Although the movie was likable in some ways, I found it a bit too vague and boring. However, I guess I feel this way because I had read the book previous to it. The book was truly amazing and no movie would ever be able to compete with it.
The movie is the basic review of the novel and has the same themes and contents, yet I found it very hard to love. I felt it was too uninteresting, and didn't show enough of the characters personalities. Where was the sweet Ponyboy, I found in the book, in the movie? The Ponyboy in the motion picture didn't show the intelligent and sensitive side. What I saw instead was a chain-smoker with no life.
Johnny wasn't horribly portrayed, but I still felt more emotion could have been added to show the lost puppy within him.
Something else that had bothered me was how fast-paced the movie was. It didn't give enough time for the viewers to consume what was happening or for the characters to actually act out the natural paces of real life.
For example, when Darry hit Ponyboy. Ponyboy didn't seem to consume what was happening, as he did in the book, and just ran out of the house. I mean, wouldn't your brain stop if your older brother had hit you? I know mine would have.
Also, the script bothered me greatly. The words coming out of the characters mouths didn't seem to fit in. The actors looked almost awkward saying them, as if they themselves knew how corny and odd the script sounded.
And if that weren't enough, I felt there wasn't enough of the other characters such as Sodapop, Steve, Two-Bit, or Darry in the movie. There wasn't much to show each characters relationship with the other. I mean, Sodapop was the only person Ponyboy felt loved by, yet you only see them in the beginning for a very short time and little bits, such as the hospital and rumble scene, afterward. I probably wouldn't have understood their relationship if it weren't for the book.
So overall, I felt that this movie was not best fit to represent the book, but good fun if you hadn't read the book.
** out of *****
The movie is the basic review of the novel and has the same themes and contents, yet I found it very hard to love. I felt it was too uninteresting, and didn't show enough of the characters personalities. Where was the sweet Ponyboy, I found in the book, in the movie? The Ponyboy in the motion picture didn't show the intelligent and sensitive side. What I saw instead was a chain-smoker with no life.
Johnny wasn't horribly portrayed, but I still felt more emotion could have been added to show the lost puppy within him.
Something else that had bothered me was how fast-paced the movie was. It didn't give enough time for the viewers to consume what was happening or for the characters to actually act out the natural paces of real life.
For example, when Darry hit Ponyboy. Ponyboy didn't seem to consume what was happening, as he did in the book, and just ran out of the house. I mean, wouldn't your brain stop if your older brother had hit you? I know mine would have.
Also, the script bothered me greatly. The words coming out of the characters mouths didn't seem to fit in. The actors looked almost awkward saying them, as if they themselves knew how corny and odd the script sounded.
And if that weren't enough, I felt there wasn't enough of the other characters such as Sodapop, Steve, Two-Bit, or Darry in the movie. There wasn't much to show each characters relationship with the other. I mean, Sodapop was the only person Ponyboy felt loved by, yet you only see them in the beginning for a very short time and little bits, such as the hospital and rumble scene, afterward. I probably wouldn't have understood their relationship if it weren't for the book.
So overall, I felt that this movie was not best fit to represent the book, but good fun if you hadn't read the book.
** out of *****
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