Postby dolfan » October 20th, 2009, 8:52 am
I wondered last week, "How good can this movie actually be as a kid's movie if all of these movie critics are going on and on and on about how great it is?"
My daughter has expressed absolutely zero interest in seeing it although she's seen the commercials many times in the last week. If she wants to see a movie, she will let us know. We're not big movie-goers, though.
Trailers or commercials she has reacted to include Bolt (she saw it on DVD), Up, Hotel for Dogs (got the DVD), Underdog (we watched part on TV), Enchanted (went to see it and got the DVD), Ice Age 3D (went to see it) and others .... but not this one.
How can you take such a short story and expand it to a 100 minute or whatever movie and have it be faithful to the story beyond wonderful cinematography and costumes. It may be a technically superior film, but I'll bet mainly much older kids and adults will respond well to it on the whole.
Human government bears the same relation to hell as the church bears to heaven. (David Lipscomb, On Civil Government, 72).