fahrenheit 451
… makes starship troopers 2 look like a mediocre film made by ambitious, if untalented, go-getters. It’s a pile of shit on par with that triceratops dropping pile in jurassic park. It’s almost impressive it weren’t so depressing.
The book is amazing. It’s a recent read and hit me harder than any since Clockwork Orange. It’s a solid concept, fantastic story and bold in its simplicity and (possible) prescience. The movie does none of that and ends up in so many different layers of ridiculous it took some effort to keep watching it.
The story itself is close to the book. The production value and terrible acting is what throws me. The costumes probably cost $.37 in today’s dollars. If you looked hard enough you could probably see clear-tape on the seams of every part of the set.
Terrible and pathetic come to mind as discriptive words, but they just don’t cover how absolutely horrible it is. The book deserved more. The concept itself, the philosophy behind it, deserved far more. Blech.
1/2