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Fahrenheit 451

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In a future society where books are banned and burned, a fireman begins to read in secret and discovers an underground rebellion committed to protecting literature.
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Fahrenheit 451 fails to burn as brightly as its classic source material, opting for slickly mundane smoke-blowing over hard-hitting topical edge.

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Eric Deggans NPR 11/25/2019
When fake news can affect real elections, there is no better time to consider the lessons of this modernized "Fahrenheit 451." Go to Full Review
Karen Han Thrillist 06/28/2018
HBO's Fahrenheit 451 is horrifically beautiful. It feels both divorced from and intrinsically tied to its source material, the 1953 dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury. Go to Full Review
John Doyle Globe and Mail 05/21/2018
For all its anger and barefaced rage, this Fahrenheit 451 is a ravishing experience to watch. Go to Full Review
Brian T. Carney Washington Blade 12/08/2022
Confusing new framework only gets in the way of the story... Go to Full Review
Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review 03/14/2022
2/4
Bahrani's heavy-handedness robs Fahrenheit 451 of its potency, which is unfortunate, as Bradbury's story proves achingly imperative today by reflecting how governments instill control. Go to Full Review
Nathan Mattise Ars Technica 07/28/2021
It just didn't make a version that merits attention as viewers navigate a signal-and-noise reality Bradbury himself would have likely deemed fiction... Go to Full Review
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Kyndall C @Kyofizz Dec 15 This actually sucks. First of all, Montag was supposed to meet Clarisse on his walk home from work. Clarisse is also supposed to be A 17 YEAR OLD!!! Montag's Wife, Mildred, is not in the movie either. Instead, CLARISSE is his love interest. Second of all, Clarisse's character is nothing like the book Clarisse. She's supposed to ask questions and be a daughter figure to Montag. Instead, she goes around selling stuff illegally? #NotMyClarisse. There is so much more to complain about, but overall, this movie does NOT follow the novel. Don't waste your time. See more Jonathan K Nov 26 Terrible ending. Feels like half a movie? Doesnt come close to doing this book justice See more Nov 23 I would *honestly* rather walk straight into oncoming traffic than endure another second of this train wreck masquerading as an adaptation of a genuinely GREAT book. I paid a measly $2 for this disaster, and within the first ten minutes I was already bored out of my mind—yawning, annoyed, and scrolling through my phone just to stay awake. If someone tells me they liked this movie, I can only assume they have absolutely no idea what a competent book adaptation looks like. I actually considered asking for my money back, but then it occurred to me that this miserable excuse for a film probably needed my $2 more than I did. My disappointment in Michael B. Jordan for agreeing to be part of this fiasco was so immense that I haven’t watched a single project he’s been in since—and that’s purely because of how much this movie infuriated me. I wish I could say *anything* good about this film, but I genuinely can’t. This is the first review I’ve ever written because I felt a responsibility to warn everyone else: do not waste your time, your money, or a single ounce of hope on this catastrophe. Learn from my mistake. The most infuriating offense is how blatantly the film trashes the original plot. It doesn’t just "take liberties"—it completely guts the story and turns it into a soulless, embarrassing caricature. They cut Mildred entirely just to force some half-baked romance between Montag and Clarisse (and forgive me if I’m mixing the names, I barely managed to keep watching through the frustration). They didn’t just "change" the story; they *obliterated* it. If the title wasn’t *Fahrenheit 451*, I would have assumed I’d been tricked into watching some generic, hollow, bargain-bin dystopian movie. "It was so bad I’d give it a zero, but I can’t, so I give it a one" wasn’t just my mood, it was the only thing keeping me from shutting it off within the first half hour. See more Heidy R Oct 1 The movie was nothing like the book they removed almost all of the crucial plot points from the original book. First of all they got rid of Mildred she is supposed to represent all of the people who stopped reading cause TV was more intresting. They didn't kill of beatty his death symbolizes that the ones who used to burn will burn for there sins. Montag meeting the group in the forest is way better than in the movie in the book it showed the perseverance of mankind and that they can do anything vs the movie where they needed a DNA thing to do it for them. Don't get me started on clarisse she was the innocents in the world that died from the corruption of mankind vs the movie that she was just a love interest to help montag. The worst change is montag he is so aagressive and annoying in the movie in the book he is a man who knows nothing and want to change cause he doesn't like the way the world is. also why no Faber of granger like they were the 2 last steps to montag really joining the book people, and why no atom bomb like it was rebirth a new start, something you would never expect to happen to someone it shows how disconnected from the world people were that they didn't even know the war got that bad that they got bombed. See more Camille C Aug 10 Worst movie I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen some bad ones. Just go watch mean girls two instead of this (mean girls two was a bad movie but at least I could finish is). See more Bromosapien S Jul 31 I first read the book and the movie is rather disappointing, I support keeping book adaptations up to date but I believe that the social media incerted in the televisions was unecessary and stupid.The characters arent accurate at all, Clarisse was a misterious girl, with unusuall attitudes, she never showed evidence of reading a book ,much less being a black-market seller to the poor or one that goes to raves or whatever that bar was, she was suspected of reading but not obvious, Montags awakening was subtile, and she was 17, not obvious in the movie. The cameras that they had and who speaked to them, the point is that they were so brainwashed there was no use in cameras, the director probably misunderstood that the “family” that spoke to them was a tv show that said their names, and they would answer. Overall it is a misunderstood vision, thats still valid but not great, there should have been more psychological fight and pain as well as doubt and human feelings. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis In a future society where books are banned and burned, a fireman begins to read in secret and discovers an underground rebellion committed to protecting literature.
Director
Ramin Bahrani
Producer
David Coatsworth
Screenwriter
Ramin Bahrani, Amir Naderi
Production Co
HBO Films
Rating
TV-14
Genre
Sci-Fi, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 6, 2018
Runtime
1h 41m
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