 We live in a society where people sometimes choose between going to the movies or picking up a good book to read Oftentimes a movie is based on a book or a graphic novel or a play or a comic book series Or an animated TV series or just something else. That's not original to the film What if I told you and please bear with me on this for a second as I guide you on this journey that you could go to a Film watch it understand it leave pleasant and not have to have had any knowledge that it existed in other formats such as books Television shows etc. You get what I'm saying. That would be amazing, wouldn't it? Well, it turns out that happens a lot and The times it's done, right? You didn't even know other material existed and the times that it's done wrong You point out how it doesn't make sense and then people go online criticize your complaints and say read the book I'm getting fed up and I know I've talked about this on previous rants But this is a specific one now to just this initial complaint I get this time and time again from idiots on YouTube and it makes no sense There was a time not that long ago. I know I know I'm getting up there in age I'm getting older we all we all do we all age every single day as a matter of fact every single second of every day As a matter of fact there was a time When it was like not cool to read it was like edgy to just watch movies and TV and and reading was for dweebs and nerds I read I listen to audiobooks. I actually enjoy quite a bit But what the fuck happened where you go to a movie? It doesn't make sense you say it and then people are like you're a moron You need to read the book you need to have all this information at your fingertips before going in or that's your own fault No, it's the movies fault. That's why they made the movie I watched eight out of the nine Harry Potter films before I read the books the last one I couldn't wait for the film so I burned through the audiobooks and loved it loved every minute of it And you know what I understood those movies completely. I didn't miss a single thing as far as the story beats Yeah, sure. There was some parts in the later films. I was like What who's Peter pedigree? What why do I give a crap about this rat? What's going on? But after rewatching a couple times it started to piece it together these movies just go really fast There's a lot of information some of the movies are just embarrassing compared to the books And they should have been made how they were to begin with like Percy Jackson I mean I understand there's there's people that enjoyed those movies that the two that they made but come on Books are so much better. And so had I read the books before seeing those movies I would have been just pissed instead. I was just mildly annoyed at how bad they were So it's kind of a damned if you do damned if you don't the same could be said for the girl with the dragon tattoo I went into that movie with you know, David Fincher being one of my favorite directors thinking this is gonna be amazing I love the book and then I saw the movie. I'm like, oh, I mean, I know I know the mystery So there's not like there's a ton of action, you know, I'm just waiting for them to figure out what I already know Yeah, you kind of miss a lot of that Excitement although to be fair Scar Scar's guards typically a villain and they put him in like a black turtleneck in a mansion And it was super eerie so it's pretty obvious he was the bad guy from the onset even if you hadn't read the book But whatever a screenplays job is to take the pertinent important information from the book and Translate it to something that audiences can understand. This is where video game movies typically really drop the ball They put in so many Easter eggs from their gaming references that it's lost on a majority of the audience There's just so many tips of the hat or you know iconic moments in the movie They're so out of place and dumb typically that only like the hardcore gamers would be like, oh, yeah I love that part. She's got her double guns the last Tomb Raider that was such a stupid scene like she gets the double It's like I'll take two and then the movie ends and if you'd never played the games you'd be like Okay, she's got like a gun fetish. Why does she need to why is that cool? But anybody that's played like the og Laura Croft Tomb Raider for like PlayStation 1 and Sega Saturn would be like. Oh, yeah, the double guns. Yeah, I wish she had her polygon pointy tits That would have really sold to me It's even more magnified for people like me too that are huge movie buffs And we see at least a couple a week whether it's a new movie in theaters or just an older one We missed or just a rewatch of a classic. I wouldn't even have time to get all the literature read You know before all these movies come out and we're not even talking about just books or video games If it's a period piece should I have a vast understanding of the signing of the Declaration of Independence? Before I watch Nicholas Cage try to steal it Do I need to know the ins and outs of Pearl Harbor before I watch one of the multitude of films that have come out on that? I know the basic plot, but I don't know the names of the ships I don't know the you know what was happening in the boiler room during You know the hours of 8 to 5 Like this is the kind of shit that sometimes crops up in the comments like this guy doesn't know the difference between a B 52 bomber and a blah blah blah blah blah like that plane wasn't even in existence yet He utters that in the review which just credits the entire thing I've really noticed a lot of that revisionist history when it comes to the Star Wars prequels movies that were not good If you like them great I don't give a shit so many of the new generation grew up watching the Clone Wars series Which I guess is really really good. I've I've seen like two or three episodes. I thought they were fine I'm sure they get way better. I believe me. I'm sure they do I just haven't had time to watch them they somehow Interject the goodness of that with the prequel films themselves or take what they did to Anakin in that series Which I guess is a lot more fleshed out and they they make him kind of a likeable cool Character that becomes a villain instead of the whiny little bitch that turns into Darth Vader And I'm supposed to be impressed by that They they put those two together in the same bucket, but that's not how people watch movies the movies have to do the job First they have to get you there and if they don't they ultimately fail I also have examples of people who read the books but refuse to watch the movie in the fear that the movies will be Inferior to the books in fear inferior not a great sentence doesn't roll very well, but you know So what are you supposed to say to those guys? You know you basically have limited yourself to one media over the other to begin with should I go to them and be like watch the movie You know you can't tell me about the book if you haven't seen the movie You don't even know what you're talking about in the movie this happened not this and since this is the newer thing This is the right thing. Yours is discredited now. You haven't seen the last Harry Potter movie They don't they don't battle in the inside the building they battle in the courtyard. There isn't people all around It's just Harry and Voldemort. It's very intimate. It's very one-on-one. That's how it should have been the whole time the director fixed it I don't actually believe that I think the book version is better there. There wasn't enough heart at that last film I love it to death, but there wasn't enough heart I hope you get what I'm putting down and maybe you've witnessed this yourself or even had conversations with people that have argued with you Although usually these happen online because people are too cowardly to say what they feel in public or they for some reason feel Like they have to be bigger dicks when it comes to being you know in a comment on YouTube I don't I don't really get it. There's something empowering about tearing other people down because their opinions different than yours So you have to find ways to discredit them so often I will flub a word or I'll mispronounce something and that'll be the one thing they pinpoint out of an 8 to 12 minute video And they'll say boom Accredited. Oh you admitted it. You admitted it. You didn't read the book. What a fool you are I think I could go in and just pretend I read it or not say anything at all, but I'd like to give full Transparency, but that just really lets the clowns run amok I haven't ranted about nonsense in a while So I thought this would be a fun thing to bring up as it never seems to go away It doesn't actually bother me anymore outside of a just eye roll and oh Here we go again. Mama Mia. Here we go again. That's it That's all I wanted to say if you're part of the read-a-book club You can just shut the hell up put the book down Get off my channel Go do something better with your time like watch a movie Thanks for watching the video if you haven't make sure to subscribe there's videos weekly I do a couple of week as a matter of fact You can like the video if you had a good time and to show a little bit of support And you could join me on patreon at patreon.com slash Adam does movies for even more bonus episodes Of shows if you need more than that I have plenty to give I'm on twitch at twitch.com slash Adam Olinger Where I'm playing games badly. I have a second channel called Adam Olinger plus every Friday You can find me on screen rant where I do a show called real rivalries Pitting two movies head to head a lot of options for you do with that information what you will