Fahrenheit 451 (2018)

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

They turned F451 into Twilight. They took out Montags wife and opted for a poorly written sex trap with a lame backstory that Montag inexplicably drops everything for like a p-whipped teenage boy. Nothing like the thoughtful, deeply conflicted character of the novel. Still better than The Last Jedi.

Best part was the beautiful flocks of birds at the end. Which had nothing to do with the original book or film.

If I could insert the "ironic" meme that uses Palpatine from the Star Wars prequels, I would. Ray Bradbury's classic book was about how media dumbs down the populace and how books were censored to keep people from thinking freely, which is exactly what the makers of this movie did. They dumbed down the themes of the source material and put them through the PC spin machine to create a film that exemplifies exactly what Bradbury warned about. It only got more than one star because of the great visuals and acting from Shannon.

Fahrenheit 451 is movie created after the dystopian novel with the same name of Ray Bradbury, which was published in 1953. The movie presents a future American society where books are forbidden and "firemen" burn any that are found. The title and a line from the movie explains everything: "Fahrenheit 451 - the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns." The main character is a fireman named Montag who becomes uneasy with the role of censoring works and destroying knowledge. He eventually quits his job and joins a resistance group who memorize books in order to preserve the world's greatest literary and cultural works. This rebel group encoded books into a bird's DNA. The movie's end is dramatic. The rebels hideout is discovered and Montag confronts Captain Beatty, the infamous leader of the "firemen". Montag releases the bird from a cage but pays the ultimate price for that and dies. Fahrenheit 451 is a classic of Sci-Fi genre. The book won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and the Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal. The film was nominated for a Hugo Award and for the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival.