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“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.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“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…<\/p>\n

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