exams, witches, pirates…
After two weeks of waking up early, studying(tried to..also its been a très long time), my GRE exams turned out to be a FIASCO( had some use of learning new words though)
So I took the rest of the day off and went to see a Fantasy genre movie. Stardust. After reading the reviews of the movie earlier, I realized that I still like fantasy genre movie. I used to think that I passed that.
Adapted from the Neil Gaiman’s Graphic Novel, Stardust, The movie takes you in a journey to the other side of the wall for those who are willing sit through it. From the way I see it, Neil Gaiman gave a fantasy story with the usual ingredients, like man taking on a wild journey to bring his love a gift, witches seeking ever lasting beauty, unicorn, pirates et al, except trolls,dwarves, elves and dragons…but I’m sure we had enough of them. Stardust reels around a young man, Tristan who crosses the other side of the Wall( The Wall separates a different kind of world which lives in the time of vagabonds, witches, kings ) to get a fallen star to prove his love, only to be encountered with different kinds of people and situations. Yeah almost everything and Matthew Vaughn(Layer Cake), takes us to the other side of the wall with good characters, great cinematography and gives us a small notion of nostalgia( or maybe not). It does have some bloody, groovy(’gory’ actually) scenes.
Stardust: *ing Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeifer, Robert De Niro, Sienna Miller, Charlie Cox, Jason Flemying, Peter O’Toole.
***3/4.
blooody , groovy ?? or bloody, gory ??
hehe
gory which makes you go groovy
……typo heehee….didn’t realize that.
I just saw Stardust.
What can I say…I loved it. Definitely one of my favorite fantasy films ever. This film had everything…romance, fantasy, comedy, adventure and at the end you can’t help feeling warm and fuzzy all over.
I must say, I enjoyed it much much more than I was expecting to. Every single character was fun from the menacing Michelle Pieffer to Robert de Niro in an amazing career twist. Claire Daines…man…I think I may be in love, again. The little plot twists and the occasional dark humor…this is entertainment. Bought back some fond memories of my dad telling us stories when we were kids.
Michelle Pfiefer was like woo-ooh. pretty for a lady above 45 or so.
Woah, you’ve gotten busy again lately! I missed Stardust, but I love Gaiman so I aim to check it out. Glad to hear a good word about it.