'The Last Thing He Wanted' is a novel by Joan Didion. A flawless, faultless, word-perfect piece of genius. It was madness to try and turn it into a movie. They left out the key parts of the story and half the characters! No wonder it made no sense to viewers! What audacity to try and re-write a Joan Didion novel! Ridiculous.
Ben Affleck's padded, snap-frozen face was just too ghastly to behold. Anne Hathaway wasn't as annoying as usual but completely wrong for the role. The character of Elena is not panicky and running everywhere like a lumpish schoolgirl, she is ice cold and contained and elegant and always in control - if only on the outside. Everything about it was wrong, wrong, wrong. Just leave Joan Didion's works alone. A movie is always less than the book upon which it is based; sometimes a little less, somethings grotesquely less. This was plainly in the latter category.
Ben Affleck's padded, snap-frozen face was just too ghastly to behold. Anne Hathaway wasn't as annoying as usual but completely wrong for the role. The character of Elena is not panicky and running everywhere like a lumpish schoolgirl, she is ice cold and contained and elegant and always in control - if only on the outside. Everything about it was wrong, wrong, wrong. Just leave Joan Didion's works alone. A movie is always less than the book upon which it is based; sometimes a little less, somethings grotesquely less. This was plainly in the latter category.