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• James said...

  Posted on May 07 2009 00:41 This movie is really bad in comparison to the novel. The plot was way too condensed. Entire events were skipped and scenes which were supposed to be separate, took place at the same time. There was such a lack of detail in the plot that if I hadn't read the book, the movie would have been unreasonably simple and very boring to watch. The orchestra music was very cheezy, because it was trying to make the audience have emotion when the scenes were not properly portrayed. For a 1960's movie it's ok, but a book like To Kill a Mockingbird deserves a remake.

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• Bootlebarth said...

  Posted on Dec 21 2008 16:08 Hmmm. Dissenting views should be considered even if they're misguided. A classic book doesn't guarantee a classic film. The first hour, dominated by three hyperactive and barely intelligible children is very, very tedious and would have been unwatchable without the interludes involving Gregory Peck.
  The courtroom scene is riveting and Robert Duvall's wordless life-saving loony at the end is a treat. Harper Lee generally liked the film adaptation, so who are we to disagree? No great subtlety was needed in the book to expose the institutionalised injustice prevalent in the 'Land of the Free'. The black and white film shows black and white characters acting blackly and whitely, so to speak.
  The book is rightly celebrated, being written at a time when injustice and racialism were still on open display. But the film is far from perfect. The child's eye view might work well enough in the book (with a few reservations about precocity) but it translates uneasily to celluloid. A version losing about 30 minutes of infantile antics would be a massive improvement.

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• i hate you said...

  Posted on Dec 11 2008 00:43 wow you are so stupid. i didnt get a word you said. To even think that this is a bad movie, is unfathamable. jesus... wow.

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• Red said...

  Posted on Sep 03 2008 05:26 There's always somebody that likes to be different... even if different means completely unabashed, unfathomable ignorance. Your 'review' is unintelligible refuse. Get it together man.

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• Matthew said...

  Posted on Sep 01 2008 20:51 A truly fatuous review. Don't be misled by the fool who wrote it. (Heed instead the other users' comments.) Anyone inclined to watch the film should do so; you'll enjoy one of the two or three greatest works ever produced in American cinema.

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• GERALD said...

  Posted on Jun 09 2008 03:48 I didn't get a single point you said in this review... All you did was compare it with different movies and rate it 3 stars..
  If I was to rate your review, it really would be 1 star... Consider writing reviews that aren't a waste of life.
  You obviously didn't get the broad message of the story, next time, mouth shut please...

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• Scott said...

  Posted on Jun 08 2008 16:52 One of the best film adaptations of a novel, period. I love how the reviewer smugly throws around his knowledge of film by insulting Stanley Kramer, who made some pretty good movies himself. Those who can do, and those who can't write snide and disparaging reviews. I suppose some people simply have hearts of stone.

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• Darren said...

  Posted on Oct 29 2007 06:16 Well... I guess the world needs people who are wrong, too.

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