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Bridge to Terabithia
Feb. 18th, 2007 01:37 pmI've had deep fears about how bad disney would fuck up this film but a trip to RottenTomatoes.com revealed a pleasant surprise.
The movie is about real life and deeply depressing!
Reading a review: http://www.cinemablend.com/reviews/Bridge-to-Terabithia-2097.html
The writer suggests the film is almost nothing I feared and everything I didn't even really dare dream it might be. This story meant a lot to me when I was young, it was one of those that ran very parallel to my life.
Two things about this review that really help. She mentions the directory is Csupo... Known, of course, for Rugrats, which is crap, but less known for really good stuff like Hen, His Wife. In fact, Rugrats was his deal with the devil. From what I've heard, as part of his contract for Rugrats, he has a deal which gives him a budget to do whatever the Hell he wants. IE depressing, head-hurting eastern-european animation.
The second thing that gives me confidence in this review is the comments. There are two camps. The people who, as me, feared they'd screw up the book and were pleasantly surprised, and the DEEPLY UPSET vapid consumers who went in expected a crap-ass eyecandy movie and instead got hit with some nice brutal reality and it made them cry and that made them angry. POOR BABIES. Life sucks. Learn to deal with it. That's what this story is ABOUT.
Also, one of the offended commenters reveals a slight spoiler; the original end of the story is kept intact. It's been described as 'Pan's Labyrinth' without the war.... Exactly as it should be.
So, moving this from my 'must avoid at all costs' list (thanks to the trailers) to my 'must see' list.
The movie is about real life and deeply depressing!
Reading a review: http://www.cinemablend.com/reviews/Bridge-to-Terabithia-2097.html
The writer suggests the film is almost nothing I feared and everything I didn't even really dare dream it might be. This story meant a lot to me when I was young, it was one of those that ran very parallel to my life.
Two things about this review that really help. She mentions the directory is Csupo... Known, of course, for Rugrats, which is crap, but less known for really good stuff like Hen, His Wife. In fact, Rugrats was his deal with the devil. From what I've heard, as part of his contract for Rugrats, he has a deal which gives him a budget to do whatever the Hell he wants. IE depressing, head-hurting eastern-european animation.
The second thing that gives me confidence in this review is the comments. There are two camps. The people who, as me, feared they'd screw up the book and were pleasantly surprised, and the DEEPLY UPSET vapid consumers who went in expected a crap-ass eyecandy movie and instead got hit with some nice brutal reality and it made them cry and that made them angry. POOR BABIES. Life sucks. Learn to deal with it. That's what this story is ABOUT.
Also, one of the offended commenters reveals a slight spoiler; the original end of the story is kept intact. It's been described as 'Pan's Labyrinth' without the war.... Exactly as it should be.
So, moving this from my 'must avoid at all costs' list (thanks to the trailers) to my 'must see' list.
