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mamabeth -> RE: What movie made you so mad you walked out of the theater? (7/19/2008 2:27:24 PM)
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I walked out of "The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising". It was based on Susan Cooper's book "The Dark Is Rising" from The Dark Is Rising Sequence ( Over Sea, Under Stone; The Dark Is Rising; Greenwitch; The Grey King; Silver on the Tree). I adored the series as a kid, spent MANY hours planning how I'd make it into a movie. I was so very excited to see that it had finally been done - but I walked out at the end wishing I'd not bothered to try to sit through it. Turns out there was only another two minutes left, but I'd left. I was upset through most of the movie at all of the changes. It seemed the only thing kept from the story were the very basics - names, general storyline of finding the signs, The Rider. But otherwise it's a total different story. Having Tom be Will's twin brother who went missing, and then is just returned was the last straw for me. On it's own, to not know the story, my son loved it. My daughter was finally interested enough to read the book - then within the first two chapters she came to me and said "No wonder you were so upset! This is SO much better than the movie!" It could have been so much more.
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