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DONT SEE THIS MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!

posted 17 years ago by kyrill_87
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Its terrible. I feel sorry for the people who have watched the whole movie. I am glad I runned out the theather after an hour. I am trying to forget this film but It wont work. This film is at least 1 hour of first degree torture.
Why you ask?Its so slow the pace. The acting is bad only Dolf plays allright. And its awful boring. And did I mention they are some crucial differences between the book and the movie? For instance. In the book Dolf doesnt want to go back in time to play a soccer match again. No he goes back in time as a test person. And in the book there are 3 Priests or what the hell those guys are supossed to be. And there are more differences. Which I forgot already because this movie is so bad. I voted a 1 for this movie. To bad you can't vote a 0.

[–] Kaileron 17 years ago

Ah that information was already known before the movie hit the cinemas...
I shall be seeing the movie this saturdaynight so I'll prolly give my opinions and thoughts on it on sunday :)

[–] doenefrakaan 17 years ago

Boo hoo only 2 "priests" (try "monks", it's an English word that means "monniken"). So they left out the redundant monk. Big deal. I don't think it was slow-paced either because the main character was suffering a constant time pressure. And actually, the fine acting from the relatively unknown (and very young) actors struck me.

You know, with book adaptations people actually have to "adapt" the book to make them fit for a screen. If you can't handle your precious books being altered a little i suggest you stick to reading and watching original movies :-)

[–] OrangeTigger73 17 years ago

well I've seen it today and I didn't run out of the theatre, but I was dissapointed. they cut too many characters, and they didn't really show the change Dolf made to the crusade and also the children. The fact that he let the children choose what they wanted to do regardless of class was very big int he book cause it differed to what the children where used to. It changed them from obidient slaves to people with confidence, something you could really see in characters such as Mariecke, Peter and Frank, who are sadly all missing from the film. I also miss Father Johannes, he was bad but he repented, why o why did they cut in and introduce a character as Vick? Aselmus is a villan already, he doesn't need an evil sidekick.

I have seen several adaptions of my favourite books, some good(harry potter 4 ea), some bad (harry potter 1 ea) and unfortunaly this for me falls under the bad catagory.

I will still recommend this for people who haven't read the book though, it's just a shame that they will miss out on many great things from the book

xx

Inge

[–] naicky86 17 years ago

Vick!! I forgot his name... Yeah that was weird.

I agree that the movie is SO different from the book. That is what I hate. The book is almost holy for me, so not one adoption would be good enough for me. This didn't come close.

Still the movie is good in its genre. People who haven't read the book would be pleased to see a great film, with great acting and music. I'd also still recommend people to see this movie. Even if it was only for the reason to make their own opinion about it. Never tell people not to see a movie. Why letting them in the unknown?

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[–] Kaileron 17 years ago

That ís a bit exagerated in my opinion, naicky86 explains it quite nicely.
The movie in itself isn't bad but as adaption from the book, then it is.

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[–] Weary76 17 years ago

I thought this was a bad movie too.
But I'd rather not tell people not to see it. Bad box office results may be a bad influence on funding for other Dutch films.
I don't know about you, but very very little by little I see films that aren't that bad at all.
I was surprised this director also made De Tweeling. I thought that was a good film.

I haven't read "Kruistocht in spijkerbroek", but I've heard from 1 person he thought it was an extremely bad adaption of the book.
I just thought it was a bad film.

[–] myrte_koekie 17 years ago

I've only seen trailers and small parts of the film, but i do plan on seeing it entirely. What does annoy me already is that they left out Leonardo (who's my favourite in the book) and Mariecke. And of course when you read a book you have your own idea of the way things are, and im afraid the movie will ruin that. But im too curious to not go see the film of my alltime favourite story, so im just hoping i wont be running out of the theatre.

[–] Kaileron 17 years ago

I quite agree. I am a huge fan of the book but was dissapointed in the movie. Nevertheless, the movie in itself isn't bad. Somebody who hasn't read the book will/can enjoy it in my opinion.

[–] KarisH 17 years ago

I was SO dissapointed.
I don't see how people can say Dolf not making changes isn't a big deal.
What, exactly, is the whole book about? About how he helped them survive. We don't really see a lot of that in the movie, eh?
They spent more screentime on romantic relationship-building that didn't even exist in the book, than on something that was a whole chapter in the book, the epidemic!

Even if we forget all that, the movie in itself, is bad too. Terribly slow. Man, it takes the guy a minute to stand up from where he sat! It's like a Barbie-movie, everything slow and the characters having no spirit.
Dolf should have taken command of everything: The only thing mentioned about that in the movie was some mumbled line about dividing people in groups.

This is just too frustrating.

[–] lb-64 16 years ago

I must say, I disagree. But HOLD UP, I HAVEN'T read the book. So I can say nothing about the adaption. But I liked this movie. I don't think it was slowpaced in any way, because (someone already said this I think) of the constant tension. And yeah, the actors were quite good. Of course, this is just my opinion, but I really enjoyed watching this. And frankly, I would never run out of a theater in the middle of a movie. God, give it a chance.

[–] filmfan-54 16 years ago

So you not only wasted one hour of your life, but you also tried to forget about this film. Yet, you can still find the time to write about it, there goes another 2 minutes of your life.

Yes, of course there are differences between the book and the movie, every movie based on a book is different. In books you can describe so much more than in a 2 hour format.

Slow pace, I actually like that in a movie. It makes sure you get in the right mood. Remember, this is no 2fast2furious or any other type of that movie where rapid camera changes must make up for a lousy story.

Dolf is not a test person, but a soccer player, they just adapted the story to make it a bit more modern.
1 priest instead of 3, well, there are already a lot of characters in the movie, so they just cut down on a few to make the storyline a little simpler and shorter.

[–] Enrique-8 9 years ago

I grow WEARY of snerts like KYRILL_87 who pretend that a perfect movie exists.

This was one stupendous historical fantasy. Enjoy it or suffer alone.

Enrique Sanchez