Eight of us went to see it together and the theater was packed. We really enjoyed it. It is about as close as Hollywood will ever get to the orginal book version. I have to give them credit there. So for me it was a good flick.
I mean they have butchered so many great books trying to set them to film. Tom Clancy’s “Sum Of All Fears” for one I mean neo-nazis for real as bad guys, then there is “Battlefield Earth” don’t even get me started on that one. Those two come to mind right off the top of my head. Thou “Absoult Power” was not a bad film but if you read the book it was so much better that it was not even a contest.
For some reason getting hollywierd to grasp the real spirit and actuality of a literary work seems almost impossible because they always want to PC it up to make some stupid political point that they think the viewing public will all of sudden change their mind on when in reality the viewer just can’t relate to it at all.
You really can't blame "Hollywood" for that one, it was ALL the "church" of Scientology. They funded it, took care of the screen play, picked the director and cast one of their own as Terl.
I heard the Hunger Games book is really blaming reality TV and the reader is the bad guy for watching or something while the movie just has an evil Prez.
Does that sound right?