The Best Movie Of The Year
If you go to the theater to be entertained (or at least sucked into another world for a couple of hours), do yourself a favor and go watch Stardust. This movies is very well-made and actually follows a coherent plot (something that the big movies have been lacking lately). The choices of actors and actresses were spot on for their roles.
Robert DeNiro shows up as a "quirky" Captain Shakespear (a lightning capturing sky pirate). Michelle Pfeiffer does a great job as the wicked witch. And Claire Danes has done a wonderful job of bringing a fallen star to life. And plenty of good acting rounds out the rest of the cast.
The basic premise seems a bit bizarre at first, but this is a fantasy movie after all! Tristan is a boy who lives in a town called Wall, in 19th century England. There is a wall next to the town that separates England from a parallel universe. No one is allowed to go there. But when Tristan sees a falling star, he sets out to get a piece of it so he "can show his love for Victoria". His adventures along the way are the things that dreams are made of. To see them so adroitly brought to the silver screen is almost enough to restore the idea that Hollywood has not completely lost its marbles...
All in all, I came out of the theater better off for having watched this film. And if there are no Oscar nods to this film; perhaps Hollywood has lost its marbles.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486655/
Robert DeNiro shows up as a "quirky" Captain Shakespear (a lightning capturing sky pirate). Michelle Pfeiffer does a great job as the wicked witch. And Claire Danes has done a wonderful job of bringing a fallen star to life. And plenty of good acting rounds out the rest of the cast.
The basic premise seems a bit bizarre at first, but this is a fantasy movie after all! Tristan is a boy who lives in a town called Wall, in 19th century England. There is a wall next to the town that separates England from a parallel universe. No one is allowed to go there. But when Tristan sees a falling star, he sets out to get a piece of it so he "can show his love for Victoria". His adventures along the way are the things that dreams are made of. To see them so adroitly brought to the silver screen is almost enough to restore the idea that Hollywood has not completely lost its marbles...
All in all, I came out of the theater better off for having watched this film. And if there are no Oscar nods to this film; perhaps Hollywood has lost its marbles.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486655/
posted by Mike Deitchman at
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