Kevin Licht

Film adaptations are something I studied quite a bit in college. In doing so “the book is better than the film” became one of my least favorite phrases. I feel that the main issue in regards to book vs. film is that audiences have trouble separating the two mediums. Furthermore, film creators have difficulties doing this as well, and that can come through in the film when a director is trying to be faithful to the book and is too afraid to create their own vision.

Most, if not all, of Stanley Kubrick’s films are adaptations from literature, and he had a knack for making those stories his own through film.

Having said that, these are terrible adaptations.

How do you feel about the blu-ray’s with the digital copy included? I find myself avoiding the films that are only compatible with Ultraviolet.

I find the transition to blu-ray interesting since the digital copies seemed to come around so quickly.

Wow! Bore-fest is a new one with Pacific Rim. I certainly understand what the issues would be with the film, but I felt the cheese was on purpose and it felt like a fun ode to Godzilla. For me it was mostly about the visuals though.

If’s difficult to give a recommendation for Wolf of Wall Street. I would say if you read the different responses to the film it would surely be worth checking out simply to see what you think. It’s not really comparable to Gatsby other than DiCaprio being in it, and maybe the director flaunting his stuff (arguably a little too much).

When I went to see it the usher at AMC was being forced to warn people about the graphic sexual content as well, so that could be a factor.

Let’s put it this way… it’s an interesting film when it comes to forming an opinion.

While The Wolf of Wall Street is certainly a love/hate film, I must disagree with you about the narration from DiCaprio’s character. This was a film that had effective narration much more attune to the likes of Scorsese’s Goodfellas where the narrator actually adds to the scenes instead of presenting a description of exactly what was happening, a problem that does occur in Scorsese’s Casino.

I don’t know if I agree it was a lackluster year for TV in general comment. How many years do you really get a bunch of new great shows. In 2013 we had what? The Fall, Top of The Lake, Orange is the New Black, The Americans, and for a new comedy we were given Brooklyn Nine-Nine among others.

I personally think the problem with TV is that there’s just too much out there.

While I agree it was long, I didn’t actually think it was “too long” and I think many of the scenes were about more than establishing debauchery. They actually did cut quite a bit out. I believe the film was initially around 4 hours long.

Loved this article. Well done sir.