rather read the book

Rating: 5/10 (20 November 2004)

How do they manage to make such a crappy movie out of such a good book?! Sometimes I had the feeling they were just changing the story for the sake of changing it. Many of the changes were completely unnecessary and some even crippled the story. The book made far more sense than the movie does.
And couldn't they find some other main actor? Leonardo DiCaprio is not convincing as Richard whatsoever. You just don't believe him the traveler. He rather seems to be that very nice kid, that's in the wrong movie the whole time. It seems pathetic that he would have set out for an adventure like that and made the choices he made. It just seemed very odd and contradicting to his character (Even though he played a quite similar guy in Titanic and was very believable there) Furthermore, I just wanna hit him every time he opens his mouth. I've never heard anybody constantly saying so much rubbish. Is he blond?