Posted on 10/11/2015 1:52:56 PM PDT by EveningStar
There's much to sadly shake your head at in Pan, a sort of Peter Pan Begins that manages the unlikely feat of making battles between flying pirate ships a crushing bore. Most miserably, there's the great heap of action set pieces that are easier to wait out than to track with an instrument so primitive as the human eye—perhaps the singularity is nearing, and director Joe Wright's computers are whipping these scenes up exclusively for the enjoyment of advanced artificial intelligences ...
But here's perhaps the most egregious betrayal of audience intelligence in this latest go at monetizing those aspects of J.M. Barrie's Neverland that have fallen into the public domain. An opening narration attempts to justify the choice to concoct an origin for Pan, that spirit of whimsy and play that certainly doesn't need backstory. "Sometimes to truly understand how things end, we must first know how they began," the movie insists—as if this is all somehow a thoughtful attempt to get at the root truths of Peter Pan, to explore the sources of our common myths ...
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Does Tom Cruise play Pan? That would kill it for sure!!
The whole concept of this movie is stupid...
so what is Peter Panning now?
If I want to see Rooney Mara in Doc Martens, I’ll just rewatch Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
And someone in Hollywood is thinking, “If only Peter had been more openly homosexual ... that would have turned this into a blockbuster! Next time ... next time ...”
The Johnny Depp kiss of death
Sorry thought Depp was in it
Sounds horrific.
I’ll stick with Betty Bronson, circa 1924.
On the other hand I saw "The Martian" yesterday and I really enjoyed it. Not Oscar material by any stretch of the word, but it was entertaining and well done. Now I need to get the book to see how close the movie was.
So Hook and Peter Pan are friends in this movie, but will become enemies in sequels.
Sounds like Anakin Skywalker.
Depp was in "Finding Neverland" and in all honesty I thought he did a very good job in that one.
Rooney Mara does absolutely nothing for me.
Speaking of the Dragon Tattoo. I saw all 3 Swedish movies, then read the books, then watched the re-release of the Swedish movies with the previously left out footage. Enjoyed all.
But I just haven't been able to bring myself to watch the Hollywood version.
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Maybe I'll have a different opinion in a couple weeks when this shows up on Netflix. If I owned a theater, though, I'd be on the phone trying to book another movie to replace it before next weekend.
Sounds like drek with little flourishes of CG eye candy. I have no interest in it at all but then I have never cared for ANY version of Peter Pan.
“Finding Neverland” is a beautiful film.
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