“I’m in my 40’s now. When I was a kid, I used to have tons of my favorite books that I wanted to see made into movies. Now, in 2025, I hope the exact opposite for any story I love.”

I saw this quote on a movie buff forum and couldn’t agree more. Classic stories are butchered, re-imagined by people who don’t even know the source material, or reframed for ‘modern’ sensibilities.

We do have examples of amazing Lord of the Rings from Peter Jackson – and then abominations like the follow-up series on Amazon that shows the show runners don’t understand the basics of the source material nor the intent of the author that wrote it.