If Hollywood Was a Person
Every Saturday we feature webcomics we enjoy. Today we bring you Subnormality, a relatively new webcomic by relatively Canadian author, Winston Rowntree. According to Mr. Rowntree, his comics "contain weird characters, endless opinions and occasionally huge walls of text, but people seem to like them anyway." We certainly do.
Today, a short comic that forgoes huge walls of text to focus on one exceptionally weird character ...
Check out more Subnormality at viruscomix.com.
I guess i kinda get it, i just really don't think it's that funny. Hollywood films get a lot of their ideas from books. So, yeah...don't really get how that's funny. It indicates that they may be a bit lacking with originality, but so what. Just don't see the humor here. It just seems like its pointing out a fact rather than being funny.
ReplyI think you mean 'If Hollywood *Were* a Person". :)
Reply'Was' is allowed within the English subjunctive construction. If it's good enough for Oxford and Cambridge, it's good enough for me.
Needs a couple more frames, like him making crayon drawing copies of it. Then him making crayon drawing copies of those.
Replymeh...
Replytotally thought it was retarded, but i had forgot that it was supposed to be hollywood...
then it was only half-retarded.
the later comics are awesome, though!
Not funny, I won't try to be clever about it
ReplyA Pox upon you and your family, Hollywood! I curse you! I CURSE YOU!
ReplyEntirely unfunny.
ReplyThen what the f**k are you doing here? Just curious.
You have to read the thing before you can deem it unfunny, dumbass, what do you think?
Yeah but think of how many time you heard about about the movie before the book.
ReplyHollywood should take the book, shit all over it, and then return it.
Reply.....what?That's it?!... LAAAAMMMMMMMEEEEE!!! This makes White Ninja look like a Literature-masterpiece capable of winning a Pulitzer!
ReplyI agree with IMNOTINSANE. While the comic can be taken to be a criticism of Hollywood's inability to take books and adapt them to theater, I think it's better to interpret it as Hollywood's tendency to distract people from what is really important in life. The distraction can come from the movies themselves, or even the way people have an obsessive desire to waste time reading about the personal lives of the people in Hollywood.
ReplyYou people suck. The comic has absolutely nothing to do with hollywood adapting books into film. It just portrays hollywood as an annoying, insane, childish mother fucker that distracts from worthwhile things in life.
Replyyeah, that's hollywood.
UGH! Web Comics: Usually Funny
ReplyCracked's selection of Web Comics: Never Funny
Got a few more to add to your list, serial. Timeline, by Michael Crichton. One of my favorite books...and they cast Paul Doucheface Walker as the lead role, totally butchered the book. Eragon, book was goodish, movie blew. Whatever...what i want to see is a Moby Dick remake. Like what King Kong should've been, i want it to be like Titanic. Long enough for an intermission, massive special effects, white whale with centuries worth of harpoons jutting from it's back...all of it. see, in my mind, if I were in charge, the book would be my script. Sure, some things you gotta leave out, but it's whoever decides these things that is important. They always leave out the most important shit, and add some nonexistant love connection because they think that's what we want. Hollywood is like our government...cumbersome and clueless.
Replythat was pretty gay
Replyyour mum is pretty gay
I'm so pretty, I should be gay
I get it - Hollywood steals ideas.
ReplyAwful
Unfunny. But thanks for trying.
ReplyThat strip is so true. You guys remember how they butchered the Lord of The Rings series? Or how about how grossly inaccurate the Harry Potter movies are in regards to the books? Ooh! Or how about Jurassic Park? Or the slew of celluloid versions of Dracula, such as Francis Ford Coppela's version or the classic Nosferatu, or Bella Lugosi's timeless rendition?
ReplyMan, Hollywood just can't adapt books into a film that does the original story justice.
Because you're DEFINITELY not ignoring the much more significant number of book-to-movie adaptations that totally blew.
Not really funny, but makes sense to me. Hollywood now takes popular literature away from us by ruining it in film, then making most of us never want to read or finish the book ever again. It steals away the enjoyment of a good book and fucks it up with celebrities.
ReplyThis is really starting to annoy me, first white ninja and now this. The series are great, but the comics cracked likes to show tend to really suck.
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