Fahrenheit 451

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Robert P @Superbad 6 days ago This movie well deserves a *4* star Movie! See more Alfred Z. @Alboldskool Apr 20, 2026 A Truffaut masterwork. See more Ivy J. @ivycatmoeq3 Dec 13, 2025 it was really good although there were a few missing pieces like faber was not in the movie and no mechanical hound See more Mark B @RT67488072 Aug 19, 2025 Macabre and sinister one minute, the next a bit Benny Hill and Carry On Flamethrower the next. It's clear the great Truffaut, doesn't know whether to stick or twist and is all over the place with this offering, a set in the future utopian nightmare, as the movie, in many places, is all comic book and just downright sillyness- the daft, toy-looking fire engine, the slightly campy uniforms and the use of an over the top flame thrower to burn any book, adds to the schmaltzy feel. Books are incinerated right there, in someone's home...not taken outside onto the road or driveway, so the whole house is burnt down as well. Then there's a bloke whose stopped in the street by a gang of the 'burning book firemen' because his hair is too long. The firemen also dish out on the spot hair cuts as well. Handy that. Zombie parents sit transfixed as they are searched watching their kids on the swings. Cyril Cusack, the fire brigade Captain, even searches a baby and finds (yes wait for it) a tiny, tiny, tiny book which he must confiscate. I was waiting for Kenneth Williams to suddenly appear and start saying things like 'oooooh matron' or 'quick nurse, the screens.' But there are moments where you can feel the sinister and macabre at every turn. The woman, who has been discovered hoarding hundreds of books, gives herself to the flames of the fire as her books go up in smoke after the splendidly sadistic Cusack gets his flame thrower out. The woman's face is horrible as she burns alive and suddenly you are back in the room. I liked the overhead monorail train which gives the movie some realism at least. I didn't like Julie Christie playing the wife of the fireman turned rogue book collector, Oskar Werner. Too glam, too Dr Zhivago, luv. I did like Werner who turned from hunter to the hunted. I didn't like the ending. Werner takes refuge with all the other exiled book lovers in a forest where everyone is named after the book they clung onto. And they all live in a disused railway carriage. Nothing futuristic here. Then Julie Christie saunters into the last scene from nowhere. Plenty of make up and those false eyelashes fluttering away but with a new short hair cut. But no sign of Cyril and the boys on their shiny red toy town fire engine with their flame thrower. Thank goodness! See more SICKS6SIX S @sicks6six Feb 19, 2025 A very thought provoking movie. It has an cheap TV series feel about it. A bit like Dr Who. The sets look like they might fall over. The costumes look like those cheap wear once fancy dress outfits you can buy at joke shops. Naughty nurse outfits for £25. But this film is all about the content and it hasn't made the crossover from book to film as well as it might have. Lack of funding. Poor direction. Unhappy cast and crew. Who knows but it's nowhere near as bad as it is a lot better than the 2018 remake which averaged 20% in the reviews. I haven't seen the remake so perhaps a back to back sitting is on the agenda. Maybe the remake might become a cult classic because its so bad like The Blob with Steve McQueen or is it Paul Newman. I always get them two mixed up. See more Steve H @RT60678087 Oct 2, 2024 OK, so this is a good film if you like a story being built. Asides from Julie Christie being unable to pull of two separate roles (they seem to be the same person but with different haircuts) the film is enjoyable. Oscar Werner plays the role that builds and builds as he embraces books. Christie, despite being likeable and pretty, is as per above (I understand they wanted to try and show a likeness between his wife and the girl he met but JC didn't have the acting range). Anton Diffring is moody and Cyril Cusack is all knowing and smug with it. Bradbury himself said he preferred the ending to the film, rather than his book (the book itself is quite shocking in the demise of one of the main characters). It's a clever film, a bit dated and with some very amusing special effects (the toy fire engine being shot from distance to make it look like a real one). I like my films to have characters I can like and not like, this is a good one and it does justice to the book whilst still being a good film to watch. It was due a remake but they managed to right royally screw that up with the Michael B Jordan catastrophe. Maybe they can do another, better remake and use the Spider in that one (only thing missing from the first film was the spider but I'd rather have no spider than bad special effects for that). See more Read all reviews

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