particular book. And, when I heard there was a movie adaptation out
for release I was kinda scared. But, I reminded myself about the
care the Potter and Tolkien series had received and that maybe this
children's adventure story will receive the same treatment.
Wow, was I wrong.
The Dark is Rising is not a terribly
complex book. It's standard fantasy fodder- magic powers, quest to
find a thing, got to stop the dark evil people from destroying the
world. And there's like two plots through the whole book.
Yet, the producers felt it necessary to
juice it up. Now the boy has “great strength”. And it an
annoying American actor instead of a humble English kid. And somehow
they turned the light plot into a sketch of itself. Rushing through
points that should have been lingered over to retread scenes from the
Matrix and Commando. Dad isn't a simple jeweler anymore, now he's a
physicist writing about “light and darkness” and talking about
how it's best not to know! Best not to know!
And they added a twin brother. Added a
twin! With a lame kidnap story. One that the whole family sorta,
kinda forgot to tell the main character about for 14 years! In 14
years no one let slip, “oh, Will, by the way. You had a twin
brother that was kidnapped out of your crib when you were but months
old. Did anyone mention that to you, at all?”
And the scenes in the books that would
have been great set pieces were dumbed down. I tried not to judge
this film as a fan of the book. I don't think I did too good of a
job because it departs unnecessarily from the source material. I
could tell they did it to differentiate from Potter, and they didn't
need to.
This movie is terrible because of the
decisions made by the producers.
Shun it. Make it sit in the corner to
think about what its done.
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