another public service announcement or three

[jazzfish]

Go see Stardust. It's a lot of fun. It isn't really much like Princess Bride at all but it's more like Princess Bride than any other movie I can think of offhand.

I'm seriously considering going again next Satyrday morning at Springfield mall, since it's only $4. This would make Stardust the first movie I've seen twice in the theatre since, um, Sin City? Totally worth it, for the pretty and the fun and Robert De Niro's Captain Shakespeare.

(Just close your eyes during the trailer for The Dark Is Rising. Better yet, leave the theatre and come back when it's done.)

Also and unrelated, for those of you still near Blacksburg, there's a white groundhog hanging out in a suburb northwest of Roanoke.

Comments

[tango.livejournal.com]

But I've enjoyed the trailer for The dark is Rising both times I've seen it...

[plumbob78.livejournal.com]

I could actually make the movie next Saturday.

[isolde-deely.livejournal.com]

is the preview that bad or are they destroying the book?

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I loved The Dark is Rising when I read it in, oh, elementary school, but it's been so long that I have no idea how the movie differs (based on the trailer.) As such, I think the trailer looks fine. :]

[shadowsong.livejournal.com]

i was quite excited to see eccleston in the trailer for elizabeth: the golden age in the hopes that it meant he was in one non-crappy movie this year. then elizabeth got on a horse in plate armor in front of her army. at least they aren't butchering a beloved children's book with this one.

[merseine0613.livejournal.com]

It isn't really much like Princess Bride at all but it's more like Princess Bride than any other movie I can think of offhand.

It's like Princess Bride meets Narnia mixed with Pirates of the Carribbean. And (for those SF fans out there) with a good measure of Amber thrown in.

Loved it, loved it, loved it. Want to see it again now.

[lizthefair.livejournal.com]

This was the best movie I've seen in quite some time. I expected to like it, but I had no idea of how good it would be.

[vond.livejournal.com]

That movie was much better than the trailer made me think it would be. Was the book better?

Also while I was doing my post-movie IMDB crawl, I was inspired to do a search and discovered that they're currently writing a movie adaptation of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. That could be pretty good because I thought the book moved a bit too slowly.

[ndkid.livejournal.com]

It was when I was walking out of a movie a couple of weekends ago and say the poster for that... thing... (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0484562/) that I realized how horrible it must have become.
1) It needed a title change? The Dark Is Rising wasn't enough for them? Ohgod ohgod ohgod, the producer who got this greenlit is going to hell...
2) There was no bearded old man on the poster, but there were three kids. I don't know what that says, but it does not bode well.

[laughin.livejournal.com]

It looked Terry Gilliam-ish. Was it?

[rbandrews]

Based solely upon your trashing of that preview, I am about to go buy that book.