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Has anyone else seen the trailer for The Last Mimzy? I saw it the other night, and halfway through the commercial, I thought, "This sounds so much like 'Mimsy Were The Borogoves'", which was a story by Lewis Padgett. And seeing as everything by Lewis Padgett is absolutely terrific, I got even more excited when I saw the name of the film (though why they're spelling Mimsy with a "z" is beyond me).
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Of course, Lewis Padgett was really the husband and wife writing team of C. L. Moore and Henry Cuttner. But I agree, their work together was fantastically good.
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I saw it in the theater last night when we went to see Wild Hogs......it looks terrific, and JenniK and I both want to see it. Posts: 15082 | Registered: Jul 2001
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You've probably already seen the trailer. But you might not have seen theseclips.
The more I see, the more I want to see. The kids seem like pretty decent actors, and the special effects are stunning.
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Truthfully, I'm not too terribly interested in this movie. At least, I won't pay to see it in the theater. Sounds like a rental to me. The premise looks intriguing. But I'm a tight budget. However, I did see 300.
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I just saw the trailer for this while watching Galactica, and I started muttering to myself about how it reminded me of this short story I read once... :0)
Nice to know they've turn "Mimsy Were The Borogoves" into a decent-looking movie. I plan on seeing it, if I can convince my wife.
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Thanks for the clips riv, this is near the top of my "must see" list for the year.
I've heard it described as a children's Donnie Darko, though the trailers don't seem to back that claim up. Either way the actors look good, and the graphics look flawless, to say nothing of the fact that it just looks darn interesting.
My best friend who works at a movie theater got my a Last Mimzy pin from work. I wish I had the big movie poster to go with it.
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I'm sure it's not an exact adaptation, both because I saw the trailer, and it isn't, and because the story as written isn't enough for a feature film.
But it looks like it's going to be awesome!
Now if we can only get them to do some Galloway Gallegher stories.
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It was okay. I'm not sure why the toys couldn't have just told the kids up front what the toys needed. That wouldn't have ended the movie abruptly, because the kids would still have had to decide whether to listen to the toys. In fact, the toys seemed to achieve their mission by accident.
Also, some of the scenes involving the girl and the rabbit doll felt (unintentionally, I'm sure) like something out of a "Chucky"-type movie. "You're making Mimzy SAD!!" yells the girl. I don't think that line was in the movie, but it could have been.
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I just rented this off of Netflix. I thought it was sweet, although I think it would've been much cooler if they been a little more concrete about some of the science (more like pseudo-science) of the movie. I didn't mind that it wasn't directly adapted from the short story because the stakes there are, i think, a little difficult to translate to the big screen. How do you "show" how the mathematics are completely different than our own Euclidian? it's something that works in the story as a concept but I don't know how it could be visualized.
Anyhow, i enjoyed it. a lot different than i was expecting and i thought it had some great moments.
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Funny, I just saw it last week. I enjoyed it. It seemed very E.T.-ish to me: the ten-year-old kid protagonist, the cute little sister, the authority figures coming into the house and imprisoning the family, the kids driving the van to save the day, the sweet "good-bye, I'll miss you" scene at the end with the parents and authority figures looking on.
When I saw E.T. I identified with the kids ... this time I identified with the parents, especially when the Homeland Security guys came in and took them away. That was the scariest part of the movie - "I have probable cause. I don't need a warrant."
It was not a fantastic movie, but it was a very enjoyable one.
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I loved it, and it could make a terrific Doctor Who episode as well.
I think it would have been awesome for the kids to retain the intelligence they were given if not that I can't think of any worse fate.
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