When Ray Bradbury penned this tale about firemen who set books on fire, I doubt he envisioned this little gem.

Basically it's about a guy named Montag who sets books on fires, because for some reason they make people sad and cause wars (at least according to the film), and it's wild how this tale is spun.

First he has to deal with his wife, who ends up almost o'ding on gold pills and is saved by some paramedics. Not to mention a hilarious scene where she is part of an interactive television show (surprisingly this was sort of ahead of its time).

Then he meets a woman (who suspiciously resembles his wife--mainly because the same actress plays both roles) who is rather interesting, but is shunned because she doesn't buy into this non-reading crap.

Then Montag watches an old woman set herself on fire when the firemen raid her house and discover an illegal 'library' there. Sneaking some books, he then makes one of his wife's friends upset because he reads a book, and strangely, it's not 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' (Maybe that's why he's upset.)

The reason this needs to be riffed was basically Bradbury disliked this adaptation for the fact the way they sugar-coat the ending as opposed to how the book actually ends.

Others are: 1) Despite the establishing segues, the film is a bit hard to follow since they like to pander on odd subjects; 2) The fact Montag seems more clueless about what's going on, let alone the fact the only other woman he meets is his wife's double; and 3) The director's strange scene where the fire chief seizes a mini 'Bible' from a baby, and shakes his finger at him (and you thought torturing the infant in 'Drugs Are Like That,' was bizarre).

Here's the full movie from Universal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0bVqgBSZHk