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[cleolinda]

Awww, Stardust ! It was really sweet and fun and funny, and although the climactic battle/struggle/whatever could have been tightened up some, and I wasn't terribly fond of the score (there's a lot of THUNDERING SUSPENSE! USUALLY ON HORSEBACK! music, some of which sounded ripped straight out of Bram Stoker's Dracula), it was a solid three stars,

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[particle_person]

Sorry, how did you see this for free, and when is the movie coming out?

[cleolinda]

Next Friday--my mother found a giant stack of free passes on the counter at the salon where she was having a manicure last week. It was totally random, and it just happened to be a movie I wanted to see.

[9_happyducks]

I got to see an advanced screening of this tonight. Let's just say I was pleasantly surprised. The trailer was totally misleading, as I thought this movie was going to be shite. At the beginning of the movie I kept leaning over to my friend, asking her if this movie was serious. We didn't know at first. By the middle of the film we had fallen in love with the movie. We're definitely going to see it again when it hits theatres.

[cleolinda]

I actually never bothered watching the trailer at all--I'd seen stills, they looked pretty good, there we go. But Neil Gaiman was saying on his blog that the marketing people, well-meaning as they might be, didn't seem to know what to do with it, so I figured a trailer would be pretty worthless.

[wicked_goddess]

Stardust is one of my favorite boos,and I had the pleasure of seeing the film at Comic Con. I absolutely loved it! One of the best book to film adaptions I have ever seen. Yeah there's stuff missing that I, well, missed, but on a whole I really adored the movie.

[wicked_goddess]

Err...it's one of my favorite booKs.

[cleolinda]

What I thought was interesting was that there were a lot of *additions,* probably to give the movie some more movement and action (although, I guess on the balance, the additions were there to make up for the missing parts). I actually really liked the idea of the Babylon candle, because it got things moving quickly and established Tristan's mother as someone who cared about him, which I liked a lot more than the way she was in the book.

[laughingacademy]

Aww, I shall miss the Best and Tiniest Part, but I am so looking forward to this movie! Especially if there is a kickass swordfight, which is one of the few things missing from the excellent book.

[cattikins]

GRRRWANTWANTWANTSOJEALOUS

[cleolinda]

It comes out next Friday! You don't have so long to wait! JUST DON'T REREAD THE BOOK WHATEVER YOU DO.