I don't understand why they moved all of the "Heaven dresses up like her mom at the circus and Tom dies" storyline from the end of Dark Angel to the beginning of Fallen Hearts. Did they think there wasn't enough plot in Fallen Hearts?
I really didn't like that they changed Heaven's motivation for that into getting revenge on Luke. Did they think Heaven still wanting Luke's love, attention, and approval wasn't interesting enough? When I watched the first movie, I wondered why they changed the story from Luke selling all the kids for $500 each to Luke giving them to other families and finding a job for Tom in another state. Now we know why! They wanted to give Heaven some motivation to seek revenge.
One thing I do understand is Heaven's frustration with Tom and how he kept defending Luke and saying he had changed. Yes, it's possible for people to change, but that doesn't mean Heaven has to forgive and forget. Like she said, there are consequences for being a terrible father.
Drake seemed way older than five. And Randall was supposed to be an 18 year old college student. This guy looked like a 30 year old man.
Gawd, so much bad acting from everyone: Luke, Stacey, Randall, Fanny, grandpa - it's like they found these people in a Learning Annex workshop for people who have never acted before. Their line readings were so stilted and awkward. Fanny's vocal fry was driving me crazy. Oh, gawd, and Jason Priestley's terrible acting is back.
Where the hell was grandpa hiding during the first two movies? That was as bad as if one of Heaven's siblings hadn't been seen until now. They lived in the same house but we're supposed to believe that he was just always off somewhere else?
Ugh, I hate to keep harping on all the hair issues but those boneheaded decisions are rearing their ugly heads in Fallen Hearts. Heaven is supposed to look like Leigh but with dark hair. When Heaven dyes her hair blonde to look like Leigh, it makes sense that Jillian confuses Heaven for Leigh. But since they fucked up all the hair color stuff, it makes no sense why Jillian sees ginger Heaven and thinks she's brunette Leigh.
Tony's reaction to Jillian's madness was so different in the movie than the book. Tony is a creepy predator who preyed on a 13 year old girl, but he did seem to love Jillian. In the books, he humored her when she started going off the deep end, gently agreeing with whatever illusion she had going on at the moment. In the movie, he seemed embarrassed and slightly grossed out by her behavior.
The interior of the house looks so much like the one they used for the Foxworth party.
OMG, Heaven wore a white long sleeved grandma nightgown after the wedding reception at Farthy. I bet Logan loved that since he can only accept a virginal Heaven.
I hated the way they handled the entire Troy situation. Apparently the producers/writers wanted to make everything Heaven's decision and that's why she was the one to tell Troy they couldn't see each other again because she's married. In the books, it was Heaven who wanted to keep seeing him and Troy was the one who said that they couldn't be selfish and hurt so many other people.
Not including the stuff about Rye Whiskey and the servants hearing piano music and Jillian seeing ghosts was bad enough but then Heaven just went into the maze and Troy walked right up to her? LAME. It's like they're just hitting the major plot points without any of the build up to them.
On a related note, the fact that they didn't touch on how jealous and spiteful Fanny was for the first two movies made her abrupt decision to fuck Logan to get back at Heaven come out of left field. I disliked that the movie made it Heaven telling Fanny to lie to Randall and say the baby was his.
I guess spending all that money on Heaven's dark Leigh wig blew the accessories budget for this movie since Heaven wore the same brown boots for most of this movie.
Logan was still a dick, but in this movie he also came off as a pathetic goober. The terrible acting didn't help. His "can you forgive me?" right after she found out that he slept with Fanny was so bad that it made him seem like a complete moron.
Once again, the portrait dolls creeped me out. And unfortunately, the set people found some cheap looking dolls. They definitely did not look nice enough to be the kind of high end dolls that they were supposed to be.
The absolute best part of this movie and the best change from the book was Heaven KICKING TONY'S ASS!
Second best change: Logan whining that airing their dirty laundry during the custody trial might hurt his mother and Heaven yelling, "Well, you weren't thinking about your mother when YOU WERE SCREWING FANNY!" Hahahahahaha!
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