Tin Man
Queued it all up so I could watch it in a row. Halfway through, and...
Pros: Love the mish-mash of noir and steampunk, and the variations on the characters. Feels like an Elseworlds story. Glitch is great. (Duh, it's Alan Cummings...) FLYING BOOB MONKEYS!
Cons: The acting. Ow. Zooey Deschanel in particular - she has two modes: bored, and mock horror, and her movements are more mechanical than Jack Haley's. It's a little *too* far afield from the source - to the point that, other than the title and a few names, there's really no reason to tie it to the Baum books.
I was hoping for a nice dark adaptation, closer in spirit to the books than most works have been, but... it was not to be. (And what *is* it with every film involving family ending in redemption? I'm only halfway through, and I can see where this is going...)
Pros: Love the mish-mash of noir and steampunk, and the variations on the characters. Feels like an Elseworlds story. Glitch is great. (Duh, it's Alan Cummings...) FLYING BOOB MONKEYS!
Cons: The acting. Ow. Zooey Deschanel in particular - she has two modes: bored, and mock horror, and her movements are more mechanical than Jack Haley's. It's a little *too* far afield from the source - to the point that, other than the title and a few names, there's really no reason to tie it to the Baum books.
I was hoping for a nice dark adaptation, closer in spirit to the books than most works have been, but... it was not to be. (And what *is* it with every film involving family ending in redemption? I'm only halfway through, and I can see where this is going...)
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I could stand her acting bored. . .
And the music is directly from that alternate universe classic _Indiana Jones and the Yellow Brick Road_.
Re: I could stand her acting bored. . .
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And, um, ending aside...it seems to me that leaving the stupid Emerald lost in the first place would have been the best course of action. Without it, no problem, she can't mess with the eclipse. Okay, it ended up being better that they found it, but STILL. C'mon people.
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