Anyone seen
The Girl With All the Gifts
? I love the book and liked the movie, though not as much as the book.
The film had a limited release here in the US. I either missed it or it never came to Chicago, but now it's on iTunes.
I'm curious if anyone saw it who hadn't read the book first.
One major change in the movie struck me: In the book, there's basically
no cure for the zombie pathogen and humans and zombies are stuck in a war that will see most of them killed.
But in the movie, Dr. Caldwell
can make a cure for the pathogen, but Melanie has to die to produce it.
So Melanie's action at the end, while producing the same result, has a very different meaning in the movie.
(Spoiler fonts because of the limited release before it became available to purchase.)
Thanks for spoiler-fonting, tommyrot, even though I read them anyway... I have the book on a shelf waiting to be read, and I never knew there was a movie. Time to move that book to the top of the stack.
Is it wrong that I thought Dan Stevens was hotter as the Beast than after he turned back into the prince?
As Hec noted, everyone thinks this! Although, God, Stevens was absolutely perfect as the post-transformation prince. The moment when he looks at his transformed hands, then turns and looks at Belle? He had clearly watched the animated version roughly a frillion times.
But, yeah, the animated version was better. And because I am (along with Plei) lyric's bitch, it annoyed me no end that when the villagers stormed the Beast's castle they left out Ashman's searing line, "We don't like/What we don't/Understand/In fact, it scares us."
An ad for Wonder Woman on Agents of SHIELD!
And an ad for WW during the NBA playoffs.
GASP
I didn't like the books, didn't even finish the first one. This movie? OMG. This is right up my alley, specifically the dark one with the cobblestone street behind the NYC apartment complex in my mind.
Well!
A good summer for movies, it looks.
Wow, that looks really cool. (I never read the books.)
But... are there no women at all in these books?