mufi and I just got back from catching it at the IMAX here in Seattle, and the post-showing crowd (both our showing and the one before) was pretty enthused, all told. (This is "pretty enthused" at about the 70% didn't-hate-it level, and maybe a 10% that-was-awesome mix-in, with that remaining 20% pretty firmly in the WTF Mate?! camp.) I didn't overhear any screeds about The Source Material on my way in or out, at least
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Peter saw the film tonight with a date and they both liked it--naturally things could have been better in some indefinable sense, but it was good.
I hope to see the movie in some time and I'm sure I'll enjoy it. Personally, I've read the book twice. My biggest fear about the movie was a kind of whitewashing that seemed to happen to both From Hell and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. That seemed to be everyone's biggest fear--in particular that they would take away the dismal unsettling ending. From what I've heard so far that doesn't happen and that pleases me.
What I'm curious about from your statements is that apparently the people that had never read the book and those who read it multiple times both had the same criticisms of the film? Or was it just a dismissive "didn't like it"?
Heard a review on NPR. The critic (who also writes for the... LA Times?) called it "pedestrian," saying that while it was faithful to the comic, it really should never have been made into a movie in the first place - the plot density of the story, he claims, doesn't translate well to cinema, because film doesn't have enough time to explore it sufficiently. (He was clearly a fan of the graphic novel.) This in no way has put me off of seeing the movie - if anything, it has piqued my curiosity further.
As for going to see things because you *KNOW* they're going to be offal, I can remember doing that once: Hulk. And that was mostly for Sam's reactions.
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I hope to see the movie in some time and I'm sure I'll enjoy it. Personally, I've read the book twice. My biggest fear about the movie was a kind of whitewashing that seemed to happen to both From Hell and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. That seemed to be everyone's biggest fear--in particular that they would take away the dismal unsettling ending. From what I've heard so far that doesn't happen and that pleases me.
What I'm curious about from your statements is that apparently the people that had never read the book and those who read it multiple times both had the same criticisms of the film? Or was it just a dismissive "didn't like it"?
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As for going to see things because you *KNOW* they're going to be offal, I can remember doing that once: Hulk. And that was mostly for Sam's reactions.
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