Comments on: Video Sunday: Trailers and Credits

By: rams

rams — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:25:52 +0000

And the outtake where the baby dozes off right at the table, breaking up Meryl Streep…

By: Fuse #8

Fuse #8 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:04:32 +0000

THANK you! I’ve been saying that for years. There were a couple choices in there that I would have changed. And I would have made the whole thing a little less sound-stagey. But in terms of the acting and script, it’s certainly above par. Good child actors too, I agree.

By: Denise Doyen

Denise Doyen — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:28:59 +0000

continued (sorry).
…of the Narnia movies(you can almost hear that director just off-screen coaching “Look really sad now..” Ugh.) Jim Carrey’s odd cameleonish talents are used FOR the movie vs. against it. The sound track is great, as are the credits you’ve shared. Sorry to ramble (and for the double entry — I’m new, I’ll use wordcount next time and hit submit only once.) Along with Lord of the Rings — A Series of Unfortunate Events is one of my all time favorite book-to-movies.

By: Denise Doyen

Denise Doyen — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:20:44 +0000

Fuse 8, Betsy,
THANK YOU for coming to the defense of the movie version of A Series of Unfortunate Events. Of the many adaptations we are suffering through these days which seem to completely miss the heart and the tone of a children’s book — i.e. the inclusion of a sweet devoted mother in the movie version of Tale of Despereaux (yikes!) or that film’s weird vegetable spirit (???) OR the ‘hip and wacky’ Horton of that animated misfire — I thought director Brad Silberling and crew actually GOT the gist and heart of Unfortunate Events just right. The art direction, the voice-over in silhouette, the casting — all right on the money. The child characters are fabulously acted/directed (vs. the stiff-then-cutesy kids of the Narnia movies