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cygna_hime) wrote2007-08-16 09:51 pm
cygna_hime) wrote2007-08-16 09:51 pm
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Stardust.
One word: SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!eleventeen!
Thank you, GNeil, for everything you've done for us. I appreciate it. Seriously.
Robert de Niro = best swishy sky pirate EVER. (Balthier wishes to note that this is so not true. I wish to counter-note that, "It's so hard to get blood of a silk shirt"? That IS Balthier in fifty years.)
Stormhold brothers are for the win also. It's great to see the old tradition of the chorus brought back. XD. They also did very well with the family resemblance between Una, Tristan, and Septimus--the others didn't matter as much, but those three had to look related, and they did. W00t. ("So now what?" "We have to learn to live with each other." *look of slowly dawning horror*)
Unless otherwise indicated, everything else r0xx0red too. Win! Win~! Actual funny humor where you don't feel guilty for laughing! (Except at Tristan's bowler hat, because...some things just deserve mocking.)
It's not the book, but that's fine, because the book, page for page, would have made a much worse movie. This is, well, like what you'd get if you sat GNeil down and said, "So, if we took the soul of your book and made a movie with the same soul, what would it be like?" Funny how that happens.
*digression* That's the problem with so many books-turned-film: instead of keeping the soul and changing the trimmings as needed, they keep the trimmings and change the soul to fit. Which spoils the point, because the book people loved was the soul, not the trimmings. */digression*
So, yeah. I probably won't stop grinning like a fool for days. I haven't stopped so far.
If you didn't click the cut because you haven't seen the movie yet, GO NOW! And hurry! The theaters have been pretty empty!
Thank you, GNeil, for everything you've done for us. I appreciate it. Seriously.
Robert de Niro = best swishy sky pirate EVER. (Balthier wishes to note that this is so not true. I wish to counter-note that, "It's so hard to get blood of a silk shirt"? That IS Balthier in fifty years.)
Stormhold brothers are for the win also. It's great to see the old tradition of the chorus brought back. XD. They also did very well with the family resemblance between Una, Tristan, and Septimus--the others didn't matter as much, but those three had to look related, and they did. W00t. ("So now what?" "We have to learn to live with each other." *look of slowly dawning horror*)
Unless otherwise indicated, everything else r0xx0red too. Win! Win~! Actual funny humor where you don't feel guilty for laughing! (Except at Tristan's bowler hat, because...some things just deserve mocking.)
It's not the book, but that's fine, because the book, page for page, would have made a much worse movie. This is, well, like what you'd get if you sat GNeil down and said, "So, if we took the soul of your book and made a movie with the same soul, what would it be like?" Funny how that happens.
*digression* That's the problem with so many books-turned-film: instead of keeping the soul and changing the trimmings as needed, they keep the trimmings and change the soul to fit. Which spoils the point, because the book people loved was the soul, not the trimmings. */digression*
So, yeah. I probably won't stop grinning like a fool for days. I haven't stopped so far.
If you didn't click the cut because you haven't seen the movie yet, GO NOW! And hurry! The theaters have been pretty empty!
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*love, love, loves movie* And I agree with you - the soul is what's important. It's really difficult to keep a good balance, though, and I respect the scriptwriters who manage it. It's especially difficult because everyone has their own interpretation of what the 'soul' truly is (because everyone, without exception, confuses some of the trimmings for the soul), but when they get it - ah, when they get it - then you get something like this beautiful little thing. It's beautiful.
...and if that last paragraph makes no sense, it's because I need sleep. Sorry.
Soooo, who else thinks that Stardust needs a good fandom right about now?
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I personally think that a movie can be very different to its source material and still be good. Case in point: I think the first Conan movie is really good, and it's not much like the books at all.
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