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| DaOld Man:
Has anyone watched this movie yet? My nephew took his kids to see it and they liked it. Im thinking about going to watch it this weekend. I dont want any spoilers, just to get general opinion if it's worth the cash. |
| yotsuya:
It’s worth seeing, but it’s a lot different from the book. That can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on your point of view. |
| DaOld Man:
Thanks Yots, I havent read the book so I wont recognize the plot differences. I have found most movies are not as good as the book. I suppose when you read your mind has time to imagine more, whereas on a movie they try to cram it all in in a couple hours. Movies based on Stephen King books are mostly disappointing to me, if I have already read the book. I think about the worst was Dream Catcher. It was almost nothing like the book, although there were a few scenes that did kinda sorta mimic the book. I liked the book but hated the movie. If I had not read teh book first, I may have a different opinion of the movie. A couple of movies that held close to King's books were Misery and The Green Mile. |
| yotsuya:
Let’s put it this way, if you didn’t read the book and just go into it with no prior knowledge, you’ll think it’s a pretty good movie. And that’s fine. I went with a good friend of mine who liked the book and we would have debates about how good the book is. So we went to the movie together. Every 10 minutes, or when something was changed that clearly was different from the book, I’d hear a very loud sigh. It was actually pretty funny to me, and made me laugh a few more times than the movie did. But I enjoyed it. I’d go see it again with friends. Without being spoilery, I did have one pretty large gripe with the book, and I thought the movie did a way better job of revising that situation to make it more believable to me. So I’ll give it that. |
| Drnick:
As someone who read the book and watched the movie, I enjoyed both, The movie captures the spirit of the book without ramming the references down your throat. They also massively simplified the quests which is no bad thing or the movie would have had to have had another movie within it :) Not going to make it into my top 10 favourite movies but would probably squeek into a top 100. My number 1 movie of all time is Ferris Beullers day off, with Green mile being quite a way behind in 2nd place :) |
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