Beth Carey
10-05-2007, 02:46 PM
I respect your thoughts on why you do not hate this movie. However, I cannot agree with you. This should have never been a "Harry Potter" ripoff. Yes, the comparisons are inevitable. Yet, this book and the series it came from, have been delighting and inspiring people of all ages and nationalities long before Harry Potter came out.
Yes, I realize there are some things which must be changed in the name of creativity and when bringing a book to the screen and vice versa. Yet the need to butcher it in order to reach their idea of the perfect target audience and insult us and our children by thinking we are all too dumb to handle a British character in Britain, is just pathetic. Forget the toy buy ins and your "understanding" of what makes our children who they are (which most of the kids I know are not mindless sheep... how about you?)
This has been slashed and bashed and molded into something that is a parody of the original. Gone are the Arthurian roots which hold the series together, gone are the characters we know and love or love to hate from the books. In fact, gone is the loving boisterous family which has been replaced by what can only be called a true dysfunctional nobody loves and notices Will one.
It's a sad, sad day when you're suppose to be excited about some special effects and the possible toys coming instead of having a true timeless movie to live up to the book itself. Perhaps they should have asked Susan Cooper, whom they pretty much ignored. Perhaps they should have read the books (and not waited to read only this one as they were in the middle of filming it). Perhaps, they should have asked some real children if they could be as excited about a movie full of British people before deciding they were just anti-everything but American dunces.
I hope this series goes no further. Love some of the actors in it, but most of them were wrong to start with. Too bad. It's a sad day indeed.
Yes, I realize there are some things which must be changed in the name of creativity and when bringing a book to the screen and vice versa. Yet the need to butcher it in order to reach their idea of the perfect target audience and insult us and our children by thinking we are all too dumb to handle a British character in Britain, is just pathetic. Forget the toy buy ins and your "understanding" of what makes our children who they are (which most of the kids I know are not mindless sheep... how about you?)
This has been slashed and bashed and molded into something that is a parody of the original. Gone are the Arthurian roots which hold the series together, gone are the characters we know and love or love to hate from the books. In fact, gone is the loving boisterous family which has been replaced by what can only be called a true dysfunctional nobody loves and notices Will one.
It's a sad, sad day when you're suppose to be excited about some special effects and the possible toys coming instead of having a true timeless movie to live up to the book itself. Perhaps they should have asked Susan Cooper, whom they pretty much ignored. Perhaps they should have read the books (and not waited to read only this one as they were in the middle of filming it). Perhaps, they should have asked some real children if they could be as excited about a movie full of British people before deciding they were just anti-everything but American dunces.
I hope this series goes no further. Love some of the actors in it, but most of them were wrong to start with. Too bad. It's a sad day indeed.