Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry [VHS]
starring: Claudia McNeil, Janet MacLachlan, Robert Christian, Larry B. Scott, Roy Poole
directed by: Jack Smight
directed by: Jack Smight
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- Review of Roll of Thunder
The video story had a good concept, a good plot showing events that were very realistic, but it left out key events such as the revenge of Cassie against Lilian Jean, how the blacks were treated in school, and the revenge of the Logan children getting back at the white bus driver. Watching the movie with important events left out, left the audience confused.
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- Deserves a big, fat zero!
This movie was made by someone on a diet of white bread and packaged vegetables - bland, blander, blandest.Whereas the book is moving, if a bit over-reliant upon the narrator Cassie overhearing everything and all the children getting into the action, yet again, the movie makes you want to yell obscenities.One example will do.The book is set in the Depression-era Deep South, rural Mississippi - it didn't get any worse for blacks - and the sharecroppers are desperately poor.Yet the characters ... Read More
Rating: - Very disappointing
I have just finished watching this book at school because we have been studying the book. The book is very good; it is gritty, down to earth and tells it like it is (in some parts it is quite violent). But the film is very disappointing. The acting is wooden, the children all look wrong (Cassie is supposed to be 9 but she looks 15) and constantly have cheesy grins on their faces. The film is too sentimental and cheesy. The film also cuts out a lot of the swearing and violence as well as other parts ... Read More
Rating: - This movie bites the big one
easily one of the worst movies i have EVER seen. They played things that happened at the end of the book in the beginning of the movie. it was hard to see. Cassie is supposed to be a third grader and she's taller then Stacey(13). this movie had so many problems i hated it! :( don't bother watching this movie! Mr.Lock if u ever read this you shouldn't have made us finish watching it :P it was a waste of class time and we should have just stuck to the book.
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- Doesn't Come Close to the Book
Most movies based on books do not deliver the power that the books do, but the film version of Roll of Thunder does an even worse job that usually is done.It would be hard to replicate the experience of that wonderful story, but this movie does so little for the viewer that it is not worth the time to watch.It is slow and drags on and on.
- Review of Roll of ThunderThe video story had a good concept, a good plot showing events that were very realistic, but it left out key events such as the revenge of Cassie against Lilian Jean, how the blacks were treated in school, and the revenge of the Logan children getting back at the white bus driver. Watching the movie with important events left out, left the audience confused.
- Deserves a big, fat zero!This movie was made by someone on a diet of white bread and packaged vegetables - bland, blander, blandest.Whereas the book is moving, if a bit over-reliant upon the narrator Cassie overhearing everything and all the children getting into the action, yet again, the movie makes you want to yell obscenities.One example will do.The book is set in the Depression-era Deep South, rural Mississippi - it didn't get any worse for blacks - and the sharecroppers are desperately poor.Yet the characters ... Read More
- Very disappointingI have just finished watching this book at school because we have been studying the book. The book is very good; it is gritty, down to earth and tells it like it is (in some parts it is quite violent). But the film is very disappointing. The acting is wooden, the children all look wrong (Cassie is supposed to be 9 but she looks 15) and constantly have cheesy grins on their faces. The film is too sentimental and cheesy. The film also cuts out a lot of the swearing and violence as well as other parts ... Read More
- This movie bites the big oneeasily one of the worst movies i have EVER seen. They played things that happened at the end of the book in the beginning of the movie. it was hard to see. Cassie is supposed to be a third grader and she's taller then Stacey(13). this movie had so many problems i hated it! :( don't bother watching this movie! Mr.Lock if u ever read this you shouldn't have made us finish watching it :P it was a waste of class time and we should have just stuck to the book.
- Doesn't Come Close to the BookMost movies based on books do not deliver the power that the books do, but the film version of Roll of Thunder does an even worse job that usually is done.It would be hard to replicate the experience of that wonderful story, but this movie does so little for the viewer that it is not worth the time to watch.It is slow and drags on and on.
