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    The Ruins

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    If you read the book, you will most probably not enjoy the movie. The book creates an amazing setting and really moves forward in a logical and explained fashion. The movie obviously had to cut back on a lot of those details and explanations. But in the end, I think some of the omissions really hurt the movie. I was going to give this one a 6/10, but I just can't. A 6/10 is not bad, and this movie was more like a so so! It is gruesome, so they definitely stuck with to that part of the book. But too many things remained unexplained or not well explained, so you end up wondering "why did he do that? " or "how would he know that? ", or even "how did they get to that conclusion so fast? " The acting is good. Kudos to Jonathan Tucker (of The Black Donnellys fame) for a great turn. We need to see more of this young actor. Jena Malone also does a good job in a kind of movie she is not known for playing in (horror) Sure, reading an excellent book is always better and more satisfying that seeing the movie they make of that book, but it doesn't mean that the movie has to be bad. There have been some great big screen adaptations, such as The Green Mile, Misery, Mystic River, and Gone Baby Gone. And don't think that my enjoyment was affected by having my expectations too high. I lowered them big time. And still, I found that a lot of storyline elements were just thrown in there without adequate setup. Imagine a viewer that had not read the book and benefited from some of that added detail in the book... 5/10 so so, worth it if you don't pay. And I'm sticking to that rating.

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    rimbaud1972@  8.4.2008 age: 26-35 239 reviews

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