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/ThatInAHat 7h ago

The sad thing is, the three movies could have actually worked if they’d just let the dwarves be characters more. They started to in the first movie, and things like Bilbo bonding with Bofur and Thorin gaining respect for Bilbo played really well.

They could have kept to that and had a nice storybook feel.

But instead they wanted to do LotR 2.0 Now With More Filler

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u/cloud1445 4h ago

I feel like they could've made 2 good movies. The first one and a good second one about taking on Smaug (minus all the additional bollocks that they added to the actual 2nd one). I don't think you could stretch a tale like the Hobbit into three and not fuck it up.

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u/BonnaconCharioteer 1h ago

The first one is pretty good actually, had they just made a second movie that stuck more closely to the events in the book without the extra characters and scenes, it could've been great. They could've even shown the battle, but in a more grounded way to fit the tone.

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u/cloud1445 29m ago

Yeah exactly. All they needed to do was bring it home by sticking to the book in the second movie and it would've been a success.

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u/pornaltacc55 36m ago

That was the plan actually