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a GOOD movie

posted 20 years ago by wetwithclarity
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You know what? Screw all you people who hated this movie. That's right.

Movie adaptations of books aren't always supposed to be the exact same as the book. Which, with this book, is a good thing.

I went into the movie thinking, "This is going to be horrible. How can you adapt a Vonnegut novel?" The reason I thought like this was reading all of your dumb comments. Now, granted, it wasn't the best movie in the world. But it was a good movie.
Things were changed, so what? Who cares? Vonnegut never shows up, kind of disappointing, but manageable. Trout going into the mirror was a neat ending. Because, you know, the book never really had an ending. Nothing was resolved. Dwayne Hoover was never cured. I like the fact that in the movie, he came back and apologized. That he felt better about his life in the end.

It was funny. It would have been hard to understand if I hadn't read the book first, but it was still good. Albert Finney did a swell job as Trout.

The only thing I'm unsure on is whether or not Dwayne's wife was dead or not. I'm pretty sure that she was, but I'm not completely positive.

Anyway. Reading a Vonnegut book doesn't make you a film critic. This was a good movie.

[–] kentekeroth 20 years ago

I haven't read the book, and if you just see the movie on its own merits (without regard to the book) this movie is truly great!

It has a great feeling throughout the movie, with that sadness and lonlyness in it. Trout's struggle, and Hoover's anxiety over how unreal the world feels really connects with me, and the ending is beautiful.

It's great acting, an interesting and tragic-comic plot, and beautiful music.

this is definately a drama movie, rather than a cmoedy (even though nolte is hilarious), and I'd give it a 9/10 at least.

Just the mere fact that most ppl dislikes it, hints that it might be good. Since when has the masses ever appreciated art?

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[–] steschus 19 years ago

actually Vonnegut played the advertisement director

[–] s-whatley 19 years ago

Each to his own, but I did not like this movie. I didn't hate it, I just didn't like it. Bruce Willis played Dwayne very well, as did Albert Finney as Killgore Trout, but I really couldn't see anything else good about it. I'd go into what exactly I didn't like about now... but I have more important things to do. Maybe later.

[–] stupidbike 19 years ago

This movie should have not been made. The book is not impossable to adapt. It was either miscasted mostly or the actors over acted. Willis good, Finney, alright, the rest not so much. The lines in the film without reading the book was just psycho babble unlike the genius that it was in the book. When adapting a book to a script you need to make the film stand on its own, in which this film failed on all fronts.