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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I am absolutely clueless about THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES. My very first exposure to this world was with this trailer... and... it looks fun. Cartoony, but it could be fun. What do you folks think? Especially people that might have the first clue about this series...
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE TRAILER... crappy version hits first, but you can get the HD versions a half-scroll below the crappy one that automatically loads!!
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..Spiderwick...does whatever Spiderwick does! FIRST KEK LOLBUR
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Nobody here....I am all alone....So what is this Spiderwick all about then?
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Man, this Spiderwick thing is really this year's Little Miss Spiderwick.
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Love Mary-Louise Parker. This looks kinda fun in a Pan's Labyrinth/Harry Potter kind of way.
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Is in this, No?
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All covered http://tinyurl.com/ytg8t7
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I mean it doesn't look that similar but it does feature a kid going to an attic to read a magic book. I can't tell. Maybe this is one of those great, original fantasy films with a trailer that just doesn't do it justice. We'll have to wait and see.
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The books are written by Holly Black and illustrated magnificently by ony DiTizzerli. http://www.spiderwick.com/
They make a nice little collection if you get them all. Only thing is - the whole thing could have made on great book. Splitting it into different parts felt like a bit of a marketing cheat.
Bythe looks of the trailer it looks like they could have condensed a few of them together, maybe all - That's a good thing as the story in the books is rather slight.
Still, DeTizzerli's illustrations are well worth collecting them for.
You don't see much of the Goblins, Boggarts and ogres in the trailer and one of the little creatures Hogsqueal plays a major role in the books. If they tranlsate De Tizzerli's world onto the screen this could be a lot of fun.
It's definitely for kids, but everyone likes Goblins, don't they? -
meets Freddy Highmore...
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J K Rowling has a lot to answer for...
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... Badass
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Can we get a sci-fi fantasy film that doesn't start off in modern times with a troubled youth?
Just once start it off in the proper atmosphere with out the fucking 20 hallmark commercial during the intro.
But when will we get the SUV product placement.
Why can't nick go back to doing lame game shows where they dump slime on people. -
limited demographic appeal, although apparently the "wax-coated string" population are buying a lot of movie tickets these days.
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How did the footprints get on the ceiling?
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I'm with Jimbo on this one. Fantasy worlds that can only be seen by kids... blah.
Now, give me ogres with machine-guns! Knights in power armor! Make the Rifts movie damn you!
Or... how about dragons bearing evil overlords that wreak terrible bloody destruction on armies that oppose them? Make the Dragonlance movie! -
deja vu.
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Come'on, that should have been the first comment. Wake up people.
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...for "Venom vs Carnage"
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if it actually has some content this seems promising. sure looks a lot better than eragon and terabithia, hopefully better than narnia too.
highmore is now the official fantasy movie young actor. only he's not so young anymore, he sure grew fast. -
What's going on, I thought everyone knew that nothing worth seeing EVER should be released in the first few months of the year. But now that JJ Abrams monster movie and this are both coming out in Jan/Feb. It's especially odd since this looks like another family fantasy movie that should be trying to fill the Holiday movie void left by the once great one-two punch of Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter.
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It looks good. As in it looks like a good filmic adaptation of a fairly light series of children's books.
The books aren't bad, but they're no Harry Potter. They're more in the spirit of Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events - and it looks like the Spiderwick movie will do just as well as that flick.
Can we get out of this children's fantasy vein please! Imagination is great, but kids play more than fairies and wizards. -
The Neverending Waterbabies of Terabithia
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The books are written for 8-11 year olds.
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think this will be great! I like the concept and the art.
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I don't usually care much for kiddie fantasy these days, but something about this looks interesting.
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Another 'children's classic' cobbled together on the back of Harry Potter. Where's Artemis Fowl? Just around the corner methinks. Hate the twinkly 'magical wonderment' music, the tediously rich palette of shiny gold and blue, the manufactured Dreamworks/ Walden sense of magic.
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Isn't there an original story out there for kids?!!? Do we really need 50 fucking versions of the same fantasy story? Christ almighty, how about some science fiction for kids? When was the last good sci-fi kids story (no, not Zathura, that was fantasy too). Portals to fantasy worlds, gothic flair, pixies, dirgible worlds. It's all the same thing, over and over! Get some originality people!
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...and the reason they were broken into separate chapters was so they would be like the serial chap-book children's books of the 19th century, which if you look at DiTerlizzi's artwork, he LOVES those Victorian artists. As to this looking like everything else that is out there...blame the trailer-makers. Bridge to Tarabithia is a movie that is NOT about the fantasy world the cook up, but from the Trailer, you think they get transported to some world and have and adventure and come home. Spiderwick is good stuff. There is a reason it is always on the NY Times bestseller list...
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...and the reason they were broken into separate chapters was so they would be like the serial chap-book children's books of the 19th century, which if you look at DiTerlizzi's artwork, he LOVES those Victorian artists. As to this looking like everything else that is out there...blame the trailer-makers. Bridge to Tarabithia is a movie that is NOT about the fantasy world the cook up, but from the Trailer, you think they get transported to some world and have and adventure and come home. Spiderwick is good stuff. There is a reason it is always on the NY Times bestseller list...
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...rings false in every way.
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i feel embarrassed when i see the trailers for these types of movies. They have become so frikkin' cliche they make the good ones look bad.
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in Montreal, in the same studio they shot 300, but actually before 300. I know people working on those sets, and I've been told it's been planned as a trilogy. And there are midgets involved somehow in the first one.
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"THIS... IS... SPIIIIIIIDERWIIIIIICK!"
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I find the premise in the trailer intriguing. I wouldn't mind if folks spaced out movies like this more, but the concept seems fairly distinguished from Potter.
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