I think the books were AMAZING and i also think they did a pretty good job on the movie C: Eragon was the one which movie got TOTALLY screw out of porportion!
For a second then i was so amazed this film had been made n eluded me yet from watching the trailer its obvious why. This movie is a blashemy on the original books>>>
The "Dark is Rising" Sequence is what got me hooked on the Fantasy genre years ago. This movie looks pretty good, if not somewhat straying from the original text. I wonder why they did not start this series with Book 1: Over Sea, Under Stone.
I read the book, and it's one of my favourite books of all time. I've watched this trailer (and nothing more of the film), and it's already one of my most hated films ever =P
OMGSH I KNOW The books were so pure and amazing and deep and then this idiotic movie was just completely off track and butchered the entire aesthetic and feeling of the books! WORST MOVIE EVER. I was so angry when I saw this. Why spoil something so amazing?
I love the books so much I think it would break my heart to see the movie. I don't think i should o.o its true that books are always better than teh movies, like Harry Potter...I don't think I want my heart broken again over another movie XD
It's not only the fact that he's American (which has changed the plot considerably, since it relied heavily on mythologies present in Britain and Wales), it's the fact that they've changed the plot and key events that happen. Because of that, the movie is nowhere near as good as it could have been - it's a waste of money!
And I'm hardly a moron... at least I can use proper English.
i don't care what u all think of the movie, i thought it was brilliant. much better than the book, the book was confusing but the movie had a much clearer plot and was much funnier. sorry.
what r u talking about? yeah, the book was okay, along with the other series, but the movie showed how difficult Will found it all, and the end when he came to terms of the fact he was an Old One, was amazing. im sorry. but we all have different opinions don't we?
It was a good movie. Good acting. Brilliantly portrayed. Yeah, I do agree that the movie was different to the book, but they still kept the plot. Everything about it was perfect. and i repeate, everyone has different opinions. simple as that.
I've studied film for two years. I've learned to critically appraise films. My opinions about book vs movie aside... it's bad. The acting could have been so much better, and the script wasn't well written. The effects were good, but like so many movies today, it relied too much on the effects to carry it, and it's not enough.
The dark is rising was made into a movie, for fun and entertainment. A challenge. so what if some people think its rubbish, it doesn't matter. atleast they had a go at it. no movie can be the exact as the book. nothing can replace the way how people read books. people look at books and movies from a different angle than others. i REPEAT, everyone has different opinions! this has finished.
God, I HATE what they've done to the story! Did the directors even read the books? They totally killed the story line. The 11-year-old brunette british boy, becomes a 14-year-old blonde American? WTF? His brother does NOT go with him, and Maggie Barnes is Max's interest before they see she's evil. It sucks.
YES. Omg, YES. If they're not going to decently adapt the book and start true to the events in the story as it was written by the author, then they should leave it alone and not make it into a movie at all!
They always do that. Not once have I seen a movie that was based on a book turn out well. It's a well known fact. A friend of mine watched a movie that was based on a book, but before she watched it, I warned her it wouldn't be any good, and lo and behold. It wasn't lol
damn this movie is good!! saw it at the cinma today you guys gotta go see it! anyone wanna know details ill answer for you .. its freaking awesome seriously!
i come from malaysia,i had saw this movie,i feel like not bad,but also not good,the story so normal and easy,i thing the director must read the book first,and when i see the movie,i hear many people say not good and boring,not more action.i give 3 star only***
They'll probably cut out alot of stuff from the book,rehash it into something else and get SO many things from the book wrong but I'm willing to watch it anyways because I adore the The Dark is Rising series.
Plus their not Supposed to get everything right in the movies.Their liquid fanfiction,candy for the eyes,something for the fans to watch.(You get the idea)If they tried to get every last detail right then we would probably be sitting in a theatre for 5 hours
Well, but how about if they deliberately tried to get as little from the book right as they possibly could? Many of those involved in the production have gone on record as stating that the movie has very little to do with the book, and Hodge said that he repeatedly changed things so he could see things he wanted to see in a movie and that he hasn't even read any of the other books in the series.
yeah but this is murder, wtf is up with the americanization? the actors are wrong. there are scenes that weren't in the book for a reason. the book rocked that way, why wouldn't the movie? people are gonnna think that this is so cliche
First: I so appreciate that you can spell properly and construct a logical sentence. Second: yes, i agree with you...Books are usually better than movies.
everyone seems to enjoy the books, I have not read them, but the movie looks shit, like aaragon or the harry potter movies. There is good, there is evil, kid is good, kid fights evil.
i rlly like da book(yea right im bordering on obsessive (^_^) but dis trailer dissapoints me...it just seems 2 much like a kids movie like bridge 2 terabithia!!! i feel like they damaged a good book somehow!
the books were very good the movie...doesn't look like it if it didn't say "Based of the sequence of books by Susan Cooper" i'd totally go see it and enjoy it but because it continues to call itself an adaption of those books, it is a shame hopefully in a decade or so, someone with the brains of a true genius will adapt the book correctly everything's been changed literally all of the dialogue is original and for christ's sake where the fuck is all the snow it's supposed to be Christmas
couldnt agree more, when i watch it, i will try to forget its ruining susan coopers brilliant work. where is the snow indeed, thats so much of the book missing in one go
i know.the snow like symbolised the darkness. hmm, should i see this just to complain? or to compare it to the royally screwed eragon movie? i mean, seriously, without snow u might as well not even make the movie!
when the dark comes rising, six shall turn it back, three from the circle, three from the track. i cant wait, even if i dont enjoy the film i still love the books, i always read the dark is rising in the build up to christmas, always gets me in the mood for it strangely enough
I have read better but the movie looks good.nice trailer, maybe people will read the books after seeing the movie. they are not copying the book just the plot line. chill will you this is not another Eragon
really? as i seem to recall, the plotline required a good deal of snow. and i dont see that anywhere. i dont mean to sound rude, but i do think this is another eragon
I'm so disappointed! This looks absolutely terrible. I've been a huge fan of the books and it looks like they butchered anything that was good about the series. BOYCOTT THIS FILM! Don't give Hollywood money for such crappy adaptations that are obviously just to make a buck. :(
Will does not look like Will, Merriman does not look like Merriman, and why are the Stantons americans? Trust hollywood to mangle the book, the movie sounds cheesy and ridiculous.
this is a better trailer for this movie then I've seen, it leaves out most of the stupid things, but it still does a terrible injustice to the books we all read and loved.
The book was good. A little slow, but very, very intelligent. The movie...is hopeless. Also, Will was never American and would never say "Woosh!".
But this is actually the best Dark is Rising trailer I've seen so far. The one attached to Harry Potter was complete crap. Will had some sort of crush on a school bus driver which makes him steal the first Sign from a mall, thinking it was a gift for his girl.
i second taht opinion made by RavenL4 dont watch the movie before u read the book, or go ahead and watch the movie then read the book, as soon as u have finished the book after watching the movie, u'll just as strongly appose it as if u had read the book before watching or after
I'd hate to ruin the book for someone by complaining, and the other complainers have said pretty much everything there is to say... so I'll just laugh bitterly: ha ha. ha.
Ok, I have to admit, that ('Whoosh!') was totally out of character for Will, but it was pretty funny! lol... And our complaining about a movie shouldn't turn you off from the book. The two are (apparently) completely separate entities. I'm just hoping Hollywood doesn't do to this book what they did to Eragon. You know...skip out on plot and characterization for random action sequences. I've met people who wouldn't read the Eragon books after seeing the movie bc they assume the two were alike.
really? boy were those ppl ever wrong. they are totally seperate entities. i could write a book of complaints after watching the movie eragon when i had already read the book. and yes, the whoosh was funny. have u read the book yet? cuz if u had, somthin like whoosh wouldnt suit will later on lol
Looks like it will be pretty good.....only real complaint is I think they should of used someone else for Merriman.But we will see when the movie comes out
Could y'all please stop complaining? You're ruining it for me. I've never read the books, I was going to read them, but now that you keep bitchin' about it, I'm turned off. If you hate iut so much, don't watch it! Stop it! It looks very good, I mean Christopher Eccleston on a horse! If you want to complain write hollywood, they never keep books intact! (go check out the wizard of oz)
I know right. I have just started reading the books and I dont like people ruining it. This movie comeing out is the reason I am reading the books. It remindes me alittle bit like Kingdom Hearts.
basically you're right, but I just can't stop, even if I want to. I love the books too much and have been waiting for a film version of them for about 15 years... And no, it doesn't look any good if you have read the books.
it's not about watching it or not, this film should not have been made. imagine Lord of the rings....and changing the setting from middle earth to New Jersey and then make the Elves into Star Trek Vulcans.
you are so right ppl totally have to stop complaining i dont think the books are that good and the trailer looks good so boycott it and then watch the movie with your friends when they rent it so at least you know what you are talking about
On wiki I saw it say 'restructered the mythology' and I knew right then and there they had screwed it over. HOW CAN YOU 'RESTRUCTURE' THE MYTHOLOGY OF A BOOK WHO'S CORE IS CENTRED AROUND ARTHURIAN MYTHOLOGY?! Obviously Hollywood has figured out how...The only way I will like it is if they do such a good job on it as an original movie that I'm left appreciating it for its own right. But after having seen Eragon, I'm a little unconfident about that...
Curses! I was so excited when I first saw the poster up in the movie theatre too! I was like 'OMG! They're making a movie of it!' But then I looked closer at the poster and noticed the city in the background and no one on the poster looked like Merriman and some of the people on it I couldn't even fathom who they might be in the book plot, so I began to worry but decided to give it the benefit of the doubt...but having seen this, it makes me cry inside.
Will is American and Merriman is all wrong (how hard could it have been to find an actor who is tall and skinny with a hawk-like nose??). That's a dead giveaway that it isn't faithful to the book. But it's so much worse... It looks like they saved just enough details to force us to remember what the movie was "based" on -- so there's no way I could enjoy it. I guess they're betting on their audience not having ever read the books.
It's a crime for them to even use the book's name! This has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the book! This is my favorite book/series of all time. I always did dread the possibility of a movie being made of it, but I didn't know they could butcher it this badly. Could Susan Cooper actually approve of this? It's positively awful. Will is supposed to be English. He's 11...there are no girls. Or bus rides. Or half of that other stuff. This is outrageous!
The other trailer posted by GSonlyone w/Will on the bus and at the mall is the one shown before HP; it more clearly reveals how much they tried to Americanize this very British story and worked to divorce it from the book source. Read articles posted to the net and you will see that they clearly state that this was for base marketabilty reasons and not artistic ones.
Oh man, this is so disappointing. I heard everyone complaining but I thought they were just being picky. I couldn't possibly expect a 100% accurate depiction of the book....but this is ridiculous!
They are no longer using the original poster with the flaming, correctly configured sign. This, along with what I can discern from the trailers, indicates to me that they have indeed DONE AWAY WITH the original signs and created their own.
then they shouldn't have called it THE DARK IS RISING at all. they changed so much, and not for the better, that it is really unfair to the Susan Cooper and her books to be connected with this mess.
Utter dreck. Rape of an amazing book. Derivative trailer for a derivative movie that is a re-write, not an adaption, of a moving and subtle novel. Uh, "Pseudo-Will," could you look for the signs that will direct you to the actual book plot?
damn it. why'd they have to make them American? i'm american and part of the reason i loved the books so much was how foreign the lore seemed to me... how english it was.
Couldn't they name it something else?... they've already changed the story enough! Why pull the name of a great series into their vapid Hollywood sinkhole?
I think the books were AMAZING and i also think they did a pretty good job on the movie C: Eragon was the one which movie got TOTALLY screw out of porportion!
LoveNotHateMJ 3 months ago
For a second then i was so amazed this film had been made n eluded me yet from watching the trailer its obvious why. This movie is a blashemy on the original books>>>
eyesrdeeperbrown 1 year ago
where can we watch it full
nictwifie 1 year ago
@nictwifie do you have Skype?
hp4bulgarianteam 1 year ago
Is 'The Dark is Rising' coming in October 2010??? Or is it already for sale??
MerelKuiper 1 year ago
@MerelKuiper it's already for sale. and it's really cool movie!
hp4bulgarianteam 1 year ago
The "Dark is Rising" Sequence is what got me hooked on the Fantasy genre years ago. This movie looks pretty good, if not somewhat straying from the original text. I wonder why they did not start this series with Book 1: Over Sea, Under Stone.
FreeMason04 2 years ago
I just remembered this. In the scene with the Rider on his horse, it is supposed to be black, not white.
skeletonmom 2 years ago
I just saw the movie...
Love it!!!
I wanna read the book...
It's amazing really!
Jaksalie 2 years ago
I read the book, and it's one of my favourite books of all time. I've watched this trailer (and nothing more of the film), and it's already one of my most hated films ever =P
Butchery!
MattWindsor91 2 years ago
OMGSH I KNOW The books were so pure and amazing and deep and then this idiotic movie was just completely off track and butchered the entire aesthetic and feeling of the books! WORST MOVIE EVER. I was so angry when I saw this. Why spoil something so amazing?
BenedictRoend 2 years ago 4
If there is a sequal, when is it going to be filmed?
NickJonasBurningUp11 2 years ago
why was no one adding the movie??
kagome1491 3 years ago
the books are waaay better. the filmed ruined it so much
MrsHarkness89 3 years ago
I love the books so much I think it would break my heart to see the movie. I don't think i should o.o its true that books are always better than teh movies, like Harry Potter...I don't think I want my heart broken again over another movie XD
PrincessoftheWind 3 years ago
Many of these scenes aren't even in the film!
JapaneseSeaTurtle 3 years ago
i know! Grrr!
DecemberOfDying 3 years ago
i thought it was a gd film, nd will is fiiiiiit!! wat year was dis film made??
xxsmakkaxx 3 years ago
they ruined the books this movie is ok but barely has anything to do with the books and when he takes tom home my god it pissed me off
azmattman 3 years ago
It's not only the fact that he's American (which has changed the plot considerably, since it relied heavily on mythologies present in Britain and Wales), it's the fact that they've changed the plot and key events that happen. Because of that, the movie is nowhere near as good as it could have been - it's a waste of money!
And I'm hardly a moron... at least I can use proper English.
Saethchan 4 years ago
i don't care what u all think of the movie, i thought it was brilliant. much better than the book, the book was confusing but the movie had a much clearer plot and was much funnier. sorry.
nm9801 4 years ago
What are you, 12? The books are perfectly clear. It's not a comedy, it's not meant to be funny. It's nothing on the book. Susan Cooper hates it.
Saethchan 4 years ago
what r u talking about? yeah, the book was okay, along with the other series, but the movie showed how difficult Will found it all, and the end when he came to terms of the fact he was an Old One, was amazing. im sorry. but we all have different opinions don't we?
nm9801 4 years ago
It was a bad movie. Badly acted, badly portrayed, and badly adapted. Simple as that.
Saethchan 4 years ago
It was a good movie. Good acting. Brilliantly portrayed. Yeah, I do agree that the movie was different to the book, but they still kept the plot. Everything about it was perfect. and i repeate, everyone has different opinions. simple as that.
nm9801 4 years ago
I've studied film for two years. I've learned to critically appraise films. My opinions about book vs movie aside... it's bad. The acting could have been so much better, and the script wasn't well written. The effects were good, but like so many movies today, it relied too much on the effects to carry it, and it's not enough.
Saethchan 4 years ago
The dark is rising was made into a movie, for fun and entertainment. A challenge. so what if some people think its rubbish, it doesn't matter. atleast they had a go at it. no movie can be the exact as the book. nothing can replace the way how people read books. people look at books and movies from a different angle than others. i REPEAT, everyone has different opinions! this has finished.
nm9801 4 years ago
really? she hates the movie? if so, maybe other authors hate the movie adaptation of thier books *cough Christopher Paolini cough cough*
Animechic549 3 years ago
What what??
NOOOOO!!!!
Its shit!
Oh i'm soo dissapionted.
Nothing to the book ='[
hughestom 4 years ago
i loved this moive the kid is so cute i so wont to adopt him
FicoIronfist 4 years ago
The word is that the script writers did not even bother to read the series and merely glanced at the 2nd volume Dark is Rising.
In addition, they must be "Valley guys" with limited education and arrested development.
sfkcbf 4 years ago
God, I HATE what they've done to the story! Did the directors even read the books? They totally killed the story line. The 11-year-old brunette british boy, becomes a 14-year-old blonde American? WTF? His brother does NOT go with him, and Maggie Barnes is Max's interest before they see she's evil. It sucks.
Saethchan 4 years ago
dont you hate it when the make movies out of really good books but they dont do a good job?
HawthornHeightsfan91 4 years ago
YES. Omg, YES. If they're not going to decently adapt the book and start true to the events in the story as it was written by the author, then they should leave it alone and not make it into a movie at all!
Saethchan 4 years ago
They always do that. Not once have I seen a movie that was based on a book turn out well. It's a well known fact. A friend of mine watched a movie that was based on a book, but before she watched it, I warned her it wouldn't be any good, and lo and behold. It wasn't lol
Animechic549 3 years ago
tbh im quite sick of all these new films which the hero is a child, its ridiculous.
its ridiculous when a roid raged man such as stallone or arnie save the world, never mind a child.
but none the less its suppose to be a good film! i wont be seeing it tho :)
kingscobra123 4 years ago
BEST FILM IN THE WORLD
fayensquig 4 years ago
damn this movie is good!! saw it at the cinma today you guys gotta go see it! anyone wanna know details ill answer for you .. its freaking awesome seriously!
Bethiibaybiixo 4 years ago
i come from malaysia,i had saw this movie,i feel like not bad,but also not good,the story so normal and easy,i thing the director must read the book first,and when i see the movie,i hear many people say not good and boring,not more action.i give 3 star only***
leongjiet 4 years ago
im glad i red th book...its answerd so many questions!!
sugarissweetandsoami 4 years ago
NO! Will looks and sounds stupid compared to the book Will! They've ruined it!
EtherealKingdom 4 years ago
Do yourself a favor, people.... Read the books. Trust me, you'll understand why so many people are complaining about the movie.
chicagocanine 4 years ago
even the smallest light shines in the dark
thanks for that
nevardc 4 years ago
Please read the book(s). That way, if you do have to see the movie, you will know all it could be.
Sylvi3D 4 years ago
They'll probably cut out alot of stuff from the book,rehash it into something else and get SO many things from the book wrong but I'm willing to watch it anyways because I adore the The Dark is Rising series.
Plus their not Supposed to get everything right in the movies.Their liquid fanfiction,candy for the eyes,something for the fans to watch.(You get the idea)If they tried to get every last detail right then we would probably be sitting in a theatre for 5 hours
snowsheep12921 4 years ago
Well, but how about if they deliberately tried to get as little from the book right as they possibly could? Many of those involved in the production have gone on record as stating that the movie has very little to do with the book, and Hodge said that he repeatedly changed things so he could see things he wanted to see in a movie and that he hasn't even read any of the other books in the series.
pbarnes26 4 years ago
yeah but this is murder, wtf is up with the americanization? the actors are wrong. there are scenes that weren't in the book for a reason. the book rocked that way, why wouldn't the movie? people are gonnna think that this is so cliche
BOBTHED0G 4 years ago
First: I so appreciate that you can spell properly and construct a logical sentence. Second: yes, i agree with you...Books are usually better than movies.
morosefelicity 4 years ago
AAAARRRGGGGHHH! American-ized! Good Books pissed on my greedy christian motherfuckin directors! READ THE BOOK KIDS!
ladyshadow2000 4 years ago
everyone seems to enjoy the books, I have not read them, but the movie looks shit, like aaragon or the harry potter movies. There is good, there is evil, kid is good, kid fights evil.
he will no doubt win at the end of each movie.
the end
thcloveaffair 4 years ago
i rlly like da book(yea right im bordering on obsessive (^_^) but dis trailer dissapoints me...it just seems 2 much like a kids movie like bridge 2 terabithia!!! i feel like they damaged a good book somehow!
animewar1 4 years ago 2
If only they hadn't given him a yank accent. Books are good. Trailer looks cheap. Great advert for Golden Compass
nickvids4u 4 years ago
I CAN'T WAIT! this is my FAVORITE book series! ^=^
NiteMaire 4 years ago
cant wait for this show to be released.
manojkurt 4 years ago
the walker is abroad
trialsride 4 years ago
DarkElder713 4 years ago
couldnt agree more, when i watch it, i will try to forget its ruining susan coopers brilliant work. where is the snow indeed, thats so much of the book missing in one go
trialsride 4 years ago
i know.the snow like symbolised the darkness. hmm, should i see this just to complain? or to compare it to the royally screwed eragon movie? i mean, seriously, without snow u might as well not even make the movie!
Animechic549 3 years ago
when the dark comes rising, six shall turn it back, three from the circle, three from the track. i cant wait, even if i dont enjoy the film i still love the books, i always read the dark is rising in the build up to christmas, always gets me in the mood for it strangely enough
trialsride 4 years ago
i read the book sick
gopet 4 years ago
I have read better but the movie looks good.nice trailer, maybe people will read the books after seeing the movie. they are not copying the book just the plot line. chill will you this is not another Eragon
mushroomrinn 4 years ago
really? as i seem to recall, the plotline required a good deal of snow. and i dont see that anywhere. i dont mean to sound rude, but i do think this is another eragon
Animechic549 3 years ago
Noooo....they broke The Dark is Rising.
Darthbeckah 4 years ago
the series is a good concept for a book but HORRIBLE in movies. and this looks like too andtiony with abunch of mindless explosions
MylesMoore 4 years ago
totally aggree wit u dere
Animechic549 3 years ago
This seems like a rip-off of nightwatch (the russian one)
MPizzal 4 years ago
I'm so disappointed! This looks absolutely terrible. I've been a huge fan of the books and it looks like they butchered anything that was good about the series. BOYCOTT THIS FILM! Don't give Hollywood money for such crappy adaptations that are obviously just to make a buck. :(
pendragnx 4 years ago
well for me, i like it and i cant wait for it.. hee hee!!
leeann0311 4 years ago
Will does not look like Will, Merriman does not look like Merriman, and why are the Stantons americans? Trust hollywood to mangle the book, the movie sounds cheesy and ridiculous.
mairearad 4 years ago
ya, hollywood does that with any movie thats based on a book.
Animechic549 3 years ago
this is a better trailer for this movie then I've seen, it leaves out most of the stupid things, but it still does a terrible injustice to the books we all read and loved.
RavenL4 4 years ago
The book was good. A little slow, but very, very intelligent. The movie...is hopeless. Also, Will was never American and would never say "Woosh!".
But this is actually the best Dark is Rising trailer I've seen so far. The one attached to Harry Potter was complete crap. Will had some sort of crush on a school bus driver which makes him steal the first Sign from a mall, thinking it was a gift for his girl.
trilogyfreak9 4 years ago
Hey, that looks interesting ... remembers me a lil bit of "Time bandits" and "National Treasure".
If I like the film, maybe I`ll read the books afterwards.
SeraphinaZoe 4 years ago
Do yourself a favor read the books first and forget the film.
RavenL4 4 years ago
i second taht opinion made by RavenL4 dont watch the movie before u read the book, or go ahead and watch the movie then read the book, as soon as u have finished the book after watching the movie, u'll just as strongly appose it as if u had read the book before watching or after
Animechic549 3 years ago
"Can I fly? ... You know, whoosh?"
I'd hate to ruin the book for someone by complaining, and the other complainers have said pretty much everything there is to say... so I'll just laugh bitterly: ha ha. ha.
suurstrutsi 4 years ago
Ok, I have to admit, that ('Whoosh!') was totally out of character for Will, but it was pretty funny! lol... And our complaining about a movie shouldn't turn you off from the book. The two are (apparently) completely separate entities. I'm just hoping Hollywood doesn't do to this book what they did to Eragon. You know...skip out on plot and characterization for random action sequences. I've met people who wouldn't read the Eragon books after seeing the movie bc they assume the two were alike.
haganenohono 4 years ago
really? boy were those ppl ever wrong. they are totally seperate entities. i could write a book of complaints after watching the movie eragon when i had already read the book. and yes, the whoosh was funny. have u read the book yet? cuz if u had, somthin like whoosh wouldnt suit will later on lol
Animechic549 3 years ago
Looks like it will be pretty good.....only real complaint is I think they should of used someone else for Merriman.But we will see when the movie comes out
pixcalcis 4 years ago
Could y'all please stop complaining? You're ruining it for me. I've never read the books, I was going to read them, but now that you keep bitchin' about it, I'm turned off. If you hate iut so much, don't watch it! Stop it! It looks very good, I mean Christopher Eccleston on a horse! If you want to complain write hollywood, they never keep books intact! (go check out the wizard of oz)
TARDISbunny 4 years ago
I know right. I have just started reading the books and I dont like people ruining it. This movie comeing out is the reason I am reading the books. It remindes me alittle bit like Kingdom Hearts.
destinyislandgirl 4 years ago
basically you're right, but I just can't stop, even if I want to. I love the books too much and have been waiting for a film version of them for about 15 years... And no, it doesn't look any good if you have read the books.
agenthuhn 4 years ago
Why should we? This is the equivalent of Americanizing Harry Potter. Of course the fans are upset.
Hetaconcherie 4 years ago
it's not about watching it or not, this film should not have been made. imagine Lord of the rings....and changing the setting from middle earth to New Jersey and then make the Elves into Star Trek Vulcans.
Notcoldsoup 4 years ago
you are so right ppl totally have to stop complaining i dont think the books are that good and the trailer looks good so boycott it and then watch the movie with your friends when they rent it so at least you know what you are talking about
mushroomrinn 4 years ago
'Restructure the mythology'... And this is why america has so little culture anymore...
haganenohono 4 years ago
On wiki I saw it say 'restructered the mythology' and I knew right then and there they had screwed it over. HOW CAN YOU 'RESTRUCTURE' THE MYTHOLOGY OF A BOOK WHO'S CORE IS CENTRED AROUND ARTHURIAN MYTHOLOGY?! Obviously Hollywood has figured out how...The only way I will like it is if they do such a good job on it as an original movie that I'm left appreciating it for its own right. But after having seen Eragon, I'm a little unconfident about that...
haganenohono 4 years ago
Curses! I was so excited when I first saw the poster up in the movie theatre too! I was like 'OMG! They're making a movie of it!' But then I looked closer at the poster and noticed the city in the background and no one on the poster looked like Merriman and some of the people on it I couldn't even fathom who they might be in the book plot, so I began to worry but decided to give it the benefit of the doubt...but having seen this, it makes me cry inside.
haganenohono 4 years ago
I too was exicted when I saw the poster... That was untill I saw the trailer...
WalnutFilms 4 years ago
Will is American and Merriman is all wrong (how hard could it have been to find an actor who is tall and skinny with a hawk-like nose??). That's a dead giveaway that it isn't faithful to the book. But it's so much worse... It looks like they saved just enough details to force us to remember what the movie was "based" on -- so there's no way I could enjoy it. I guess they're betting on their audience not having ever read the books.
Minlet88 4 years ago
actually will is canadian and the whole thing was filmed in Romania. trust me i go to school with the actor who plays will
mushroomrinn 4 years ago
hey
what grade are you in?
i go to collingwood too..my name is melanie
and i was born in romania..
kutiepie176 4 years ago
It's a crime for them to even use the book's name! This has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the book! This is my favorite book/series of all time. I always did dread the possibility of a movie being made of it, but I didn't know they could butcher it this badly. Could Susan Cooper actually approve of this? It's positively awful. Will is supposed to be English. He's 11...there are no girls. Or bus rides. Or half of that other stuff. This is outrageous!
hellofishstick 4 years ago
The other trailer posted by GSonlyone w/Will on the bus and at the mall is the one shown before HP; it more clearly reveals how much they tried to Americanize this very British story and worked to divorce it from the book source. Read articles posted to the net and you will see that they clearly state that this was for base marketabilty reasons and not artistic ones.
pbarnes26 4 years ago
It looks like a really good movie, and the little kid is kind of hot. XD Can't wait to see it.
unlockyourheart 4 years ago
the little kid is 15, he is just really short for his age
mushroomrinn 4 years ago
Oh man, this is so disappointing. I heard everyone complaining but I thought they were just being picky. I couldn't possibly expect a 100% accurate depiction of the book....but this is ridiculous!
MoonlightDancer16 4 years ago
looks like a terrible mess... please READ THE BOOKS instead, they are amazingly imaginative, atmospheric, captivating, and not so "pseudo-cool"...
agenthuhn 4 years ago
ignore my first comment I checked the poster online i think its right i thought i saw a different shape
kalenial 4 years ago
They are no longer using the original poster with the flaming, correctly configured sign. This, along with what I can discern from the trailers, indicates to me that they have indeed DONE AWAY WITH the original signs and created their own.
pbarnes26 4 years ago
then they shouldn't have called it THE DARK IS RISING at all. they changed so much, and not for the better, that it is really unfair to the Susan Cooper and her books to be connected with this mess.
agenthuhn 4 years ago
I THINK THEY GOT THE SIGNS WRONG!!!!!! are the signs supose to be a circle with a X?
kalenial 4 years ago
What the...? That americanized mess looks nothing like the book I know and love.
*Whoosh!* I think I just died a little inside...
Papagena07 4 years ago
Utter dreck. Rape of an amazing book. Derivative trailer for a derivative movie that is a re-write, not an adaption, of a moving and subtle novel. Uh, "Pseudo-Will," could you look for the signs that will direct you to the actual book plot?
pbarnes26 4 years ago
damn it. why'd they have to make them American? i'm american and part of the reason i loved the books so much was how foreign the lore seemed to me... how english it was.
ndawg98 4 years ago
very excited to see this...
baldsound 4 years ago
Makes me kinda sick, watching this. I hate Hollywood.
Hetaconcherie 4 years ago
Couldn't they name it something else?... they've already changed the story enough! Why pull the name of a great series into their vapid Hollywood sinkhole?
justonemoresarah 4 years ago
So...they're making a movie out of the SECOND book in the series? The first book was "Over Sea, Under Stone".
jackal912 4 years ago
Rose Byrn looks like Keira Knightley if you stop RIGHT at 1:40
TheKing59458 4 years ago
...I don't understand. Why is Will Stanton American? I may cry. Thanks for putting the trailer up, though - I was curious.
renward 4 years ago
YEAH!!!
i KNOW
wasn't the friggen' book set in ENGLAND!!!?!
GAWD
it sound dumb with him all americanized...
RedderApollo 4 years ago
i heard this movie has the biggest twist of the year.
tg987 4 years ago
I heard they screwed with the story and made some of the characters evil for the hell of it. Won't say which ones, but it's obvious.
Hetaconcherie 4 years ago
Looking forward to seeing Christopher Eccleston in this. Been a while, but I remember the book was good.
Ivyandstone 4 years ago