So here's the thing, the movie and this show were obviously written from the same script, I mean it's the same in pretty much every way with one very bad exception. The star power of the supporting cast is no longer there. I actually like the guy who played Simon(david holmes) in this remake. I think he did a better job then the guy who played dick(Todd Louiso) the movie. Where there's a disparity is between the girl who played Chersie (Da'Vine Randolph) and Barry (Jack Black). I mean come on, you're really going to try to recreate the energy of Jack Black? Really?? They tried, and to their credit it was a valiant effort. However you can't copy Jack Black, no one can. And try as you might he makes a good chunk of the movie work, so in that regard the series fell really short.
Now as far as Zoe Kravitz is conserned I think she did a fantastic job, I can't imagine anyone pulling it off better especially considering that she had to follow up on John Cusack which is no easy feat. And bare in mind when he did the original movie he was in his prime, he still had the energy to really put together the really dramatic parts. So overall this is a pretty good adaptation.
The other problem I have with this adaptation is what they were forced to do because of the time period. For example, on the one hand she keeps calling people and picking up corded phone, and on the other hand she's never 2 steps away from her mobile phone. That doesn't actually happen anymore, but even that aside things like making references to artists and bands don't work when 90% of your references aren't going to be familiar to anyone.
There's a very good reason why the movie worked, it was in a time period where it was believable that your main source of communication was a regular phone, and you had to trudge everywhere, there was this sense of wonderment about what was going through your lovers head. Now... not so much. If they keep going down this path of trying to remake classics into modern times they're going to ruin them more than anything. Their attempt to "update" everything about this movie is the most cringeworthy part of it.
Now as far as Zoe Kravitz is conserned I think she did a fantastic job, I can't imagine anyone pulling it off better especially considering that she had to follow up on John Cusack which is no easy feat. And bare in mind when he did the original movie he was in his prime, he still had the energy to really put together the really dramatic parts. So overall this is a pretty good adaptation.
The other problem I have with this adaptation is what they were forced to do because of the time period. For example, on the one hand she keeps calling people and picking up corded phone, and on the other hand she's never 2 steps away from her mobile phone. That doesn't actually happen anymore, but even that aside things like making references to artists and bands don't work when 90% of your references aren't going to be familiar to anyone.
There's a very good reason why the movie worked, it was in a time period where it was believable that your main source of communication was a regular phone, and you had to trudge everywhere, there was this sense of wonderment about what was going through your lovers head. Now... not so much. If they keep going down this path of trying to remake classics into modern times they're going to ruin them more than anything. Their attempt to "update" everything about this movie is the most cringeworthy part of it.