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Was Robert Downey Jr. at least good in it? He's the only reason I had an interest in it.
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Was Robert Downey Jr. at least good in it? He's the only reason I had an interest in it.
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- 31 de Dic, 2018
Yeah he's great but it's just such a huge waste of time to people who've read it. Its not even a particularly good anti drug movie. Requiem for a dream and Trainspotting do it better
No scenes from the book and every character is turned into a cardboard cutout
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- 15 de Nov, 2017
I like Trainspotting but am not a fan of Requiem. Basketball Diaries is my go-to drug movie. Although is that technically a book adaptation? The real guy wrote poetry.
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- 31 de Dic, 2018
Haven't seen it but plan to. Honestly Requiem is probably in my top 10
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- 15 de Nov, 2017
The style in Requiem always bugged me. But the acting is brilliant. Basketball Diaries was more gritty and dirty.
Edit: I just checked, it's a book https://www.amazon.com/Basketball-Diaries-Classic-Growing-Streets/dp/0140100180
Considering I like that one I can't say it's a bad one of course.
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- 31 de Dic, 2018
I've heard great things about it. Know nothing about it tho
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- 27 de Nov, 2018
Stanley Kubrick's Lolita made a lot of changes that don't really work. Apparently the script was written by Vladimir Nabokov but Kubrick heavily edited it, so I don't who made what changes. Anyway the one of the biggest changes was turning Quilty into more of a character which may sound good on paper but completely misses the point of his character in the book. Clare Quilty was Humbert's double and supposed to be his dark reflection (or a truer version of him). There also is the fact that the ages and maturity were changed to make Lolita seem older and Humbert more sympathetic which again misses a big part of the book. In the second part of the book Humbert constantly complains about plain and annoying Lolita's personality is and doesn't even have anything close to a change of heart till maybe near the end of the book.
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- 15 de Nov, 2017
The Kubrick version is bad and so is the remake from 1997 with Jeremy Irons.
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- 14 de Oct, 2015
I can’t see the first book turning someone athiest, but damn the second book almost turned me Evangelical it was so euphoric
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- 2 de Ene, 2017
Agreed. His Dark Materials in general comes off as Pullman trying to write an atheist version of The Chronicles of Narnia without any of CS Lewis's talent or charm. The third one, the Amber Spyglass or whatever, comes off as especially euphoric and bitter by portraying God as a senile old man who the heroes then kill.I can’t see the first book turning someone athiest, but damn the second book almost turned me Evangelical it was so euphoric
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Yes, if you prefer wooden actors standing around on the set of a middle school stage play and reading straight from the pages of a script over production values, the TV adaptation is for you.
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- 9 de Jun, 2018
Oh sure, because there was absolutely nothing else in there that didn't look 'ridiculous'. That would have been the deal-breaker. They portrayed Baron Harkonnen as a scab-faced, shrieking lunatic who apparently bathes in a combination of engine oil and his own vomit instead of the manipulative genius he was, Feyd's only purpose essentially consisted of tooling around in a metal speedo and then being killed by Paul...
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- 15 de Ene, 2018
I've never understood the problem with Baron Harkonnen having boils on his skin. Fat people don't typically have great skin, and Baron Harkonnen is all about excess. It kind of fits.
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- 9 de Jun, 2018
Yeah, and every time he's onscreen, I'm surprised he hasn't gained weight from chewing on the scenery. If you have to portray him as being an almost comedic level of insane to make it clear the villain is the villain, you're really insulting the intelligence of your audience.
Bad or not, the TV adaption portrayed Vladimir more correctly than that thing did.
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Man, this movie looks like low budget shit.
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- 29 de Sep, 2018
The absolute worst one that Stevie's had a hand in is Cell in my opinion. Yes, the book wasn't all that great towards the end, but god damn was the concept interesting and really put a fun twist on the idea of a zombie apocalypse.
The movie, however, took almost everything that was well done in the book and threw it out the window. It felt more like a generic thriller/horror/sci-fi flick than a proper survival horror film.
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- 15 de Ene, 2018
>Villain
I'm sorry, are you implying Dune has heroic characters outside of pre-ghola Duncan
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- 7 de Oct, 2014
I hate that they made Ellie the kid that dies and not Gage. There's something infinitely more fucked up about having a sweet little toddler that barely even began to live turning into this murderous hellspawn undead monster. Ellie's job in the book is to spout cryptic vision shit a la King's penchant for having psychic children.
...This adaptation looks like wasted shit.