Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

chicago85 Neither this film nor the earlier movie is as good as a plagiarized TV version from 1957. In 1957 Playhouse 90 aired a play called "The Sound of Different Drummers. It starred Sterling Hayden and a top notch cast directed by John Frankenheimer. The next day Ray Bradbury received a deluge of calls from his friends. He was not given credit, paid or asked permission to use his work. It included the big scene of a woman preferring to burn to death surrounded with her book collection. There was nothing about DNA nor an injected bird. John Ireland played Hayden's supervisor in the Fire Department. Diana Lynn played the woman who introduces Hayden to book reading from books seized by the department to be burned, This new version is really bad from every aspectHe was outraged and sued CBS. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court and he won and collected damages. I still remember most of the plot. Montag shared an apartment with another fireman and was a bachelor and was not married to Julie Christie living in a house. He walked into the apartment the first time and his roommate was watching the Tokyo Dodgers win the World Series on a flat screen TV in the wall. Montag was under a death sentence at the end and refused to make a deal or agree to a jailbreak by the underground. He had become disillusioned by both sides.Bradbury wrote a 30 page document on the plagiarism. It was estimated 80% was Bradbury's work with 20% Hollywood jacking around like they do with other people's work.

rohan-mahey Wow. Just wow. When I saw the trailer for this I was intrigued. So I went to dig a little deeper (I do this with every film/TV show) and see if it was an original concept or based off a book. It was based off a book and had a film which came out in the 70s I believe. When it came out on in the Uk I watched it. But it was so confusing. I understand movies the first time round or if needed I'll watch it again. But really this was so bland. Michael b Jordan does an ok job of being a cop/firefighter?? I don't know it was just boring. Michael Shannon and Michael b Jordan looked like they didn't want to be in this movie or TV movie. That's it. I'm calling this a TV movie. It got to a point where I just changed it halfway as the story didn't make any sense. The plot is rubbish. They should've just saved their money and made something else. They have stupid things like making people take drugs to forget stuff. Like how stupid is that. I hated this movie overall. I would advise that all of you people wouldn't see it either.

andreea-21632 The plot absolutely dull from start to finish, nothing to do with the book at all. What a shame...

thetrollbane Fahrenheit 451 is movie created after the dystopian novel with the same name of Ray Bradbury, which was published in 1953. The movie presents a future American society where books are forbidden and "firemen" burn any that are found. The title and a line from the movie explains everything: "Fahrenheit 451 - the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns." The main character is a fireman named Montag who becomes uneasy with the role of censoring works and destroying knowledge. He eventually quits his job and joins a resistance group who memorize books in order to preserve the world's greatest literary and cultural works. This rebel group encoded books into a bird's DNA. The movie's end is dramatic. The rebels hideout is discovered and Montag confronts Captain Beatty, the infamous leader of the "firemen". Montag releases the bird from a cage but pays the ultimate price for that and dies. Fahrenheit 451 is a classic of Sci-Fi genre. The book won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and the Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal. The film was nominated for a Hugo Award and for the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival.