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This film is a travesty

posted 12 years ago by garysandler
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I just assume readers of the novel despised the film.

It is at best a highlights reel of key moments of the book.

The depth of the characters is lost, the philosophies lost, the complexities of the plot are lost.

There is absolutely nothing to this movie. I dont blame the actors, the screen play is just so f&*&^n poor.

I do not believe for a second someone who hasnt read the book will understand not only the plot of this movie, but to get a sense of what the book was about.

Very disappointing!

[–] 10 years ago

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[–] Anon45876 9 years ago

Well, to gain that depth the book has would have required a miniseries. I thought they had decent actors in a few roles in the first installment but that the second was horribly cast.

[–] K_A 9 years ago

I haven't read the novel, but the most striking thing about the movie is how bad the dialogue is. It's consistently awkward and clunky. Do the characters in the novel speak like that too?

[–] phantom2-2 9 years ago

the movie is actually an improvement on the book!

[–] ficoce 8 years ago

I listened to a podcast with the producer, Mike Marvin, and he said he was given the book and only had 20 days to write the script. So he took the first 300 pages and just went for it. He probably didn't have time to really delve into the philosophy of the thing much and the book isn't much on dialog. The book isn't that bad, but I did find it dry at times. Some stories just don't translate to film well. I think Ender's Game had the same problem. The book was awesome, but the only way the movie could match was to have a film that was narrated the whole way through. Not really the movie makers fault. Some books are meant to have a few pages read and then have time spent thinking some various point the author is trying to make. This might work on a mini-series, like done with Roots, but AS is pretty involved.