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[cleolinda]

Awww, Stardust ! It was really sweet and fun and funny, and although the climactic battle/struggle/whatever could have been tightened up some, and I wasn't terribly fond of the score (there's a lot of THUNDERING SUSPENSE! USUALLY ON HORSEBACK! music, some of which sounded ripped straight out of Bram Stoker's Dracula), it was a solid three stars, two thumbs up, would pay to see again, will buy the DVD, etc. It's got pretty much everything important from the book (except what I always think of as The Best and Tiniest Part, but it was PG-13), but several things are changed to make it a bit more action-oriented towards the end, and the Captain Alberic character who gets all of four pages is now Captain Shakespeare, Robert De Niro, and hilarious. Yes, I'm easy like that. (Okay, some of it went on a little too long. Again: easy like that.) Also, it's got metric shitloads of "HEY WAIT WAS THAT--?" faces (and voices. "Awww, Uncle Gandalf's gonna tell us a story!"), including but not limited to Peter O'Toole, Rupert Everett, Ricky Gervais, Henry Cavill, Nathaniel Parker (who looks so incredibly much like Gregory Peck in this movie that it's not even funny), Jason Flemyng, Charlie Bucket's Grandpa Joe, Prince Caspian (fwoarrrr, he fine) and Mr. Weasley, who gets to play a goat. Hand to God, y'all. Also, it's got a really great, creative swordfight near the end, and y'all know how I feel about swordfights. In conclusion: if you remember loving the book but haven't read it in a while--and don't have the particulars fresh and sacred in your head--you'll probably really enjoy the movie.

Comments

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

Henry Cavill AND Prince Caspian? Want. NOW.

Honestly I knew about the Henry Cavill part, but the Prince Caspian comes as a surprise.

[derangeddarling.livejournal.com]

I haven't read Stardust. I guess I should? The movie didn't really look that appealing. I haven't read The Golden Compass, either, but that one looks so cool. Whee, a talking polar bear!!

I guess I need to read these things. It seems like a lot of books I've been meaning to read have been turning into movies lately (A Series of Unfortunate events, Eragon...and those just off the top of my head.)

[kethlenda.livejournal.com]

Fuck.

I JUST HAD TO.

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

I am so very looking forward to seeing Stardust!

[elvinborn.livejournal.com]

this? is exactly what I have been hoping to hear about Stardust. I've been looking forward to this movie for what feels like forever. I can't wait to see it next week!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU, I FEEL COMPLETE NOW. Seriously, I wanted that in there SO BAD.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Wasn't it



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(I had to, too.)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I know! I spent the first five minutes all like, "Who he? HE FINE," and when I got home and looked it up I remembered that I'd actually heard in advance that young Dunstan was Ben Barnes. Complete and utter confidence in the Caspian adaptation now, let me tell you what.

[jeeperstseepers.livejournal.com]

Best one-word moment of the entire book, no question. It was perfection, down to the cute little font.

The book is too good to ruin with a movie. I heard about the ending, and I think if I were to see it in the theater, I'd just end up disturbing everyone else with all my angry shouting.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Sorry, how did you see this for free, and when is the movie coming out?

[9-happyducks.livejournal.com]

I got to see an advanced screening of this tonight. Let's just say I was pleasantly surprised. The trailer was totally misleading, as I thought this movie was going to be shite. At the beginning of the movie I kept leaning over to my friend, asking her if this movie was serious. We didn't know at first. By the middle of the film we had fallen in love with the movie. We're definitely going to see it again when it hits theatres.

[wicked-goddess.livejournal.com]

Stardust is one of my favorite boos,and I had the pleasure of seeing the film at Comic Con. I absolutely loved it! One of the best book to film adaptions I have ever seen. Yeah there's stuff missing that I, well, missed, but on a whole I really adored the movie.

[wicked-goddess.livejournal.com]

Err...it's one of my favorite booKs.

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

Aww, I shall miss the Best and Tiniest Part, but I am so looking forward to this movie! Especially if there is a kickass swordfight, which is one of the few things missing from the excellent book.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

"And there was a voice, a high clear, female voice, which said 'Ow,' and then, very quietly, it said and then it said 'Ow,' once more."

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Next Friday--my mother found a giant stack of free passes on the counter at the salon where she was having a manicure last week. It was totally random, and it just happened to be a movie I wanted to see.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I actually never bothered watching the trailer at all--I'd seen stills, they looked pretty good, there we go. But Neil Gaiman was saying on his blog that the marketing people, well-meaning as they might be, didn't seem to know what to do with it, so I figured a trailer would be pretty worthless.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

What I thought was interesting was that there were a lot of *additions,* probably to give the movie some more movement and action (although, I guess on the balance, the additions were there to make up for the missing parts). I actually really liked the idea of the Babylon candle, because it got things moving quickly and established Tristan's mother as someone who cared about him, which I liked a lot more than the way she was in the book.

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

I think the cast is so awful I don't think I'll see it. I haven't read the book in a few years, but I loved it and this cast just seems totally off. Not a fan of Claire Danes (I think she's wildly overrated) and DeNiro's participation just seems wrong.

Film adaptations of Gaiman's work just never seem to work out to me.

[cattikins.livejournal.com]

GRRRWANTWANTWANTSOJEALOUS

[krazycat.livejournal.com]

Did she call him an idiot and he declared it was the nicest thing a man ever had been called? I guess they left that out, but it's one of my favourite sentences in a book ever.

[msilverstar]

Neat! I haven't read the book in ages, we'll probably go see the movie.

[justjayj.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Oops, I mean,

[greenleafgurl17.livejournal.com]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20097968/?gt1=10251

I...I'm not sure what to say about this. Might do for good linkspam though.

[lauramcvey.livejournal.com]

Jim Bob. The dad's name is Jim Bob. o.O