Wrinkle in Time rant (SPOILER WARNING)

[TheMightyFavog]

I saw A Wrinkle in Time the other night after work. After I got home, I said the that Disney fucked up A wrinkle in Time, but didn't fuck it up too bad? I listened to the audiobook today. It was the first time I read/listened to the book since I was in junior high. I take what I said the other night back. Disney royally fucked this one up.

Why is Mrs. Whatsit MILFy instead of a little old lady, why did they have her transform into flying cabbage leaf instead of the pegasus/centaur hybrid so iconic that pictures of it are featured on the cover of many editions of the book? And don't get me started on Mrs. Whatsit ripping off a certain well loved anime series for her transformation sequence. And why is a MILLENIAL playing Mrs. Who instead of a much older actress? Was Betty White booked? Dame Judi Dench unavailable? Jamie Lee Curtis on vacation? Cloris Leachman busy? Come on! And why, why, is the Happy Medium a hipster-ass yoga instructor complete with man-bun?

And the biggest question I have is why was all the religious content from the book not present in the movie? Look, Since I was a teenager, I've bounced between Diesm, Agnosticism, and full-out fedora-tipping Athiesm, but even I recognize that taking the religious content out of Wrinkle in Time is like taking the Christian allegory out of The Chronicles of Narnia, or the freethought undertones out of Pullman's Northern Lights trilogy.

About the only thing this movie got right was making the Murray family biracial, not canon in the books, but a change that I really think is an excellent one, and casting Oprah as Mrs. Which. (Though makeup could have aged her a little bit more, TBH.)

[lunatica]

1. Well I certainly not going to watch it now!

[DUgosh]

2. I hated it

So much potential with special effects that were few and far between.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

5. Looks horrible from the previews... got terrible reviews too, apparently for good reason.

[lunasun]

3. I saw I Tonya the other night . Can't rec it enough

https://m.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. Yes, I, Tonya is amazing.

It humanizes Tonya Harding quite well.

[lunasun]

9. I had no interest in it until the oscars. The actress portraying the mother won best supporting

actress and the little clip they showed before the award made me check it out online . The trailer above said go see this to me. Glad I did . Not only who ever played the mother but Tonya actress and the big guy who was friends with her husband , I thought were all fantastic performances , actually everyone .
I am surprised I didn't hear of it earlier this year , and I was glad I have a theater that was running oscar related movies for the last month .

[TexasBushwhacker]

15. All the nominated films are at Redbox now n/t

[lunasun]

16. Thanks . As usual I have not seen them all.

[Upthevibe]

13. I've seen I, Tonya twice....

I thought it was an amazing movie....I also highly recommend it...

[3catwoman3]

4. I am really torn about going to this movie.

I was given this book for Christmas when I was about 10, IIRC. I loved it, and have re-read it many, many times, even as an adult. I always thought it would make a great movie, especially as special effects became more sophisticated.

Madeline L'Engle created very vivid physical descriptions of the characters in this book. From what I have seen of the clips, pretty much none of the characters look anything like the author's decriptions - especially the 3 Mrs. Ws. And the Happy Medium is a woman, FFS.

I'm curious about it, but am pretty sure I will be disappointed.

[bdtrppr6]

6. I was interested

until I saw who was involved. Not that I don't like them necessarily, but all descriptions sounded annoying and would ruin everything I love about the book. Thanks for the confirmation!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. Uh, oh.

I've been wanting to reread the book first, but maybe I shouldn't

I know I read the book when it first came out, although I honestly cannot recall anything at all about it. 1962 was a very long time ago.

I am so often disappointed by movies. People keep on telling me that I really need to see "Black Panther". I watched a preview and was stopped dead in my tracks. I simply don't do well with the superhero theme, which is probably too bad in this case.

Sigh.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction. Of written science fiction. Of the TV shows and movies not so much. I think the problem is that the people who make the TV shows and movies absolutely know what they are doing (lord knows, I couldn't begin to make a TV show or movie) but most of them know squat about real science fiction. The ones making them now grew up watching the TV and movies, and never got around to reading any of the actual basis of the genre.

[Oneironaut]

10. Because Hollywood screws everything up

- Older women don’t exist. The only acceptable “older” woman is a 30-something model, even if the character is 50 years old.
- Everything must be politically correct and appeal to as many people as possible
- “Artistic creativity” (a.k.a ruining a good story)

[sl8]

11. To be fair, one of them WAS pretty young, according to the book.

...
“Mmrs. Whattsitt,” came Mrs Which’s voice severely, “jusstt beccause yyou arre verry youngg iss
nno exxcuse forr tallkingg tooo muchh.”

Mrs Whatsit looked hurt, but she subsided.

“Just how old are you?” Calvin asked her.

“Just a moment,” Mrs Whatsit murmured, and appeared to calculate rapidly upon her fingers. She
nodded triumphantly. “Exactly 2,379,152,497 years, 8 months, and 3 days. That is according to your
calendar, of course, which even you know isn’t very accurate.” She leaned closer to Meg and Calvin
and whispered, “It was really a very great honor for me to be chosen for this mission. It’s just
because of my verbalizing and materializing so well, you know. But of course we can’t take any
credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts. And I make far too many mistakes. That’s why
Mrs Who and I enjoyed seeing Mrs Which make a mistake when she tried to land you on a two-
dimensional planet. It was that we were laughing at, not at you. She was laughing at herself, you see.
She’s really terribly nice to us younger ones.”
...

[alarimer]

12. I never could get through the book.

I'm not sure why because I read everything else, including Narnia. As an aside, it completely escaped me that Narnia was a Christian allegory (probably why my grandmother wanted me to read it). I remember trying to read A Wrinkle in Time, but I don't remember the story or actually finishing it.

But yeah, the movie strikes me a cheap (well expensive CGI), sentimental crapola. And Oprah pretty much ruins everything for me.

[Upthevibe]

14. I've never even heard of this book...

I was looking forward to the movie but the reviews have been bad....Thanks for your input...

[Still Blue in PDX]

17. My favorite kids' book when I was a kid, and you corroborated what I was expecting from the movie.nt