I saw this movie when it was first released. I have not seen it since. I hated it then. I hated it when I saw it today.
I don't know why I should have expected more. It would be impossible to put any of the music or poetry in Conroy's prose into a 2 hour movie script. It was a crime to even try.
The only good thing about seeing this movie again was seeing Michael Biehn before The Terminator, a nascent Judge Reinhold, Robert Prosky and a couple others as they were almost 20 years ago. There was nothing technically wrong with the movie, but it shared nothing with the book but its title and a couple of the character's names. Lousy adaptation.
I don't know why I should have expected more. It would be impossible to put any of the music or poetry in Conroy's prose into a 2 hour movie script. It was a crime to even try.
The only good thing about seeing this movie again was seeing Michael Biehn before The Terminator, a nascent Judge Reinhold, Robert Prosky and a couple others as they were almost 20 years ago. There was nothing technically wrong with the movie, but it shared nothing with the book but its title and a couple of the character's names. Lousy adaptation.