Seeing Patrick Stewart in this made me think of his appearance in Extras and the memorable line: ”Is there any nudity in it?”
There sure is a lot of nudity in this one. I can accept that it makes sense from a narrative standpoint, but was it really necessary to make Mathilda May go through with all of that?
Leaving that aspect aside, I think the film holds up really well as an original space horror movie. Does it even…
This is my earliest memory of a visit to a movie theater. It obviously made an enormous impression on me back then. But how does it hold up today?
Surprisingly well, I would say, even if it is one of the lesser films of Disney's golden era in the late 80's and early 90's. It doesn't quite reach the visual or narrative heights of Beauty and the Beast or The Lion King.
But the musical numbers are still wonderful. And most importantly, the film still has the power to impress the older version of a child in awe.
Overlong but still effective dramatization of the long hunt for the most wanted man on the planet. It's hard not to draw parallels with Homeland here. The ending of the film shows Bigelow at her nail-biting best.
Haunting performance by Delphine Seyrig in a seductively multilayered gothic arthouse-dream.
A greater adaptation of a literary masterpiece is nearly unimaginable.
Infinitely quotable and increasingly funny for every revisit.
”It was tragic really – he exploded on stage.”
Perhaps not fantastic, but in many ways a delightful start to a new series of Rowling's magnetic storytelling in the Potterverse.
I thought perhaps all the creatures tended to become more of a distraction than vital parts of the narrative.
But on the whole, an entirely immersive and enjoyable film, reflecting social issues in our own time and world as only J. K. Rowling can.