Fahrenheit 451 (2018)

Stephen Campbell

5.0

Apr 16, 2019

**_An extraordinarily lazy adaptation_** > _With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. You always dread the unfamiliar. Surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally 'bright,' did most of the reciting and answering while the others sat like so many leaden idols, hating him. And wasn't it this bright boy you selected and tortured after hours? Of course it was…

Gimly

4.0

Aug 10, 2020

Timely for sure, and check that cast, but 2018's _Fahrenheit 451_ is a TV movie and it plays like one. _Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product._

GenerationofSwine

1.0

Nov 8, 2023

So...what would happen if Fahrenheit 451 was made into a movie by the Cancel Culture crowd? You don't have to wonder, it's right here. It's a movie about book burning... and CRT... so, you know, they want to say that when the right burns books it's bad, and whiteness, and evil... but some books still need to be burned, because if you don't burn them than people might get wrong think, and that is bad too. And because of that, it never really finds its footing. But it does succeed in taking a movie about censorship, inserting 1619 Project Revisionist History pro-censorship politics, an…