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Drag's partner is 10 minutes into reading Artemis Fowl and already hates the movie (lemmy.nz)
submitted 1 month ago by dragonfucker@lemmy.nz to c/books@lemmy.ml
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Drag showed the Artemis Fowl movie trailer to drag's dragon right before it started reading Artemis Fowl. So far:

Artemis is clearly an evil white collar criminal
Artemis is the bad guy in the story
Artemis is NOT a surfer.

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[–] Renfield@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

Love the books.

There is no film.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Give them some time, they'd not be the first to have a better perspective halfway through reading something

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Drag doesn't think anyone could learn to like the movie by reading the book. The movie is horrible.

[–] Niquarl@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Didn't even bother watching the movie after seeing the teaser for it.

I don't understand why they change everything so much? Same thing with Percy Jackson. Especially after the huge success of Hary Potter, you'd think greedy studios would want that.

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 0 points 2 weeks ago

Because Artemis Fowl isn't anything like the popular children's media. The protagonist is the bad guy? He's a child who kidnapped a fairy to ransom her for gold? It's awesome, and Disney will never approve a movie with that plot, even though they wanted to use the IP.