Today I watched The Lord of the Flies. The one from the 90's.
It sucked.
The dialogue and acting was terrible, the characters were flat, and the story... not at all enticing. Not at all like the book.
I know that movies never do quite as well as the books, but this one ranks up there in my list of terrible movies. With Harry Potter Six. Scratch that: This movie is worse than Harry Potter Six. At least the acting was believable in Harry Potter.
Maybe its that it was made in the 90's, but the movie was terrible.
One of the worst scenes yet was Simon's death. He comes running along the beach holding a four-foot glow-stick. He looks like a Jedi. The other boys see him, think he's the "monster", they can't say beast like the book, and run at him with their wooden spears. I half expected Simon to jump up into the air, to a few flips, then land on the ground in a sort of crouch, and proceed to cut off all of their heads with his glow-stick/light saber. But no he just stands there. Maybe it was the fact that I expected him to go all Obi-Wan Kenobi, but I think it was because Simon was not characterized well and his death didn't make me feel any sense of sorrow for him.
I'll be content as long as I can re-read the book, and not re-watch the movie.
I agree. The movie has nothing to do with the book, and I also think Simon's death was lame. Maybe we are too used to all of the XX century special effects.
ReplyDeleteI liked how you added your own opinion into you post about the movie. At least the book was good, probably better than the movie by the way you described it. Great!
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