coracle wrote:As a person who for artistic/personal reasons has never seen any Disney versions of Winnie the Pooh (stories, music, movies - can't avoid seeing the vast amount of merchandising), I can only hope that it will cause some people to go back to the actual books by A.A.Milne, and read them to themselves, and then aloud to themselves and their children.
I have seen
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and the newer one,
Winnie the Pooh, and I can't stand either of them! (I watched them when I was making my way through all of Walt Disney's animated features. Otherwise I would have avoided them.) For this reason, I do not want to see
Christopher Robin ... I've heard it's good, but I really dislike what Disney's done to the character.
And coracle I am also horrified at the
Peter Rabbit film, though I don't agree with your comparison of it to
Fantastic Mr Fox. One of the books that changed the most on the journey to film is
The Little White Horse whose adaptation,
The Secret of Moonacre, is pretty much unrecognisable from the original. It has some nice moments but misses a lot of what's great about the book. When
The Princess Diaries came out as a film I was shocked at the changes. For seemingly no reason whatsoever the setting is different, Mia's father is dead, and her cat is black and white not orange. (I've since learned that one of the cats who played Fat Louie belonged to Hathaway, but I didn't know it at the time!) And yet then I love the
How to Train Your Dragon and
The Princess and the Frog movies despite them being completely different from their books.
I saw
Ant-Man and the Wasp and liked it. The film was fun, and a good breath of fresh air after
Infinity War, but it doesn't hold up to the first one. I love the premise but I feel it was under-utilised in this film, which was a real shame ...
I guess I was expecting more of a heist-type story again, but it wasn't. The story wasn't very focused - so many things went on and it was hard to really care about what happened to Janet when we only knew of her through Hank and Hope. Though I liked Ghost as a concept she felt underused and, as a problem to be overcome, solved too easily. However, despite all that, it was funny (especially Luis) and there were some great action sequences.
I've also seen
Mission: Impossible - Fallout. I think the last film was better, but it ran at a cracking pace and had some truly excellent chase scenes. My main issue was
that the trailer was so spoilery! I assumed from watching the trailer that Henry Cavill was a bad guy, but that wasn't touched on until a good way into the film. Once it was teased I thought it was maybe a red herring, as it had seemed so obvious, but it wasn't. So either the film was structured poorly or the trailer revealed way more than it was meant to. However I did enjoy the moments where Ethan Hunt's motivations were questioned. It would have been fun to delve into that more. What a difference it makes watching real stunts, though! Great fun.