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This was one of my favorite books growing up, and I honestly don't remember all the details. But I have to admit the trailer doesn't seem to mesh with my memory of the book all that much. There was a father that disappeared and a brother and sister that were near starvation living without him, but I'm not seeing that in the trailer.
I have mixed emotions about this, and I hope Disney does a good job on it.
same here. I loved the books and Wrinkle in Time helped me see that a girl could be something different if she wanted (this was in the early 1960s) which set my course to be in male dominated professions and do well
Something in a posting with the trailer said it is a movie of "Family and Adventure" which the book was was, although more, but I am disappointed in the trailer and the casting. It looks like a marvel heros action film with beautiful computer assisted graphics and in no way should the character cast as Meg be that beautiful young girl and the one I think is the little brother is too robust to be little John Richard Thomas or whatever his name is.
The Meg cast is all wrong and putting a pair of glasses on a beautiful girl does not make her an ugly duckling lacking confidence and social graces. Fearful yet pushing forward to save her beloved father and brother out of courage from within generated by her love of them.
Loved the books, don't like the casting. am OK with the pizzaz. If you have computers you may as well use them.
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Agreed the casting doesn't look right at all. It's almost as if the movie will be "loosely based" on the book rather than a screen adaptation. I will give it a chance, because the book holds a beloved place in my memory. But I think I may be disappointed.
This was one of my favorite books growing up, and I honestly don't remember all the details. But I have to admit the trailer doesn't seem to mesh with my memory of the book all that much. There was a father that disappeared and a brother and sister that were near starvation living without him, but I'm not seeing that in the trailer.
I have mixed emotions about this, and I hope Disney does a good job on it.
Good, its not just me. I read the book several times as a child, but I probably haven't read it in almost 20 years. The trailer is not at all what I remember the book being, so I was confused.
I too have mixed feelings. Its Disney, and they are capable of making really great children's movies... But then I think that it might just end up being another Tomorrowland or John Carter... not horrible films, but not great either.
I think big studios take less big risks with their newer films in order to bring in as many people to the theaters. That is why most movies in the main are just OK. This looks as though it will just be OK and worth a click on Netflix.
I actually re-read the book a couple of years ago since I loved it so much as a child. I don't like it when Hollywood does a poor job of adapting a good book to film.
"Wrinkle" does well as a child's book, teaching certain values. Being candid, for an adult reading the story, it reminds me of the cartoon where a kid is adding to a scientist's massive mathematical work on a blackboard, writing in "and then a miracle happens..." The ending has ZERO logic, zero grounding in principles, zero anything except "because of sweetness, everything turns out wonderful."
If a movie can address that flaw and provide a plausible method of action, it might be good. As it stands? I'm not holding my breath.
This was one of my favorite books growing up, and I honestly don't remember all the details. But I have to admit the trailer doesn't seem to mesh with my memory of the book all that much. There was a father that disappeared and a brother and sister that were near starvation living without him, but I'm not seeing that in the trailer.
I have mixed emotions about this, and I hope Disney does a good job on it.
I think this is the third movie version.
Each one gets better, but the real problem is that the book evoked extreme amounts of mental imagery without using much visual narrative--that is, it spoke more of "feels like" than of "looks like."
For that reason, everyone who read the book probably holds vastly different mental images that nobody else's visualization will ever completely satisfy.
I suspect the only scene of the trailer that everyone recognized was that first view of Camazotz, which was about the only scene that was visually described.
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