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I saw the movie the other day and I have to admit, it was dazzling. To much information for the braincells. Eye-candy. But..?
The performances were as good as needed in a fairytale like this, but...?
I watched the extras, the comicon convention Q&A, in hope that the makers would mention it, but...?
Hasn't anybody noticed that this movie is Stephen King's and Peter Straub's "The Talisman" on LSD? or am I the only one?
The boy with the dying mother, (girl in this case), that has to travel to "The Territories", to find the Talisman (or, mirror-mask), to save his mother's life, and the strange world he is visiting. Meeting strange creatures as the story goes, from talking werewolves to flying men to whatever else.
Come ON, people!! you are using the media in it's finest form. DO SOMETHING ORIGINAL. And if you're adapting a story from the '80s, SAY SO. no one in going to blame you.
But unfortunately you didn't, so this movie no matter how good it is, falls in the "never-admitting-borrowing-from" category, as
reservoir dogs/city on fire. harry potter/Star Wars. Kill Bill/Lady Snowblood.
...and so on, and so forth. pity.
score 5/10
Themis Katz 29 June 2006
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