This is just sad, but that's the mentality of HOLLYWEIRD.
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=56599
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=56599
Fahrenheit 451. Too smart for hollyWEIRD!
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This is just sad, but that's the mentality of HOLLYWEIRD.
Well, there's always the Truffaut version from 1966.
The idea of actually adapting a science fiction book faithfully seems to cause panic in Hollywood execs. To adapt a really good Scifi book faithfully probably gives them night sweats.
Typical Hollywood disgrace. They would take Farenheit 451 and turn it into another dumbed down Will Smith movie.
GAG! I saw it. It was not GREAT.
That is a matter of opinion.
Are you f'ing kidding me?
That movie is, without a doubt, one of the WORST movies I have ever seen. I was shown it in a university course on sci-fi films and was shocked and appalled. Francois Trauffaut is an AWESOME director. His "The 400 Blows" is one of the most beautiful, powerful foreign films of all-time, but when he tried to adapt "Farenheit 451", his adaptation was PATHETIC. Horrible acting, horrible music, and horrible special effects (okay, I can cut them some slack for that because it was 1966). I hate re-makes and Hollywood's fetish for them as much as the next guy, but I swear, this is the one movie that BADLY needs a re-make. I could just tell watching the movie that a great book was being shamefully misrepresented and the book deserves so much better.
You don't have to have read the book to see this movie and know that there's a really poignant and intelligent story in there struggling to break through all the cheese. I even think a dumb Hollywood action movie would be better than the version we have. As someone else once said on another forum I used to frequent, it was like the pinnacle of all of French new wave's worst excesses. An unmitigated disaster.
^What he said!
OKAY! that you be enough out of you young man!
Don't give hollyweird any ideas MMM'kay?
The book is a MASTERPIECE! Where as the movie was, meh... I mean you could see the WIRES hanging on those firemen's jetpacks for cryin out loud!
I've only seen the '66 film a couple times and not recently but I recall it being a compelling movie. I certainly wouldn't except anything less than wildly divergent opinions on the film... especially with the critical vs. unwashed masses reaction of Hollywood's newest blockbuster.Are you f'ing kidding me?
Does anyone know if Darabont's script takes place in present day? Modern flash memory would certainly put a dent in the plot.
This is just sad, but that's the mentality of HOLLYWEIRD.
Well, there's always the Truffaut version from 1966.
Yeah, if you're into English dialogue that sounds only slightly more realistic than All Your Base... Truf himself hated that version, 'cuz the English was so bad. He much preferred the French dub.
Oh wow, I didn't even know there was a French version and that the English was dubbed. I usually refuse to watch anything dubbed on principle. I wonder if a no dubs version would make it any more watchable. That dub could explain a lot of the wooden acting and flat dialogue.
I remember now that I saw this movie in high school and university. When I watched with my English class in high school, one girl yelled "wild!" with delight when we saw the police flying around with their fake-looking jet packs. That was the only part I ever recall liking, just because if was so campy.
I remember now that I saw this movie in high school and university. When I watched with my English class in high school, one girl yelled "wild!" with delight when we saw the police flying around with their fake-looking jet packs. That was the only part I ever recall liking, just because if was so campy.
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