Shelby Sweetmon

This movie is an absolute butchering of the original text. How cosmically ironic that the director would see fit to mutate (burn) an original story about the dangers of altering original stories. If you are a teacher (I am) DO NOT USE THIS MOVIE AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR ASSIGNING THE BOOK (i.e. replacing pages with a screen - miss the point, much?). It worked in my class as a compare-and-contrast-exercise-in-hypocrisy, but that's about it. Do yourself a favor fellow educators. If you are running out of calendar and do not have time to assign the book (but still want the concepts of this book to be taught), do not trust the makers of this movie. We're not dealing with "artistic license." We're dealing with SIGNIFICANT changes (not to mention agenda-based-embedding) to Bradbury's ideas. Again, if you want to assign both the book and the movie (then compare/contrast), fine. But the movie, standing on its own, is an epic failure and an insult to everything Bradbury stood for.