well asa butterfield grew up now I know
how Peter Pan felt when he returned to
the nursery only to find out that wendy
was a grown-up I mean when the movie
started they had some narration and I
was like oh I wonder what it don't they
got to do the narration and then there
were like BAM
that's ASA Butterfield's voice I mean
really marveling and how adult he is
really saved a lot of this movie for me
it distracted me from how awful it is
and I have to say as many of you know
I've never been a particularly big asa
butterfield fan I thought he was a bad
choice for Ender's Game and when he was
up for the new spider-man role opposite
Tom Holland I was like don't you do it
sodium Marvel he's a mistake and I'm
tempted to say he was a mistake here as
well I still think that he's not a
leading man
he seems like a perfectly nice kid and I
think he's a good actor well now almost
adult but there's just he just doesn't
have the it factor that I think makes
him someone you want to spend in this
case two hours with but I can't totally
blame him for the movie because he's one
half of the best part of it and that's
the romance squeeze oh it's a very good
romance like that's the only reason to
see this movie if you are a lovesick
teenager or even a tween I think you
would totally be into this this romance
between ASA Butterfield's character and
Ella Purnell's character is as hot as
the romance can get that involves
teenagers it was very very good they did
a very good job capturing what's so
evocative and you know just captures
people's hearts when it comes to
star-crossed or in this case time
crossed lovers but as for the rest of
the movie I think the best way for me to
describe it is that it's an incredibly
poor taste and I think that it really
seems to go just purely for shock value
and the best way to point that out
without too many small any spoilers this
is a spoiler free review don't worry
about it but Enochs peculiarity which
people who familiar with the the books
know and if you are if you don't believe
me and you don't see this movie you too
will know what I'm talking about once
you've seen it but anyway the enoch
character
peculiarities is so horrible so
grotesque and so morally bankrupt that
first of all you're like amazed someone
even came up with it and then you're
just you're shocked and how you know and
again I said this is done for shock
value but the broad strokes in which
it's handled in the film really makes
you question the initial intent of the
of the filmmakers I can't question the
intent of the author who came up with
Enoch in the first place because I'm not
familiar with the book so I don't know
what he did with that but I can tell you
as for Tim Burton and Jane Jane Goldman
the director and screenwriter here they
I mean if I can't believe it they would
depict something like this in a family
movie and not take it seriously and feel
like there's some responsibility to do
it right
and speaking up to that to that I can't
believe that this is a family movie I
don't think anyone under 13 should go
and see it because it deals with so much
death and you know let's see a murder
and torture I was just again I was
shocked but I felt not in a worthy way
you know again it was just for shock
value but it looked nice though it had
some nice visuals but justice samuel
jackson had scary teeth and cool
contacts didn't excuse his performance
and I just recently was praising samuel
l.jackson for moving past paycheck gigs
I was like welcome back Samuel and then
he goes and does this which is like the
Paycheck East gig of all in fact during
some of his scenes I was sitting there
just like just just a gape okay I look
that word up alright I and thinking to
myself how could anybody on set when
they were filming this been like you
know I think this is going great
I think we got it let's move on to the
next shot I'd be like I think we need to
like seriously rethink everything about
this movie I can't believe we even got
to the production stage how is this not
stopped with the script and that's
what's so weird about it because there's
so many talented people involved in this
production Tim Burton Jane Goldman Eva
Green sama al Jackson Terence Stamp
Junie freakin Dench who by the way so
adorable in this move
and also is in the films best to
jump-scare but i have to say the books
are so popular and i know so many of you
are so excited about this movie because
you love the books that i feel it must
ultimately be the script but they have
enough time here this movie wasn't
shortchanged it's like two hours I want
to get out of the press screening I was
like man that was a long movie so I
guess to its credit it doesn't feel long
but I guess the angle or the focus that
they ultimately decided to go with just
was the wrong entry point for the film I
also feel that there wasn't a grandeur
to it it it went back and forth between
the shock value and also just kind of
like lifelessly just being there they're
like yeah this is the story and you're
like I think you could make a little bit
more effort or seem like you cared a
little bit more like for instance the
peculiar who has the firepower when she
wants to put something on fire she just
like kind of like nonchalantly is like
yeah you're on fire and you're like man
sell it come on make an effort here
I guess I'm spoiled by x-men movies but
I think even from a literary sense this
is just really weak so I think that the
best way for me to describe how weird
this movie is and the point where I was
like I don't even know what I'm watching
anymore was we're toward the end there's
a fight between some monsters some
skeletons on a boardwalk at a carnival
to techno music and it was just so odd
and so like slap together and so not Tim
Burton that I just was kind of I really
actually made me think of timber in that
moment and I was like led you to this
point Tim Burton this is truly bizarre
and I guess that's also a good way to
describe this movie it's just really
bizarre and in poor taste and shock
value and not well written so I'm
curious to hear your thoughts about the
film down below I know some of you won't
believe me and in some ways this is a
movie so weird and so bad that it needs
to be seen to be believed so I look
forward to discussing it with you down
below but don't spoil it for anyone make
sure you put spoiler headers in your
comments if you want to discuss
something specific about the film
alright thanks for discussing this with
me again I look forward to talking about
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