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movie non-review
Oct. 3rd, 2007 09:27 pm"The Seeker" opens this weekend. Don't Go. Please.
I loved The Dark Is Rising series when I was a kid and I still do. I have the SFBC omnibus edition and still read it once a year or so. When I first started playing D&D, the Quest for The Six Signs was the basis for my first original "dungeon" - a thing of wonder and detailed beauty and probably totally unplayable, but I loved making it"> I can still recite the poem from memory. It is second only to LOTR in feeding my sense of wonder and magic.
Apparently, Hollywood has anally raped my childhood.
EVERYTHING I have heard about this movie is awful. Apparently from the interviews none of the stars have even READ the books. Ian McShane who plays Merriman said "I don't think they've been very faithful to the book. I don't know how many of you've read the book. I know they sold a few copies, but I couldn't read it very well. It's really dense. It's from the 70s, you know? [...] No, I never heard of them . I did try to read the book, but they were a little...I think...I don't know how...There's four of them apparently. Or five. Oh, god. That means I might have to do a sequel."
I just threw up a little.
Will is an American, the Rider has a white horse and the Walker is young. Miss Greystone fights with a sword caner.. There are "No Arthurian elements" in the story any more. Will has a dysfunctional family and a twin held by the Dark. Max is a tattooed hippie. In short, the only things this story has in common with the books is some names and words. Here is a detailed list of the changes we know about so far, many are thigns I consider CRUCIAL to the stories.
Now I understand that directors make changes when adapting a movie for film. That's why it's called an "adaptation". Films were made of two other wonderful works from my childhood - The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and LOTR. Both had changes made, some of which I can argue for or against but ultimatly the final work is faithful to the spirit of the original.
That's not what is going on here.
The commercials look awful. The reviews are terrible. I know of some people who are going opening weekend to sit outside the movie theatres and READ THE BOOKS.
If you MUST go see it because it has Christopher Eccleston in is, I beg you to wait a week. Seven days isn't so bad, is it? The Hollywood establishment sets such store by opening weekend box office numbers that it will probably ignore you if you wait. Or even better - get it from Netflix in a few months.
Me? I'll be reading.
I loved The Dark Is Rising series when I was a kid and I still do. I have the SFBC omnibus edition and still read it once a year or so. When I first started playing D&D, the Quest for The Six Signs was the basis for my first original "dungeon" - a thing of wonder and detailed beauty and probably totally unplayable, but I loved making it"> I can still recite the poem from memory. It is second only to LOTR in feeding my sense of wonder and magic.
Apparently, Hollywood has anally raped my childhood.
EVERYTHING I have heard about this movie is awful. Apparently from the interviews none of the stars have even READ the books. Ian McShane who plays Merriman said "I don't think they've been very faithful to the book. I don't know how many of you've read the book. I know they sold a few copies, but I couldn't read it very well. It's really dense. It's from the 70s, you know? [...] No, I never heard of them . I did try to read the book, but they were a little...I think...I don't know how...There's four of them apparently. Or five. Oh, god. That means I might have to do a sequel."
I just threw up a little.
Will is an American, the Rider has a white horse and the Walker is young. Miss Greystone fights with a sword caner.. There are "No Arthurian elements" in the story any more. Will has a dysfunctional family and a twin held by the Dark. Max is a tattooed hippie. In short, the only things this story has in common with the books is some names and words. Here is a detailed list of the changes we know about so far, many are thigns I consider CRUCIAL to the stories.
Now I understand that directors make changes when adapting a movie for film. That's why it's called an "adaptation". Films were made of two other wonderful works from my childhood - The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and LOTR. Both had changes made, some of which I can argue for or against but ultimatly the final work is faithful to the spirit of the original.
That's not what is going on here.
The commercials look awful. The reviews are terrible. I know of some people who are going opening weekend to sit outside the movie theatres and READ THE BOOKS.
If you MUST go see it because it has Christopher Eccleston in is, I beg you to wait a week. Seven days isn't so bad, is it? The Hollywood establishment sets such store by opening weekend box office numbers that it will probably ignore you if you wait. Or even better - get it from Netflix in a few months.
Me? I'll be reading.
