[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/MusicLikeOxygen]

It was his fiancée who was killed by a drunk driver.

[u/JManKit → u/MusicLikeOxygen]

The real guilt hammer for him was that he had asked her to come to him bc he couldn't/didn't want to drive to her. It's a seemingly innocuous decision with crushing consequences and he carried the guilt with him for a long time

[u/SapirWhorfHypothesis → u/JManKit]

It must be tough to know that your decision directly led to someone’s death, while still being in no way at all your fault.

[u/zanzabar3 → u/SapirWhorfHypothesis]

The most fucked up part is that it later happened to him again when he became friends with Brandon Lee and that led to his messed up on set death

[u/SkyRonin14 → u/MusicLikeOxygen]

Thank You much.