The Scarlet Letter
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Movie Reviews of The Scarlet Letter
Movie Review: They just didn't care
Summary: 1 Stars
Sign 1 that they just didn't care: Hester's "scarlet" letter is GOLD! So the title is summarily completely smashed into irrelevancy by a mere STUPID DESIGN CHOICE.
There's a very strong implication around the movie that SOMEONE involved in the whole making of this film either did not read the book at all, or did not read the book and received a brief summary from which they began to pick and choose what to film.
And for what? What's the purpose of making a film version of a complex moral tale and classic, and proceed to completely miss the point while crafting their own incoherent tale within a context that not even the director understands---What's so bad about a 17th century (or 19th century, as the director once stated) woman having an affair with a REVEREND, even if her husband is missing?
Unless you and your spouse have an open-relationship where you both have sex with others outside of wedlock and are fine with this, then this is a question that rarely needs to be asked, ESPECIALLY in 1600s PURITANICAL America!
Arbitrary scenes of Hollywood-style sex and sexual titilation are there just for whatever, and the end scene involves TOTALLY RANDOM INDIAN ATTACK! as a Deus Ex Machina to save the cuddly heroes who are too pretty to be executed by stuffy Puritans!
Hilarity reaches peak levels when Demi Moore defends it by claiming "Well, not many people have read the book!" Even given the propensity for some 80-90% of High School Students not reading a REQUIRED READING book by going through cliff notes or relying on other kids to help them, it's a very strong case to say her statement is false to a degree of laughing out loud.
And again, what was the point of making the letter on her dress GOLDEN?! Perhaps as a sign the filmmakers completely didn't even read the book's description, they probably thought it was some kind of symbolic title, instead of even looking at a picture on some editions to see her WEARING A SCARLET LETTER ON HER DRESS!
Movie Review: A ravaged work of art
Summary: 1 Stars
After watching this movie, I am appalled to say the least; there is no other way to put it. The only reason I gave this movie 1 star is because there was no option for zero. The Scarlet Letter has been a favorite book of mine for a good while, and I watched this movie under the impression that it might be good as well. I figured there might be some poetic licensing involved, but not to the extent this movie has taken it. I barely recognized the story line at all being that the whole plot was changed along with the struggles and emotions that made the book so powerful in the first place. I almost forgot I was watching anything even remotely related to Nathanael Hawthorne's novel. They have taken a book about solitude, strength, the victory of kindness over a whole towns hatred for free thought and turned it into a sappy (incredibly so) love story, replacing the internal struggles of three characters with what was probably assumed to be a profitable story line. One should be able to tell this movie will be unimpressive by the mere fact that the first half of the movie was a complete fabrication by the writers and the second half was a ravaged form of what was once an awe-inspiring story. This is the most tasteless rendition of a formally great novel I could have ever even imaged. If you like the book, by all means, don't go into this movie with even mediocre expectations because this movie doesn't even earn the right to bear its title.Movie Review: A Truly, TRULY, Terrible Movie Beginning To End!
Summary: 1 Stars
I hope if O sama is captured by the US he is forced to sit through this movie ten times a day.
Demi More's laughable and yet still painfully boring production of The Scarlet Letter is simply one of the worst motion pictures ever made. It is not merely bad, but remarkably bad. I found it completely absurd, tedious, ludicrous, and felt it was "freely adapted" to the detriment of the depth of the original source. This feminist, new agey re-telling of a classic bears scant resemblance to the Hawthorne tale and is unworthy of sharing the title. Sometimes a free adaptation can improve upon the original novel, as with the 1990's version of The Last of the Mohicans, but in this case the reverse was never truer. I could go on and on with what is wrong with this film but why don't I just say EVERYTHING is wrong with this film. Never have I laughed harder AT, not WITH, a movie in my life.
Movie Review: This deserves no stars at all
Summary: 1 Stars
I cannot describe my rancor directed towards this movie in mere words, but I will try. This is the absolute worst movie of all time. I have never seen something that could go more against itself in every way. My description of the Count of Monte Cristo movie pales in comparison to what I feel about this one. In one word, it is vile. The entire focus of the book, however much I did not like it, was shifted to a Hollywood action movie filled with stupidity. The main character in the book is absolutely nothing like the one in the movie. The despair that the book projected is not even visible in the movie, which just happens to be one of its best parts. I mean, for God sakes, the man is saved by the arrow of an Indian from a hanging! WHERE DID THAT COME FROM? Anyway, to say more would only be rambling, so I leave with a suggestion: never see this movie, EVER!Movie Review: It's a movie, but it's not The Scarlet Letter
Summary: 1 Stars
I have nothing against bad movies. I often enjoy their badness. This movie is so bad that I can't enjoy it, though, and I especially do not enjoy its abuse of the title "The Scarlet Letter." It has two things in common with Hawthorne's novel: the names of its two main characters.
This movie sucks bad.
Interesting note: Gary Oldman has said that his former abuse of vodka only impaired his performance in one movie and he hinted strongly that this was the one. It is said that he had to resort to reading from cue cards and having his lines fed to him through an earpiece because he could not remember them, in the scaffold scene among others.
Demi Moore can make as many strong-woman movies as she wants. She shouldn't steal the titles of classic novels to do so.