Slaughterhouse-Five
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Movie Reviews of Slaughterhouse-Five
Movie Review: Eh...what?
Summary: 3 Stars
Never having read the famous book I can not make any comparison between the movie and the novel.George Roy Hill has directed some great movies, such as "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", "The Sting" and "A Little Romance". Here he uses relative unknown actors in a complex dramatic story involving time-travel by a man named Billy Pilgrim, between three different periods of his life. One of those times is during World War II and his time spent in a prisoner-of-war camp ("Slaughterhouse Five") in Dresden, Germany. He survives the fire-bombing which kills over 130,000 people, but is emotionally scarred after losing his friend. Another time is his post-war married life. The third time of his life is spent in a geodesic dome on the planet Tramalfadore, living with a soft-porn actress. The cuts between them are usually based on a common action.
The movie is well acted and directed, and has good production values. It appears to have a good story somewhere in it, but after two viewings, I'm still not sure I found it.
Movie Review: Misses A Point of the Novel
Summary: 3 Stars
In my opinion, one of the most heart-breaking aspects of the novel upon which this film was based was the possibility that Billy Pilgrim had to fantasize the Trafalmadorians to hide from the fact the people are RESPONSIBLE for their own actions. I thought the film presented the Trafalmadorians as real, without looking into the possibility that people might be responsible for the horrors they create. I think the best film adaptation of a Vonnegut novel is "MOTHER NIGHT."Movie Review: Ordered paper back bu t dvd was sent to my daughter
Summary: 2 Stars
paperback bool ordered, not dvdMovie Review: Terrible adaptation
Summary: 1 Stars
Vonnegut is quite hard to translate to film, but it doesn't seem like the producers of this movie even tried. The production resembles something a talented middle school theater group could pull off. Some of the most important scenes in the book are either breezed over or completely left out of the film, basically removing the very aspects that have made this book endure. I was hoping to see a film that lived up to the book for once, and was greatly disappointed.Movie Review: No. No. No.
Summary: 1 Stars
One of Kurt Vonnegut's rules for writing was to use the reader's time in a way that they won't feel it wasted. Slaughterhouse-5, the book, does this wonderfully. Slaughterhouse-5, the movie, does not. This is one of the worst book to movie adaptations I've seen in a long time and does not do the book justice at all. An overall boring movie with subpar acting, your time would be better spent reading the book which is a masterpiece.