– Customer review on 13/04/2007

What was the last reviewer on? Whiney comments? What, the two before his or her rant? They weren't bad at all... get off your soapbox...

A good film, a cerebral sci fi minor classic from the 60s, on the freedom of thinking, the evils of television, and the beauty of the written word... well worth a look for sci fi fans...

– Customer review on 03/12/2006

fter reading several whinny comments about how the movie is so different from the book I just had to add my two cents. Hello people! These are two different mediums here, like comparing Katherine Hepburn to Audrey Hepburn. They are two different entities which stand alone on their own merits.

I read the book years and years ago, and frankly, I don't remember much about it. I'd seen the movie in years past, and it never knocked my socks off. But upon viewing it last night, I have to say I found myself thoroughly engrossed in it. The scene in the monorail where all the passengers are trying to stimulate themselves through their sense of touch is quite moving. As is the neighbor who declares, "They aren't like us, are they?"

It's never going to be a movie in which you want to see over and over again (like the fluffy Wizard of Oz, again a book that is totally different from the movie, where are the complaining people now?) but it's a movie that should be seen. I also wonder how many people will complain when the new version comes out? I can hear them now, "The first movie was so much better!"

– Customer review on 11/10/2006

Based on a great little story by sci fi great Ray Bradbury, this a disturbing film about life in a bleak and fascist future world where reading books is outlawed... Montague is a "fireman" - who hunts out rebel stashes of books and burns them... made in 1966, it still looks alright today... the lovely Julie Christie appears in the double roles of Mrs Montag and Clarisse.

– Customer review on 27/04/2006

For a movie about fire Farenheight 451 is remarkably cold, but this is part of its power. In a bleak totalitarian future books are outlawed and special firemen are employed to hunt them down and burn them. The main character is a fireman who gradually becomes disenchanted with his role and one day he opens a book. Masterfully directed and elegantly stylised.