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elderberrywine) wrote2010-04-03 10:17 pm
elderberrywine) wrote2010-04-03 10:17 pm
And now for something completely different. . .
A rare film rec here -
I'm not a fan of 3-D. My eyes seem to fight it somehow, I tend to get headaches by the end of the movie, and I don't see how having bugs/birds/whatever fly past you generally adds a lot to any movie.
All that being said, How To Train Your Dragon is why 3-D was invented. It is the movie Avatar wishes it was. The story is wonderfully sweet and resonant, the flashes of humor were actually funny (rather than the snarky stuff more typical in cartoons these days), and the flying scenes were utterly magical. By the end, the audience was so invested, grown-ups and children alike, that we were moaning, "Noooooo!" at a particular scene, quite unselfconsciously.
But not to fret, it ends well, more or less.
One could quibble about the Scottish accents of the adults, and the very American speech of the kids, but that was quickly a minor point indeed. (I can't imagine a Norwegian accent is that hard, but I must admit they had me at the very beginning when the narrator admitted his people had certain "stubbornness issues". Ahahaha, so true.)
Go, go. Attach yourself to some random kid, if you have none to drag in, and pretend he/she is yours. But don't miss this one.
I'm not a fan of 3-D. My eyes seem to fight it somehow, I tend to get headaches by the end of the movie, and I don't see how having bugs/birds/whatever fly past you generally adds a lot to any movie.
All that being said, How To Train Your Dragon is why 3-D was invented. It is the movie Avatar wishes it was. The story is wonderfully sweet and resonant, the flashes of humor were actually funny (rather than the snarky stuff more typical in cartoons these days), and the flying scenes were utterly magical. By the end, the audience was so invested, grown-ups and children alike, that we were moaning, "Noooooo!" at a particular scene, quite unselfconsciously.
But not to fret, it ends well, more or less.
One could quibble about the Scottish accents of the adults, and the very American speech of the kids, but that was quickly a minor point indeed. (I can't imagine a Norwegian accent is that hard, but I must admit they had me at the very beginning when the narrator admitted his people had certain "stubbornness issues". Ahahaha, so true.)
Go, go. Attach yourself to some random kid, if you have none to drag in, and pretend he/she is yours. But don't miss this one.