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The Beef takes a liking to SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES... that's either really creepy or a good sign for the movie!

Yay!!! by BetaRayBill07	Jan 27th, 2008 01:49:35 PM
Another movie I just don't care about!!!
Wow- First it is. by BetaRayBill07	Jan 27th, 2008 01:51:04 PM
Haven't been first in many moons. Now 2008 is complete for me.
I have your sequel titles all ready to go..... by BetaRayBill07	Jan 27th, 2008 01:54:49 PM
Spiderwick Chronicles 2- One More Day and Spiderwick Chronicles 3- Brand New Day. I know that was awful.....sue me.
SECOND ! by tritium	Jan 27th, 2008 01:56:47 PM
I've never been 2nd, so I will take it. :)
OMG DON'T SAY SARAH BOLGER!!! by ludmir88	Jan 27th, 2008 05:25:38 PM
BECAUSE THIS SITE IS GONNA BE FULL OF PERVS IN MINUTES!!!
Spider Wick. Sounds like some new candle by skywalkerfamily	Jan 27th, 2008 06:52:56 PM
at the candle store.
hooray for terrifying villains! by freydis	Jan 27th, 2008 09:34:09 PM
children's villains should be the most terrifying, elemental characters in all of storytelling.
The Beef.... by JiveTalker	Jan 28th, 2008 05:44:26 AM
As in, Shia? Or as in, Where's The?
Prepackaged pablum by Sepulchrave	Jan 29th, 2008 02:24:03 PM
'All kids care about is whether they'll have a good time'. What a horrible, shallow thing to say; the best books I read as a child had a mystic, almost religious effect on the way I saw the world around me; particularly the countryside ( I'm Irish and the ruins, woods and stone forts seemed to hide the unseen wold that I read about in Susan Cooper, Alan Garner and Tolkien). I suppose kids who grew up in multiplexes, drugstores, malls and suburbs were deprived of this. That's sad. Incredibly sad. And then they grow up into the kind of adult who manufactures this plasticky 'world beyond your imagination Dreamworks rubbish. And think that all kids want and need is stimulation, more and more empty stimulation. Fuck that
Sepulchrave by the beef	Jan 29th, 2008 04:11:57 PM
How does me saying "a good time" have anything to do with a kid being deprived of some otherworldly experience? "A good time" is subjective, and if a kid wants to go in to the movie with the mindset that they're going to be transported to some other world for an-hour-and-a-half then the movie does offer that. What I meant when I said that they don't care about the other stuff and just want to have a good time, it's in regards to most kids probably not minding some of the awkward Freddie Highmore moments, or the contributions by the adults and Bolger, the impressive visual effects, or some of the other things that an adult would notice that a kid may not. Those are things that I don't think a kid is going to pay attention to in order to have "a good time". Some may, but I think most don't. After all, this is a fantasy/adventure film so I don't think it's too off-base to think that kids are going to want an actual adventure.
You can see from the briefest glance at the trailer by Sepulchrave	Jan 30th, 2008 01:25:59 AM
what kind of a good time this film offers. Same old. same old. Same Peter Pan palette, same dismal sub-Henson creatures, same instantly recognizable stars, same twinkly score of wonderment, same lack of emotion, all derived from another kid's book phenomenon whose sole raison d'etre is Harry Potter's enormous success. An adaptation straight from the furnaces of pure cynicism. A good time.
So by your rationale by the beef	Jan 30th, 2008 09:07:33 AM
In order for something to be good it must be different from everything, in all aspects. It must have unknown actors (Freddie Highmore is the only cast member that has done any children's film work before, aside from Martin Short whose voice you won't recognize), must use different colors (no clue what you're referring to in regards to Peter Pan's palette, because of all the children's stories it shares the least with Pan), and must advertise the emotional aspects of the story to get kids to go see it, because that's the higher road to take over showing them something exciting. In terms of the film being emotionless I don't know if you mean there's no drama in the story, or if there was no apparent love or effort put into the final product, which I'm curious how you can notice from a 1 minute trailer. I'm not saying these things are bad, but to use this as a basis for something just to be "good" may be setting your standards too high, especially for a kids film. Pretty much everything has been done before so why fault a film, or book series, for doing something less original but at least doing it well? Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather see a good copycat than nothing at all. I may even go so far as to say I'd rather see a good copycat than a bad original. But, that's just me. If you wish to hold everything to a higher standard then more power to you, in the meantime I'll be passing the time watching good things while I wait for the great things.
That over-rich Spielberg night-sky blue and gold by Sepulchrave	Jan 30th, 2008 02:59:51 PM
You know what I mean; the colour scheme for 'magical' that every Hollywood kid's film except Harry Potter 3,4 and 5 used.

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