Mark Kermode reviews Kill Your Darlings

[@roathripper]

'Here's the thing....' oh-oh, the bad news train is acomin'

[@Owlpunk]

In my humble opinion, the medium best at dramatizing writing... is, actually, comic books. Case in point: Transmetropolitan.

[@2010Wilde]

I was thinking the same thing when I saw this film. I really love Ginsberg's work, but there is something about the film that just downplays how important the beat generation was to modern literature. I really got my hopes up for this film!

[@Hoopla10]

I think it's never a good idea to translate the lives of these writers so literally. A film like Cronenberg's Naked Lunch imo works conceptually in capturing a glimpse of Burroughs and his writing. It even has a typewriter in it. I have to say I don't particularly like the way Kill Your Darlings and also On the Road were filmed. They look like Levi adverts. Straight away I find the filmmakers intentions suspect.

[@channingparker9431]

Just watched this movie. It has done something to me. Acting is superb in the film.

[@WAAAAAAAAAAAY]

I definitely agree. Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs et al. are all great writers/poets but they're very difficult company when it comes to dramatizations of their lives.......the film has to be directed with a real flare [a la Fear and Loathing] to be tolerable in my view. On the subject of Daniel Radcliffe, he's really good in A Young Doctor's Notebook. It's on TV so Kermode will probably never see it but I thought it'd be worth a mention :)

[@chrishiggins7166]

Leading actors Daniel Radcliffe & Dane DeHaan deliver one of their best roles in this well crafted, well directed, shocking & realistic biographical thriller. (83%) (4/5 stars) (positive)

[@clara-nt9rx]

Howl 2010 was good but seems like no one saw it. Got me interested in Ginsberg.

[@barrywhitesavedmylife7957]

Aww, I liked this film.

[@FoundPoetry1456]

Subversion of traditional form is far more effective than the most universal of freedom. The Renaissance, Romantic, and Modernist poets knew this (even the best Surrealists did), but somehow the narcissists of the 50s and 60s felt the need to discard 600-1200 years of English poetic history and tradition for the sake of personality and mere individualism. Pathetic...

[@mikesmith-pj7xz]

LMAO.

[@woooweee]

Yea I've been disappointed in so many of these "writer" films lately, its like they are remaking the same pretentious film over and over again. I'm not really sold on harry potter in other movies yet either, so far I've not been blown away by any of his roles. Could be the films, but so far I don't get the feeling he would be missed if we just swapped him out with someone else in any of the films he's been in.

[@williamstone96]

Wow this movie sounds cringey as hell.