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I watched Dead Boy Detectives, which I learned from Google is based on a comic book series in Neil Gaiman's Sandman universe. Not being a comic or Gaiman aficionado, it was still enjoyable, in the "teens banding together to solve mysteries" genre, even if the teens are ghosts.
I just spent the evening watching A Man In Full. I never read the book and went into this with no expectations. I rate it a 5/6. It's not particularly good but it had familiar faces, some interesting characters and just enough of a story to keep me watching. It's good that it was only 6 episodes long though because I probably wouldn't have stuck around any longer.
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I just spent the evening watching A Man In Full. I never read the book and went into this with no expectations. I rate it a 5/6. It's not particularly good but it had familiar faces, some interesting characters and just enough of a story to keep me watching. It's good that it was only 6 episodes long though because I probably wouldn't have stuck around any longer.
I'm halfway through AMIF; having read the book, I can tell you that the series is a pretty radical departure from it. The PC Police have pretty much rendered the story unrecognizable, and Jeff Daniels' performance is so over the top that it's almost painful to watch. How in the world could somebody that tone deaf be running a business empire? As for the rest of the characters, all the white males are played as either knuckle-dragging bullies or feckless dweebs; the women are given little to nothing to do.
It's like there's a curse on anyone that attempts to adapt a Tom Wolfe novel to film. The three that I'm aware of (The Right Stuff, Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man In Full) ranged from mediocre to dreadful.
There was talk about Ripley earlier in the thread--I've started watching it, but I'm having a hard time getting through it. Not because it isn't well done, but that Andrew Scott does such a good job at being creepy that I dread what's going to happen, even though I'm familiar with the story.
It's like there's a curse on anyone that attempts to adapt a Tom Wolfe novel to film. The three that I'm aware of (The Right Stuff, Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man In Full) ranged from mediocre to dreadful.
There absolutely is a curse, and I'm sad to see it has apparently extended to AMIF. Tom is a wordsmith, very verbose, and condensing his writing never works out.
I enjoyed the book, though it wasn't Tom's best IMHO and if the film departed from it as much as I'm hearing this will be a hard pass for me.
Plus it really would probably be better suited as a 4-episode mini series.
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