I've read a couple of reviews saying Dev Patel is the best thing in the movie, but not enough to make it worth seeing. And that the after-the-fact 3-D was worse than Clash of the Titans.
ETA - Not Ebert on Dev Patel, though.
Two steaming cups of chocolate goodness. Courtesy of whomever I swiped it from out of the cupboard.
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Frankenbuddha - Jun 30, 2010 10:15:23 am PDT #9424 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
ehab - Jun 30, 2010 10:15:46 am PDT #9425 of 30000
...all my words have been taken by my work. - Mala
Does anyone know the backstory of how the movie rights were sold? I'm surprised that the creators of such a visually stunning tv series would have sat idly by for so much fail.
Tom Scola - Jun 30, 2010 10:17:23 am PDT #9426 of 30000
hwæt
The movie's production company is Nickelodeon.
JZ - Jun 30, 2010 10:18:22 am PDT #9427 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oh, der. How did I miss that? I must have gotten stuck on the rant about the clunky faux-medieval dialogue (how is that even possible, given the source material?), or possibly the rant about the ugly muddy visuals.
Volans - Jun 30, 2010 10:19:41 am PDT #9428 of 30000
move out and draw fire
I don't, but I suspect Nickolodeon owned them, and the creators had no agency in the deal.
If you watch the extras on the DVDs, it's clear how much thought the creators put into the look of basically each scene. The world map is beautiful, and the element symbols were perfect.
So for the movie, they made it a post-Apocalyptic Earth? And changed everything about the visuals.
Hopefully someone will make the animated movie.
§ ita § - Jun 30, 2010 10:21:18 am PDT #9429 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
they made it a post-Apocalyptic Earth?
This makes me laugh, because...they aren't Asian because it's not set on Earth, see?
ehab - Jun 30, 2010 10:22:13 am PDT #9430 of 30000
...all my words have been taken by my work. - Mala
The movie's production company is Nickelodeon.
Okay. So they probably had no say.
Hopefully someone will make the animated movie.
I hope so too!
Tom Scola - Jun 30, 2010 10:28:41 am PDT #9431 of 30000
hwæt
The AV Club gave it an F: [link]
Steph L. - Jun 30, 2010 10:48:35 am PDT #9432 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
This makes me laugh, because...they aren't Asian because it's not set on Earth, see?
It's set in Firefly-land?
Polter-Cow - Jun 30, 2010 11:24:17 am PDT #9433 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Damn, those are some pretty scathing reviews. I was hoping it would at least be cool and enjoyable as a movie, but perhaps I will not be rushing out to see it this weekend.