dakiid4 Warning: This may be a spoiler. I think that The Old man and The Sea is not a good movie. I thought that this was very boring and not very interesting. The book was way much better then the movie ever was. In the movie the old man was very stupid and the boy Manolin's voice was very annoying and not pleasurable. But I felt his love for the old man and his pain and passion. That I felt from the book. But everything else lacked credibility. When he got the fish it looked so fake because the boat was half way up and the fish was all the way down. The marlin looked plastic and rubber and very fake. I thought they dragged out the movie and made it too long. In the book he didn't have a daughter and they could at least made the daughter nicer and not look like a man. I thought she was very mean and didn't care about her daddy. But the movie was very boring and I didn't enjoy it one bit. I thought they could of made the movie much better and made it like the book. So I give the movie no star because it was not interesting.

entei_3000 WARNING: SPOILERS! Me and my 9th grade English class watched The Old Man and the Sea movie after reading the book. Overall, I think this movie was pretty bad. The movie was different from the book because there were new characters, Santiago's daughter, who wanted him to live with her and she didn't even try to have an accent. The other main characters were Earnest Hemingway, not played by him, and his wife. Having Hemingway in this story was an interesting idea, but all of the scenes with him are either parts from the book modified to have him in it, without really changing them, or really boring, which just makes it longer and makes it take more time to get to the interesting part, when he catches the marlin. Also, they left out the part where he caught the dolphin, so, in the movie, he was out there for days and he never ate. The new parts did not add to the story at all, except for taking up time. Seriously, I could hardly stay awake while watching it, and I have never fallen asleep in class. The movie did not help me imagine or understand the story any better because it didn't look like how I imagined it would look. It was also really fake looking, when he saw the giant marlin, it didn't look all that big, and also, it was just a movie on a green screen and it looked like the fishing line went through the marlin at one time. When the marlin was strapped to the side of the boat it was the same size as the boat and the book said it was a few feet longer than his boat and it looked like it was made of rubber. When it was dark it looked like he was in a boat in the middle of nowhere. The movie was also less interesting because it did not say what he was thinking, so you didn't feel as attached to him, and a lot of the stuff he thought was important or interesting. 3/10 stars.

MigVazquez WARNING…THIS MIGHT BE A SPOILER! I think that the movie that my class saw in school was very boring and it sucked because the director added new characters to the movie like the old man's daughter, and Ernest Hemingway. The old man's daughter sucked because she didn't even try to sound likes she had an accent and she looked too white to be Cuban. It was boring because it was about how Ernest came up to write the book. It was partly confusing with the new character; they made the meaning of the story worst and made it harder for you to find the meaning of the movie. Our class also read the book before seeing the movie and even though the book was boring the movie was worse. If you see the movie after reading the book you might like it if you liked the book, but if you didn't like the book, don't see the movie because it is going to be a waste of time and it won't help at all in creating images in your head. In the movie the old man looks stupid when he is out in the sea fishing for the marlin and he talks to the birds flying around and to himself. The movie was not that different from the book, they only added some new things but it did not help at all adding the parts because Ernest was in the movie writing the Old Man and The Sea. The end was crappie because the old man did not sleep and the marlin, that piece of crap didn't even look real, it looked like a plastic big fish. The old man kept talking to the boy and in the movie he didn't even talk about DiMaggio. So I'm warning you don't waste your time watching this crappie movie.

Da_gunit_illa_1 My thought: unbelievably boring I felt that this movie was no good as the book itself, I think it had poor graphics. It had the worst actors. The difference between the book and the movie is that the book paints a picture in your head and the movie barely even makes you think about the book. The maker of the movie cut some parts out and changed how the book was written. They took out the part when him when he was dreaming of lions in Africa, to him when he was younger and when he got married to his wife. The movie didn't help me at all to understand the story better. They put Ernest Hemingway in as an actor in the movie. They added his daughter in the movie. But in real life Anthony Quinn played the old man in the movie with his son and daughter as his daughter and as him when he was younger. The marlin barely even looks real. It's bigger than that.