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rolly_chan) wrote2008-06-09 11:13 pm
rolly_chan) wrote2008-06-09 11:13 pm
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[Error: unknown template qotd] I'd love to say that I don't know any movie I hate. Unfortunately, I was forced to watch "The War Between the Classes" at school (I really loved the novel...).
It was the worst movie ever. At least of the movies I have watched.
I practically hate everything about it except for the beginning where they showed Amy's class watching Martin Luther King's speech. Because it was okay.
After that, I started to hate every second.
1) The book delivers a totally different meaning and atmosphere. The ending is very different, too. While - in the book - the students from the different colours come to understand each other better - in the movie they still don't like each other. It's as if the movie wants to make us believe that different races can't coexist. The book tells differently, obviously *rollyeyes*
2) The Color Game had a major part in the book. I believe it had a major part in the movie as well but I didn't have the feeling it had. In the movie it was like "We start the Color Game now. Here are your colours - Goodbye!" and then there was nothing to it. They didn't work it out well. In fact, they didn't work it out at all.
3) Amy is some other person but NOT Amy Sumoto (they even changed her name into Sumida - WHY THE HELL?!). She was really lovely in the book and she cared so much for everyone - even for Justin although he didn't treat her appropriately.
The Amy in the movie is one big, fucking bitch. She bitches at Adam for some reason unknown to me (Adam is a bitch too - he also starts arguments over nothing). She snitches on Justin for not obeying her orders (since she's a blue and blues have power over everyone and everything - although Amy actually is kind and shy and caring. OOC anyone?) so that Justin gets punished.
4) Adam is an *******.
He isn't fond of other races. He even backs up Justin with his racist jokes. Well... why is Amy his girlfriend, then? She is Japanese-American. Shouldn't he dislike her too then?
Well, I already said that he's a bitch too...
5) Where the fuck is Amy's family? Besides her father, I mean. Where is the great and sweet and lovely story about her brother Hideo and his wife Sue (who is an American - the PERFECT contrast to the discrimination in the Color Game and the PERFECT prove that it IS possible for two different cultures to live together peacefully)? Where is all the encouragement from them which Amy needs to keep on believing? I guess THIS was the biggest mistake the producers could have done. And they did it. Idiots.
It was important to include the family. It was important to show how strict her father is (who in the movie is nothing more than a wimp), to show how much HE dislikes the white people and how it slowly changes (it's only because of his strictness that Amy wants to revolt! GODDAMMIT!)... how he slowly accepts Sue (and Adam) and starts caring for her - at the same time when Amy plans the revolt and the participants of the Game start to believe too.
It was just so breathtaking and sweet when he subtly allowed Amy to invite Adam for dinner... and the movie just spoiled it all.
6) At the end of the movie there is a revolt. Very suddenly.
Amy magically gathers all the oranges - the lowest class (and maybe greens?) - around her out of the blue and stars a revolt. And no one has any idea where she got that idea from or why the hell the other classes help her. Really. I believe the revolt-scene was directly after an argument between her and Adam (where it looks like as if they break up while in the book they never did and loved each other till the end).
Absolutely NOTHING was hinting at it. Nothing. Nada.
It doesn't help that this scene (which is one of the MOST IMPORTANT OF THE WHOLE STORY) was very short too.
There are plenty of minor reasons that I hate this movie. But I guess this is enough for today or else I'll get the urge to destroy something.
I thought the movie would be great. I really believed that. But it just disappointed me beyond belief.
It was the worst movie ever. At least of the movies I have watched.
I practically hate everything about it except for the beginning where they showed Amy's class watching Martin Luther King's speech. Because it was okay.
After that, I started to hate every second.
1) The book delivers a totally different meaning and atmosphere. The ending is very different, too. While - in the book - the students from the different colours come to understand each other better - in the movie they still don't like each other. It's as if the movie wants to make us believe that different races can't coexist. The book tells differently, obviously *rollyeyes*
2) The Color Game had a major part in the book. I believe it had a major part in the movie as well but I didn't have the feeling it had. In the movie it was like "We start the Color Game now. Here are your colours - Goodbye!" and then there was nothing to it. They didn't work it out well. In fact, they didn't work it out at all.
3) Amy is some other person but NOT Amy Sumoto (they even changed her name into Sumida - WHY THE HELL?!). She was really lovely in the book and she cared so much for everyone - even for Justin although he didn't treat her appropriately.
The Amy in the movie is one big, fucking bitch. She bitches at Adam for some reason unknown to me (Adam is a bitch too - he also starts arguments over nothing). She snitches on Justin for not obeying her orders (since she's a blue and blues have power over everyone and everything - although Amy actually is kind and shy and caring. OOC anyone?) so that Justin gets punished.
4) Adam is an *******.
He isn't fond of other races. He even backs up Justin with his racist jokes. Well... why is Amy his girlfriend, then? She is Japanese-American. Shouldn't he dislike her too then?
Well, I already said that he's a bitch too...
5) Where the fuck is Amy's family? Besides her father, I mean. Where is the great and sweet and lovely story about her brother Hideo and his wife Sue (who is an American - the PERFECT contrast to the discrimination in the Color Game and the PERFECT prove that it IS possible for two different cultures to live together peacefully)? Where is all the encouragement from them which Amy needs to keep on believing? I guess THIS was the biggest mistake the producers could have done. And they did it. Idiots.
It was important to include the family. It was important to show how strict her father is (who in the movie is nothing more than a wimp), to show how much HE dislikes the white people and how it slowly changes (it's only because of his strictness that Amy wants to revolt! GODDAMMIT!)... how he slowly accepts Sue (and Adam) and starts caring for her - at the same time when Amy plans the revolt and the participants of the Game start to believe too.
It was just so breathtaking and sweet when he subtly allowed Amy to invite Adam for dinner... and the movie just spoiled it all.
6) At the end of the movie there is a revolt. Very suddenly.
Amy magically gathers all the oranges - the lowest class (and maybe greens?) - around her out of the blue and stars a revolt. And no one has any idea where she got that idea from or why the hell the other classes help her. Really. I believe the revolt-scene was directly after an argument between her and Adam (where it looks like as if they break up while in the book they never did and loved each other till the end).
Absolutely NOTHING was hinting at it. Nothing. Nada.
It doesn't help that this scene (which is one of the MOST IMPORTANT OF THE WHOLE STORY) was very short too.
There are plenty of minor reasons that I hate this movie. But I guess this is enough for today or else I'll get the urge to destroy something.
I thought the movie would be great. I really believed that. But it just disappointed me beyond belief.