Because then you'll be forced to sit in horror as you realize how they took such a wonderful children's book and completely missed the point of it in the movie in their zeal to put in as many special effects as possible?
I've been boycotting the movie just because it looked like it was going to be so unfaithful from the ads. Wouldn't be the first time the ad campaign fucked things up. Well, maybe I'll go see it in the next few weeks and let you know whether or not it was any good.
Best of luck finding dates for it coming out in Geneva.
The screenplay was co-written by Katherine Paterson's son David, and it's actually based on the relationship between him and one of his childhood friends (down to the ending, although apparently in RL it involved lightning). I somehow doubt he'd want to fuck it up.
I understood that the Patersons and the director are distancing themselves from the advertising.
I'm going to take a completely different tack from everyone else and say it's to spare you from seeing a movie based on one of the worst books I've ever read in my life.
Like seriously, I read it in elementary school and I still feel bitterness and rage.
Fair enough. :-) I really loved the book, though. It was one of the few books that I appreciated at the elementary-school level (though I did enjoy a lot of books).
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Date: 2007-03-02 11:14 am (UTC)/bitter
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Date: 2007-03-02 12:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-02 01:34 pm (UTC)Best of luck finding dates for it coming out in Geneva.
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Date: 2007-03-02 01:57 pm (UTC)The screenplay was co-written by Katherine Paterson's son David, and it's actually based on the relationship between him and one of his childhood friends (down to the ending, although apparently in RL it involved lightning). I somehow doubt he'd want to fuck it up.
I understood that the Patersons and the director are distancing themselves from the advertising.
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Date: 2007-03-02 04:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-02 04:50 pm (UTC)Like seriously, I read it in elementary school and I still feel bitterness and rage.
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