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 Aug 30 2009, 11:36 PM
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Im so excited!
Im going to cry if they don't show it in my town |
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Sep 10 2009, 02:01 PM
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Looks cute. But all I know is James Gandolfini & Paul Dano are featured voices. Who'd want to hear a mafia furry monster?
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Oct 20 2009, 08:22 AM
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I saw this on Sunday. It was pretty okay for a movie aimed at kids, surprisingly refreshing in the face of most Disney-esque kids movies. Good art direction, too. But...
QUOTE(Gigi @ Apr 9 2009, 11:27 PM)  I'm so excited! Yeah I don't know why the use of Arcade Fire in movie trailers makes me happy. But it's great. :D:D ...sadly, the song was only for the trailer and doesn't appear in the film. 
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Oct 20 2009, 10:45 AM
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 Live long and prosper. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 5,525 Joined: Nov 2006 Member No: 478,024 |
I'm a bit concerned how one can make an entire movie out of a 20 page or so book?
But it looks cute lol |
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Oct 20 2009, 12:14 PM
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QUOTE(mipadi @ Oct 20 2009, 08:22 AM) I saw this on Sunday. It was pretty okay for a movie aimed at kids, surprisingly refreshing in the face of most Disney-esque kids movies. it's not a kid movie; that is to say, it was not conceived, written, or directed as a children's film. spike has said, in interviews, that it is specifically for young adults who had read the book when they were kids. |
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Oct 20 2009, 01:10 PM
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QUOTE(NoSex @ Oct 20 2009, 01:14 PM) it's not a kid movie; that is to say, it was not conceived, written, or directed as a children's film. spike has said, in interviews, that it is specifically for young adults who had read the book when they were kids. It obviously has a "I read this book as a kid, and now that I'm an adult I want to make a movie out of it" feel. Even while watching, I could tell that the filmmaker probably enjoyed the book as a kid (like I did) and wanted to make a movie as a sort of homage to it, as an adult (as I am now, too). This explains the ~20-year gap between the publishing of the book and the making of the film. I mean to say that it's a kids' movie in the sense that children will go to see it, and adults will probably take their kids to see it, too -- which doesn't make a film a "kids' movie" in the Disney sense, but that's what I meant by my use of the term. |
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Oct 20 2009, 05:36 PM
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in the reverb chamber. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 4,022 Joined: Nov 2005 Member No: 300,308 |
QUOTE(mipadi @ Oct 20 2009, 01:10 PM) This explains the ~20-year gap between the publishing of the book and the making of the film. it was actually published in 1963. anyways: i really liked the movie; i enjoyed the complexity of its allegory. i thought it was a very sincere examination of adolescent rage, frustration, anxiety, isolation, and ego full of truly bizarre & stirring moments. really, the effects and the soundtrack alone are worth the ticket; it's just nice that the story is pretty interesting too. |
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