If you're going to make a movie out of a book...
Okay... I gotta say, some film makers are just retarded. (:
I watched The Dead Zone, which is a film directed by David Cronenberg that is based off of a book by Stephen King. They skipped over like, an entire section at the beginning of the movie. :/ The part where the kids are skating and Johnny gets knocked down by a hockey player and smells burnt rubber when he wakes up. Then, they didn't mention any of the things that happened while Johnny was in a coma. They didn't pay any attention to the fact that Johnny's mother touches him when she comes in to the room and he didn't have a flash like he does in the book.
In the movie, he touches a nurse and gets a vision of her house burning down and tells her that her daughter Amy is in the house and it is not too late to save her. In the book, it is his physical therapist he touches and tells her her house is burning down, NOT his nurse. And in the book, there is no child involved.
In the movie, he doesn't take a cab home. He drives himself home and ends up hitting a big gas tank thingy that was attached to a semi. In the book, he takes a cab home and he's having a nice little discussion with the driver when they have a wreck at an intersection.
I mean honestly, what the hell is wrong with these directors that fuck up what could have been a good movie by making it so far from what really happened in the book?
I watched The Dead Zone, which is a film directed by David Cronenberg that is based off of a book by Stephen King. They skipped over like, an entire section at the beginning of the movie. :/ The part where the kids are skating and Johnny gets knocked down by a hockey player and smells burnt rubber when he wakes up. Then, they didn't mention any of the things that happened while Johnny was in a coma. They didn't pay any attention to the fact that Johnny's mother touches him when she comes in to the room and he didn't have a flash like he does in the book.
In the movie, he touches a nurse and gets a vision of her house burning down and tells her that her daughter Amy is in the house and it is not too late to save her. In the book, it is his physical therapist he touches and tells her her house is burning down, NOT his nurse. And in the book, there is no child involved.
In the movie, he doesn't take a cab home. He drives himself home and ends up hitting a big gas tank thingy that was attached to a semi. In the book, he takes a cab home and he's having a nice little discussion with the driver when they have a wreck at an intersection.
I mean honestly, what the hell is wrong with these directors that fuck up what could have been a good movie by making it so far from what really happened in the book?