Too bad. The book was good but I can see how it would be tough to adapt. I’ve read several of Reid’s books and his plots rely on the reader having NO FREAKING IDEA what is going on for a large chunk of the story. And it’s easier, I suppose, to hide things with words than with visuals. The adaptation of I’m Thinking of Ending Things was pretty good, though the end was a bit muddy for me. Charlie Kaufman’s sense of weird matched better with the source material, perhaps.
Yeah, Davis seems a strange fit for the material -- the movie really holds the viewer's hand about what's going on in a way that's almost insulting. I definitely need to read Reid!
Too bad. The book was good but I can see how it would be tough to adapt. I’ve read several of Reid’s books and his plots rely on the reader having NO FREAKING IDEA what is going on for a large chunk of the story. And it’s easier, I suppose, to hide things with words than with visuals. The adaptation of I’m Thinking of Ending Things was pretty good, though the end was a bit muddy for me. Charlie Kaufman’s sense of weird matched better with the source material, perhaps.
Yeah, Davis seems a strange fit for the material -- the movie really holds the viewer's hand about what's going on in a way that's almost insulting. I definitely need to read Reid!