Funny you should mention this. I just posted this rant over on the "Ted Turner admits he's a Socialist" thread:
BTW, I caught the "stunningly real" (as one moronic critic who has obviously not read the book said) remake of Animal Farm. Pure crap. They even tacked a happy ending on it. There was absolutely no subtlety in the characters, either. I mean, Napoleon is not Darth Vader, he's supposed to appear to be decent but inspire misgivings. They depicted him as the most horrifying slime-drooling monster there ever was straight from beginning. People who've read the book might not notice this as they already know all about Napoleon but young people seeing it for the first time don't get that effect.
Crappy filmmaking, crappy writing, crappy interpretation of a classic. Decent special effects.
Crap. It's not even Scottish. . .
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Don
"Its not criminals that go into schools and shoot children"
--Ann Pearston, British Gun Control apologist and moron