Disney's A Wrinkle In Time (2018, D: Ava DuVernay)
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Oh sure, that can be true. But if the general public clicks on RT site and sees that the movie has the big green "Rotten" logo plastered all over, to them it's just a "bad" movie and may pass on seeing it. They aren't going to analyze each review and say "Oh but this one was a 2.5, this one was a 2, this one was a 1.5..."
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Right, which is why this movie is lucky that it's aimed toward the tween audience that is less likely to care.
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I don't know what the big deal is about this movie.
It looks boring and stupid.
It looks boring and stupid.
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No it is not lol
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I loved the book as a pre-teen. But when I read it again forty years later, I saw its substructure.
It's a story about a girl who's smarter than the other children, who has a loving mother and lives in a wonderful home, who meets a boy and they instantly fall in love and support each other for the rest of their lives, who goes on an adventure to rescue her father when everyone else has given him up. She is given supernatural help, but she has the personal strength her to rescue her father herself. The great evil is conformity, it's the local manifestation of a spreading galactic evil, and the supernatural helpers are suspiciously like angels.
It didn't work for me anymore.
It's a story about a girl who's smarter than the other children, who has a loving mother and lives in a wonderful home, who meets a boy and they instantly fall in love and support each other for the rest of their lives, who goes on an adventure to rescue her father when everyone else has given him up. She is given supernatural help, but she has the personal strength her to rescue her father herself. The great evil is conformity, it's the local manifestation of a spreading galactic evil, and the supernatural helpers are suspiciously like angels.
It didn't work for me anymore.
And the commercials make the movie look awful.
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I watched this tonight with the kids. It was not very good. Visually it was interesting and had a couple of cool effects (especially a group of flowers actually). The story was confusing and unsatisfying. The ads make it seem like the trifecta of female stars will be carrying the movie, but most of the heavy lifting is done by the kids. Storm Reid, the gal who plays Meg, is very good indeed and should get lots of work after this. The young boy who plays Charles Wallace (and yes, they call him that over and over again. It's like Chris R. in The Room - way too specific a way to address the guy standing right in front of you) is asked to do way too much in the final act and it's not fair to expect that of such a young actor -- he's not nearly as bad as Jake Lloyd in The Phantom Menace, but I was beginning to get that sort of a vibe late in the picture. He really wears out his welcome and the movie really drags in the final 30-40% after the ladies leave. My 11 yr old boy who just read the book liked the movie though he had plenty of suggestions of things that were left out that should have been in. His version of the movie would probably be 4 hrs long. My 16 year old daughter and I were both checking our watch an awful lot in the second half. We'd be fine with waiting a long, long time before we ever watched this one again.
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Mostly negative reviews, but the nicest negative reviews I can recall seeing. Many of them were trying to hype 'the message and diversity' of the film, as if those intentions were more important than the film itself.
This was also the priority of the director (I've only ever heard her talk about this being a diverse, message driven film) and it sounds like she forgot to focus on making a good film first. I've read from reviews that their are basic film school level of mistakes in the film - characters over explaining things, missing motivations and a hard to follow narrative.
And they did purposefully scrub out all of the religious references...the writer made some pandering comments about how the author's Episcopalian faith was "her truth" and society has moved on, etc. Big turnoff for me. I'm not actively rooting for the film to fail, but I'm hoping this keeps the director from handling larger projects for awhile.
This was also the priority of the director (I've only ever heard her talk about this being a diverse, message driven film) and it sounds like she forgot to focus on making a good film first. I've read from reviews that their are basic film school level of mistakes in the film - characters over explaining things, missing motivations and a hard to follow narrative.
And they did purposefully scrub out all of the religious references...the writer made some pandering comments about how the author's Episcopalian faith was "her truth" and society has moved on, etc. Big turnoff for me. I'm not actively rooting for the film to fail, but I'm hoping this keeps the director from handling larger projects for awhile.
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Saw this today.
Very "meh". Cool costumes, cool hairstyling, cool effects/scenery.
Not great, not horrible, as a film. It did have good 'feels' so that was good, but somewhat forgettable as a standalone work. I definitely felt it was a Message first and a Movie second.
I think it needed some more time - a two part miniseries, or a three episode show on HBO, could have been great.
Very "meh". Cool costumes, cool hairstyling, cool effects/scenery.
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Not great, not horrible, as a film. It did have good 'feels' so that was good, but somewhat forgettable as a standalone work. I definitely felt it was a Message first and a Movie second.
I think it needed some more time - a two part miniseries, or a three episode show on HBO, could have been great.
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I'm guessing that the preview audience for WRINKLE that Jimmy Kimmel and his celeb guests barged in on at the Oscars a week ago didn't mind the interruption after all.
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My 10 year old daughter read the book back in September. She was ecstatic when she saw the trailer before Last Jedi, but this weekend she had no interest. It was a rainy weekend. We said we'd take her, but she picked staying home and playing with toys. Something about the marketing turned her off I guess.
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I loved the book as a pre-teen. But when I read it again forty years later, I saw its substructure.
It's a story about a girl who's smarter than the other children, who has a loving mother and lives in a wonderful home, who meets a boy and they instantly fall in love and support each other for the rest of their lives, who goes on an adventure to rescue her father when everyone else has given him up. She is given supernatural help, but she has the personal strength her to rescue her father herself. The great evil is conformity, it's the local manifestation of a spreading galactic evil, and the supernatural helpers are suspiciously like angels.
It didn't work for me anymore.
Still, the children bouncing their balls is one of the great images of children's literature. It's still creepy today.
It's a story about a girl who's smarter than the other children, who has a loving mother and lives in a wonderful home, who meets a boy and they instantly fall in love and support each other for the rest of their lives, who goes on an adventure to rescue her father when everyone else has given him up. She is given supernatural help, but she has the personal strength her to rescue her father herself. The great evil is conformity, it's the local manifestation of a spreading galactic evil, and the supernatural helpers are suspiciously like angels.
It didn't work for me anymore.
Still, the children bouncing their balls is one of the great images of children's literature. It's still creepy today.
For those who loved the book (I'm sure there are some here), please explain why? I thought the writing was terrible, she couldn't come up with a better name for the bad guy than "IT"? And the three good helper characters were "Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Which, and Mrs. I fucking can't remember the third"? And she makes them totally ephemeral and barely existing in tangible form, which allows her to basically not have to describe them or have them do virtually anything but talk? I just thought it was drab writing, without a truly compelling story to make up for it.
Unfortunately, even though my 7 year old did not like it either, she is suddenly excited to see the movie (she loves anything on screen, especially if she has read the book).
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Even though I was a voracious sci fi reader as a kid, somehow I never read this book. But recently read it to my 7 year old, and thought it sucked, and I don't understand why it is so popular. Though I do agree about the bouncing balls scene.
For those who loved the book (I'm sure there are some here), please explain why? I thought the writing was terrible, she couldn't come up with a better name for the bad guy than "IT"? And the three good helper characters were "Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Which, and Mrs. I fucking can't remember the third"? And she makes them totally ephemeral and barely existing in tangible form, which allows her to basically not have to describe them or have them do virtually anything but talk? I just thought it was drab writing, without a truly compelling story to make up for it.
Unfortunately, even though my 7 year old did not like it either, she is suddenly excited to see the movie (she loves anything on screen, especially if she has read the book).
For those who loved the book (I'm sure there are some here), please explain why? I thought the writing was terrible, she couldn't come up with a better name for the bad guy than "IT"? And the three good helper characters were "Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Which, and Mrs. I fucking can't remember the third"? And she makes them totally ephemeral and barely existing in tangible form, which allows her to basically not have to describe them or have them do virtually anything but talk? I just thought it was drab writing, without a truly compelling story to make up for it.
Unfortunately, even though my 7 year old did not like it either, she is suddenly excited to see the movie (she loves anything on screen, especially if she has read the book).
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I cannot even work up the energy to go see this. Thankfully, Tomb Raider comes out this week.
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Wow, what a stinkeroo. One of the worst movies compared to its hype and budget I can recall. I had to force myself to finish. Some pretty good visuals is about the highest praise I can give it. Story stuck, casting stunk, acting stunk, just a waste of time in my opinion. I feel bad for the people who made it because i am sure they wanted to make a good film but man they did not.
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This is almost as bad as Disney's last attempt at adapting this book.
Surprised Disney was allowed to try a second time...
It saddening cause I actually had hope this time would be different and that we would finally see the other 4 books get movie treatment, but that seems unlikely now.
Surprised Disney was allowed to try a second time...
It saddening cause I actually had hope this time would be different and that we would finally see the other 4 books get movie treatment, but that seems unlikely now.
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This thing was a real chore to get through. Huge misfire from Disney. Some good visuals, but that's about it. Even the kids were bored and restless through it.
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Just caught this. Wow, this was one of the worst movies I've seen in recent memory. There was absolutely no point to it. There are entire scenes that happen like with those flowers that happen for absolutely no reason at all. That scene goes one for about 15 minutes and at the end of it they are literally in the same spot they were at the beginning of the scene. The plot was so vapid and entirely pointless. The "bad guy" was very anticlimactic and pointless and non threatening. The scene with the bouncing ball and kids was visually interesting but again had no point whatsoever. This movie was just so bad on so many levels. I've seen 30 second commercials that tell a more compelling and complete story than this did. The only saving grace is that at least it was short.
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Add me in with the voices who didn't like this movie. Boring, plodding, exceptionally drawn-out and ultimately useless scenes that go nowhere, and the turning of the child seemed completely random.