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What a shame

posted 10 years ago by Uberkills
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Having read the book a while ago, I guess it's unfortunate that The Giver came out in a time where Teen Dystopian movie adaptations are all the rage. I think people would have thought more of this movie if it came out several years ago. The novel predates The Hunger Games, Divergent and the Maze Runner. I really do like this adaptation. Despite some differences, I'm amazed how well compressed the story was in 90 minutes. No need to drag it out or anything. Every scene counts. No time was wasted.

Not to mention, The Giver is actually in the utopian genre as the community depicted in the story is seemingly perfect and ideal.

[–] sweetpeajrt 9 years ago

Spot on. It's a shame really. Everyone thinks this is new and ripped off the current movies.

[–] Jes' Sayin' (6448) 5 years ago

But it's the popularity of such films that made it possible for someone to finally greenlight it.

[–] Wint3rFir3 (7251) 5 years ago

I agree. It's sad that the very thing that made it possible for the book to be adapted to film in the first place - the popularity of dystopian fiction - is also the thing that drowned this movie out in a sea of uninspired replicas. It really is sad, because both the film and the book are quite good and the film is vastly underrated.