But as the story went on, out of the foundation of silliness and bathroom humor grew an element of creeping horror. Little by little, he told the ridiculous story of his alter ego, David Wong, and David’s loose cannon of a best friend, John Cheese.Īt first it seemed like he was writing a Ghostbusters knock-off with more dick jokes. The terribleness of the movie probably wouldn’t have bothered me so much, except for the fact that I had been dreaming about it ever since the book was just an ongoing story that the author was posting chapter-by-chapter on his website. This is as if The Fellowship of the Ring had begun with an hour of the hobbits hanging out with Tom Bombadil and ended with Frodo giving the One Ring to Aragorn instead of taking it to Mordor. The degree to which this movie does not understand its source material is staggering. When the Ender’s Game movie comes out in the Fall, I’ll probably be first in line to complain about that, too.īut I would like to submit that John Dies at the End is the worst butchering of a movie adaptation in recent memory. About how Coraline shouldn’t have added in the character of Wybie, how Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban should have shortened the approximately ten-hour CGI fight scene with the Whomping Willow in favor of including the Marauders’ back story.

The Internet is full of people whining about how the movie adaptation of their favorite book wasn’t true to the original.

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