The movie is streaming for free on Tubi (hot tip: ad blockers still work on Tubi). It's pretty good even if I hate the simplification of the dialogue -- in the beginning Ishmael talks of visiting "the oceans" rather than the more poetic "watery parts of the world".

That’s terrible. The real reason to read the book is for the language, as the narrative itself is great but not why it’s such an excellent novel. I have a few lines memorized via Anki because the writing is so impressive.

It takes about 25 hours to read 'Moby Dick' aloud. The movie is 1h 56m long. Something had to go.

Yeah, and Bradbury himself was known to be a rather poetic writer himself so it is odd that his screenplay does that.

shout out to the SS United States making an unexpected appearance here

> “Your subconscious is smarter than you are,” he once told me, “so get out of its way.”