Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.

Take a peek into the world of SPIDERWICK!!!

Spiderwick by StarskyandHushky	Jul 10th, 2007 01:47:25 AM
..Spiderwick...does whatever Spiderwick does! FIRST KEK LOLBUR
And Second... by StarskyandHushky	Jul 10th, 2007 01:48:49 AM
Nobody here....I am all alone....So what is this Spiderwick all about then?
And third... by StarskyandHushky	Jul 10th, 2007 01:56:45 AM
Man, this Spiderwick thing is really this year's Little Miss Spiderwick.
Looks pretty good. by Vi	Jul 10th, 2007 02:01:14 AM
Love Mary-Louise Parker. This looks kinda fun in a Pan's Labyrinth/Harry Potter kind of way.
Seth Rogen by Quin the Eskimo	Jul 10th, 2007 02:15:38 AM
Is in this, No?
CLOVERFIELD SHITS ALL UP ONS by LittleDudes	Jul 10th, 2007 02:42:06 AM
All covered http://tinyurl.com/ytg8t7
The Neverending Story, anyone? by Bungion Boy	Jul 10th, 2007 02:52:26 AM
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.
The Spiderwick Chronicles by dampen666	Jul 10th, 2007 03:05:51 AM
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?
neverendingstory meets labyrinth meets jumanji by BadMrWonka	Jul 10th, 2007 03:21:26 AM
meets Freddy Highmore...
A new addition to an already overcrowded marketplace by BenBraddock	Jul 10th, 2007 03:29:27 AM
J K Rowling has a lot to answer for...
Bad by Muldoon	Jul 10th, 2007 03:42:36 AM
... Badass
Yeah Another one! by JimboTHC	Jul 10th, 2007 03:44:56 AM
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.
It's like spiderman, but about a wick. by Daddylonghead	Jul 10th, 2007 04:18:14 AM
limited demographic appeal, although apparently the "wax-coated string" population are buying a lot of movie tickets these days.
Does whatever a Spiderwick does. by darquelyte	Jul 10th, 2007 05:39:42 AM
How did the footprints get on the ceiling?
Meh... by Bradstreet	Jul 10th, 2007 06:13:33 AM
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!
Feh... by Yeti	Jul 10th, 2007 06:26:51 AM
deja vu.
SpiderDick? by TheBloop	Jul 10th, 2007 06:37:34 AM
Come'on, that should have been the first comment. Wake up people.
I'm gonna wait... by Dr Gregory House	Jul 10th, 2007 06:47:37 AM
...for "Venom vs Carnage"
looks kid-ish but spooky and nicely made by pipergates	Jul 10th, 2007 06:49:37 AM
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.
February? The Dumping Ground of Movies? by Drath	Jul 10th, 2007 06:57:35 AM
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.
Might Be... by BeyondStatic	Jul 10th, 2007 07:38:31 AM
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.
Lemony Potter and the Chronicles of Jumanji by CreasyBear	Jul 10th, 2007 09:07:20 AM
The Neverending Waterbabies of Terabithia
Of course it looks kid-ish by snapcase	Jul 10th, 2007 09:54:12 AM
The books are written for 8-11 year olds.
read the first book and... by Frank Black	Jul 10th, 2007 10:17:21 AM
think this will be great! I like the concept and the art.
Looks fun actually by krushjudgement	Jul 10th, 2007 11:27:41 AM
I don't usually care much for kiddie fantasy these days, but something about this looks interesting.
BOOOOOOORING. by Sepulchrave	Jul 10th, 2007 01:52:29 PM
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.
I Fell Asleep During That Trailer by The Ender Smites Foes	Jul 10th, 2007 03:16:56 PM
Can someone tell me what happened? Oh wait, nevermind I don't care, I've seen this movie already...
ARRRRGGGHHh by jimmy_009	Jul 10th, 2007 03:20:02 PM
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!
The books are great... by Bones	Jul 10th, 2007 04:14:26 PM
...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...
The books are great... by Bones	Jul 10th, 2007 04:14:29 PM
...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...
Tinny corporate magic. by Sepulchrave	Jul 10th, 2007 04:26:17 PM
...rings false in every way.
it might be good, but it is getting tiresome... by torpor_haze	Jul 10th, 2007 07:04:36 PM
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.
This has been shot near where I live... by JacknChucksLovechild	Jul 10th, 2007 08:42:12 PM
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.
And the 300 connections don't stop there. by Daddylonghead	Jul 10th, 2007 09:22:42 PM
"THIS... IS... SPIIIIIIIDERWIIIIIICK!"
You know, actually... by Lobanhaki	Jul 10th, 2007 11:25:48 PM
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.

Talkbacks

Take a peek into the world of SPIDERWICK!!!

User login

Quick Talkback

Talkbacks