From: Kong's Bubbling Lagoon of Pitch Black Hatred
Date: 12 Apr 2009
Time: 19:39:19
Remote Name: 63.239.248.1
You just can't turn a book into a movie unless you're willing to let the actors play around with the script, otherwise the dialogue just doesn't sound natural. It doesn't sound like real conversation it sounds like it's being read off a page. The Harry Potter movies suffer from this problem greatly. I get the feeling the screenplay writers in these situations are either lazy or are just not able to change much without pissing off the author. I don't know, all I know is there's too many movies based on books that suck because the dialogue doesn't sound like dialogue. But other than that, In the Electric Mist sucks harder than a nuclear penis pump. Tommy Lee Jones is the only good part about it, but as charismatic as he is it's not enough to save this yawn-inducing pile of poop. Peter Sarsgaard and John Goodman phoned their performances in. Actually Goodman didn't do too bad except for his obviously phony southern accent that goes in and out anyway. I don't get that kind of thing at all, aren't their enough real southern actors out there? I could make a list longer than my arm of movies that were ruined by badly faked accents. The Prestige (2006) would have made my top ten movie list had it not been for Scarlett Johansson's simply awful attempt to fake an English accent. Anyway, back to the POS movie at hand, In the Electric Mist is basically a badly written movie based on a lameass story that no one should waste their time with. I didn't find out until after watching it that it was a straight-to-dvd film, and that's really all you need to know. I'll file this one under Tommy Lee Jones Sells Out Cheap!
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