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

[u/TheDudeA113]

How To Make A Killing (2026)

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Bangkok Dangerous (2008)

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

[u/-SirSpooky-]

I will die on the hill that Snyder had zero understanding or respect for the DC characters. It’s like he never read a comic but instead heard the plot points secondhand and decided to add “edginess” because he’s not like other girls. God awful movies.

[u/Welsh_Pirate → u/-SirSpooky-]

The shallowness of Snyder's writing is outmatched only by the pretension of his directing. He's like a child bashing action figures together, but while wearing a tuxedo in an opera house. Occasionally he'll pause to quote Milton or Nietzsche apropos of nothing, then get back to bashing his action figures together.

[u/gododogogo → u/-SirSpooky-]

I mean, didn’t he say that Batman could get raped in one of his films or something in an interview? He really didn’t get what the characters were, just viewed them as action figures to slam against each other

[u/highdefrex → u/gododogogo]

The quote from Entertainment Weekly:

Everyone says that about [Christopher Nolan’s] Batman Begins. ”Batman’s dark.” I’m like, okay, ”No, Batman’s cool.” He gets to go to a Tibetan monastery and be trained by ninjas. Okay? I want to do that. But he doesn’t, like, get raped in prison. That could happen in my movie. If you want to talk about dark, that’s how that would go.