Seeker - Dark is Rising Susan Cooper words/ SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIE SPOILERS

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Eustace_Scrubb" 
<dk59us at ...> wrote:
>
> Alla wrote:
> >
> > http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14783609
> > 
> > Well, Marion and Magpie, I am going to go tomorrow, I think.]
> > 
> > I will let you know my thoughts ;)
> Eustace_Scrubb:

> Thanks for the link.  It's nice to hear Cooper's voice reading from
> the book.
> 
> It looks like a fair percentage of the film critics have either 
read
> the books or are otherwise savvy enough to have figured out how 
much
> Cunningham, Hodge and company have departed from the books.  And
> they're not favorably impressed as a rule.  I'll still probably 
see it
> with my son...just to see for myself.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Eustace_Scrubb



Alla:

My pleasure. Well I saw it, I did.

Where to start? Oh the good news, I guess. You will not be tempted 
to walk out from this movie, especially if you have not read the 
book. Or at least I think so. The movie is entertaining enough if 
you forget that it has ANY relation to Susan Cooper book IMO, still 
nothing special but okay action/fantasy flick.


If you did read the book, well, if you hypnotised yourself well 
enough, you may be able to think that you are in the middle of some 
horrible dream that pretends to be the adaptation of the book, but 
this dream will end soon and yoyu will be able to come back to the 
wonderful world of the book.


Oh, oh another piece of good news. Stantons are NOT as bad as 
Dursleys ;)

Truly, they are not. Will's brothers "bullying" I guess you can call 
friendly teasing sort of or maybe cruel teasing.

His parents are emotionally distant for a reason, which sort of gets 
resolved at the end ( SHHHHHH - book fans, I am sure you would NOT 
want to know that reason and how it gets resolved), so I "think" 
film makers wanted to convey a loving family, sort of.

They are definitely NOT warm, loving, supportive Stantons of canon, 
but they are I GUESS, close enough.

That is if we forget that they are americans, Will has a younger 
sister, Will turning 14, if we forget all those tiny details.


So, yeah, rooks everywhere and two guards indeed turn into many 
rooks.

Scary that.


Um, the Old ones apparently can die. GOT IT guys? They apparently 
can die. Turns out Will's ancestor was an old one and he created 
signs and he is apparently not among the living anymore, I think.


Old Ones are absolutely NOT Old ones, although they do call 
themselves such.


They are, well, rather sad in a sense that I did not see any powers 
of them manifesting themselves. Except walking through time and 
trying to fight with rooks in rather sad way.


Merryman, godlike being, who is an amasing help to Will in the 
battle and does all those scary things? NOPE. Nothing of the such.


Book of Gramarye apparently gives Will no wisdom except he is 
reading about signs from there.

Oh, oh and he cannot fly, NOOOOOO.


Max is just being I guess Imperioed by Rider, so he is not really 
bad.



Now, two silliest plot twists ever as far as I am concerned. Oh no 
sorry, three.


Are you sitting guys? There is no Walker. Repeat after me. There is 
NO sign of Walker anywhere in the movie, NADA, zilch.


Oh, oh and the sixth sign? It is Will himself. I thought for a 
second he would scream to Rider, I am a Horcrux, I got it.


Oh man, I know I am rambling, but it is just so bad.


And the reason why Will parents are that way? Tom, that brother who 
died, well he was Will's twin and he was kidnapped.

Turns out by Rider ( who is well cast I thought). Will saves him at 
the end.

We have two Wills now.


OYOYOY.

Alla