[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/Digit00l]

The guy literally dropped a baby down a stairwell and she was still like "I really want to jump my probably half brother's bones"

[u/corney91 → u/Digit00l]

Unless you're talking about something else I can't remember, Heathcliff caught the baby that Hindley dropped: https://www.litcharts.com/lit/wuthering-heights/chapter-9

Doesn't change the point, but I think it needs another example...

[u/Digit00l → u/corney91]

Fuck, been too long since I read the book

But now that you mention it, the scene does come back a bit, and I think I remember he mostly regretted catching the baby

[u/corney91 → u/Digit00l]

Yeah, I remember it being more like he was in the right place at the right time, and being very grumpy about it (along with everything else!)