posted by Kim Voynar on Movie City News:
Thanks largely to a brave, raw performance by Saiorse Ronan, the film version of The Lovely Bones isn’t intolerably hard to watch, and may even end up being a successful sale to same teen market that’s been flocking to darker, moodier fare like the Twilight series…
… The biggest [...]
posted at need coffee dot com
It was to be expected that a beloved children’s book being made into a film–a live-action film at that–was to be suspect. Mostly because the book itself clocks in at a whopping forty-eight pages. And how do you make a feature film out of that, animated or otherwise? I only [...]
Posted at ComicBookMovie.com
I am a big Frank Miller (comic book) fan, his style is unique, his dialog is unique (sometimes annoying, or a bit too much, he has a thing about repeating certain lines), but overall, I love his style and his sense of humor, etc.
This movie was essentially a Frank Miller comic book … [...]
Rick Bentley, writing for McClatchy Newspapers, describes how Twilight author Stephenie Meyer negotiated a movie deal that would guarantee the film had some resemblance to her story:
“…when upstart film company Summit Entertainment called and asked to take a crack at the project, Meyer gave them a written list of what she expected: no fangs, no [...]
posted on Wolf’s Musings… blog
I was NOT impressed with the movie. I didn’t like the changes made to how we have defined vampires for forever pretty much…and I just felt it lacked a lot of plot and explanation. B was disappointed at the lack of vampire action (guess we should have done more research into [...]
posted on the books i done read blog
…you know how usually you’ll read a book and then go to watch the movie, and WTF they’ve cut out whole raging chunks of it? I saw this movie a few years ago because it was on tv in the middle of the day when I figured it [...]
posted by Krissy Godek in the Independent Mail of Anderson, South Carolina
There were many similarities between the book and the movie, but even more differences. In the book, the Cullen house was described as being in a large field in the middle of nowhere, yet you couldn’t even see the ground, there were so many [...]