AKA: Birth by Sleep Volume 2
Wasn't Will Smith in Kingdom Hearts II?
This was huge news years ago. You may also be shocked to know that Mark Hamill voices Master Eraqus.
The whole analogy is on the basis that both the hot dog and the steak are premade for you. The only difference is that one is free (like books at a library) and takes more effort to eat but tastes much better than the other, which costs quite a bit (you know, like going to a movie), takes a *lot* less effort to eat, and tastes far inferior to the steak it claims to be flavored after. One of those choices is obviously more fulfilling than the other.
They also sell long body length pillows at IKEA.
All I'm saying is that if you have a choice between a free steak and a $20 hot dog (plus $15 more in condiments) made to taste like that steak, you'd be an idiot to throw the steak in the garbage and eat the hot dog instead. At the very least, you could save the steak for later.
I remember who said it, but I recall reading something somewhere along the lines of, "Greater problems elsewhere do not invalidate lesser problems here."
It also says a lot about adaptations between mediums. Movies may be a great storytelling medium for stories are made to be watched, but they are a terrible medium for stories that were intended to be read, not watched.
My 29 year-old sister recently complained that there was no Pirate Fairy movie when she was four. She now gets visibly angry when anyone mentions the next Disney Fairies movie to her.
Before either of those was I, Robot. More recently was Ender's Game, which I will admit would have been pretty decent if it weren't an adaptation of a great book. And don't even get me started on Federal Income Tax Form 1040 Instruction Handbook: The Movie.
And I would agree with that. I'm really talking about any case in which someone who is capable of experiencing the real version opts for an adaptation on the logic that, "It's close enough." It has happened with Attack on Titan, A Song of Ice and Fire (which I have yet to read, but am going to before I watch the TV series), Dangan Ronpa, The Walking Dead, and too many other really great things that were adapted to other media. My attitude is that unless you're illiterate, you have no excuse not to read the book, even if you watch the movie first. And even that only really works with books and their on-screen adaptations. What's that? You love Dangan Ronpa: The Animation but can't afford the game and/or the console it's on? Watch a ****** Let's Play of it. At least you'll get part of the source material. But it's still no substitute for the real thing. Note that I said, "instead of," implying that the moviegoer would see the movie with no intention of reading the book. It's especially awful when someone notices that I'm reading, for example, I, Robot and says, "Why don't you just watch the movie?" and then I have to explain that 90% movies based on books are inferior to the source material in every way. I have a feeling that these are usually the same morons who "wait for the movie" when they hear about a really good book. And what about all the book-movies that don't even try to stay true to the source material? Maybe I just have really specific tastes, but every book-movie that I've seen has been a mishmash of mass appeal, lazy paragraph to script adaptation, and a few names from the book it was based on. Even The Hobbit has only managed to be okay, thus far, and I doubt it'll get any better. I will not speak for Lord of the Rings because I have neither read the books nor seen the movies. To be fair, the only reason I haven't read the books is that I can't get over the fact that Bilbo is a way better protagonist than Frodo. I barely got past the first chapter because of this.
"SERFDESTRUCT can onry be used in batter. Attempting to use batter moves outside of batter is a vioration of the rures, and must be punished." Square Enix Public Relations Representative stops spinning to reveal... Motomu Toriyama. DUN DUN DUUUUUUN. You die of plotwistio. CREDITS: Writers: HIS HOLINESS, ZALTHOR Keyblade Spirit Decisive Pumpkin Directed By: HIS HOLINESS, ZALTHOR Special Thanks To: HIS HOLINESS, ZALTHOR The Dream Traveler Snorlax
SARA used SELFDESTRUCT! Foe PIKACHU fainted! SARA held on thanks to her FOCUS BAND! Do dodo doodle do do do dee dee dee Square Enix Public Relations Representative A: No! My sexy Lightning Type Pokemon never loses! Square Enix Public Relations Representative A is spinning in place and laughing. It's kinda weird. "Intruding in someone erse's timerine is a vioration of the rures in this demo. Timerine invasion wirr be a feature in the finar rerease. Prease be excited." You have died of death.
SQUARE ENIX PUBLIC RELATIONS REPRESENTATIVE A declines your offer, then walks a ways away from you, does an about face, locks eyes with you, and says, "When two trainers rock eyes, that means they have to battre!" DOODLYDOODLYDOODLYDOODLYDOOO BA BA BUMBUMBUMBUM (DA DA DUMDUMDUMDUM) DO DO DOODLEDOODLEDOODLEDOODLY DO DO, DO DOOOOO! SQUARE ENIX PUBLIC RELATIONS REPRESENTATIVE A has challenged you to a battle! SQUARE ENIX PUBLIC RELATIONS REPRESENTATIVE A sent out Pikachu! Pikachu ♀ Lvl 40 HP: 135/135 Go, [CHOOSE YOUR LEAD POKEMON]! FIGHT ITEM POKEMON RUN
"I'm sarry, I do not know that Engrish word. "
You unplug your computer and remember that it's been off this whole time due to the blackout. Your internet access is limited to using the Sokumenzu Generator your phone.
I'm mixed on it too. On one hand, I've played the beta several times and hated them all, but I really want that cloth map of Cyrodiil. I wonder if it would be worth it to preorder it, get the bonus, and then just sell the game back.
"Reaving is not avairaber yet. This is just a demo. The fur game is stirr in deveropment. Prease be excited.""
You successfully break down the wall only to find another, identical, wall behind it. You try again and get the same result. After several hours of this, you collapse from exhaustion and see SQUARE ENIX PUBLIC RELATIONS REPRESENTATIVE A standing over you. In that awful L-less accent, he says, "I'm sarry, the outside is not avairaber yet. This is just a demo. The fur game is stirr in deveropment. Prease be excited."
You decide to take a nap. [Do do doodly do] You awake feeling refreshed. The power is still out, but your Pokemon are fully healed. You casually flip through the book. It is boring as hell. Something in the back of your mind tells you that it will probably get better around chapter 3, so you skip to that point. [Time passes] After six consecutive days of reading, you finish the book and realize that it had absolutely nothing to do with your predicament. You kick the wall in frustration and hear a WHOOSH come from the kitchen. You navigate to the kitchen to discover a Japanese looking man clad in a formal suit with zippered pockets in several places. Above his head floats a line text that reads, SQUARE ENIX PUBLIC RELATIONS REPRESENTATIVE A. In a horribly stereotypical Japanese accent, he asks, "Do you want to bird a snowman?" You hurry to the escape tunnel that you dug for just this occasion. Unfortunately, you notice a quarter of the way through that you never put up support beams like you were planning to. The tunnel shakes, as if someone kicked a wall in the house above. You try to escape, but rocks fall and everyone in the tunnel dies.
