A shelter from pigs on the wing
Dec. 13th, 2025 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shamanicshayminI just wrote an entire fucking review about the 1954 Animal Farm, shrank the BlueSky app, only to find it erased it all. GAAAAAAAAAAH! FINE we’ll take this to fucking Dreamwidth. Social media can’t fucking stop me from tl;dring and ranting about books and movies because it can’t be contained in 140 characters.
After getting psychic damage from the trailer of the upcoming Animal Farm "adaptation" coming 2026, I decided to hunker down and watch the original animated film in hopes of an antidote. I finished it feeling... underwhelmed.
( Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland )
Yeah, the movie just feels like a watered-down SparkNotes version of the book with a new happier ending tacked on so the audience doesn't have to feel traumatized and left to think. I like the animation and voice-acting, but that's about it. I don't have strong feelings about the movie overall. Like obviously, it's superior to the 2026 atrocity coming out and a thousand times more faithful to the source material, but that's a low bar. I know there's a 1999 version of Animal Farm done in the live-action "Babe" style, but I don't trust it to be any good or have interest in watching it. The world still isn't ready for an actual good adaptation of Animal Farm. :/ In the meantime, simply reread the book. Or if you want more Animal Farm stuff, listen to the Animals album by Pink Floyd. :D
After getting psychic damage from the trailer of the upcoming Animal Farm "adaptation" coming 2026, I decided to hunker down and watch the original animated film in hopes of an antidote. I finished it feeling... underwhelmed.
( Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland )
Yeah, the movie just feels like a watered-down SparkNotes version of the book with a new happier ending tacked on so the audience doesn't have to feel traumatized and left to think. I like the animation and voice-acting, but that's about it. I don't have strong feelings about the movie overall. Like obviously, it's superior to the 2026 atrocity coming out and a thousand times more faithful to the source material, but that's a low bar. I know there's a 1999 version of Animal Farm done in the live-action "Babe" style, but I don't trust it to be any good or have interest in watching it. The world still isn't ready for an actual good adaptation of Animal Farm. :/ In the meantime, simply reread the book. Or if you want more Animal Farm stuff, listen to the Animals album by Pink Floyd. :D
