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Movies, Classics to Less than Normal By request - Grab your Popcorn. New Movie forum (for those that have given up fishing this year). (No P 0rn)

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Old 03-26-2012, 12:32 PM   #1
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I wonder how good the movie is, compared to the books?

I have the series on paperback and was interested in how the movie fared.
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Old 03-26-2012, 12:41 PM   #2
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I used to read the books when I was a kid....I've been wanting to see this....but it just got rated as the Biggest Box Office Flop...EVER.

Very Dissapointing....I'll probably wait til it comes out on DVD.....unless I get some good feedback from people

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Old 03-26-2012, 12:48 PM   #3
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Disney lost bigtime

but they'll make up for it in a new line of toys

same thing with the Clash of the Titans trilogy

basically going NO WHERE fast
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Old 03-26-2012, 02:42 PM   #4
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2nd hand info, but a guy I work (a BC guy, but still a good guy ) said the movie kicked ass, he said if your kids like sci-fi, it's a must see.

I think disney produced anything inadvertently puts the wussy tag on it.
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Old 03-26-2012, 03:23 PM   #5
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i heard it was good and think the flop was due to marketing. Its not kiddie enough and not voilent enough for teens.
I'll wait for dvd.

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wicked under-rated! Lots of violence for a disney flick, ppl gettin shot, stabbed, slashed, decapitated, ripped in half. great special effects obviously. I think you're right, the disney tag throws ppl off big time, but I had a suspicion this movie was guna be sneaky good I'll give it a solid B. not amazing, but deffinately entertaining

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Old 06-27-2012, 08:48 PM   #7
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Read the books as a kid. The movie kicks ass in the expected Victorian novel sci-fi way.

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Just watched this with my son last weekend and he really liked it. I thought it was much better than I expected and I'm not much of a Sci Fi guy.

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Not a bad story from the same guy that wrote the "Tarzan, Lord of the Apes" series.
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