'Conviction (1)'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Jilli, given the chapter title, I would imagine your whitefont would be in the next movie. That would be a good focus for the 2nd movie.
Thank you. I couldn't remember what happened in which chapters. The StuntHusband is going to the midnight showing, so he'll be able to let me know, too.
Specifically, you will want to shield your eyes when Radagast is medicating the hedgehog.
(Whitefont is mildly spoilery for the movie but is not a scene that exists in the book.)
Thank you, Jessica.
What's the 6 and/or 9 year old rating? How tense are the scary bits?
I'd say fine for a 9 year-old but probably too intense for 6. (There's nothing in here to match the emotional intensity of RotK, but the orcs and goblins are legitimately scary.)
The movie does cut down significantly on the number of dead ponies as compared to the book, so that's something.
I think a 6 year-old could probably handle this fine on DVD (if they're used to "grown-up" movies in general) but not in theaters.
Oh, and wargs. Any kids who are even a little bit afraid of dogs should not see this movie.
Thanks. Looking I see it is PG-13, and at 3 hours, I am tending to no for both of them. Casper is more sensitive to scary stuff than Dillo, and the only non-kids movies they've seen (all on DVD) are Galaxy Quest, the original Star Wars Trilogy, The Three Musketeers (with Gene Kelly!), and Ghostbusters.
The hard part will be dealing with the Tantrums of Disappointment.
Aaand Dillo is afraid of dogs.
Yeah, I'd wait for DVD - if nothing else, it is REALLY long and on DVD you can pause for bathroom breaks.
I'm sort of annoyed that Jackson has taken a children's book - Dillo happily listened to The Hobbit read aloud at age 4 - and turned it into movies that are not appropriate for children.
(Not nearly as annoyed as at the excuse for a human being who took the lovely book Mr. Popper's Penguins and turned it into a movie starring Jim Carrey that had no resemblance to the book except that there was a character named Mr. Popper and some penguins, though.)