Game of Thrones Season 5 Discussion [SPOILERS WITHIN]

[Aroura]

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I won't care, honestly.  I've never been a purist between books and tv or movie adaptations.  I know that different mediums require different kinds of story telling that often require alterations in the story.  I'm a huge reader, and there have only been a handful of times when I've hated a TV or movie adaptation.  Dean Koontz's Watchers was one, because they basically changed the whole point of the story, and the movie just sucked even as a stand alone story.  But mostly,

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I enjoy movie adaptations, like all the HP films (well, except 3, lol)

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, Coraline, The Hunger Games, The Lord of the Rings (the Hobbit I'm kind of meh on, mostly because it was toooooo long), Memoires of a Geisha, and a ton of others.

Anyway, my point is, I have not cared about how the TV show has diverged from the existing books, so I doubt I will care when the books finally come out (if they ever do!) and they diverge from the TV show.  I'm just happy to get some of the story, because I very much fear Martin will kick the bucket before he ever finishes the books anyway.

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You mean except 3 of them, or except the third?

I thought the third was meh too, until I watched this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hZ_ZyzCO24

Oh yeah, let me be clear, the film STYLE is lovely.  I like the dark and edgier look, the movement and more artistic film styling.  It is the actual CONTENT that drives me up a wall.  The fact that Harry acts very out of character compared to the rest of the films (and books), including the later, even darker films.  There is a lot of stuff in that movie (including Michael Gambon's first film as Dumbledore and he just wrecked it badly, but grew into the role in later films), that does not feel like I know those people.  That is not Harry.  That is not Dumbledore.  Black is great, Lupin is ok (though again, written better in later films), Ron is even whinier than normal, Hermoinie is just a walking cliche.  So I suppose it is really the treatment of the central characters and locations that I dislike.  As a stand alone film, if it was not a HP story based of a book that takes place in the middle of an ongoing plot...yeah, it's a lovely looking film for sure!  If only the director had cared as much about the characters as he did about the art of the film itself.


I know a lot of film critics love the third film for it's style, and I have no issues with that.  Again, I just disagree with the content.