Awesome. What a way to turn an interesting story into a crappy blockbuster.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
Wicked cool. Doesn't look like it has anything to do with the walking brooms and pails of water other than the name.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
If you watch closely, there IS a scene with the brooms and water.
And I think it looks pretty neat. I mean, what do you really have to work with, plot wise, from the actual source material? Pretty much the same thing Disney had to work with when making Pirates of the Caribbean, and that worked out just fine.
Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
Well, that should keep some CGI people in Coke and ramen noodles for a few decades.
Seriously, it's awfully pretty. But I'm trying to think of a movie in the last decade that had a "wise-cracking-young-male-sidekick-progressing-towards-hero" that I didn't want to slap vigorously.
Posted by daventor (Member # 11981) on :
Yeah, Sterling, that's pretty much my feelings. The visuals are WONDERFUL; very imaginative. And unlike a lot of people, I really don't have any problems with Nicholas Cage as an actor. But, yeah, in just those few moments in the trailer the callow youth protagonist already severely annoyed me. Maybe the moments in the trailer just aren't his best work or work better in context. But me wanting to slap the main character in a movie just while watching the trailer is not a good sign.
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
Ohhh Alfred Molina is in it. I think this movie could actually be kinda fun. I do wish the apprentice didn't also have to be in essence the laugh track in that he has to spell out to the audience how they should be feeling.
"WOW!" "AWESOME!" "THAT IS SO WICKED SICK!"
Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
Meh. I'll wait for Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.
Posted by C3PO the Dragon Slayer (Member # 10416) on :
Was anyone else seriously annoyed by the theme music?
The visuals were awesome, but I can't get over that theme they kept repeating.