Disney's version of A Wrinkle in Time : TOTAL FAILURE

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Not only did they leave out good parts,they added horrible new parts. It was disgusted. I always loved that book, and it saddens me to see it slain like this. I weep. Those bastards at Disney have caused yet more horror and evil.

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:00 (twenty-two years ago)

tell me more! i missed it and it hasn't turned up on bittorrent yet.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I turned it off when I realized that Alfre Woodard was going to keep doing that for the whole movie.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:05 (twenty-two years ago)

what did you expect, really?

somewhere i read that l'engle, when asked what she thought of it, said, "oh, it's at least as bad as i expected..."

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not exactly surprised.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:17 (twenty-two years ago)

ehh, it was really bad. egregiously. given the recent new yorker article, I guess I expected something that was - at best - entertaining, if atrocious. A laundry list:

+ Crummy CG
+ Alfe Woodard being annoying.
+ Overwrought digital compositing a la Lord of the Rings.
+ Crappy ThomasKinkadeian palette.
+ Peanut Butter Sandwiches replacing the tuna fish ones.
+ Meg not ugly enough
+ Calvin not alpha-male enough
+ Mother was kind of a MILF
+ Saccharine dialogue
+ Boring, boring, boring pauses.
+ The ugly hairy Wookies were embarrassing.
+ Ehh, fuck it. It just fucking blew.

― x Jeremy (Atila the Honeybun), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I was expecting it to be bad but given the amazingly low standards I have for TV shows that I will watch, I was amazed when it was UNWATCHABLE.

The best part was seeing the creepy son from "The Ring" continue to be creepy and unsettling no matter how hard Disney tried to cute him.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Peanut Butter Sandwiches replacing the tuna fish ones.

b-b-but PEANUT ALLERGIES OH NO

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

is this a new show?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:36 (twenty-two years ago)

damn.

― isadora (isadora), Thursday, 13 May 2004 03:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Madeleine L'Engle interviewed

NEWSWEEK: So you’ve seen the movie?
Madeleine L’Engle: I’ve glimpsed it.

And did it meet expectations?
Oh, yes. I expected it to be bad, and it is.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 13 May 2004 03:20 (twenty-two years ago)

L'Engle, hero.

I wasn't even aware it was being filmed or screened. I think I am very glad of that fact.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 May 2004 04:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Did she have any input at all about the movie? I don't understand/don't want to understand/am angered by the workings of copyright law & publishing rights.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 13 May 2004 05:01 (twenty-two years ago)

"The best part was seeing the creepy son from "The Ring" continue to be creepy and unsettling no matter how hard Disney tried to cute him. "

You can take the kid out of the creepy but you can't take the creepy out of the kid.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 13 May 2004 05:04 (twenty-two years ago)

don't forget the overbearing music.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Thursday, 13 May 2004 05:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't even know what this was, but I kept flipping to it from whatever it was I was really watching. My reaction every single time was the same: "What the fuck?"

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 13 May 2004 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Seriously, it had so little to do with the book, it might as well have been an original piece of shit.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 May 2004 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

It had the most ridiculously inane dialogue of anything I've ever watched.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 May 2004 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i had no idea this was made. was it straight to video/cable?

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

did George Lucas write the dialogue or something?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Sam, it was an ABC/Disney-made-for-TV Monday night movie. Not only that, but it was quite easily the worst made-for-TV movie I have ever seen in my entire life, while supposedly being an adaptation of one of my favoritest books from my childhood.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

childhood? sheet, i just rocked that bitch a couple of weeks ago.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

did anyone read the profile of l'engle in the new yorker a couple of months ago? it was interesting

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

OH NO!!! I'm glad this will probably never air over here, because I would feel compelled to watch it, and cry into my cornflakes at the badness. Bah Disney grumble fnarr etc.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

A Fuckup in Time

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Tesseract their sorry asses pronto.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

How did they do the vocal quality bit -- y'know, "WWWWEEEE AAAARRREEEE HHHHHEEEERRRREEE" and all that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

i'll add my voice to the chorus of discontent. this is an abomination!

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i still can't believe they tried to make it so razzle dazzle. i always liked the book for its really understated approach to the supernatural and extraterrestrial.

the sets were uniformly awful as well... just way, way too busy and glaring. like camazotz for example... what the fuck were they thinking by using leftover set pieces from the batman movies?

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i saw maybe 2 minutes of this, the bit where alfre woodward explains the tesseract, and it was fkn horrible. the EDITING was terrible; each albatross of a line reading had like an extra second and a half left inbetween it. sadly, i couldn't remember the details of AWIT enuf to really pin down what was going wrong (other than the obvious shittiness i guess).

all i could remember was the biblical one with good and bad angels, which i think is the 4th one, many waters.

― g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

How did they do the vocal quality bit -- y'know, "WWWWEEEE AAAARRREEEE HHHHHEEEERRRREEE" and all that.

THEY DIDN'T.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Well fuck that shit, then.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

In retrospect, it seems like they did everything that they could do wrong with this "film" and nothing they could have done right.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

+ Peanut Butter Sandwiches replacing the tuna fish ones.

I'm still trying to come up with a satisfactory (if moronic) reason why Disney would do this... I fear my head is close to exploding.

It... just... makes... no... sense...

At least with E.T. I could grasp that Reese's was willing to do product placement while Mars wasn't. Hence, the Pieces instead of M&Ms in the film. But how does tuna fish as a concept or product refuse to appear in a film?

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

we're watching the film version of a novel we just finished (killing mr. griffin) and they changed Mr. Griffin's name from Brian to John. Again, why?

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Who would want to kill someone named Brian? Everyone I've known named Brian has been really cool.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

all the brian's i've known have been dorks.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Sam, you wound donut bitch in his heart (for he is a Brian).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Brian Griffin:

http://www.jrj-socrates.com/Cartoon%20Pics/Fox/Family%20Guy/Brian_300.gif

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

well i'll save by saying I don't techinically know him.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Brian from the Family Guy is super-cool.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I have always had great respect for Alfre Woodard, but now I will not be able to look at her without seeing a gigantic dancing mammy.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, why did her centaur form have a butt on the front?

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

for breaking the wind during flight?

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Sam, you've seen his winkie! How much better do you need to get to know a guy...

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

you are correct, chris. I retract my statement on "brians".

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

in conclusion - total failure

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Friday, 14 May 2004 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

The centaur was ... egregiously bad. It looked like it was built by a correspodence-course licenced AutoCAD user ca. 1998 to be included in a Duke Nukem 3D mod; it made me cringe when it moved. And yeah, Dan, it did look like a big friggin' butt. It seems impossible to me that it was designed, modeled, rendered, composited, edited, screened, promoted and it still looks like ... christ ... http://www.xs4all.nl/~pwitteve/white%20centaur.jpg

― x Jeremy (Atila the Honeybun), Friday, 14 May 2004 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)

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