Bridge to Terabithia

[pasithea]

I'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.

Comments

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

I think reading Bridge to Terabithia was the first time in my young life I had cried reading a book. The trailers I've seen have made me horribly upset, as they make it seem like a Narnia clone about the adventures of some children in an epically sized fantasy world.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I had the same reaction to the trailers.

Having now watched it, I can say for certain that the CG bits are only a tiny part of the movie. The trailer is about half the total CG stuff in the film.

It was good. By the end of the film there was barely a dry eye in the theater.

A LOT of people had brought 3-5 year olds to the movie though, so you might want to wait until a later showing in a week or two when the soccer moms have gotten word to their herds that it's not a kiddie film.

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

Whenever a child cries, my heart grows another size. <3 <3

Ironic icon use given all the fighting in LotR but hey

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

The phrase "without the war" makes me go yay. :} Seriously, fight scenes and battle scenes? They do nothing for me. Two guys get angry and start hurting each other with their fists? Or some general stands beside his army, thrusts his sword towards the other army and shouts "charge" or "to arms" or whatever? Yawn, wake me when the violence is over and just tell me who won, okay?

[doctorpinkerton.livejournal.com]

OK, so you're saying I should see this film INSTEAD of 'Ghost Rider'?

[zeeth_kyrah]

Why not at the same time? Just in case one of them starts to make you feel something non-commercial.