A chickychickychick-ENN!! Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 (edited) We went to see A Christmas Carol yesterday. The 3D was brilliant - really poppy-outy, if the script a little hokey. Jim Carrey plays half the roles. Has anyone else seen it? If you're thinking of a kids treat, be warned that some of the ghosty stuff is quite full on and scary. We're really really looking forward to Where The Wild Things Are now. The trailer looks breathtaking. What's on your Christmas cinema experience wishlist? Edited December 10, 2009 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seagazer Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 We saw A Christmas Carol last week and really enjoyed it. We also saw it in 3D and during the flying bits it made me feel quite giddy!! The glasses were really good as well as because I wear glasses already sometimes the 3D ones don't sit properly but they were really good. My mum came with us to see it because she was going on a Christmas Carol walk around London with the U3A. There were 2 kids under about 4 in front of us and they got a bit scared at some bits of it. We're going to see 2012 on Saturday, YS chose that film to go to with his friends as his birthday treat (after go-karting ). Not exactly christmassy I'm guessing. I love Christmas films. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Couperwife Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 I loved a CHristmas Carol , I loved the flying through the sky bits I want to see Nativity, that looks amusing cathy x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluekarin Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 I really want to see Where the Wild Things are. When I saw the trailer it made me cry. Might be to do with the Arcade Fire track they used - that album makes me cry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A chickychickychick-ENN!! Posted December 9, 2009 Author Share Posted December 9, 2009 Of course! I was thinking it was The Flaming Lips. Such a big soul-swelling song isn't it? Love love love it. Karen O from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs did a lot of the soundtrack. Should be interesting. I'm so glad Maurice Sendak is such a curmudgeon. There are some really cute Disney CGI animation trials of WTWTA on youtube, but Spike Jones looks like he's got it's soul riproaring out of the twee cage and is on Sendak's level. I am so excited. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbaraJ Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 didnt fancy where the wild things are but havent read the book. Have seen Nativity was so and too ! sherlock holmes comes out on boxing day will go see that. Seen 2012 twice great special effects Nothing else i fancy before xmas (have a cinema card) maybe have to go see nativity again or get love actually out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbaraJ Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 I'm so glad Maurice Sendak is such a curmudgeon. There are some really cute Disney CGI animation trials of WTWTA on youtube, but Spike Jones looks like he's got it's soul riproaring out of the twee cage and is on Sendak's level. I am so excited. I have no idea what any of that means lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Karen O from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs did a lot of the soundtrack. Should be interesting. Love her All I want for Christmas is a ticket to see 2012,which I have still not got around to seeing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 No cinema planned but DD is visiting for Christmas and we have tickets for Grimm Tales, Carol Ann Duffy's adaptation of the Brothers Grimm at the Theatre by The Lake in Keswick. Am looking forward to that. I hope Santa brings me some nice Bluray films to watch ... I've dropped enough hints for months Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A chickychickychick-ENN!! Posted December 9, 2009 Author Share Posted December 9, 2009 (edited) I'll try again BarbaraJ ! Maurice Sendak wrote Where The Wild Things Are (WTWTA). He is known for being a no-nonsense individual who thinks kids today are mollycoddled. He is very pro exposing kids to fears and dangers and not wrapping them up in Disney-fied cotton wool. I like his vim and curmudgeonly attitude. I think he's right. Disney owned the rights to WTWTA for years, and trialled some very early computer generated image (CGI) effects to have a go at making some characterisation for the film: They are cute, but lack the scary wildness of the new film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NOkQ4dYVaM&feature=fvw The Disney vibe for WTWTA was cute and twee. The new film is not. I think the director of the new film, Spike Jonze, has got the sentiment of the original book just right. I am very excited about seeing it. Does that help? edit: added 'vim' as I had used a word the censor robot thinks is naughty, which means (or at least used to mean!) vim or mettle. Edited December 10, 2009 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbaraJ Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Yes thank you very much gotcha now for someone that works with kids i'm surprised i haven't come accross this book not one i came accross as a child or maybe its too recent i did see the clip at the cinema and thought it looked very cutesee though and a very young kids film, not something i'd go to see! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seagazer Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 I must say we all fancy seeing Sherlock (me because I just love Robert Downey Jnr ) but it looks quite good - unless they've shown all the best bits Where the Wild things.... seems to have been advertised for years, I don't think I've ever known a film to be advertised so far in advance. I must admit that I don't think we'll be seeing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 Anybody seen Avatar? Going tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 My daughter is going on Monday. I look forward to hearing what you think of it, are you seeing it in 3D? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Avatar is a real visual treat, streets ahead of the last 3D animation I saw which was beowulf. It has a very simple plot with the usual stereotypic hero, heroine, bad guy, the odd martyr, scientist, number cruncher and a happy ending. The soundtrack is a bit over sentimental and intrusive at times but the action had me on the edge of my seat plenty of times. If this is ever on an Imax screen anywhere it would be spectacular Yes definitely worth seeing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seagazer Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Thats good to know, the 'boys' in this house would like to see it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancing cloud Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 Saw Christmas Carol a couple of weeks ago, but being a bit of a softy I still prefer the Muppet version Would like to see 2012, though none of the cinema group wants to see another disaster film, so Sherlock Holmes looks like the next one. I'm thinking it's not going to be a serious Jeremy Brett- style Sherlock! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickvic Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 Saw Christmas Carol a couple of weeks ago, but being a bit of a softy I still prefer the Muppet version That's still my favourite version too But then it was the first date my DH and I went on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
