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Dec. 17th, 2004 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynhefarSaw Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. I thoroughly enjoyed it. They played around with the plot order somewhat -- stuck the second two books in the middle of the first, essentially, but it worked. And there was an overarching plot about a secret society to which each of the successive guardians as well as the parents belonged that fit the story so well that I couldn't tell if it was something brought forward from one of the later books that I haven't read yet or just made up to give some sense of unity that is necessary to the movie genre but that really isn't present in the books.
But even where they variated from the strict plot of the books they did so in a manner that was in keeping with the spirit of the books, so I hardly minded at all. In fact, at one point, they had one of the characters start to embark upon the solution that was originally used in the novel, but which would have required more extraneous explanation than really fit in the movie, only to have her immediately thwarted by the bad guy, and then come up with an even simpler solution than the original. It was a small thing that any one who hadn't read the books probably wouldn't have caught, but I liked it. And the subtitles for Sunny's babblings were quite amusing.
So yeah, I thoroughly recommend this movie for children and adults, people who've read the books and people who haven't. In short, everyone should see it!
But even where they variated from the strict plot of the books they did so in a manner that was in keeping with the spirit of the books, so I hardly minded at all. In fact, at one point, they had one of the characters start to embark upon the solution that was originally used in the novel, but which would have required more extraneous explanation than really fit in the movie, only to have her immediately thwarted by the bad guy, and then come up with an even simpler solution than the original. It was a small thing that any one who hadn't read the books probably wouldn't have caught, but I liked it. And the subtitles for Sunny's babblings were quite amusing.
So yeah, I thoroughly recommend this movie for children and adults, people who've read the books and people who haven't. In short, everyone should see it!
