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I really liked Stardust. I would use the words "unabashedly fantastical" to describe it. That's my quote! Use it in the ads!
Of course, I told a friend of mine about it, and when she heard about all the things they changed, she was fuming. So what do I know.
Eliza Dushku is going to be in a movie with Bill Pullman and Alan Rickman!
The Wolverine movie gets a director and it's Gavin Hood who won the 2005 foreign language Oscar Tsotsi.
Wolverine movie
I really, really want to start a body count pool.
Can we have a secondary pool for how many times Logan "dies" and then revives due to his power?
I really enjoyed Stardust also. And, like PC, I had not read the book, so that is based purely on the flick.
Juliana, the costuming thing we noticed does carry through on all the brothers. Now I want to see it again so I can look for other cool details.
that review is a thing of beauty.
That's so weird. My computer hung on that post for so long that I stopped it and re-posted only to discover that it had posted the first time!
Juliana, the costuming thing we noticed does carry through on all the brothers.
Schweet. You know, I think I did notice it on Primus, but the rest of them sort of faded for me.
Anyhoo. As someone who has read the book, I still enjoyed Stardust. As always, it helps if you go into it without the book in your head. And now, we go to whitefont:
For me, the book is much like Gulliver's Travels, with a side of Hero and Heroine Finding Themselves And Gradually Falling In Love. It's more brooding and melancholy and about family as much as it is about love. The movie naturally has to compress storylines, so Septimus/Primus is more secondary, and the Witches are brought forward to the point of having the final confrontation at their home (which kind of looked like it was in the crater of a starfall), but DeNiro and the airship took up a lot more time than they absolutely had to, and GOD it bugged me what they did to Una (Tristan's mother). She's a bloody Princess, and part of a bloodline that's known for its ruthlessness. She was the weakest part of the adaptation, by far.
In short, the director owes a lot to Terry Gilliam. But I think they did a good job of conveying the wild fantasticalness of Stormhold.