Dia Klain

This movie is an atrocity to a very very good book. It is so bad that i actually stopped watching half way though. I don't know how it was possible to f up this amazing book, but this movie sure did it. Everything that was good has been chucked in favor of slashed together overly "artsy" scenes that do f all to give a story or character development. Seriously, i can not for the life of me comprehend why it has a 7.9 on IMDb. In the book you see wonderful character development in the mother as her life slowly falls apart due to her relationship with her son. In the movie the mother seems unstable and crazy in every scene, you know nothing about her, and you do not care. It feels like it's trying too hard to be an "artsy" flick but ends up being tremendously boring.

A movie that tries to take comic book films to a new level. It tells the story of the birth of Batman and the beginning of all that which, with time, becomes essential for the batman legend; the bat cave, Archam, Commisionar Gordon, so on. The problem, in my mind, (although, to so many people this is the strength) is that the movie completely lacks the comic book flair. In my mind comic book movies should not be made as realistic as possible. There is no need for the Batman that we love to do marital arts training in some far off land to add "respectability" to the movie. Someone commented that with this film "Comic-book films grow up at last" but why the hell should they be growing up? The batman comic book is nothing like the Lord of the Rings trilogy and there is no reason to apply the same movie making formula to it. (you know, the formula; make it take itself seriously + add in "good" character development + good acting + make sure there isn't too much action + take everything from the fantastical to the "down to earth") And why does this formula work oh so well? Let me tell you why, because the Snobs of America feel this is what our "shallow" cinema "needs" to make itself more respectable, because they can come out of the movie feeling good about themselves for enjoying it. Sin City, the only comic book movie I can think of that literally was the comic book but in movie form, it worked. Daredevil which so many people found distasteful, was a perfectly fine movie based on a comic book. The characters were unrealistic, over the top, and it had an unrealistic artistic style that Batman Begins sacrificed for realism. Comic books are not just stories they are works of art! They are COMICS Some comics are serious, yes, like say, Watchmen, but this does not apply to superhero comics. Want to see a good Batman movie? Go see the first two that were ever made. Sure the characters were different, the story a bit off, but that doesn't matter, it was "batman". This? This was an action flick masquerading behind the bat mask. The only redeeming feature of this movie I could think of was the Scarecrow, but even he was confined to realism and hardly developed.

I saw A Series of Unfortunate events and it was WONDERFUL. No, I am not kidding it really was. NO, I was not on drugs, I actually really loved it. No, not because of the extremely hot guy… OK so he was extremely hot, but even if he wasn't it was still very good! So here is what was good about the movie: -it had awesome snakes (especially that big yellow one. Will Circe get that huge one day?) -It had the general musty feel of the books (though not quite so dark, which I actually liked), -Each scene was beautiful without looking fake or tacky, -the acting and casting was awesome…Jim Carry's overacting was actually appropriate for once! -the screenplay wasn't nearly as bad as they say in some reviews (it was quite good actually, and it resembled the books' style) -yes they did stuff a few books into one movie but it really sped things up and worked better then it usually does -the characters looked the way I imagined them -ok, so there was an optimistic (not happy, just optimistic) ending, but so what? I liked it! -the credits were by far the best I have ever seen

Bad things about this movie -it ended

in style this reminded me a great deal of the new Peter Pan (which I also adore) If you like this you should definitely see it. (please note that I only read a few of the books and am not familiar with the whole series)