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A Mormon detective questions his feelings on faith and family after investigating a fundamentalist Mormon family. The cast of the limited series got awards buzz for the show, which stuck to the source material except for a few artistic embellishments.
The tone of the film is never quite right. Where it should be charming, it comes across corny. Where it should be understated and making a point, the grandeur of the big-budget picture takes over. A lot of fans of the novel were disappointed by the handling of it and argued some of what the story represented was watered down by the movie's handling.
Despite the excitement for Peter Jackson's involvement, some of the more fantasy-based elements of the film were so overdone that it took away from the heart of the story, which is pretty dark in the source material.
While adding and subtracting from the book's contents, the author even praised the adaptation because it "honors the book in a really lovely way and yet also adds to it," author Taylor Jenkins Reid tells Town & Country over Zoom.
Despite having a lot of big names attached to it, The Woman in the Window couldn't capture the psychological thriller just right. The vibes are supposed to be Hitchcock-esque, but without the right tension, it feels like you're waiting for something to happen at different points.
Condensing six (soon to be seven) books down to one film would be a challenge for anyone, and naturally, that means omitting certain aspects of the story. But a lot of fans of the book series felt it would have been better served as a series that could honor the details that made them develop their appreciation.
The movie doesn't go into all the detail that the book does, and that does take away from the experience, but it still hits powerful notes in all the same areas as the book, even with differing endings.
In trying to simplify the story for a wider audience, it cut out way too much and watered down the substance. Boiling over 800 pages into 90 minutes, coupled with the perspective change, frustrated readers.
The first season of the Netflix series was based on the source material but made changes (like making Clay and Hannah's relationship seem more one-sided than reciprocal) that impacted the characters as they tried to amp up the drama and further the storyline (with a lot of seriously graphic additions) in subsequent seasons.
This series is getting so much love for being representative and respectful of different LGBTQ+ identities, thanks to a diverse cast and crew that were dedicated to replicating the story the right way.
In not building up why Q is so drawn to Margo, it kind of feels like an over-the-top pursuit of a crush. Plus, Quentin's friendships with his buddies don't get the screen time they deserve, and those were just as important as his connection to Margo in the book.
This is a little bit of future-casting, of course, but with Rick Riordan's constant updates, there's a lot to be excited about with the upcoming series, which promises to stay true to the first book in the five-book series.
Fans and Riordan alike haven't hidden their disdain for The Lightning Thief and Sea of Monsters, which made major changes to the characters' personalities and the timeline while also missing the mark on dialogue.
There's a scene in a 1968 movie called "Five Card Stud" where Robert Mitchum plays a preacher with a gun hidden in his Bible. Dean Martin, who is the local terrorist, notices that Mitch has the Bible upside down. "If that IS a Bible," he says, "read it. If that ain't a Bible, drop it."
Well, you can't win 'em all. But you can come better prepared the next time, which is what Mitchum does in "The Wrath of God." This time, he's a priest with a gun concealed inside his Bible. And when the bad guys make him drop the Bible, he falls back on his reserves: a switchblade in his cross. He is no ordinary priest.
It's hard to say exactly what he is, in fact. There are a lot of things hard to figure out about "The Wrath of God." For example, where is it set? South of Mexico in the first decades of this century is a good guess. Also, why is Mitchum carrying a sub-machine gun and $58,000 in various currencies in his valise? How did everyone in this mysterious nation learn to speak English? Questions like that. There's even an Indian girl who has not spoken a word for 20 years, ever since she saw her parents murdered. When she finally does speak, it's English, which leads you to wonder whether she just kept quiet because no one would have understood her anyway.
One of the small wonderments of "The Wrath of God" is that none of these problems seem to handicap the movie very much. This is the kind of movie we don't see very often anymore: a simple, dashing tale told for sheer fun. Although it's not as good as "Beat the Devil," it has some of the same feeling that nothing matters much except keeping everyone interested.
Mitchum, who is impersonating a priest (or is he?) for reasons of his own, is brought before a firing squad with two other misplaced revolutionaries. One of them (Victor Buono) is a vast man in a white suit who looks wonderfully like Sydney Greenstreet. The other, Ken Hutchison, is an Irish patriot. The three of them are spared at the last minute and sent off to assassinate the despot of a nearby town, and from then on the plot is too complicated to summarize, or maybe even to remember.
What I do remember (she is impossible to forget) is the lovely Paula Pritchett, who was last seen emerging like a nymph from the waves in "Adrift." If there is a candidate for the American Sophia Loren, it is Miss Pritchett, who is womanly and not girlish and who has eyes that will visit you in your dreams. Yum.
She plays a fairly ridiculous role: She's the mute Indian maiden who falls forever in love with Ken Hutchison after he rescues her from a gang-rape. When she finally speaks, it is a moment of such unashamed corny melodrama that the audience finds itself in good nature.
There are a lot of moments like that in the movie. The director, Ralph Nelson, has avoided another serious and sweaty south-of-the-border action picture, and gone for the humor. The movie is thick with coincidences, one-liners, shots that never miss and shots that never hit, and the obligatory sniper in the church bell tower. Even if we've been over the ground before it's good to see that someone still knows the way.
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