Come anticipate the Matthew Vaughn film "Stardust" with me.

omg, I really enjoyed this book; I might actually go to an actual theater to see this!

yeah this is based on the Neil Gaiman novel of the same name, which was a fun read but not nearly as fun as the trailer makes it look!

the book was pretty lousy, i thought.

but i'm the dude who thinks gaiman's best work was the novel adaptation of a tv show...

this looks really... 80s

gaiman's problem is that all his male protagonists are dead boring. but stardust has good side characters, which it seems from the trailer at least, what the movie chose to focus more on.

slocki, i think it's intentional, they're marketing it as the new Princess Bride. My heart says no, but it still looks like it might be pretty good.

Movie promotin' has started, so here's Neil on NPR today.

This comes out in two days, doesn't it?

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http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Ss/0486655/0352rt_sft.jpg

OMGz I totally forgot this was a Gaiman book! Read that on its release date back when I was a huge fan of him. I didn't realize that=this. I've read 3 novels of his and don't remember a damn thing about any of them, except which ones I liked more than others (I am not counting Good Omens, which I adore, as it's a collaboration).

I've seen the ad for this so many times and was so confused every time. It's just some fantasy book cover random image blast: okay, some flying dragon, a caravan, some princess in a lake, fireballs coming from what might be a wizard, stuff in the sky, and then TITLE. Whaaaaaaat?

More than '80s looking, I think it looks almost JUST LIKE that one made for TV of Merlin w/that guy from Cheers and Martin Short.

Shilling books/movies like this one as "adult fairy tales" is so lazy and inaccurate---fairy tales proper are hella creepy and otherworldly. Story of modern British man who ends up in some D&D Wonderland and wins the day by remembering to be polite to old ladies = no no thx.

fairy tales proper are hella creepy and otherworldly

Which is why I'll love it if they ever film Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter and do so straightforwardly.

Oh, sorry, it was Sam Neill as Merlin. The guy from Cheers was in the made-for-tv Gulliver's Travels by the same company.

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DO YOU SEE?

http://www.lovefilm.com/lovefilm/images/products/2/1362-large.jpg
http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/54/11/03/10m.jpg

Anyway, prediction: disaster. Monetarily at least.

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(The Layer Cake helmer is married to supermodel Claudia Schiffer who read Neil Gaiman's famed novel when she was pregnant and thought her husband should make it into a film.)

That is so way worse than in sitcoms when pregnant women threateningly demand out-of-season fruits

eh? from everything else i've read, matthew vaughn's a Sandman fan and fought really hard to get this made... i don't think he's taking ideas from his wife. but yeah, the trailers for this are weird and apparently don't represent the movie well at all. but the reviews have been pretty good.

anyway, that Merlin tv thing is great! I kinda hope Stardust might actually turn out like that. mid 90s made-for-tv on the big screen... sweet.

It so inspired my junior high eye makeup habits.

stardust, stardust, stardust, stardust~

My memory is kinda bad... Is this the the book with Charles Vess's illustrations where a boy falls in love with a fallen star or something? I thought it was quite good, though probably more due to Vess.

Written by Jonathon Ross's wife btw! So that's a guaranteed good review.

(From Jonathon Ross).

[CRAZY CGI SEQUENCE]

[WELL KNOWN ACTOR PLAYING AGAINST TYPE]

[CRAZY CGI SEQUENCE]

[WELL KNOWN ACTOR IN COSTUME/MAKEUP]

[TWO LINE PLOT-HOLE-SAVER]

[LAZY CGI SEQUENCE]

[TEH FUNNY]

[CRAZY CGI SEQUENCE]

[ONE LINE PLOT-HOLE-SAVER]

[WELL KNOWN ACTOR PLAYING AGAINST TYPE]

[CRAZY CGI SEQUENCE]

[O WAU THEY LUV EACHOTHER]

[TEH FUNNY]

[CRAZY CGI SEQUENCE]

[TEH FUNNY (gay joke edition)]

[OH NOES! BAD GUYS MIGHT WIN!]

[LAZY CGI SEQUENCE]

[CRAZY CGI SEQUENCE]

[CRAZY CGI SEQUENCE (bad guys die edition)]

the end

oh i forgot:

[TRAILOR FOR HARRY POTTER RIP-OFF]

[TRAILOR FOR LOTR RIP-OFF]

[TRAILOR FOR NEVER ENDING STORY RIP-OFF]

[TRAILOR FOR ANGELINA JOLIE IN BEOUWOLF]

I haven't seen this but I understand it takes lots of liberties with the story. Seeing as how Gaiman made the print version of a montage over lots of Tristran/Yvainne's adventures I think this is fair.

My main concern really: in the movie do they pronounce his name Tristan or TristRan? I always hated that extra fucking R.

Good Omens would make a much, much better movie.

i had no idea this movie was based on a book until reading this thread.

watching it, it felt like it was based on hollywood brainstorming, power brokering, and pitch sessions.

no it looks shit

yeah well it sounded great about a few months ago but you're right, it's shit.

"I can get you one of those!"

OK, we went and saw it...

Actually, it's alright. Not brilliant/fantastic, but it holds together well enough.

Oh and Amber wants to see the trailled film w/ Nicole Kidman and another Amber lookalike in the lead role.

We all didn't want to see the awful looking DustHoff Xmas film tho.

Actually, it's alright. Not brilliant/fantastic, but it holds together well enough.

My thought. gr8080's summary is completely OTM but I've seen worse.

im actually moderately fond of it, nb ive only ever seen the last ten mins i think

A perfectly enjoyable film. Decent, not great.