I haven’t read the book but in the video he reads excerpts from it and it sounds painful.
He could just be picking a couple of cases that are paticularly egregious, but still, if it’s emblomatic of the books prose, then it sounds like it’s very similar to the movie and not something I’d enjoy.
So said and done, if you enjoyed it, that’s dope, same for the movie. I don’t care how “bad” or “good” some form of media is claimed to be, as long as people enjoy it, that’s a good thing
I think the book had some more obscure Japanese stuff, especially the mecha. Like instead of the main character using the Delorian in the movie in the book he uses Leopardman the giant Mecha from the Japanese Spider-Man tv show that turns into a ship called the Marveller. Also the last fight was way better in the book as the sixers use various Evangelion units which would have been absolutely brutal on screen. the good guys use various old Japanese Mecha like Mazinger Z, Tenzor, the RX-78 like in the film, and some other stuff. I think even Voltron at one point too if I remember correctly. Voltron would have been WAY better in the movie especially if they used the theme.
The book was better. As someone who grew up in the 80s, it was cool.
The book would have been a licensing nightmare to adapt which is why Spielberg swapped out most of it for his stuff. Still felt cheap though
I haven’t read the book but in the video he reads excerpts from it and it sounds painful.
He could just be picking a couple of cases that are paticularly egregious, but still, if it’s emblomatic of the books prose, then it sounds like it’s very similar to the movie and not something I’d enjoy.
So said and done, if you enjoyed it, that’s dope, same for the movie. I don’t care how “bad” or “good” some form of media is claimed to be, as long as people enjoy it, that’s a good thing
I think the book had some more obscure Japanese stuff, especially the mecha. Like instead of the main character using the Delorian in the movie in the book he uses Leopardman the giant Mecha from the Japanese Spider-Man tv show that turns into a ship called the Marveller. Also the last fight was way better in the book as the sixers use various Evangelion units which would have been absolutely brutal on screen. the good guys use various old Japanese Mecha like Mazinger Z, Tenzor, the RX-78 like in the film, and some other stuff. I think even Voltron at one point too if I remember correctly. Voltron would have been WAY better in the movie especially if they used the theme.