Will pencil 3/28/2017 into my calendar then... unless something changes. Or Killer, if you are willing to
host this up. Be nice to have some place to post stuff, etc... as I sure as hell don't do Facebook, Myspace,
Google+, etc.
Definately though, fun times and fond memories of this place.
@Eisenmann
Nice to see you still around, man! Wish more ppl would drop back in and let their presence be known.
And yeah, +9000 on the nostalgia factor.
Caught Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children today, stuff I loved :
- visuals, especially how they made the 1943 timeframe come alive.
- cast in there : Eva Green, Samuel L Jackson, Judi Dench, Rupert Everrett, Allison Janney, Terence Stamp.
I seriously would love to ask Eva Green exactly what mindspace she put herself in while acting out Miss
Peregrine's role -- I suspect something along the line of a "cross between stuffy-but-proper English
schoolmistress and Mary Poppins." Allison Janney impressed me the most as I usually know her for her
comedic roles, but in this she was a pretty serious personality, and I found it suited her pretty good.
- final battle with the Hollows was a SERIOUS callback to 1980s movies like Home Alone, Problem Child and
a few others where kids could get the most inane Rube Goldberg setups to trick and trap the unsuspecting
(and dumb) adults. Can't say I've seen anything like that since the aforementioned movies, so it was a
seriously enjoyable blast to the past for me!
Stuff that was WTF for me :
- logic of the timeloops and the children aging outside the loops, especially the final bit of Jake getting
back to 1943. Working it out with the people I saw it with, finally came up with a somewhat plausible and
logical explanation of how/why it worked. Personally I'm hoping this is better explained in the novels.
- Barron & co's motivation(s). Kinda shallow, and a throwback to the "genius children, brainless adults" trope
of the above movies, and Jackson's TOTALLY playing to himself throughout the movie, but forgivable.
- character backstories being given short shrift, Victor's especially. Again, I hope and suspect the novels
flesh this out more and the circumstances of his death and reanimation.
- final scene of Jake v Jake... watch it for yourself to see what happens, but exactly how you can't tell who your ally is...
All in all, I was pretty entertained by this movie!
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