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Post by honeylemon on Jan 9, 2018 12:29:00 GMT -6
I’m pretty excited. I loved the book.
The trailer does seem like it will go in a bit of a different direction than the book. But I guess it wouldn’t be great film to show someone reenacting another movie. Or playing 3 hours of Pac-Man or whatever.
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Post by wesleycrusher on Jan 9, 2018 12:55:03 GMT -6
DH and I listened to the audio book on the recommendation of sweetc129I am excited for the movie, but it does look radically different from the book.
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Post by wesleycrusher on Jan 9, 2018 12:56:20 GMT -6
and because we listened to the audio book, I expect the actor's voice to be Wil Wheaton's. I think that's going to throw me off more than anything.
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Post by sweetc129 on Jan 9, 2018 13:09:02 GMT -6
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Post by sweetc129 on Jan 9, 2018 13:11:32 GMT -6
@sweetc29 have you seen the trailer? Thoughts? Anyone else excited for the movie? I am super excited for it. There are definitely things that are different and/or different from my vision. I have picked apart the trailer for Easter eggs a ton of times and each time I watch I get more excited. It was originally to be released this past December but they didn't want to compete with Star Wars, which who can blame them, but it is being released the Friday after I'm suppose to have my 3rd baby so not so conducive to seeing it in the theaters...so bummed!
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Post by cdnfroggy on Jan 9, 2018 13:11:48 GMT -6
I'm looking forward to the movie! I enjoyed the book quite a lot. It will probably be a date night for DH and I
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Post by sweetc129 on Jan 9, 2018 13:13:19 GMT -6
I’m pretty excited. I loved the book. The trailer does seem like it will go in a bit of a different direction than the book. But I guess it wouldn’t be great film to show someone reenacting another movie. Or playing 3 hours of Pac-Man or whatever. Hahaha, so true! It was an exciting scene in the book, but suspect it would be lost a bit in translation. It is a vital point to the overall conclusion of the race, so it better still make it to the movie.
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Post by Leaf 🌱 on Jan 9, 2018 13:20:37 GMT -6
I listened to the audiobook and LOVED it. The movie looks very meh - I worry that it will end up like Enders Game and be too hard to translate to the screen.
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Post by sweetc129 on Jan 9, 2018 13:24:16 GMT -6
I listened to the audiobook and LOVED it. The movie looks very meh - I worry that it will end up like Enders Game and be too hard to translate to the screen.
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Post by honeylemon on Jan 9, 2018 13:47:57 GMT -6
I listened to the audiobook too! When I saw it was Wil Wheaton reading it, I couldn’t not.
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Post by wesleycrusher on Jan 9, 2018 14:22:41 GMT -6
I listened to the audiobook and LOVED it. The movie looks very meh - I worry that it will end up like Enders Game and be too hard to translate to the screen. It looks like they added in a lot of action scenes, but most of the book is not action. I mean, I get why they would choose to do that but...I guess we'll see!
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Post by pianolove on Jan 9, 2018 21:14:24 GMT -6
I'm very excited for this movie. I loved the book and I'm curious to see how it all comes together. I saw the trailer and it seems pretty different than the book although I understand that a lot of what happens in the book probably isn't very screenplay-friendly
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Post by wesleycrusher on Mar 12, 2018 13:49:06 GMT -6
Reviews are starting to come in and they seem to be mostly positive!
I can't believe it is almost the end of March, I'm thinking this movie's not coming out for another couple months but really it's only another couple weeks. Time moves so fast.
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Post by sweetc129 on Mar 18, 2018 18:31:29 GMT -6
Reviews are starting to come in and they seem to be mostly positive!
I can't believe it is almost the end of March, I'm thinking this movie's not coming out for another couple months but really it's only another couple weeks. Time moves so fast. I’ve watched all 8,000 trailers 8,000x and it seems like they’ve strayed a lot from the book, but I think it might be for the best. It looks so good. I’m so bummed that I most likely won’t be able to see it in the theatres. I’m here for reviews though.
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Post by brookethecat on Mar 24, 2018 20:27:45 GMT -6
I stayed up until 1am last night finishing the book. Loved it. I’m excited for the movie now.
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Post by emma on Mar 24, 2018 22:22:56 GMT -6
Reviews are starting to come in and they seem to be mostly positive!
I can't believe it is almost the end of March, I'm thinking this movie's not coming out for another couple months but really it's only another couple weeks. Time moves so fast. I’ve watched all 8,000 trailers 8,000x and it seems like they’ve strayed a lot from the book, but I think it might be for the best. It looks so good. I’m so bummed that I most likely won’t be able to see it in the theatres. I’m here for reviews though. Do any of the theatres near you do baby friendly screenings? Mine did one every week and played an adult movie but with lights up a bit and lower volume, plus exersaucers, change tables etc... I took DS to his first movie at 4 weeks
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Post by emma on Mar 24, 2018 22:23:50 GMT -6
Also I think they will not do the book justice, I might wait till it’s available to rent
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Post by Leaf 🌱 on Mar 25, 2018 2:43:40 GMT -6
Also I think they will not do the book justice, I might wait till it’s available to rent +1 to this.
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Post by armpants on Mar 27, 2018 19:31:27 GMT -6
We got tickets for Saturday afternoon. I'm pretty excited. I know they'll have to change things so it moves quicker and translates, but there are definitely some points I hope they stay true to.
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Post by Ls2012 on Mar 28, 2018 19:32:00 GMT -6
Spare yourselves the intense disappointment. It was AWFUL. A W F U L
They barely kept the premise.
Seriously, save your money and go see Black Panther.
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Post by sweetc129 on Mar 29, 2018 4:19:11 GMT -6
Spare yourselves the intense disappointment. It was AWFUL. A W F U L They barely kept the premise. Seriously, save your money and go see Black Panther. This makes me so sad. I mean I know movies never do good books justice, but awful 😢. Thanks for the heads up, maybe I won’t feel so bad for missing it.
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Post by armpants on Mar 31, 2018 18:47:47 GMT -6
If you can not think of it as the book, it would be more enjoyable. It's been a long time since H read the book, and he loved the movie. I didn't enjoy it as much, but I think I'll like it better after a second watch knowing to just watch it as something totally separate from the book.
I expected a lot of changes, as tree pacing of the book itself didn't lend well to a movie. But there were a few I was really disappointed with.
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