(March 27, 2019 at 9:09 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(March 25, 2019 at 12:28 am)Sal Wrote: Fahrenheit 451 - 6/10
I haven't read the book, so I don't know if the movie made the book any justice. It was OK, mediocre though.
The Truffaut one or the new one for HBO? Because the former is a good, if flawed (due to Truffaut having to shoot it in a language he couldn't speak) representation of the book, and the other one... well, it would be 45.1% better if they just jettisoned the Fahrenheit 451 name, because it did about as good a job of representing the original book as Barb Wire did Casablanca.
(March 28, 2019 at 12:52 am)fredd bear Wrote:(March 27, 2019 at 9:09 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: The DVD lists for $30 and the Blu-Ray for $40. Where did you find it for $7? I mean, if you can find them at the right time on Criterion or Barnes and Noble, you can get them for half off (I know this because I've been following Criterion's half-off sales like a hawk for many years and even got the DVD and Blu-Ray of M during separate sales), but $7 seems almost too good to be true. Still, M is one of my all-time favourites.
The Truffaut one or the new one for HBO? Because the former is a good, if flawed (due to Truffaut having to shoot it in a language he couldn't speak) representation of the book, and the other one... well, it would be 45.1% better if they just jettisoned the Fahrenheit 451 name, because it did about as good a job of representing the original book as Barb Wire did Casablanca.
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I saw Fahrenheit 451 when it came out, in 1966 or so.. Thought it was great. Saw it again years later on TV. Still thought it was great. I may have been distracted by my lustful thoughts of Julie Christie.
'M'? Ebay. I think it was $7. I'll check again. Just rechecked. Yep, Ebay $7. I think it might be second hand. The cover was not sealed.
It was the HBO one. It was an interesting concept, but I kept feeling like it went an unoriginal direction and focused too little on the concept behind the book burning and too much on the bland characters.
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