Tried my darndest to get a ticket to see The Perks of Being a Wallflower at the second home cineplex yesterday, but as usual I got beat out by retiree aunties and uncles who had more time and money than I do and they ran out of screening passes about 10 people ahead of me. I never figured the crowd to be so "cowcher-ed" - or they didn't know that it's a high school movie :P Anyhow, a threesome had a spare ticket they weren't using so they offered it to me. Yay.
I noticed is that despite the passes finishing out so quickly, but it's never a packed cinema on the inside - are these people collecting free screening passes for sport, or what?
Being an indie movie (technically), this movie is under GSC's International Screens. Didn't see a lot of young kids, but it's hard to miss the teenagers who are there with their parent(s).
It's not often that a book gets adapted to a screenplay by its original author, let alone have the same person direct the movie as well. I hope the author/screenwriter/director was adequately compensated. That said, I've always wondered what happened if an adaptation screenplay was written by the author of the source material. Now we know.
Despite the 18 rating (in Malaysia), stuff still got cut out. You know what I mean. Made the movie more confusing for the viewer.
I have not read the book going in (I have the audiobook somewhere), I thought it wasn't too bad a movie. The main cast didn't look too old to be high school students, not even Potter alum Emma Watson. I thought it was a bit of a waste having Kate Walsh (whom I'm not sure will go back to her original hair colour now that she's no longer on Private Practice) and Dylan McDermott as the parents, but what else could they have done?
Of course you can read the Wikipedia articles and judge for yourselves, that's up to you.
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