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Crude, unimaginative adaptation of Christopher Paolini first novel is a bad joke from top to bottom.
The screenplay is a joke, with major characters missing from the original novel and the acting from almost everybody in the film is down right horrible and that's really because most of the roles are miscast to begin with.
So many important plot elements were left out, that the phrase 'sort of based on an idea by Michael Crichton' is the closest you can get to a relationship to the novel.
I read an interview in which he was asked how he felt his novel was presented in the film.
It generally goes without saying that a film adaptation is never going to be as good as the novel on which it is based, but I can't think of another novel-into-film that missed the mark so completely as this one.
I know the film is based on a Christian novel, and being a Christian, I was glad to see a film of this caliber make it to the big screen.
It's almost to easy to pick up on character motivations in the film, play, or novel adaptations.
This was always going to be a hard novel to adapt - the very qualities that make it a great read make a confusing film.
This is the best film adaptation of Dickens' best novel.
Based on Tony Kenrick's novel "Faraday's Flowers" (a better title), this failure from George Harrison's HandMade Films must have been a devastating blow to the ex-Beatle, who also executive produced, co-wrote the score and wrote and performed the songs (which are heavy on the camp-Asian allure).
Jenny Wright is Virginia, a mousy bookstore worker/wannabe actress who gets caught up in a horror novel by an author named Malcolm Brand.
I also read the novel.
I did not walk into the movie theater with very high hopes for this film as Andrei Tarkovsky's version of Stanislaw Lem's 1961 novel "Solyaris" is one of my all-time favorite films.
That this movie uses that title demeans the excellent novel so well crafted by the novelist W. Somerset Maugham.
When will someone make a good remake of a Jules Verne novel again?
Audie Murphy is wooden in his portrayal of the American and, in a twist to the novel, is the hero of the piece.
Although I know better than to expect a "pure" adaptation of a novel when Hollywood gets hold of it, I was nevertheless unprepared for the horrible mangling this novel received at the hands of the screenwriter.
They also have a baby she doesn't much care for and she is getting tired of writing children's books and wants to write a regular novel.
It reminded me of the penultimate paragraph in Andre Schwartz-Bart's extraordinary novel of the Holacaust, The Last Of The Just where the names of the death camps are artfully placed among the repeated words "And praised Be The Lord".
Perhaps it is unrealistic to expect a movie to adequately convey the rich depth, character and texture of a wonderful and highly entertaining novel.
This, to me, erases some of the magic of the book -it seemed such an appropriate novel for the times in which it was published and it loses some of its relevance and identity being moved forward into a more modern setting Pia Miranda may be a good actress and, from what I've seen from interviews, a very nice person but she isn't able to give Josie the character depth and dimension that I thought she required.
Moving John Barton's suicide from close to the end of the novel to the middle of the movie adaptation makes no sense and serves no purpose, whereas it is evident in the novel why the suicide occurs close to the end.
Furthermore part of the success of the novel is it left so many questions in the end unresolved.
Still, as with everything in life, there is a lesson to be learned here; in this case, the novel truth that it's possible to be far more embarrassing in clothes than out of them.
The two manage to penetrate a high-security laboratory - and I do admit that they have a novel way of getting their explosives in.
It may be a great novel - I haven't read it - but the film is contrived - why bother at all with the time travel nonsense when you want to make a four hankie woman's weepie?! Sorry, but Eric Bana does not cut the mustard as a romantic lead, but he does his naked David Banner bit; the supporting cast apparently are important, but are barely used; issues of loss, responsibility for that loss, responsibility for other's feelings are grazed over.
I haven't read the novel!)
Though based on a novel, "Queen Bee" looks and sounds like a stage play (sub-Tennessee Williams), with arch overacting by everyone and only a smidgen of really memorable lines.
"Petulia" (based on the novel by John Haase, "Me and the Arch Kook Petulia") touches neuralgic issues of difficult times in the United States in an oblique manner, not to avoid them, but because its center is the title character played by Julie Christie (excellent as usual): hippie culture, racial conflicts, Vietnam, drugs, illegal immigration, the intrusion of technology in the bedroom, and middle-class betrayal before the reign of so-called "savage capitalism", all appear as variables in the drama of a young woman abused by her husband.
Although not 100% biographical, based on the novel of the same name by T. Coraghessan Boyle, there's a lot more truth in The Road To Wellville than we'd like to think.
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