So I'm watching 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' with my niece and nephew last night...

[Richardo]

Why is it no one ever told me that our own Sugar Smack plays Violet, the genius inventor?

I mean really:





:D



(Good movie, BTW)

[suninvited]

1. I loved that movie

I even liked Jim Carrey in it, and I am not normally a fan of his.

[PassingFair]

2. We read all of the books....and roundly despised the movie.

It lacked the intelligence of the books, and
Carrey's Count Olaf was too much....

but this often happens with fans of a book
when the movie version is made.

[jobycom]

4. My kid read the books and liked the movie.

I read all the books, but only after the movie. I liked it, but it had weaknesses. The books, I thought, got weaker and weaker as they went along, too. I felt like the writer got bored after book three, and by the end wasn't even trying.

[DarkTirade]

6. I haven't read those books... but I'm the same way with most movie adaptations of books. :)

Only Harry Potter I thought was relatively true to the book was the first one. Didn't really like either version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The Secret of NIMH really annoyed me because other than a few names and situations that they kept, it was NOTHING like the book. Great casting choice for Jeremy, but that was about it. :P

[jobycom]

3. The writer is a big anti-Bush guy.

Some of the words he had the baby say in the series of books were hilarious. For instance, he had Sunny yell "Busheney" at Count Olaf, which he said meant "You are an evil man with no concern whatsover for other people." Once she said "Scalia" in a similar vein.

Also, the adults in the film are irrational and easily fooled by their own self-importance and by authority figures dictating odd beliefs to them, and there's often an undercurrent of anti-conservatism that you can pick up if you're looking for it.

[Richardo]

5. Nobody's with me on this?

:shrug: