Caution: This is a definite Spoiler Warning to anyone who has not read the book!!!! I liked the movie a little bit. It was a possible 1. But they took away a lot of interesting things in the story. I wanted to see the lions on the beach, not his wedding and his childhood. The marlin bones looked like paper. The acting of Quinn was making me laugh out loud because it was so melodramatic. People who have seen marlin know that it was the marlin was a fake. They put Ernest Hemingway in for no reason. He never talks to Santiago at all throughout the whole movie. They kept going to Hemingway and his wife for no reason; I don't want to see his childhood.
This really bothers me, his daughter in the movie is his daughter in real life and she looks like a man, and her acting is really bad. The person who is supposed to be him in the flashback is his son. Why did they do that? Do they not have enough money to use real actors besides Anthony Quinn? They acted so bad that the whole class laughed at it through the whole movie. They really shouldn't stop between every little thing because it distracts us from the movie. The only thing I liked was that they used a people who looked Cuban. The new parts add nothing to the understanding. It does not help me imagine the story better; I had a much better idea on what it would be like. Nothing like what I thought it would be. Now what I give the movie is a low, low, low rating, I give this sorry movie a 0.1. The point one is because they used authentic people for the movie. The rest is just bad. Well, that's the end of my review.
This really bothers me, his daughter in the movie is his daughter in real life and she looks like a man, and her acting is really bad. The person who is supposed to be him in the flashback is his son. Why did they do that? Do they not have enough money to use real actors besides Anthony Quinn? They acted so bad that the whole class laughed at it through the whole movie. They really shouldn't stop between every little thing because it distracts us from the movie. The only thing I liked was that they used a people who looked Cuban. The new parts add nothing to the understanding. It does not help me imagine the story better; I had a much better idea on what it would be like. Nothing like what I thought it would be. Now what I give the movie is a low, low, low rating, I give this sorry movie a 0.1. The point one is because they used authentic people for the movie. The rest is just bad. Well, that's the end of my review.