Why film a beautiful - if flawed - book, if you're going to throw out all the best bits while inserting random crap of your own. I could understand if they went full Hollywood and made a story that was more coherent than the book but to throw out most of the original story, replace it with mutant crocodiles and bears and still try to keep it 'arty'? They obviously wanted to have their cake and eat it too and the result is just a mess of a story.
I haven't read the book so I don't have an opinion on it, but that freaking bear was one of the creepiest things I've seen in a while. When it opened it's mutant bear mouth and let out that human scream, I got chills, it creeped me the hell out, which was awesome.
shareThe sound effects for that scene were great but I didn't like the CGI look. And I hated the moment when it went ninja, broke through the fence, snuck through the grass and grabbed one of them, all while they are in a hut armed with assault rifles.
I don't want to be one of these 'The book was better' type twats as the book wasn't perfect but it just had a lot more twists and turns which kept it interesting. Without them all you have is: people enter weird place, weird shit happens, people die, contrived ending which explains nothing, then the old "the end, or is it?" cliche.
Yea, I know what you mean. I just watched it last night and I'm on the fence. I can't decide whether or not I liked it. I definitely liked some things about it, I liked the idea of DNA getting mixed up, I found that interesting and it seemed new to me for some reason, even though it's been done before. I don't like having to just make up reasons for goings on in movies, like whatsherface, Jennifer Jason Leigh's character, was that her or was that the duplicate? If that was a duplicate, where's the real one? Why did Portman's eyes shimmer at the end? We clearly saw the duplicate die, so was there another duplicate? I don't think movies have to explain everything, hell, Donnie Darko is one of my favorites, but to have so many unanswered questions is just annoying. Who do they think they are, the writers of Lost?
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