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*** Official Film Thread ***

Skinhead in a Suit said:
The film is about as good an adaptation of the book as I think can be made whilst still making it watchable.

Interesting fact - The UK version of the book has 24 chapters, whilst the US-made version of the movie (and the US book I believe, might be wrong though.) only portrays the first 23 chapters. The missing final chapter completely alters the overall moral of the book, from a story of a young man growing out of his childish, thuggish, anti-social behaviour, to one of success by the state's behavioural-changing torture methods.
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I think the very final frame of the film, and that final VO, leave it up to the reader exactly what they want to believe with regards to the 'success' of the procedure...Kubrick had a habit with adaptations of giving the endings his own twist and taste...we can chat about it next time we met up matey!!! ;-) Good to see you posting a lot more, great reading...
 
Peter Jackson says The Hobbit will be dragged out across three films.

Still unhappy about LotR. Why couldn't they make more films there to take full advantage of the material? Probably gonna do some horrible rewrites.
 
The Hobbit into 3 films is just ridiculous, but I'm done with LotR anyway. For me everything to do with A song of Ice and Fire has blown it away, and I just don't enjoy Tolkien as much.
 
linnet_spur said:
The Hobbit into 3 films is just ridiculous, but I'm done with LotR anyway. For me everything to do with A song of Ice and Fire has blown it away, and I just don't enjoy Tolkien as much.
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Tolkien's books are still worth a read, but I stopped caring about the LotR movies somewhere in the middle of watching the last one. I hated Jackson's visual style and some of the changes were just pointless.
 
I found the Hobbit to be poor next to LotR anyway, and like you say the films became a hard watch, so can't see Hobbit being anything more than a DVD watch for me
 
I loved Drive, style over substance massively but decent action, awesome soundtrack, nice bit of violence, story isn't great but I don't think that was ever the directors intentions. Oh and Carey Mulligan and the ginger bird from Mad Men ohhmphhhh
 
Ive heard about the amazing soundtrack as well, thought it was boring. 80s style synth stuff, some of it was ok some of it a bit beige - not exactly "great" IMO.

Considering the story was a movie stunt driver who doubles as a get away driver for actual crimes I was VERY disappointed with the action and particularly the car scenes.

Considering the cast I was disappointed at the lack of depth and superficial feel to the film.

The story was just ridiculous.

And Goslings character - why did it take him 10 seconds to respond to any dialogue? Was he supposed to come across as a bit backward?
 
I got the feeling he was more worried about repressing his obvious psychotic nature by thinking things through.

I can see your points about everything except the soundtrack, loved that and I did love the film, strange one I think, want to read the book too, see if the film missed stuff out that may have given it more substance.
 
Possibly, I think reading the book might be a good shout - you dont get all the stylistic stuff getting in the way like the film.

If you liked it, great - I just havent been as disappointed with a film like that in ages. Especially one so highly regarded.

As a film I thought it was just.... weak. As a book it might be a lot stronger
 
superspurs said:
I loved Drive, style over substance massively but decent action, awesome soundtrack, nice bit of violence, story isn't great but I don't think that was ever the directors intentions. Oh and Carey Mulligan and the ginger bird from Mad Men ohhmphhhh
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Tried to be too arty, some of the shots were quite frankly laughable
 
Eden Lake

If you like torture porn and don't care about the story, go ahead.

Any suspense is ruined by the first 30 seconds and the choices made by the main characters are just ridiculous. I didn't care what happened to them as they were stupid. And then there's the chavs...
 
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