Warning: This may be a spoiler. I think that The Old man and The Sea is not a good movie. I thought that this was very boring and not very interesting. The book was way much better then the movie ever was. In the movie the old man was very stupid and the boy Manolin's voice was very annoying and not pleasurable. But I felt his love for the old man and his pain and passion. That I felt from the book. But everything else lacked credibility. When he got the fish it looked so fake because the boat was half way up and the fish was all the way down. The marlin looked plastic and rubber and very fake. I thought they dragged out the movie and made it too long. In the book he didn't have a daughter and they could at least made the daughter nicer and not look like a man. I thought she was very mean and didn't care about her daddy. But the movie was very boring and I didn't enjoy it one bit. I thought they could of made the movie much better and made it like the book. So I give the movie no star because it was not interesting.

WARNING: SPOILERS! Me and my 9th grade English class watched The Old Man and the Sea movie after reading the book. Overall, I think this movie was pretty bad. The movie was different from the book because there were new characters, Santiago's daughter, who wanted him to live with her and she didn't even try to have an accent. The other main characters were Earnest Hemingway, not played by him, and his wife. Having Hemingway in this story was an interesting idea, but all of the scenes with him are either parts from the book modified to have him in it, without really changing them, or really boring, which just makes it longer and makes it take more time to get to the interesting part, when he catches the marlin. Also, they left out the part where he caught the dolphin, so, in the movie, he was out there for days and he never ate. The new parts did not add to the story at all, except for taking up time. Seriously, I could hardly stay awake while watching it, and I have never fallen asleep in class. The movie did not help me imagine or understand the story any better because it didn't look like how I imagined it would look. It was also really fake looking, when he saw the giant marlin, it didn't look all that big, and also, it was just a movie on a green screen and it looked like the fishing line went through the marlin at one time. When the marlin was strapped to the side of the boat it was the same size as the boat and the book said it was a few feet longer than his boat and it looked like it was made of rubber. When it was dark it looked like he was in a boat in the middle of nowhere. The movie was also less interesting because it did not say what he was thinking, so you didn't feel as attached to him, and a lot of the stuff he thought was important or interesting. 3/10 stars.

Warning spoilers: I saw this movie in a high school English class after I read the book. I personally thought that the movie was not as good as I thought it would be. The movie had many differences between the movie and the book. First, in the movie, Santiago had a grown daughter, which in the book he never had. In the book, he had flashbacks and dreams of lions on a beach. He never dreamed it in the movie. Instead, he dreamed about his wedding. The new parts in the movie did not add to the meaning to the book, it actually took away some of the meaning because in the book, while he's fishing, he said that he misses the dreams of the lions and the point of the book related back to the dream. To me, that dream was a huge part of the meaning of the book, so that was an important part. But on the other hand, the movie did help me imagine the story and understand it a little. The graphics and the animation of the movie were terrible at one point when he was struggling with the marlin he caught. The sea and the marlin looked as a background and the boat and Santiago looked really alive. What I mean that the graphics in that scene looked really fake. Also, in the movie, Santiago had a rod and in the book he used his own bare hands. When his hand cramped in the book, it took a long time for the hand to stop cramping. But in the movie when his hand cramped, it only took like 5 minutes so that the hand will stop cramping. But overall the movie 'The Old Man and the Sea' was not that very good. I will not recommend this book to any freshman or any grade in high school. Maybe the movie needs more realistic actors because Santiago's daughter needed an accent and did really bad job acting. The movie needed better actors for each part.

My thought: unbelievably boring I felt that this movie was no good as the book itself, I think it had poor graphics. It had the worst actors. The difference between the book and the movie is that the book paints a picture in your head and the movie barely even makes you think about the book. The maker of the movie cut some parts out and changed how the book was written. They took out the part when him when he was dreaming of lions in Africa, to him when he was younger and when he got married to his wife. The movie didn't help me at all to understand the story better. They put Ernest Hemingway in as an actor in the movie. They added his daughter in the movie. But in real life Anthony Quinn played the old man in the movie with his son and daughter as his daughter and as him when he was younger. The marlin barely even looks real. It's bigger than that.