For all those folks that read the book what did they leave out of the story that should have been in the film?
I'd like to know why people who have read the book feel so let down?
I've never read the book, but only seen the film, and it's hard book to find, I have tried to get a copy. Still on a list in one of the shops I go too even.
I saw this movie for the first time probably around 1999. I thought it was awesome. I haven't seen it in a few years (still have it on VHS somewhere lol)
I'm actually currently reading the novel for the first time right now and so far I'm loving it. I'm only half-way through so please don't spoil anything that's coming (though I know how the movie ends lol)
I was actually impressed how closely the movie followed the book in the beginning. Finding the deputy inside the station who fired off a few rounds, Jenny's housekeeper, the severed hands and heads in the bakery, etc.
it starts to deviate a bit after that. Though the hotel scene was pretty well interpreted in the movie as well.
I didn't like that Jenny and Lisa were pretty much the same age and ever since Aliens came out, pretty much any woman that's a main character turns into a fearless badass almost right away. Then they got rid of all the deputies except Wargle and even he's significantly different than in the book. The book really gets cerebral and that spine-tingling feeling of always being watched, never being safe, always terrified but doing one's duties anyway (true courage if you ask me) etc. etc. but in the movie they tried to make it to action-oriented. Pretty much completely stripped the fear and suspense out of the movie.
I'd say for what it is, the movie is pretty good. But so far, the book is a much better representation of the subject. As tends to be the case. But I'd like to see another attempt to make this into a movie. IMO, the book more or less plays like a movie, so I can't see it being too difficult to translate it into a very suspenseful movie.
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