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Post by Neverending on Sept 30, 2016 22:25:12 GMT -5
It's 1943 and a group of children with special abilities are being hunted down by Samuel L. Jackson and the only person that can save them is a teenager from 2016. Yeah - it's one of those movies. The trailers made it seem like Harry Potter meets X-Men, but really, it's a Halloween movie for older kids and preteens. The 1940's setting looks like something from American Horror Stories. There's monsters ripped from the pages of Guillermo Del Toro's notebook. There's even a scene with Ray Harryhausen skeletons going into battle. Tim Burton and screenwriter Jane Goldman (Kick-Ass, Kingsman) throw in anything they think is cool and mostly get away with it. If you enjoy The Addams Family movie from the 90's or The Munsters TV show from the 60's or anything like that, you'll have fun watching Miss Peregrine and her peculiar children. |
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Post by Doomsday on Oct 1, 2016 1:38:39 GMT -5
How is this any different from X-Men? It looks like a blatant rip-off.
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Post by Neverending on Oct 1, 2016 2:04:59 GMT -5
How is this any different from X-Men? It looks like a blatant rip-off. Because most people don't know they exist. In X-Men the point is that these people have special powers and are discriminated. These kids are isolated from the world, living in a safe house with Eva Green. They're hiding from Samuel L. Jackson but he's one of them, not a human. It's closer to Harry Potter in the sense that humans are unaware of a parallel world with magical beings. But it is different cause there's no school or training or earth shattering events. It's a small, personal story. It's Addams Family with a twist. |
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Post by Ramplate on Oct 1, 2016 8:05:51 GMT -5
It was a pretty good trilogy of novels
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Post by PhantomKnight on Oct 29, 2016 13:08:17 GMT -5
I'm on the third novel of the trilogy, and yeah, the books have been surprisingly good. I'll definitely give the movie a whirl when it hits Blu-Ray.
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Post by PhantomKnight on Nov 19, 2016 18:58:51 GMT -5
The nature of the beast when it comes to book adaptations is that the movie is always going to be compared to the source material, so if you're the filmmaker in charge of adapting a given novel, you'd better do your job well. Having read Ransom Riggs' trilogy of novels that serve as the basis for this film, I was not only surprised by how much the material engaged and entertained me, but I could also clearly see why Tim Burton was chosen as the director. So does Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, the movie, live up to its potential?
Mostly. At least enough for me to say I enjoyed it.
Burton and screenwriter Jane Goldman keep the core of the story intact and bring a playful sense of (for lack of a better word) peculiarity to the proceedings, which gives the film a nice charm. It certainly feels like a Tim Burton movie, in a good way. The inherent mythology is handled well enough, and while some aspects are altered (a little unfortunate in some cases), the movie stays dark where it needs to. The first two-thirds are faithful to the book for the most part, but what threw me here was the climax. This is where the movie comes close to kind of going off the rails and feels kind of weird to me. It's kind of obvious that the Third Act is the result of studio notes, cause it's a completely different ending from the book; it's like they still wanted to leave it open for the sequels, but hedge their bets at the same time and provide some semblance of closure...for the most parts. Props to Burton and the producers for being bold enough to go off course this much, but it still left me scratching my head. Also, while this movie definitely kept me into things, the best thing about Ransom Riggs' writing and plotting in the books was that it didn't feel specifically catered to a YA crowd. There are times, though, where the movie kind of feels that way, but at least it's never overbearing.
If you were at all intrigued by the previews for this film, then I'd say to give it a shot.
***/****
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Post by Neverending on Nov 19, 2016 20:02:48 GMT -5
The nature of the beast when it comes to book adaptations is that the movie is always going to be compared to the source material, so if you're the filmmaker in charge of adapting a given novel, you'd better do your job well. Having read Ransom Riggs' trilogy of novels that serve as the basis for this film, I was not only surprised by how much the material engaged and entertained me, but I could also clearly see why Tim Burton was chosen as the director. So does Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, the movie, live up to its potential? Mostly. At least enough for me to say I enjoyed it. Burton and screenwriter Jane Goldman keep the core of the story intact and bring a playful sense of (for lack of a better word) peculiarity to the proceedings, which gives the film a nice charm. It certainly feels like a Tim Burton movie, in a good way. The inherent mythology is handled well enough, and while some aspects are altered (a little unfortunate in some cases), the movie stays dark where it needs to. The first two-thirds are faithful to the book for the most part, but what threw me here was the climax. This is where the movie comes close to kind of going off the rails and feels kind of weird to me. It's kind of obvious that the Third Act is the result of studio notes, cause it's a completely different ending from the book; it's like they still wanted to leave it open for the sequels, but hedge their bets at the same time and provide some semblance of closure...for the most parts. Props to Burton and the producers for being bold enough to go off course this much, but it still left me scratching my head. Also, while this movie definitely kept me into things, the best thing about Ransom Riggs' writing and plotting in the books was that it didn't feel specifically catered to a YA crowd. There are times, though, where the movie kind of feels that way, but at least it's never overbearing. If you were at all intrigued by the previews for this film, then I'd say to give it a shot. ***/****Don't wait for a sequel. |
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Post by PhantomKnight on Nov 19, 2016 20:46:50 GMT -5
Trust me, I'm not.
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