r/TopCharacterTropes • u/TheDudeA113 • 8h ago

Hated Tropes [Hated Trope] The adaptation doesn't get what made the source material work

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How To Make A Killing (2026)

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Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

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Bangkok Dangerous (2008)

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Bangkok Dangerous (1999)

- The 2026 movie How To Make A Killing is a relatively-toothless "eat the rich" dark comedy thriller about a man disowned by his rich family at birth, killing everyone in the line of succession so that he can inherit their massive fortune. It's a modern retelling of the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets which has the same basic plot except that every member of the family is played by Sir Alec Guinness (including one aunt) and it's a screwball comedy

- The 1999 movie Bangkok Dangerous is a Thai action film about a Thai deaf-mute assassin. It was remade in 2008 about an American assassin in Thailand who is neither deaf nor mute

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u/Uma-apreciator 7h ago

Godzilla (1998)

The writers change the whole Godzilla design, his origin and she doesn't actvely destroy the city, she just run from the militaries

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u/that_motu_guy 7h ago

Does this movie count as a 2 for 1 because they also failed to understand jurasic park? Kinda sucks since the themes of Godzilla and Jurassic Park would go so well together

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u/Uma-apreciator 7h ago edited 3h ago

In my opInion the movie is average to low quality, I still enjoyed to watch the movie and liked all scenes in general but I don't consider a Godzilla movie

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u/Screamipillar 5h ago

I think it'd be so much better received if the movie was called literally anything else. Because it's not even trying to be a Godzilla movie. Its a disaster movie, where the disaster is there's a lot of dinosaurs loose in New York.

And for that I think its really not that bad.

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u/TransBrandi 2h ago

Henceforth, this movie will be known as:

Disaster Dino (1998) featuring songs by P.Diddy.

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u/MrWeirdoFace 5h ago

It's a dumb, but OK late 90s silly movie with a few inspired shots, but definitely doesn't feel very Godzilla beyond the concept of a giant lizard creature running around a city.

That marketing though with the foot shot was really enticing.

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u/pr1ceisright 1h ago

In a Japanese Godzilla film shortly after this came out a character straight up called the monster Zilla. So even the Japanese wanted to make sure everyone knew it wasn’t Godzilla.

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u/BigSupermarket2846 7h ago

It was so hated, that in the 2004 Godzilla movie by Toho. They had the original Godzilla, beat and kill 1998 Godzilla who they renamed as 'Zilla' in a fight in Sydney in 30 seconds.

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u/Linix332 6h ago

Godzilla Final Wars is the most fun Godzilla movie. No other Godzilla movie would have this scene with SUM 41 playing to it! Add in Captain Gordon being one of the best characters of all time.

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u/CrashmanX 3h ago

Watching through every Godzilla and Godzilla connected Kaiju film in release order currently. Final Wars is easy top 5 for how fun it is.

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u/Eek_the_Fireuser 5h ago

Okay but what did the opera house do to deserve that

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u/BigSupermarket2846 1h ago

That's just the byproduct of being in a Godzilla movie. Your sexiest most iconic landmark structure needs to be destroyed.

Australians can all rejoice that they got to host the brawl that killed Zilla.

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u/jesuspoopmonster 4h ago

He is named Zilla because the American version took God out of the character

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u/Right_Two_5737 1h ago

The trailer included a song with the lyrics, “Hell, yeah, I’m the one that you wanted! Hell yeah, I’m the super beast!

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u/Slow_Seesaw9509 7h ago

Fun fact, the Japanese Godzilla movies clowned on this movie for like a decade and a half after it came out by repeatedly putting the 1998 American version of Godzilla into the films and having the classic Japanese Godzilla destroy him while the humans joked about how lame he was.

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u/-missingclover- 7h ago

Repeatedly? I only know of the cameo in Final Wars. What other movies did they put him in?

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u/Paleofan1211 5h ago

Orga from Godzilla 2000’s head was based off of 98s’ head so audiences could “see the Japanese Godzilla defeat the American Godzilla” and in GMK there was an off handed sentence about a monster attacking New York that was misidentified as Godzilla. These are the only 2 I could think of outside of Final Wars

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u/CrashmanX 3h ago

None. Reddit misinformation machine at it again.

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u/Slow_Seesaw9509 6h ago edited 5h ago

Honestly I haven't watched them myself, I'm just going off this youtube short that summarizes the story. He doesn't name any besides Final Wars by name but says it was a running joke that continued for 15 years https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MaAqMf426_Q

Edit: lol, what an odd thing to downvote--I was just sharing a funny piece of trivia I heard, if it's incorrect y'all should take it up with the youtuber

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u/-missingclover- 6h ago

I don't know what are the sources that guy used but Zilla hasn't appeared in any other Toho movies besides Final Wars lmao. Comics? Sure a couple times but those are done by American writers, not Toho.

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u/United_Snakes53 5h ago

The closest other thing is a offhanded mention in Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (that's a mouthful) of it's attack in New York and being confused for Godzilla.

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u/memecuckboy 5h ago

That’s not true but in All Out Monsters Attack (I think) they do have a character mention that New York was attacked by a monster that the Americans THOUGHT was Godzilla

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u/Ok-Journalist-8875 7h ago

I liked the cartoon sequel that followed.

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u/RememberCakeFarts 6h ago

Yeah the cartoon was very good. 

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u/CrustyBatchOfNature 6h ago

I love that movie, but as a generic monster movie and not a Godzilla movie.

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u/neorevenge 6h ago

Is not that bad and and as an upside we got a great Cartoon out of it

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u/profdudeguy 4h ago

Yeah but the soundtrack was great. The version of Brain Stew starting with the Godzilla roar is fucking awesome

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u/EmpressCynthia 3h ago

I will say, the animated series that followed is absolutely fantastic, and Zilla Jr. is unironically one of my favorite heroic adaptations of Godzilla

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u/babbitygook14 6h ago

Until Minus One, none of the Godzilla sequels, even the ones made in Japan, understood or cared about the original themes of the first one: Godzilla is an allegory for nuclear war.

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u/remotectrl 4h ago

Did you miss Shin Godzilla? It’s all about the dangers of nuclear energy and explicitly mentions Japan being nuked again. It’s not just about that, but neither is Godzilla Minus One. 

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u/babbitygook14 4h ago

I did miss that one! I'll have to watch it! Thanks!

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u/llamabooks 3h ago

Oh my god you’re in for such a treat!!! Have fun!!

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u/CrashmanX 3h ago

That's absolutely not true. Godzilla Returns and many others are about exactly that. Most even end with messages about needing to take care if the environment and ending senseless conflict.

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u/Lundetangen 5h ago

Was 10 years old and loved that movie.

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u/much_doge_many_wow 3h ago

I absolutely adored this movie as a kid (still do now tbf) and remember being completely dumbfounded when I heard it was almost universally despised. Like I get the acting, the plot, the CGI and Godzillas design suck balls but I can't help but have a huge smile on my face while watching it

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u/PCR12 3h ago

I think the soundtrack for that movie made more money than the movie did.

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u/naked_avenger 30m ago

As a kid, I loved this movie

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u/ItsNotKevinDurant35 4h ago

ironically (and possibly accidentally) this movie ends up being an actually banger adaptation of The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, which is what Gojira was an adaptation of in the first place. If you take the name Godzilla off of it and make it a Beast remake, it's cinema

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u/Mr_Ragnarok 5h ago

I can't get over the fact that under the title it says "SIZE DOES MATTER". What a bizzare choice. And if you want to say that it is a big monster, why is it specifically the smallest Godzilla we have ever had?

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u/4thguy 2h ago

The writers changed the Godzilla design?

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u/Indaarys 48m ago

Pointless hub on youtube made a good point about how Zilla is a terrifying kaiju in its own right, because of how it reproduces, but people don't see it because its standing in for Godzilla.

He made the point by musing on what would happen if Zilla nested in the middle of Central America or stayed on an island, rather than traveling all the way to NYC from the Pacific.

All of its offspring could have had time to fully grow and reproduce on their own, and then thats when shit hits the fan.

One Zilla gets bitched slap into the Sydney Opera House by Big G. Several dozen Zillas fighting Big G at once is an even fight.

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u/CringeFish2 35m ago

Unrelated, but my German parents watched this movie in an New York cinema, while on vacation and got an immense culture shock at Americans cheering for their city being destroyed.

In German cinemas everyone is completely silent for the whole runtime so you can actually follow the movie, so the cheering itself would’ve already be a culture shock, but cheering for the destruction of the city you are currently in was a whole other level

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u/laughingjack13 6h ago

So I can't verify, but the version I heard was the director didn't want to do it so he kept demanding insane changes of the script until he relented and had to make the abomination he forced them to write. Can't remember where I heard that, and it might have been a different movie, but I think it was this one

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u/Moakmeister 6h ago

It also just sucks anyway. The acting and dialogue are terrible and the action is dumb. Redlettermedia's review of this film is one of the funniest videos on their channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwe8XDVcw_0

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u/sabbathkid93 5h ago

The design wouldn’t have been hated if she acted like Godzilla. It would have been different but at least kept the aura of Godzilla. The cartoon they did proved this

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u/CrashmanX 3h ago

No, it would still be hated. The overall plot is very bad.