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Friday Double Feature.
Just home from taking in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and Tron: Legacy back-to-back. I'm sure many people will be going to see either or both of these films soon, so I'll keep my remarks short and spoiler-free.
Dawn Treader was magnificent. The scriptwriters, in their effort to create a more cinematic and cohesive story, managed to craft an even more CS Lewisian tale than CS Lewis originally did, I dare say. The film was breathtakingly beautiful and fluid, and it adhered cleanly to the heart of the book while managing to become something greater. I really hope the film does well and they keep making them. I continue to dream that someone may yet undertake an adaptation of The Last Battle and the much-needed reevaluation of "the problem of Susan." Fingers crossed!
Tron was a very good movie, and I think I need hardly point out that everyone should experience the Tron universe as imagined with 2010 special effects. The filmmakers did an exquisite job of rending the Grid in all its sublime, linear grace. Too bad they didn't devote half as much time to the script. The story was perfectly adequate to the task of visual stimulation, but the wonderful acting of Jeff Bridges made it clear that the film could easily have been a masterpiece if they'd wanted it to be.
Dawn Treader was magnificent. The scriptwriters, in their effort to create a more cinematic and cohesive story, managed to craft an even more CS Lewisian tale than CS Lewis originally did, I dare say. The film was breathtakingly beautiful and fluid, and it adhered cleanly to the heart of the book while managing to become something greater. I really hope the film does well and they keep making them. I continue to dream that someone may yet undertake an adaptation of The Last Battle and the much-needed reevaluation of "the problem of Susan." Fingers crossed!
Tron was a very good movie, and I think I need hardly point out that everyone should experience the Tron universe as imagined with 2010 special effects. The filmmakers did an exquisite job of rending the Grid in all its sublime, linear grace. Too bad they didn't devote half as much time to the script. The story was perfectly adequate to the task of visual stimulation, but the wonderful acting of Jeff Bridges made it clear that the film could easily have been a masterpiece if they'd wanted it to be.