Title: That was awful! Terrible! (I sat through the entire movie.)
Product review: Gormenghast is one of the worst movies I've seen, excluding martial arts action films. Most of the characters were utterly without depth or interest, being overdramatic quota-filling morons. The cast consistently overacted. They were ridiculous, but not enough to be funny. The beginning was hard to follow because there wasn't proper explanation between scenes for those who haven't read the books. Some parts might have seemed profound in the book but were unnecessary extras in the movie, like the girl Titus decided he loved.Fuschia was a neurotic bimbo, and extremely annoying. Her drowning was instant. For the sake of accuracy, it should have been much longer and more excruciating.The only good character was Steerpike, who was evil and by the end very hard to sympathize with. Jonathan Rhys Meyers is simply beautiful, though, and it's very hard to dislike him in the role. Watching his face was the only reason I stayed to the end of the movie.
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