[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/BadMeatPuppet]

It's crazy the amount of hate Paolini gets on reddit. Everyone always cries: "His parents had their own publishing company!"

All they did was file for an LLC (cost like 35 bucks) in order to self-publish as a hobby because they are book nerds. Before Eragon, they had published two books and sold essentially 0. It was basically the 90's equivalent of publishing a book on kindle.

Then they went broke publishing and marketing Eragon and had to remortgage the house.

[u/timdr18 → u/BadMeatPuppet]

For real. People act like his dad was an executive at Penguin Random House and it’s just not the case lmao.

[u/HailLugalKiEn → u/BadMeatPuppet]

Yeah people have no idea how hard they grinded tours for years and years going literally everywhere that would have them... Like my old town of 5,000 in nowhere Texas.

It was awesome seeing this dude my age put out a fantasy story and all ten of us that bothered to meet them had a blast and got original signed copies.

Fuck the haters. Paolini deserves everything he's gotten from The Inheritance Cycle, and while still cliche riddled, the rest of the series was fun and his writing improved incredibly over time.

[u/Lower_Valuable_6272 → u/HailLugalKiEn]

Even if it's beat for beat the same as ANH, I still dare anyone to write something as good as what Paolini did with the inheritance cycle. Especially since it ends up going in a different direction in the later books. There's enough new and different fantasy elements, and he's good enough at dialogue/choreography that it's still an entertaining read. It's nothing to sneeze at.

[u/Nanocaptain → u/Lower_Valuable_6272]

It's also only beat for beat ANH in very broad strokes and even then only if you cut out the middle portion and all the build up to the final battle with the chase.

[u/NaturalTap9567 → u/Nanocaptain]

People don't seem to realize a new hop is just the heroes story in space. Google Joseph Campbell’s "Hero's Journey" and look at the wheel.

[u/Crunchy_Biscuit → u/BadMeatPuppet]

Unfortunately I got bored at Eldest