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In my view this is a lovely exploration of the life-giving nature of friendship.
The Nostalgia Critic shows why this picture is far from perfect. Nonetheless, Katherine Paterson’s original novel is very fine and I felt that in those areas where it mattered, this adaptation was able to maintain something of the beauty and authenticity which permeated the written work.
KW.
Additionally, the Nostalgia Critic demonstrates why speaking scathingly of religious extremism in films whilst being a committed Catholic is duplicitous and is a foolish idea, never mind a baffling and preposterous one. What a chump.
AnnaSophia Robb looks like a Barbie, I will grant him that. The rest of it, though? Brony (euphemism for 'corpulent, somewhat-perverted waste of money, time and resources', in case you're new to the Internet) jokes? Unwelcome and definitively trite. Hunger Games references? Ditto. Skits featuring black Nazis? Historically inaccurate and completely irrelevant. Reviewing a film that will be 7 years old in about 3 months and calling it nostalgic? An insult to our capacity to remember things, not to mention blatant bandwagoning (in light of this whole 'nostalgia' thing going on). Misuse of the word 'whimsical'? Disgraceful. Descriptions of Josh Hutcherson as a relatively good actor? Even more so. Skits of him going to the toilet? Indicative of his immature sense of humour. Speaking of which, he seems reluctant to admit that despite his portentous views of his profession, he is not a critic and merely serves as a fount of pathetic toilet humour, cheap gags and exaggerated, hammed up, scripted parodies (y'know, the kind that Adam Sandler performs in his sleep) of things that were never really all that amusing in the first place. And that's without mentioning his exceedingly frustrating propensity for succumbing to tangential distractions and his constant digressions from the subject matter. He also refrained from impaling his testicles on toothpicks, as many people apparently instructed him to do. Despite being morbid, disgusting and agonisingly painful, it would still have been funnier than anything he actually did in the episode. That's not to say I find other people's pain stimulating, which would make me a sadist- it merely highlights NC's grievously poor sense of humour, a sense of humour so calamitously bad that I've yet to see any B-List American comedian or toilet-obsessed five-year-old boy surpass it.
Other than that, I think he did an outstanding job.
If God gives you lemons, make lemonade. If given melons, return them and tell God he needs glasses
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The Nostalgia Critic shows why this picture is far from perfect.
Nonetheless, Katherine Paterson’s original novel is very fine and I felt that in those areas where it mattered, this adaptation was able to maintain something of the beauty and authenticity which permeated the written work.
I mention him, MadTom, because I think the film had many failings and because the NC did a fine enough job, in my opinion, of cataloging said failings. I get that some people have issues with his rhetoric but I just looked past that.
As for the interview you cite with David Paterson, clearly certain elements of language which were more commonplace in the 1970's, and aren't anymore, have nonetheless been preserved in this adaptation. That is a weakness...
But ... look ... I liked the movie and so don't wanna dwell too much on its weaknesses.
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