books deserve a long, in depth telling.

(captcha : Obey Society... fuck you)

Generator Rex. Ben 10 looked stupid as hell in live action. I dont want the same to happen to this.

Candy Land- Seriously? What the fuck Adam Sandler.

The Shadowlord:
Any video game. It just can't be done right. They're two different mediums altogether, and while occasionally a book can translate well into a film and vice versa, it's because those two require no interaction from the viewer and create the visuals all by themselves. Video games require a player in order to create atmosphere and immersion. They just look silly when made into films.

Oh, and it's always written by terrible writers.

damn Ninja's!
always read my mine... so they be wise!

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(Wise words indeed!)

Matthew94:

You liked Tom Bombadil?

I found him to be the worst part of the book. It's about 1/4 of all the pages and nothing happens.

I will instantly second that! I found him to be completely obnoxious and irritating in the books and I rejoiced when he didn't show up in the Extended Version of The Fellowship as well.

Aarowbeatsdragon:
i hope this doesnt get me hate. But the elder scrolls series. i see people say theyd want it to be put into a movie but it wouldnt work! the elder scrolls games all have loads of content in it, its about the exploration and all the stuff you can do! it wouldnt work in movie form!

Yeah, and with their "great" script, they would probably not get far. Elder Scrolls is, and will always be, relying heavily on gameplay. But yes, please, no Elder Scrolls movie.

Add me to the Bored by Bombadil group. But loved the movies and excited about the Hobbit. I've read the books dozens of times, but enjoy seeing various film versions.

I shudder at Candyland the movie. Candyland the game already bores me to tears.

All of the live action Seuss stuff should have never seen the light of day.

Pratchett's stuff should should never be done by a big budget company.

I'm EXCEEDINGLY nervous about Selena Gomez in 13 Reasons Why. I fear it's going to look into her fan base, then veer into after school movie territory and end with her getting a make over, boyfriend, and living happily ever after.

Trivun:

Pebblig:
The Hobbit. Why do you have to tarnish this too Peter?

The other thing I would say would've been the Terry Pratchett Discworld novels (my favourite set of books), however they actually did a fantastic job (The Hogfather, Going Postal and Colour of Magic/The Light Fantastic) of converting these to TV. So much so that I actually look forwards to them doing more. I think they captured the characters and some of the humour particularly well.

Very good news then... The Mob, the company who made the first three features, are already in the process of making a fourth, based on Unseen Academicals (following their break to make Skellig last year). Which I also greatly look forward too, though I still wish they'd do either Night Watch (one of my favourite Watch stories) or Monstrous Regiment (including the lesbian subtext between Lofty and Tonker - partly because I'm a perv, and partly because it genuinely was one of the really interesting aspects of the book)...

aww damnit. I'm still hoping for Thud! or Carpe Jugulum

Mass Effect. As if the new book was bad enough, what do you think Hollywood would do to that?

*shudder*

Um...the first 2-5 episodes of a series?

Editing them together to make a "movie"...yeah, don't do that.

I would say American Psycho but it's already been butchered (and then the sequel which made no sense in any way shape or form).

Proper answer though would be pretty much any novel where the writing style and character's inner thoughts are key. A lot of my favourite books would make terrible movies and I'm OK with that.

On the other hand somebody get a move on and turn Iain M Banks' novels into movies. There's so many moments I would want to see visualised on the big screen.

lacktheknack:

Strain42:
Calvin and Hobbes. I'm terrified that once Bill Watterson dies and the copyright falls into someone else's hands that we're gonna be a bunch of stuff that will literally punch us right in the childhood.

[bursts into horrified tears]

Yeah, I'm gonna agree with this one. Impassable problem 1: Who would voice Hobbes?

GAH! I have my own voice for Hobbes. Calvin I don't really get a voice for, but Hobbes is so distinct in my head that trying to imagine him with anyone else hurts.

Volf99:

thaluikhain:
More or less anything by Lovecraft.

You just can't put a new colour never before seen by humans on a TV screen, and good luck trying to get dimensions that can't exist in our universe, though you can hint at that.

You can put big monsters with tentacles and all, but that wasn't the appeal of Lovecraft. Any hack can do that, and half of them do. But to create a sense of dread...you need a good director et al to do that, and if you have that, you don't need to do a Lovecraft story.

um what about Guillermo del toro and his attempt? I think he has the talent for such a thing

Oh, he could probably make a very good Guillermo del Toro film. It just probably wouldn't be a Lovecraft film.

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

Mostly because it probably wouldn't do very well in the box office. Then again, its so controversial it might end up like a reversal of the "Passion of Christ" incident.

Strain42:

Who would voice Hobbes?

Hugo Weaving!!!!!!