Jumpers

[ben_templesmith]

Comments

[wooller]

Dude: it's called Jumper... singular. And Hayden was bad. Hell, even SLJ was bad. That whole movie was bad.

[the_christian]

I haven't seen the film but I read the novel a few years back. I seem to recall it being a rather gentle meditation on a traumatised boy. A boy who finds it extremely difficult to move past his abuse

[parkas_4_kids]

Hayden was far from great, but he seems to get just a little bit better with every movie he's in. What's sad is that the kid who played young-him in the beginning was a better actor. Oh, well, we can't all be Marlon Brando.

The idea of dissecting books to turn them into movies is a bit unsettling, but I'll admit I like Doug Liman's "digested" version of The Bourne Identity more than Robert Ludlum's version. Ludlum's version just had WAY too much stuff mucking up the story, and Liman's version cut right to the heart of it. For me, it made a better story overall.
(I never finished the novel; I couldn't)

Jumper

[parkas_4_kids]

I think it was Stephen King who said that Hollywood execs will randomly and unnecessarily change things to boost their egos.