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Post by patsypending on May 19, 2008 21:53:10 GMT 2
My most disappointing film of recent years has to be Pride & Prejudice. It's my favourite book and I've seen just about every version on TV. I understand it had to be condensed, but it just lacked so much intensity in the interaction of the characters, which is what the booked is primarily based on.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on May 19, 2008 23:06:13 GMT 2
Uggghhh.. Pride and Prejudice. Good GOD I hated that book.
I had to read it for a Uni assignment and I've never felt the urge to spoon out my eyeballs more than when reading that damn book.
Don't get me wrong; I enjoy reading literary classics. Frankenstein, Jeckyl and Hyde, Dracula, Great Expectations - loved all of them. But that, to me, just seemed.. how to say it without sounding like a philistine.. really BADLY written.
One person was talking, and its a full page of text of just talk, but its written in a first person perspective, full of "she remarked" and "she was heard to retort", and by the end of the page I'm like, "Wait, wait - who the FUCK is actually talking?"
And yet everyone I talk to loves it. So must just be me, then.
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Post by trashcanman on May 20, 2008 9:29:45 GMT 2
Don't get me wrong; I enjoy reading literary classics. Frankenstein, Jeckyl and Hyde, Dracula, Great Expectations - loved all of them. Which one of these is not like the other, eh? "Frankenstein" is top 5 material in my world; sometimes #1 depending on my mood. Am I the only one on Planet Earth that thinks the classic film -while admittedly great on it's own merits- sucks compared to the book? |
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Post by patsypending on May 20, 2008 13:34:58 GMT 2
And yet everyone I talk to loves it. So must just be me, then. Maybe it's a chick thing. I did it for an exam at school and actually read it for pleasure. Hence I aced the exam, obviously. It's hypnotic to me; whenever it's on, whatever version it is, I have to watch it. |
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Post by The Curmudgeon on May 20, 2008 22:46:05 GMT 2
Don't get me wrong; I enjoy reading literary classics. Frankenstein, Jeckyl and Hyde, Dracula, Great Expectations - loved all of them. Which one of these is not like the other, eh? "Frankenstein" is top 5 material in my world; sometimes #1 depending on my mood. Am I the only one on Planet Earth that thinks the classic film -while admittedly great on it's own merits- sucks compared to the book? Yeah, I know - I noticed that when I wrote it. But I couldn't really think what other classic I'd read that I enjoyed. Um.. White Fang? It was only after reading the book that I realised that, if those films had been made now, the net and critics would have torn them to shreds. We'd be like, "what the fuck is up with The Monster? He can talk perfect english in the book! And he doesn't look like that! And he can leap up mountains - why is he walking like he's dropped a load in his pants?" Still - a good film? Certainly (if not exactly faithful). Better than the book? Not in a million years. |
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Post by The Curmudgeon on May 20, 2008 22:47:09 GMT 2
And yet everyone I talk to loves it. So must just be me, then. Maybe it's a chick thing. Duh and double duh. |
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Post by patsypending on May 21, 2008 11:24:50 GMT 2
OK, have it your way - it just you then.
Happy now?
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Post by Isis on May 22, 2008 11:23:24 GMT 2
My most disappointing film of recent years has to be Pride & Prejudice. It's my favourite book and I've seen just about every version on TV. I understand it had to be condensed, but it just lacked so much intensity in the interaction of the characters, which is what the booked is primarily based on. I have never read the book and I have never watched the film, although I have got the film here (one of my nieces left it here last year) and it just doesnt do it for me.....even with the gorgeous Matthew McFadden as Mr D'arcy.......I just havent been tempted, I dont even know what the plot of the story is......  |
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Post by mikado on May 22, 2008 22:14:44 GMT 2
i dont get the hype for American Beauty....... Snap - that was my first thought when I saw this thread. Hyped to the heavens, and deeply disappointing. The Star Wars prequel trilogy was poor, but predictably so. The book is ALWAYS better than the film. That is why reading the book first almost always ruins the movie. So if possible, I try see the movie first so I can enjoy it with a blank slate and not fixate on how much better the book was. Good advice trashcanman  |
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Post by The Curmudgeon on May 23, 2008 1:21:28 GMT 2
I have a habit though that if I've seen a film first I always imagine those actors when I'm reading the books. Like, I read Psycho only a few years ago and I can't get the picture of Anthony Perkins as Norman, yet he's supposed to be this little fat guy.
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Post by patsypending on May 23, 2008 12:04:46 GMT 2
Mik! Hey, sweetie. You stalking me again?  |
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Post by mikado on May 23, 2008 19:12:11 GMT 2
It's ok, the restraining order doesn't apply to internet use ;D
Here's another (probably) disappointing film - the Golden Compass. It'd been sooooooo looking forward to it. Then the trailers came out, and they were so bloody banal. The life and meaning had been sucked out of the story. Result is, I haven't even dared go to see it yet. I'm expecting my biggest disappointment ever.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on May 23, 2008 19:57:11 GMT 2
Hello again, Mikado (dammit, sign up already! JOIN US! JOIN US!). Having never read the books, or seen the film, I have to admit the trailers did look a bit "meh."
I still wouldn't mind seeing it, if only for a chance to see a giant talking polar bear.
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Post by trashcanman on May 23, 2008 21:25:21 GMT 2
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Post by mikado on May 24, 2008 1:06:29 GMT 2
Harsh!
Nice style in your review, but I'm guessing you've not read the Dark Materials trilogy.
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