Okay, I'm gonna need some help here.

[conuly]

It's like banging my head against a wall, but more painful. And if I'm going to keep wasting my time on this futile effort, I could at least get a little company there.

I mean, I'm not wrong, am I? My facts aren't wrong, are they? My thoughts aren't missing a crucial point, are they? This person IS being willfully annoying, right?

HELP ME OUT HERE I FEEL SO ALONE.

Also, I didn't know this as I don't really follow celebrity anything (I'm lucky if I know who a certain star IS, much less what they've done and why people care) or watch many movies or TV shows (I do watch TV, of course, but I seem to limit myself to three or four shows. If I add a new one, an old one inevitably drops off my list), but I'm realizing it now by looking at these pictures...

WOW does that girl look like her dad. Will Smith? HIS DAUGHTER LOOKS JUST LIKE HIM.

It's sorta creepy to look at, but I'm sure as she gets older it'll be more her face and less her dad as a young girl. (Kinda like a kid down her block who looks spookily like her grandmother... or she did at four. Creepy seeing a four year old who looks like a 50 year old woman, but now that she's 12 even though her face hasn't changed, it looks like HER instead of her grandma.)

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On the one hand, people who only complain because the movie is different from the book really annoy me.

On the other hand, when moviemakers change things they didn't have to change, that really annoys me, too. Usually those changes are made for the purpose of trying to attract/sell the movie to a specific demographic. Frex, they changed the age of the kids in the Percy Jackson stories for the movies, to draw an older demographic -- but it messed with the story in unacceptable (to me) ways (despite which the film will always hold a special place in my heart because of the buttkicking guardian character who used forearm crutches like my disabled daughter...).

So, while I realize that in any movie adaptation there will be things that are necessarily different from the book, I really hate it when filmmakers make changes they don't *have* to. Changing Rue's race would fall into that category for me. And like you point out, annoying as well because it would feel, to you, like an intentional slight.

And yeah, that kid looks like her dad. Wow!

My older daughter, at 5-6 years old, looked so much like my little sister at that age that I would often catch myself on the verge of calling my own child by the wrong name.