Sometimes I read YouTube comments. Hahaha, why? WHY? I don't know, okay. It's a sick compulsion. I wish I could quit you, YouTube comments. (Brokeback Mountain reference, FTW).
Anyway, lately I've noticed a lot of people whining about something very specific that I find baffling. When videos (CinemaSins etc.) point out that a book adaptation didn't answer a question or had a plothole, people take to the comment section to complain. Their comments often boil down to 'Of course you didn't get the movie: you didn't read the book!'
Um, angry YouTube commenters?
If you need to read the book to understand the movie, then the movie didn't do a very good job.
Yeah, I recommend Harry Potter books to people, but not so they can understand the movies. Harry Potter books are awesome (they do get a little less so towards the end, though). If you have to read the books to be able to follow the movies, then - say it with me - the movies have failed to do their job. They're not an extension of the books. A movie should be able to stand on its own.
People go to the cinema to watch a story unfold on screen. That story needs to be comprehensible. People generally don't go to the cinema in the hope that they'll have to read the book later to clear up key plot points of the movie.
You make no sense, angry YouTube commenters.
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