If I could give this film a minus rating, I would've.
A lot of people like to watch films that simply don't work and put them down to being artistic, creative and unusual. No... Those films are artistic, creative and unusual. This film, on the contrary is absolutely ridiculous.
i can see why this may have worked in the book, but I don't know where it got lost in film..
Perhaps it was the terrible screen play, the terrible acting, the gnaff narration, the kitch costuming, the overtly apparent and insulting use of lighting or the fact that the biggest emotional response it could pull from any audience was a grimace in confusion; it just doesn't work. At All.
Some stories are too big for film, and this was one of them. i doubt I was alone in thinking as I walked out the cinema how on earth the films makers got enough people to think it was a good idea to produce this. Once again, Holly wood tries to do something it simply can't. In the opening blurb to this film on this very site, it suggests that Stanley Kubrick; whom has never shyed away from the 'impossible' film claimed that this very story was 'unfilmable'
Jeez. He was certainly right. Go see it if you've run out of acid to pour into your eyes.
A lot of people like to watch films that simply don't work and put them down to being artistic, creative and unusual. No... Those films are artistic, creative and unusual. This film, on the contrary is absolutely ridiculous.
i can see why this may have worked in the book, but I don't know where it got lost in film..
Perhaps it was the terrible screen play, the terrible acting, the gnaff narration, the kitch costuming, the overtly apparent and insulting use of lighting or the fact that the biggest emotional response it could pull from any audience was a grimace in confusion; it just doesn't work. At All.
Some stories are too big for film, and this was one of them. i doubt I was alone in thinking as I walked out the cinema how on earth the films makers got enough people to think it was a good idea to produce this. Once again, Holly wood tries to do something it simply can't. In the opening blurb to this film on this very site, it suggests that Stanley Kubrick; whom has never shyed away from the 'impossible' film claimed that this very story was 'unfilmable'
Jeez. He was certainly right. Go see it if you've run out of acid to pour into your eyes.