Fahrenheit
451 (2/10)
This
movie was butt which sucks because it stars two guys that I am
a super fan of. I heard about this movie last year but after it came
out heard no reviews or anything. So I went into this thinking it was
gonna be a cool movie about books burning, lessons to learn from the
pasts mistakes, and if anything really good acting. This turned out
to be super bland. There was nothing spectacular about it. Every time
someone spoke it was like the screen was saying “This is acting and
you are watching a movie.” You know how powerfully bland your
writing and directing has to be to conquer the powers of both Shannon
and Jordan? By the way this Fahrenheit 451 movie is so different from the book there is no actual need to compare the two. I was able to
watch this as just a movie and judge it based on that alone.
This
takes place in the future. Books are banned and burned by firemen and
everyone spends their time online. Sounds familiar. People these days
say they read an audiobook. Did you read a podcast as well?!
Anyhoot, books are being blamed for everyone being unhappy and crazy
so they burn the shits. This fireman Guy Montag is good at the shit.
He has random flashbacks to his father who was also a fireman. His
captain Beatty seems to suspect something is off with Montag who
turns his eye in the sky off often. Beatty does the same thing to sit
at home and write on notes and then burn them. Montag meets this lady
named Clarisse who stays free by doing illegal shit. One day the
firemen find this old lady with a house full of books. She stands on
the pile and burns herself alive. Montag is shook.
The
rest of the movie is drawn out and predictable while managing to be
stupid at the same time. The underground fighters should have been
caught a long ass time ago. This was just over ninety minutes but
felt like hours. This would have been better as a series and not a
rushed film that removed so much important information, characters,
and plot that would have improved this so much. This felt like it was
done by someone who heard of the book. They overused the hell out of
the social media aspect which that far in the future would not be
looking like a goddamn live feed from Instagram today. This is an expensive TV show.
Michael
B. Jordan as Guy Montag
Michael
Shannon as Captain John Beatty
Sofia
Boutella as Clarisse McClellan
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