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Matthew Vaughn's Fantasy Epic, STARDUST, screens and is called 'A close cousin to A PRINCESS BRIDE!'

sorry by BadMrWonka	Dec 2nd, 2006 02:29:30 AM
I gotta post first, it's a double!
first? by flamingeyebrows	Dec 2nd, 2006 02:32:55 AM
perhaps?
As such is marriage by F-1000	Dec 2nd, 2006 02:33:01 AM
"I'll marry you if you can get me a piece of that star WITHIN SEVEN DAYS." Man this bitch already owns him. I can see the sequel to this. It's a Sci-Fi Fantasy where Sienna Miller's character witholds sex until he can build a spaceship and bring an asteroid into orbit with their planet.
as for this film by BadMrWonka	Dec 2nd, 2006 02:33:55 AM
it sounds like a grown-up Neverending Story. (die unendliche geschichte, for der Langhaarige) which is great. when Quint visited the set a while back and described it, I guess I had a slightly different feel for what the narrative was going to entail. this really seems cool though, and the cast is insane.
haha by BadMrWonka	Dec 2nd, 2006 03:06:39 AM
well played, sir
darn you, Michael Bay! by SingingHatchet	Dec 2nd, 2006 03:22:08 AM
Transform into a good movie director.
Stardust is fantastic by DOGSOUP	Dec 2nd, 2006 03:25:14 AM
I sure hope the movie will be as well. I liked the end of the book spoiler! I like the fact that they lived ahppily ever after until he died because he was human and she had to go on alone as queen end spoiler It was different. Too bad they didn't go that way in the movie from what it sounds but hey, I'll definatly give this one a shot.
music in the rough cut by johngalt610	Dec 2nd, 2006 03:38:51 AM
for anyone that was at the test screening, this is a really wierd question but there was some music playing in the first part of the film where tristan takes sienna miller to the wall for his dinner with her, what was the music that was playing. it sounded like something thomas newman wrote or something. sorry for the wierd question.
coming in July? I thought it was March? by TaraLivesOn	Dec 2nd, 2006 04:49:14 AM
Do you know for a fact it's delayed to July? I read elsewhere March 2007?
Not entirely sure... by Seph_J	Dec 2nd, 2006 05:38:54 AM
... but im unfamiliar with the material. I will see it though.
A switch from March to July bodes well. by CreasyBear	Dec 2nd, 2006 07:39:25 AM
They're not going to give a valuable summer slot to a predicted weak-performer.
Let's hold off on the comparisons to a classic by Razorback	Dec 2nd, 2006 08:34:28 AM
The Princess Bride has become a classic action/comedy/love story... and it took about a decade for it to get there. I think people are setting this movie up for failure when they compare it to "Bride."
Great Dilemma by Black Satin 2	Dec 2nd, 2006 09:10:11 AM
Guy must attain something to gain the love of another but does he lose something in the process? The whole movie falls on Claire Danes being astonishing enough for the guy to not go through with it. It is sort of like the Princess Bride but Buttercup started out stuck up until Westley melted her cold exterior.
claire danes = I'm there by Darth_Baltar	Dec 2nd, 2006 09:30:14 AM
nuff said
Where is my fucking NEVERWHERE movie? by Frijole	Dec 2nd, 2006 11:03:50 AM
Honestly... What is the hold-up> By all accounts STARDUST should be super, but NEVERWHERE is easily Gaiman's most cinematic (and recognizable) non-comic (though I know there IS a comic now) work. Get that guy from Kinky Boots/ Serenity as the Marquis DeCarrabas. Vinnie Jones for Croup and And Timothy Spall fro Vandemar... Thanks!
Transformers Movie: Ratchet Revealed by all your base	Dec 2nd, 2006 11:40:04 AM
http://tinyurl.com/w4q6k oh yeah, and why is July better for Stardust. Now it has to square off with Transformers, Potter 5, and the Simpsons. It would have owned March.
i rather like this book... by blackthought	Dec 2nd, 2006 12:46:53 PM
and i will rather like this movie.
sounds delicious by occula	Dec 2nd, 2006 12:53:07 PM
i look forward to the velveteen touch of a dandy fop i'm sure a gaiman adaptation will bring. it's time we got back to the humor of fantasy - 'ella enchanted' didn't, uh, really do the job.
I am glad they are making it more like the comic... by Bones	Dec 2nd, 2006 02:23:50 PM
At least in tone. The late nineteenth century look of Charles Vess's illustrations don;t need to copied exactly, but if they can follow the tone--that would be amazing. Never having read the Novel version--is it simply the text of the original, without the great art--or was it expanded?
music by johngalt610	Dec 2nd, 2006 03:30:30 PM
nevermind it was from meet joe black.
The studio feels its strong enough to be a Summer Movie by The UnGod	Dec 2nd, 2006 04:45:32 PM
Thats according to Neil on his blog. He did mention that while the confidance is nice, like others have mentioned, it now has to compete with other summer blockbusters.
lots of folks that I respect loved American Gods but by Snowden's Secret	Dec 2nd, 2006 06:25:25 PM
I found it totally underwhelming. It was my first Gaiman and it turned me off to him. It felt like he was trying to be Douglas Adams and falling short (which is not an insult b/c Adams is brilliant). Everything seemed derivative and forced. Is this a typical Gaiman or should I try something else? Did I miss something in Gods? There didn't seem to be any point or depth and it wasn't funny/ironic enough to pull off the "there is no point - life is absurd" angle properly.
Paeter Jackson and fantasy by Jesus Maniloff	Dec 2nd, 2006 08:21:45 PM
Oh, puh-lease, it sounded so sensible - until we hit that Potter vs LOTR part. It is not a question of purism and hitting the book word for word, but rather getting the main point(s) of a book before making it into a movie. Jackasson never got Tolkien in the first place, and made a Hallmark movie with hobbits in it on a borrowed storyline. I hope this didn't happen to Stardust because it is unlimately a very filmable book - much more so than say American Gods. My hope is that since the Mirrormask turned out rather fine, with just right notes and sense of Gaimanesque alter-reality. But he had a hand in it himself - British TV version of Neverwhere wasn't anywhere close. I guess if the Stardust does well they may opt for Neverwhere or even American Gods, although the latter would have to be trimmed big time before it can be squeezed into even a 3-hour movie...
Snowden: American Gods... by 2	Dec 2nd, 2006 10:43:18 PM
is quite different in tone to a lot of Gaiman's short works (of which I'd consider Stardust). I too found American Gods underwhelming and perhaps a bit too predictable (which made it seem quite plodding). On the other hand, I adored Coraline, which, like Stardust, seems more directed at children and fairy tales, more of a sense of wonder and playful magic. Simple storytelling. Perhaps a bit similar in style, but to me American Gods was this childish form of Gaiman expanded and gussied up to try to be both "epic" and "more adult," neither of which succeeded very much in my estimation. I also know plenty of folks who gushed over American Gods, but for me, not so much. I kinda wanted to like it more than I did....whereas the short works I didn't go in with any big expectations and was pleasantly surprised at how entertaining Gaiman could be. Give Coraline a try, to see the other side (or facet) of Gaiman at work.
American Gods was weak by PervOmatic	Dec 2nd, 2006 11:42:10 PM
And Anansi Boys was even weaker. Neverwhere was better, but it still felt ham-fisted at points. I think Neil is much better at comics than he is novels, but that is just my two pennies worth of nonsense. And Neverwhere was already made as a Miniseries for BBC Two, and it's available on DVD.
Another facet of Gaiman by blackwood	Dec 3rd, 2006 01:57:27 AM
Christ, read SANDMAN. Start to finish, 11 volumes. It's great; like, Great Works, great. I discovered Gaiman through Terry Pratchett, and for a while I thought Gaiman was trying too hard to be like a more morose Pratchett... and then I read SANDMAN.
Gaiman's never lived up to Sandman by Prankster	Dec 3rd, 2006 02:20:40 AM
It was a brilliant comic series that actually--and I don't say this lightly--topped Alan Moore, Gaiman's mentor, at points. Gaiman started by riffing on Moore's "Swamp Thing" style but quickly vaulted past it, leaving behind superhero tropes and nearly perfecting the "nodular storytelling" that comics are so well suited for. Most issues of Sandman are distinct short stories, many of them very different from each other, some barely featuring any of the main characters, yet it all fits together perfectly to tell one vast story. Gaiman's prose work has simply never equalled it, and that includes "Stardust". Most of the changes these two reviewers mention make it sound like the movie has improved on the book immensely, with ideas that were interesting but half-formed fleshed out more (Captain Shakespeare is a bit of a cypher in the book and has very little to add to the story, for instance). And I heartily agree that there is a serious lack of a climax in the book. It's great to hear that they've let the various plot threads come together in an interesting way instead of just petering out.
FUCK MICHAEL BAY!! by Doc_Strange	Dec 3rd, 2006 03:12:42 AM
That is all...
There books with not that many pictures in them folks, by Jesus Maniloff	Dec 3rd, 2006 10:16:29 AM
and them are not necessarily the bad ones. We already have a pattern here - the reviewer who liked American Gods seems to like Peter Beagle, and the detractors' appreciations do not stretch beyond Sandman - which being bound in a book form is quite a different form of art altogether. We should better get back to talking 'bout them movies and leave the real books to those with longer attention span.
sandman by oisin5199	Dec 3rd, 2006 10:38:29 AM
um, you do realize that Sandman was a monthly comic series before it was bound in that 'book form' right? Maybe I'm missing your point, though.
Right -- don't compare this to Princess Bride. by AnnoyYou	Dec 5th, 2006 03:50:58 AM
No matter how many "glowing reviews" this film gets, it's not going to be a success. Hey, "Pan's Labyrinth" will probably fail, and I think that film has more substance than this one. Plus it has total show-killers Claire Danes and Michelle Pfeiffer in it -- sorry. I love Gaiman, but this cast sounds like ass.

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