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Robert De Niro was perfect in this. And the movie was very good.
*spoilers* *spoilers* *spoilers* The only thing I didn't understand was why Tristen left at the end to go back to Victoria just to give her a piece of the girl's hair. I mean, he already decided that he loved the star, so why leave her just to prove a point to some girl when he risks not finding her again? * * END SPOILERS
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And so the film makers could indulge in some gratuitous "Ha! She's so lame" jokes that are mostly absent from the novel. Right down to the hint that her husband-to-be is really...well, read the book and compare the movie's version.
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i'm going to see this again tonight with my mom and sister. i hope they like it as much as i did!
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I really loved it, but I felt a bit like i did with the last Pirates of the C movie: "End it already! We get it!"
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I loved the movie. It was funny and cute and nearly magical. Tristan was a-dor-able and DeNiro made me smile. I did have a "Wait, Gandalf?" moment at the very beginning of the narration, but I got over it pretty quickly.
I did, however, not need to see so many Freddie Highmore-led previews. He's a very cute kid and decent actor, and maybe he should play Ender( ), but that was an overdose.
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I saw this tonight and thought it was great. I was maybe a tiny bit lost at the beginning only because they jump into it so fast and I've never read the book. But I got into it really fast.
I liked the preview for that music movie with Kerri Russell, but jeez that little kid is in a lot of movies, does he have a childhood at all?
After seeing this and the previews for other movies, I finally broke down and spent the money to buy this book, all of His Dark Materials and all of The Dark is Rising, which I hope will keep me busy for the month of September. It's been recommended to me that I should read a lot of Neil Gaiman, which I just might do if I like the novel version of Stardust. I want to see the others before they come out as movies.
I've only recently discovered that my reading list of fantasy was woefully inadequate, and that I need to venture out from Sci-Fi a bit more.
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quote:Originally posted by Amanecer: Also, I saw it with my boyfriend and I have to say this is a great date movie. (Although probably not first or second date material.)
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Saw this on Friday with my wife, brother, and sister, we loved it! You are right that it's not very quotable, but it was just so much fun, and it seemed like alot of the humor was more visual than verbal.
Spoiler* I suppose there was a funny one liner when Michelle Pfeifer's boobs suddenly sagged after that spell, but the look on her face was almost priceless.
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We saw it for our anniversary yesterday, and we loved it. I think I loved it more than Jon Boy, but we definitely both enjoyed it. This is the first movie that I would classify as "my kind" of movie that has come out in over a year.
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I read the book last night in one sitting. It was a really really good read, though surprisingly graphic here and there. I liked a lot of the changes they made, though I agree with OSC that I don't see why they needed to add the slam bang finish at the end.
I liked the book more than the movie, but the movie was a fantastic adaptation. One of the best I have seen in a long time.
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I did really enjoy it. My annoyances with it were rather minor—Ricky Gervais and Robert De Niro, while funny, didn't quite seem to fit into the story, and I think Tristan's one-week zero-to-hero transformation was a bit much. He was always terrible at fencing class, but he spends a couple days with a pirate and becomes a champion swordsman? Um, right.
The goat man and ghost brothers were surprisingly funny, though.
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Plus, he's in a magical land! Anything can happen.
Added: I loved the movie, in case you couldn't tell. In the interests of full disclosure, though, I had a huge crush on Claire Danes as a teenager and apparently the aftereffects are still lingering. Added 2: And I've never read the book (or any Gaiman other than Neverwhere, which didn't rock my world).
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Yeah that was a bit much to take in, it made a lot more sense in the book, even with how short the book was. I don't remember specifically how long it took in the book for him to get back, but it wasn't a really long time. He used the candle to get to Yvaine, and then flew, rode, carted, and candle walked back to Wall. If it wasn't for Louisa there to talk about how much time had passed with him away, I probably wouldn't have realized he was really gone for that long.
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I had someone call me last night basically to tell me that I would I would love this movie (which I already knew, having seen it last week).
The funny thing was this person totally didn't remember me talking about how much I wanted to see it when we'd had dinner together (with family and some other folks) weeks ago. When I said, "I told you that you should see it, that I thought YOU'd like it" he insisted that I hadn't. Heh.
I'm plagued by the lingering feeling that if he had remembered my recommendation he would not have liked the movie. O_O
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In the book the pirates do train him and Yvaine during their period together. Though upon rereading it, it's specifically stated as mainly being on how to help out around the ship.
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Well, I'm dredging up an old thread. We saw it today, and we both loved it. Thought it was the best movie we'd seen in a very very long time.
One question for those of you who've read Neil Gaiman. I read American Gods, and was not at all impressed with it - I found none of the characters particularly likable. I've read reviews both positive and negative for the Stardust book, and comments saying that the book is darker, has more language, much more blood & gore, and sex scenes. The darker I can handle, but blood & gore, profanity, and sex scenes turn me off completely. I'm wondering what y'all have to say to that before I possibly buy a book I might end up hating.
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How much do they turn you off? There's profanity, gore, and sex in the book, but very little of any of the above.
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I didn't like the book nearly as much as the movie, for what it's worth. It seemed more directionless and less funny.
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I actually liked the book better. Here is why. The ending was rather a bit sweeter to me. Plus Tristan was nicer in the book than in the movie.
quote:Originally posted by quidscribis: Well, I'm dredging up an old thread. We saw it today, and we both loved it. Thought it was the best movie we'd seen in a very very long time.
One question for those of you who've read Neil Gaiman. I read American Gods, and was not at all impressed with it - I found none of the characters particularly likable. I've read reviews both positive and negative for the Stardust book, and comments saying that the book is darker, has more language, much more blood & gore, and sex scenes. The darker I can handle, but blood & gore, profanity, and sex scenes turn me off completely. I'm wondering what y'all have to say to that before I possibly buy a book I might end up hating.
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Stardust's darkness, sex, language, and gore are nothing compared to American Gods, iirc.
I *almost* put Stardust on my classroom library shelf for 7th grade. If the sex scene had happened later in the book, I would have.
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I watched this movie for the first time last night. My husband and I enjoyed it a lot, one of those movies we might buy if we see cheap enough.
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Scholar, the cheapest source for DVDs is usually Amazon.com. Right now for Stardust they are offering "65 used and new from $7.99." Wait a month or two, and it will go down to half that. I have gotten some year-old DVDs from Amazon for 99 cents. Good as new. You can also try Barnes & Noble online, but I always check Amazon first.
quidscribis, admittedly Neil Gaiman's fantasies are a bit strange, and seldom very pleasant. But there is character development, and people who seem to care about each other. It is just such a change of pace--imagine a fantasy set in the sewers under London (as in Neverwhere.) Anansi Boys was almost a breath of fresh air, even if predictable. It did range wider than most fantasies, from England to America to an island in the sea. I thought American Gods was quite original, with ancient Norse Gods squaring off against modern techno-gods cleverly invented. I thought that particular story was no more gorey or violent that Stephen King (but Stephen King is gorey and violent).
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I also watched this movie recently with my wife and enjoyed it. I hadn't recalled hearing anything about it and wondered why OSC didn't review it. Upon searching the archives, I found his review, which was rather lukewarm. That review probably made me not watch it in the theaters, which is a shame, because it was really quite good, overall....
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Watching Robert DeNiro dance the can-can dressed in a tu-tu was worth the price of admission. I just wonder how he managed to get such an excellent sound system on a pirate ship. But I guess anything is possible in a fantasy.
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Ron, thanks for the info! We'll probably be waiting a while before getting it, but it is now on the list of DVDs we want. Posts: 1001 | Registered: Mar 2006
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I appreciate the comments, everyone. If there's less gore, sex, and profanity than American Gods, then I'll probably give it a try.
Ron, I agree completely that American Gods was original - I have no complaints on that score. I also thought the writing was rather well done overall - nothing about the writing style itself took me out of the story. It's that, like I said above, I found none of the characters particularly likeable and I didn't particularly care for any of them. I just didn't care.
And yeah, I loved watching Robert DeNiro dancing in a tutu too.
Liz, if you thought it was *almost* appropriate enough for a 7th grade classroom, then it *might* be okay for me. Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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You'd probably like Anasazi boys. It has a bit of nudity in it but it's in a book, so you can't see it and he didn't cuss in it for a lot of pages. and just one time too.
quote:Originally posted by quidscribis: I appreciate the comments, everyone. If there's less gore, sex, and profanity than American Gods, then I'll probably give it a try.
Ron, I agree completely that American Gods was original - I have no complaints on that score. I also thought the writing was rather well done overall - nothing about the writing style itself took me out of the story. It's that, like I said above, I found none of the characters particularly likeable and I didn't particularly care for any of them. I just didn't care.
And yeah, I loved watching Robert DeNiro dancing in a tutu too.
Liz, if you thought it was *almost* appropriate enough for a 7th grade classroom, then it *might* be okay for me.
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