Title: Couldn't finish it
Product review: I first tried watching this movie before reading the book. I didn't like it at all and turned it off after half an hour. Several years later, when I read the book and enjoyed it immensely, I thought perhaps I hadn't understood the story well enough when I first watched the movie. So I tried watching it again, and this time I got almost all the way through. But it was ultimately a waste of time.I really like the book, but the movie is poorly made. The acting is bad (acting lessons are needed, plus the actors had no idea who or what their characters were supposed to be like), the picture is often out of focus or grainy (not just due to being VHS, but also due to poor cinematography), and the story has just been screwed up.The book was a satirical, albeit dark, comedy, and this movie had the flawed notion to try (unsuccessfully) to be a drama--it bordered more on the melodramatic. Skip the movie, read the book.
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