The Asylum will never be accused of making good movies...

...or anything like them, but one thing I can say for this "adaptation"--as opposed to the drivel they've previously ripped off other authors than Melville's titles from is that they at least paid enough attention to the source work to keep the storyline reconizable if not intact. The cpnversation discussing the loss of body parts to the whale is particularly noteworthy since it's a reasonably close updated transcription from the novel that makes the full impact of Ahab's obsessive madness known. The majority of the movie is subpar, but at least The Asylum didn't completely rip the guts out of the story as they've done with Burroughs', Shelley's, and Stoker's work among that of others before. One almost gets the sense that the Asylum has the potential to make good movies a decade or two into the future. Probably not, but if Moby Dick is the first baby step in the direction of an exceedingly slight increase in quality, then maybe.



Carthago delenda est.