'Never Let Me Go' - beautiful sci-fi drama - 2/1/11
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Re: 'Never Let Me Go' - beautiful sci-fi drama - 2/1/11
After all that hype, how come this film never went anywhere? I believe it must be good, but what a marketing flop...
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Plenty of wonderful films don't get wide releases. It's also a low-budget British film with difficult marketability, so I'm grateful it was even distributed here at all.
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I never got to see this so I'll be giving it a rent.
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Still want to see this.
The trailer looks boring as hell, but knowing what it's actually about has me fully intrigued.
The trailer looks boring as hell, but knowing what it's actually about has me fully intrigued.
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Re: 'Never Let Me Go' - beautiful sci-fi drama - 2/1/11
As I posted in the film thread for this, its probably my favorite film of the year so I can't wait to own it.
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Sounds intriguing, Amazon doesn't have a release date yet.
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The sci-fi aspect of the story is very limited, and was much overplayed by the trailers. The movie is based on a novel by the author of The Remains of the Day, and has much the same basic style and tone as that one.
I hate to be one of those "The book was better" people, but this book was basically impossible to adapt, and I wasn't really thrilled with a couple of the compromises that the director had to make.
I hate to be one of those "The book was better" people, but this book was basically impossible to adapt, and I wasn't really thrilled with a couple of the compromises that the director had to make.
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Re: 'Never Let Me Go' - beautiful sci-fi drama - 2/1/11
The sci-fi aspect of the story is very limited, and was much overplayed by the trailers. The movie is based on a novel by the author of The Remains of the Day, and has much the same basic style and tone as that one.
I hate to be one of those "The book was better" people, but this book was basically impossible to adapt, and I wasn't really thrilled with a couple of the compromises that the director had to make.
I hate to be one of those "The book was better" people, but this book was basically impossible to adapt, and I wasn't really thrilled with a couple of the compromises that the director had to make.
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Re: 'Never Let Me Go' - beautiful sci-fi drama - 2/1/11
I am fairly certain, although I am glad and quite surprised that a few people here actually saw and enjoyed this movie as much as I did, that this movie would be hated by 99% of the DVDTalk crowd. I would definitely not recommend this as a blind-buy to anyone.
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I love this film as well. There is a great interview done on the Creative Screenwriting Magazine podcast that deepened my appreciation even more.
http://creativescreenwritingmagazine...t-me-go-q.html
I'd advise not listening to it if you haven't seen the film yet.
http://creativescreenwritingmagazine...t-me-go-q.html
I'd advise not listening to it if you haven't seen the film yet.