Like, in a hostile
'I want to shoot the director way' kind of 'pissed off'? Sure, I have a few I want to rant about that people probably already know annoy me...
Inspector Gadget: Yes, trust Disney to screw this up completely. Stick to your 'Lion Kings' and 'Emperor's New Grooves', stay away from live action adaptations. What a horrid effort and as an avid viewer in my childhood years I was disgusted - yeh, disgusted - by how much this film strayed so far from the source material.
Who needs to explain how he became Gadget? No-one needs to know or even cares! Dr. Claw, the unseen evil, is completely ruined in this filmas well.
Poor script, bad casting (Broderick?) and a rubbish plot. Most recently, 'Garfield' and 'Alvin & The Chipmunks' joined this film in the abyss of
'screwed up forever'.
War Of The Worlds: Do you think we could actually get a film based on the book? You know - England, 19th Century and all that? I wouldn't care if Cruise was in it, but at least stick to the story and don't turn it into a metaphor for the 'terrorist within' paranoia Mr. Spielberg!
Its a family domestic with Tripods.
Transformers: Quick cuts, too many close ups of action, a basic ignorance of the bots and lets not forget the entire lack of connection to the original material. If you are adapting an iconic show for the big screen, why throw away all the tools that exist that ensure much potential for future stories?
As a person growing up with TFs I am intimately knowledgable of how and why the bots came to earth. And it wasn't for a damn cube!
The Hitcher (2007): Oh, what a complete rip off. Its almost scene after badly cloned scene. The addition of the female lead was a big mistake and so was ruining the Halsey characters isolation by being completely alone and unbeleived save for a chance meeting with a waitress that he doesn't really know much about.
Bean is a great actor and elevates many films he stars in, but even he couldn't save this turkey wit Hauer's original performance outclassing him all the way.
