I was a pretty big fan when this movie first came out and couldn't understand why no one else seem to appreciate it. Tonight i watched it again and clearly understood. Australia i love you but you have some shitty actors, lol. << this i have always known, except for a few special people aussies' are not known for their acting skills, we tend to over dramatise it, plus the accent can be cringe-worthy. But even with all that held against it i still managed to tear up during the movie and now i realise why i loved it so much in the first place - it transfer's me back into the emotion when i was reading the books, in the movie you can't understand how difficult it was for Robin to pick up that gun and kill people, but in the books we get that loud and clear, that she had to not only sacrifice a big part of her belief, self values and morals but also a part of her soul to save her friends - i know how far she's willing to go for them as well (it is heartbreaking) and with Corrie, i know that she doesnt survive that gun shot, that her friends will never see her again, but the movie can't express all this, can't express the emotions the book beats you with until you can't handle anymore.
But what it does is a rather fantastic job of putting me back into that frame of mind, to help me remember how i felt while reading, and thats its own kind of special. Still while i adore the actors, i kind of wish they had chosen better quality ones, so everyone who didnt read the books can realise how spectacular this story truly is.

Just got back from watching Gone Girl and yea it was a good movie but they missed SO MANY important parts! And they just cut out the wife and instead made tanner black, like wtf? Tanner was great the whole cinema laughed every time he made an appearance but.....but I was looking forward to seeing his wife!
Amy did a spectacular job, though the ending wasn't any were near as creepy and messed up as it was in the book, well it was creepy but it didn't give that hopeless and doomed vibe like it did in the book. Still not bad, glad I went. Had a fantastic time with friends, ate SO MUCH food!
Now I'm going to 'wattle' off to bed.