I was thrilled to see David Gerrold's heart-wrenching novel "The Martian Child" was being made into a movie, with John and Joan Cusack (both hugely talented actors) and Amanda Peet (who was no less than dazzling in Studio 60). Who wouldn't be?
But leave it to Hollywood to take a good thing and ruin it entirely. The core of the book was the idea that a gay man adopts a young boy who thinks he's a martian. The identity of the father and the son are inextricably linked to their backgrounds (one as a gay man and the other as a neglected child).
Hollywood's decision to "clean the novel up" by making the protagonist a straight man who has lost his wife has mutilated this story. What you see know is a steaming pile of mediocre Hollywood schlock. Too bad America has to have its literature "cleaned" before it can be viewed by movie goers. Why don't we just burn the books instead?
This movie is disgusting and pathetic.
But leave it to Hollywood to take a good thing and ruin it entirely. The core of the book was the idea that a gay man adopts a young boy who thinks he's a martian. The identity of the father and the son are inextricably linked to their backgrounds (one as a gay man and the other as a neglected child).
Hollywood's decision to "clean the novel up" by making the protagonist a straight man who has lost his wife has mutilated this story. What you see know is a steaming pile of mediocre Hollywood schlock. Too bad America has to have its literature "cleaned" before it can be viewed by movie goers. Why don't we just burn the books instead?
This movie is disgusting and pathetic.