Date: Monday, 6 August 2007 07:14 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I had, apparently, core-dumped the fact that they were making this movie, for my own sanity.

Now, I know that a movie that doesn't follow a book doesn't hurt the book at all. The book still exists. We can curl up in bed with it and go right back to the story we love. But when you love a book, you desperately want the movie to be good, to be faithful. I was terrified walking into The Fellowship of the Ring. I still have issue with one scene, although I can mostly block it out--but otherwise, they exceeded my expectations.

OTOH, The Princess Bride was also a seminal book for me, and when I saw the movie the first time, I was devastated. They missed the whole point. I just saw it again, for the first time since it came out, on the big screen, and I was able to sit back and watch it as a fantasy movie, distancing myself from the book. It went okay. As a movie, there are great things and awful things, but it was a fun way to spend a few hours.

I don't know if I can do that with The Dark is Rising, though... :-(
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