Doesn't AICN have contract over a crack team of ninjas that can find this out?

Imagine my surprise to see a trailer for the bloody thing... It really exists! So, I guess I appreciate the desire to "protect" us from this cinema filth...

And thanks for the update on the Indy trailer. Is there anything you can tell us?

Tolkien's work is classic literature and, luckily, it was turned into a movie by someone with a lot of talen and an understanding of what looks good on the big screen. Harry Potter was a phenomenon and luckily the movies managed to catch some of the magic that delighted kids all over the world. But now it should stop. Take your Spiderwicks, your Compasses and whatever else, and put them away. If anything, let's have some good sci-fi movies. Halo is still out there. Let's get that greenlit and turn into something good. No more orcs. No more goblins. No more talking lions.

Thankyou.

Spiderwick, Spiderwick.

Does whatever a Spiderwick does.

Watch out! Here comes the Spiderwick!

But seriously, Harry, were you shown the godliness that is the Indy 4 trailer? Can you say anything about it?

You should have heard how excited Tony was when he found out Phil Tippett was doing the creature effects. When Tony told me John Sayles was taking a crack at the script my jaw hit the floor. The fact that James Horner did the score only makes it sweeter for us Geeks who grew up with great Eighties fantasy films.

This should be a great adventure for young and old. I am glad to hear that Mark Waters did a good job with it. He came on to the project right after Mean Girls came out and he was being approached for every hot ticket comedy in Hollywood. And this is what he was interested in.

My only regret is that it doesn't look more like the books--but Tony's illustrations are very stylized and beautiful in an Arthur Rackham kind of way, and maybe they wanted the film and books to retain their own looks and own worlds, similar to what Mignola and Del Toro did with the Hellboy films.

Now if there was only news on the adaptation of Tony's version of "The Spider and the Fly" by Mary Howlett...supposedly there was an animated film in the works a few years ago, but it kind of dropped under the radar. That book has some of the finest illustrations I have ever seen--the whole book is printed with black and silver, so it looks like a classic silent movie...he's a genius, that Tony DiTerlizzi!

So, yes, I felt a confirmation was required.

I'm just sayin'.

Harry rocks, as does AICN, precisely *because* the dude raves about the stuff he sees! i actually totally prefer to hear him spklurge all over the place about something, you know, COOL, than go to town on a turkey. ok, so every now and again that's funny - but that's what Cumpston's for (and Massa and the guys more nowadays) - it ain't what i read Harry for. i read Harry's reviews because the guy is a GEEK, and somehow, thru' all the shit and the, sometimes criminally inhuman, bitching, he can still be 100% like the 8 year old boy we all kinda wish we still were. he just fuckin loves cool movies, and he doesn't give a fuck about your cynicism if you don't wanna play! well me too - i LIKE enjoying geeking out over cool movies, and i don't like being cynical, however damn clever that may might make me look on the internet!

fuck it! i'm for having fun! and thank you, Harry - thank you from the bottom of my geeky heart for having so much goddamn fun and sharing it with us all! don't ever fuckin stop! AICN is COOL, and it fuckin rules!

peace - out.

So, if you liked that then you actually might like the film. Will it be slightly different from the books, YES. But the differences actually give you something stimulating to talk to your about. Kids like to get into discussion. I remember reading "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" as a child and loving that book, only to fall in love with THE SECRET OF NIMH independent of the book.

If the creators of the books like the movie (and they do), then I see it as a ringing endorsement to see and enjoy the film.

i do love some of john sayles' work, but just because he's one of 3 writers listed means he probably did a rewrite and is not responsible for the story. my gracious, i'm snotty today!

Then we get Cloverfield, Rambo, Jumper... It does appear that 2008 is starting out in the right direction with regards to titular brevity.

Then it all gets dashed by IJ:KOTCS.

that vowel-skipping thing is obnoxious in the preview

alec baldwin got comedy actor.

Office won comedy tv ensemble

Bardem won supporting actor

Derning got Life Time Achievement. man, he had a great biography, i'm gonna track down some of his classic films

Sure, I would like to see a bad-ass Hard-R fantasy. Filled with crazy magic/mind power stuff with tons of epic battles and other geek-tastic stuff (did I mention it is obligatory to include some T&A??? *ahem*).

With all of the interest in family fantasy pics out there, surely it must be financially viable enough to make a good Adult-only fantasy? Where is that Frazetta-like Mocap pic we we've been salivating for?

If all we get right now is less comical family fantasy, fine. I'll see Spiderwick Cronicles. Just don't forget to make a good one for us geeks, OK? (Beowulf 3D was on the right path.)

BTW - Harry, good to see you making some posts. Good or bad. And yes, Wyrm does the best bad movie reviews IMHO.