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I saw Howl's Moving Castle last night. It was good but my top 3 Miyazaki films remain unchanged:
1.
Spirited Away
2.
Princess Mononoke
3.
My Neighbor Totoro
They made quite a few changes to the book as would be expected to make it fit in the timeframe of a movie but in some cases, it felt disjointed. Howl is very pretty.
What's the pre-buzz about FF? I have to admit -- the billboard I've seen (the one with a 4 in flames in the sky) looked like pre-teen and Photoshop. I saw the trailer before Mr & Mrs Smith -- Dr Doom looks engaging, as does Johnny Storm, but the rest of it looks kinda flat. I'm not sure what the primary conflict is going to be. With whom, sure, but not what. I'd rather the what (like in Batman Begins, where it's about reclaiming Gotham from ... some bad guys), but that might just be me. And I still think that, although a fine actor, Gruffud was a bad choice.
I remain skeptical about him as well, ita. Though I think Chickliss and Evans are perfectly cast. Months ago they were saying much of the conflict was between the Four themselves trying to deal with their new powers, rather than just a big fight with Doctor Doom . No telling if that's still the case, though.
ita, they are pimping FF on Nickelodeon A.LOT. Mostly the premise they are pushing is the one Matt stated. That's all I get from the roughly 1,000 ads I saw for it this weekend alone. We got a trailer for it when we saw RotS, and it emphasizing the same.
Blah.
I'll see it anyway, not least of all because I don't trust the trailer-makers, but blah.
That's also the impression I've been getting from the trailers, and I think it still sounds cool. It fits in with the comics I'm reading with the more modern, psychological take on superheroes.
I saw Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants yesterday and loved it quite a bit. Cried quite a bit, too. I definitely wouldn't mind if they made a second movie from the second book.
I think I read that they are planning to.
Two disturbing imdb discoveries:
1) They're making a movie(!) out of the Celestine Prophesy.
2) They've made a 4th installment (which others here have probably already discussed) of my beloved Prophesy series with no Walken and yes Jason Scott Lee.
Not that I'm opposed to JSL in particular, but Dracula II proved his bad luck with sequels of any sort.
"They" are giving me a headache.
Prophecy without Chris Walken is just so wrong, so horribly wrong on so many levels. I will probably see it anyway, but I will do so under protest and with lots of bitching and moaning.