06-23-2020, 06:33 PM
06-23-2020, 06:56 PM
Obviously, a movie cannot be the same thing as a book. But with Bonfire, the film absolutely butchered the novel. And all of the changes served to eliminate, nullify or diminish the basic (non-P.C.) points of Wolfe’s story. The movie got horrible reviews, was a box office disaster, and rarely have I ever felt my time had been so badly wasted after I finished watching it. After 30 years, it’s rated poorly by most of the online review-sites like IMDB, etc.
06-23-2020, 07:01 PM
I never read the book so I really enjoyed the movie back in the day and I have thought about it a lot the last few years.
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06-24-2020, 09:04 AM
(06-23-2020 06:56 PM)Native Georgian Wrote: [ -> ]Obviously, a movie cannot be the same thing as a book. But with Bonfire, the film absolutely butchered the novel. And all of the changes served to eliminate, nullify or diminish the basic (non-P.C.) points of Wolfe’s story. The movie got horrible reviews, was a box office disaster, and rarely have I ever felt my time had been so badly wasted after I finished watching it. After 30 years, it’s rated poorly by most of the online review-sites like IMDB, etc.
I both read the book and saw the movie, and I'll disagree. Most of the movie ratings sites are run by the far-lefties who hated the underlying message that they somehow missed that race-baiting and dog-whistling to the PC crowd is stupid even if the subject is not a perfect man, which Tom Hanks' character clearly wasn't. Nevertheless, the film makes the very poignant point that though he is not perfect, he does not deserve the vilification and abuse by the Left-wing mob that encompasses him. And in the end, he successfully uses the Left's strategies and faults against them to beat them at their own game. The irony is the movie was made by the PC lefty crowd, yet the film does a good job showing why the Left's progressive agenda is stupid and unrealistic. The movie ending is better than the book's, especially Morgan Freeman's speech at the end of the movie. It is a truly great film and one everyone should be watching today as it is spot on with exposing the Left's total myopia and hypocrisy.