Not as bad as being made out to be

Rating: 7/10 (15 February 2015)

I'll start with this - don't go in expecting Gone With the Wind (movie) or a film adaptation of a classic such as Grapes of Wrath - you won't get it. Tone down your expectations. Going to follow with this - unlike many other reviewers who had an axe to grind from the outset (if you think the book sucks, wth are you even going to the movie adaptation???), I do not. Read the books, don't consider then Pulitzer material but then I also don't think they were such trash that I've read better first grade essays. The acting was okay, by the end you can buy both of the leads in their roles. The plot, well see above. The material - honestly if you have an issue with it, you should never have read the book OR saw the movie. In the end this movie will appeal to certain demographics and others were going to trash it no matter what. Many of the "issues" being protested about the movie are flat-out wrong and people are reading far too much into it and the book and can't get past their own issues. I'd say if you can go in with an open mind you won't feel like you wasted your money or time - just don't go in with a minor.