So I watched Dante's Inferno, and thank God it's over!...No pun intended. It was completely unwatchable. It seriously made my head hurt, and before it even hit the half way mark, I found myself browsing the Internet while it played. I had really been looking forward to this film, too, because I am a huge fan of The Divine Comedy. I've read it three time, and I have always wanted to see a visualization of the poem in order to bring the beautiful gore to life.
Dante's Inferno: An Epic Animation, was not that.
I was so happy when it started as the film quoted the poem line by line for the first couple of minutes, then it went astray. Betrayal is the worst sin according to Dante, and this film was a betrayal of Inferno.
I admit, I even feel slightly insulted that the makers of this travesty would insult Dante Alighieri by soiling his character/person. He was a great literally artist, and produce a piece of work that is suppose to stimulate the mind in making one contemplate human nature and life.
Nothing about this film flattered Inferno. The only thing that was kept canon was the level's layout. The whole idea of The Divine Comedy was turned around on it's ass, as the original message of the poem is that the world's problems can be solved peacefully instead of by committing murder and violence....well, Dante in the movie decided to kill Charon because he told him that a living soul could not enter in Hell.
Oh yes, and I should also mention that they left out one of Dante's most famous line, "All ye abandon hope who enter here".
So, the whole movie is basically Dante running around killing people and things. I am sure they did this because they wanted to make it an action movie and to keep the viewer entertained, but there's enough violence in the original story/poem that they didn't need to bastardize Dante and add this bullshit storyline in there about him. For example, they left out the Harpies and Farfello, as well as the part about the father killing his whole family.
The few things I did enjoy about the film were the different styles they used throughout it, as well as seeing the army of dead babies...that was pretty much it...oh yeah, and Satan's one design was really kawaiidesu to me, but that's probably just because I love goats.
The main thing that I loved about Inferno was the philosophy in it, and that was all omitted and replaced by an added love story between Dante and Beatrice...yes, Dante was traveling to fetch Beatrice in the original, but they completely MILKED that and....uh...made her be captured in Hell....so then it became this annoying damsel in distress story too.
I give this movie a 2/10.
Oh yeah, and lets not forget the lip syncing did not match AT ALL! Sigh...I really hope someday someone makes a GOOD Inferno film.
Dante's Inferno: An Epic Animation, was not that.
I was so happy when it started as the film quoted the poem line by line for the first couple of minutes, then it went astray. Betrayal is the worst sin according to Dante, and this film was a betrayal of Inferno.
I admit, I even feel slightly insulted that the makers of this travesty would insult Dante Alighieri by soiling his character/person. He was a great literally artist, and produce a piece of work that is suppose to stimulate the mind in making one contemplate human nature and life.
Nothing about this film flattered Inferno. The only thing that was kept canon was the level's layout. The whole idea of The Divine Comedy was turned around on it's ass, as the original message of the poem is that the world's problems can be solved peacefully instead of by committing murder and violence....well, Dante in the movie decided to kill Charon because he told him that a living soul could not enter in Hell.
Oh yes, and I should also mention that they left out one of Dante's most famous line, "All ye abandon hope who enter here".
So, the whole movie is basically Dante running around killing people and things. I am sure they did this because they wanted to make it an action movie and to keep the viewer entertained, but there's enough violence in the original story/poem that they didn't need to bastardize Dante and add this bullshit storyline in there about him. For example, they left out the Harpies and Farfello, as well as the part about the father killing his whole family.
The few things I did enjoy about the film were the different styles they used throughout it, as well as seeing the army of dead babies...that was pretty much it...oh yeah, and Satan's one design was really kawaiidesu to me, but that's probably just because I love goats.
The main thing that I loved about Inferno was the philosophy in it, and that was all omitted and replaced by an added love story between Dante and Beatrice...yes, Dante was traveling to fetch Beatrice in the original, but they completely MILKED that and....uh...made her be captured in Hell....so then it became this annoying damsel in distress story too.
I give this movie a 2/10.
Oh yeah, and lets not forget the lip syncing did not match AT ALL! Sigh...I really hope someday someone makes a GOOD Inferno film.