[QUOTE=FelixDragon;45002916]This trailer was slightly more disappointing than the ending of the book.[/QUOTE]
I didn't know about the sequels until a while ago. Apparently [sp]Jonah goes all Fallout 2 tribals on us.[/sp]
Looks like a crappy version of equilibrium, if you want a real movie about a dystopian future where emotions are chemically removed I HIGHLY recommend it.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhOnNLiUZb4[/media]
When I read this, I thought that the setting was futuristic, so they got that right imo
but they managed to fuck just about everything else up
Honestly the imagery of the setting I had when I read it, and probably what Lowery had in mind, was an American Cold War-era "perfect" utopian neighborhood. I like to think of Tranquility Lane from Fallout 3 or vintage anti-commie propaganda and think of it like that.
[t]http://img.weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Cold-War-Ads-After-Total-War.jpg[/t]
Nothing in it was futuristic in my mind.
[editline]4th June 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=Psycho9182;45003050]It is in black in white...[sp]until he discovers color.[/sp][/QUOTE]
Well it seems like it just came to him immediately after [sp]his first experience, when in the book it he was seeing flashes of red first and color gradually came to him, at least I think that was how it was.[/sp]
The modernist approach to it kind of turns me off.
I always imagined the setting of The Giver to by like a 1950's-esque village surrounded by prairie and forests.
The only book I read as a kid that I actually enjoyed reading
[QUOTE=Chocolate.;45004135]The modernist approach to it kind of turns me off.
I always imagined the setting of The Giver to by like a 1950's-esque village surrounded by prairie and forests.[/QUOTE]
This is what I always thought the book described as well.
A 1950's authoritative utopia surrounded by a forest, with the "normal world" hundreds of miles away.
Visually? That's close to how I imagined it. Even disregarding black/white, everything was designed to be simple, and "pure." They went a bit too sci-fi in some parts, but otherwise, I liked how it looks, visually.
And that's about it. They seem to be skewing some parts of the plot, and they spoil some bits immediately in the trailer, and the music. Did they [I]seriously[/I] use Requiem for a Dream? Unironically? That says a lot of bad.
Ignoring what an egregiously bad adaptation this movie appears to be, what is up with modern trailers spoiling 92.5% of the film anyway?
I haven't read the book since middle school but i'm pretty sure it was nothing like this
Didn't the whole plot revolve around the main character turning 12
Why the fuck do they have to be 25
[editline]5th June 2014[/editline]
Fuck this movie
[QUOTE=noodleboy347;45004899]Didn't the whole plot revolve around the main character turning 12
Why the fuck do they have to be 25
[editline]5th June 2014[/editline]
Fuck this movie[/QUOTE]
Probably to make the movie about escaping with a fucking love interest and not about trying to [sp]save the little boy[/sp]
Something about the black and white in the trailer seems off-putting. I think its that some of the effects and cinematography seem unreal with those colors I associate with older film. Plus it just seems to be too obvious that it's total desaturation done for the B&W, whereas film of such type is more contrasted in a way.
The title of this film "THE GIVER" sounds like the most average copy and paste creepypasta yet by looking at the title. I might read the book but this movie ? No not gonna watch it. I can guess this film will be a ghost who gives gifts to people in which the gifts are cursed and makes people's lifes worse ? Just a guess...
[QUOTE=sethcaron;45012563]The title of this film "THE GIVER" sounds like the most average copy and paste creepypasta yet by looking at the title. I might read the book but this movie ? No not gonna watch it. I can guess this film will be a ghost who gives gifts to people in which the gifts are cursed and makes people's lifes worse ? Just a guess...[/QUOTE]
It's about [sp]an old man who touches kids at his house and they see the past for some reason[/sp]
I didn't really imagine the town to look that way. It's too future-y. I always imagined it to take a more modern but natural approach; similar to how well some of the environments/cities are in Star Wars.
This is trying to be hunger games.
The Giver was one of my favorite childhood books; it's a shame to see how they butchered the plot. (So far from what's revealed in the trailer)
Another childhood favorite of mine was The Girl Who Owned a City. I wouldn't mind seeing it made into a movie, but I'd want it done right; which I think JJ Abrams captured the young actors well in the movie Super 8.
[img_thumb]http://mediocrityisthenewgenius.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/girl-who-owned.jpg[/img_thumb]
Imo it doesn't look bad at all, all I've read on this thread so far was people finding newer ways to say 'fuck this pos film';
'i read the book in middle school and this isn't what it [I]should[/I] look like'.
'omg they recycled music 0/10'....
'omg its in black in white, but in the future ffs([I]cause i totally read the book[/I])'
The only thing i agree on you guys with here is that the trailer spoiled the story, but that isn't something to judge the movie by.
mark me dumb all you want, but at least explain/complain about something that's worth giving shit about; where's all the hate coming from?
Quit a few parts from the trailer look like there was no budget. It looks awfully cheap, especially the bike things.
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