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Juliet and Her Romeo

Sean O'Connor and Tom Morris

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For students, teachers, youth theatres, Shakespeare fans, theatre lovers and those interested in...

Hornblower: The Even Chance (1998)

6.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Firs of the TV adaptations of CS Forester's 'Hornblower' series of novels; takings its inspiration...

Otway93 (580 KP) rated The Little Drummer Girl in TV

Oct 25, 2019 (Updated Oct 25, 2019)

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Ok, but not the most thrilling.

As a huge fan of John le Carré, and have enjoyed many other film/TV adaptations of his work, I couldn't wait for this one!

Unfortunately, on screen it felt particularly dull. Series like The Night Manager, and even the early TV adaptations featuring Sir Alec Guinness, this series failed to capture the mix of excitement and suspense the book provides.

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Ali (60 KP) rated The Devil Wears Prada (2006) in Movies

Sep 11, 2017

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The book was better but Meryl is fire

Even though I liked the book better, this is one of the few film adaptations I really enjoy.

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Sarah (7800 KP) shared own rating to Prequels, Sequels, Remakes and Adaptations in Orbs

Apr 23, 2018

Seen as they’ve just added The Dark Tower on Sky Cinema, i felt the need to share this. By far one of the worst adaptations I’ve ever seen, of an absolutely epic book series. Just dire.

Sarah (7800 KP) rated The Dark Tower (2017) in Movies

Aug 20, 2017

The Dark Tower (2017)

2017 | Horror, Sci-Fi, Western

5.6

(68 Ratings)

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Stephen King let them make this?

I'll start off by saying I knew I was going to hate this film. From the moment I heard of the casting and then saw the first trailer. I get the justification for them making this film completely different (i.e. Horn of Eld - but was that even in the film?!), but for me it just doesn't work.

The book series is a fantasy masterpiece, but they appear to have made a standalone Dark Tower film pulled together with a vague mishmash of characters and ideas from the entire book series. It just doesn't work, especially not in a paltry 90 minutes. This is just far too different from the books - the characters are undeveloped, their motives are unclear. You almost have to have read the books to get an understanding of the characters as it just doesn't come across in this. Casting for me was poor too. McConaughey and Elba are fantastic actors but it doesn't show in this, they're let down by a poor script and a poor plot.

My only hope for this film is that it prompts those who haven't read the books to pick them up and realise how awesome they are.