Marxism-Fennekinism@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 10 months agoWhat was the worst bastardization of a classic book into a movie?message-squaremessage-square88 fedilinkarrow-up184
arrow-up184message-squareWhat was the worst bastardization of a classic book into a movie?Marxism-Fennekinism@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 10 months agomessage-square88 Commentsfedilink
minus-squareRusky_900@reddthat.comhexbear27·10 months agoWorld War Z. Not a classic book, but still...Wtf. linkfedilink
minus-squareRickyRigatoni@lemmy.mlhexbear6·10 months agoWorld War Z is absolutely a modern classic. You can just tell when people are going to be talking about a book a hundred or so years later. linkfedilink
minus-squareGarbageShoot [he/him]hexbear4·10 months agoI agree on the basis that classics are defined by reception and not if they are any good or not, like how Birth of a Nation was for a while considered basically the best movie ever. link
World War Z. Not a classic book, but still...Wtf.
World War Z is absolutely a modern classic. You can just tell when people are going to be talking about a book a hundred or so years later.
Shit-ass politics though.
I agree on the basis that classics are defined by reception and not if they are any good or not, like how Birth of a Nation was for a while considered basically the best movie ever.