Treasure Planet
Mar. 28th, 2003 07:02 amI watched Treasure Planet tonight... I really enjoyed it. Probably because of David Hyde Pierce... what a cute lad *G* But anyway, now I'm wishing I had read Treasure Island all those years ago. I really enjoyed the father/son relationship between Jim and Silver and if it's done that well in the book (er, or at all in the book) I would totally read it just for that. I'm not a huge pirate fan... but I could get into it for that. And I'd also like to find out how accurate the ending is... or whether Disney just made it happy because, hey, it's Disney. Anyone out there ever read Treasure Planet?
Anyway, I did enjoy it as a 'playing in the background as I wrote my paper' sort of movie. The 'Danit, Jim! I'm an astronomer not a doctor!..." lines were TOO FUNNY for words. I replayed them about 20 times. LOL
I followed the movie up with the 10th episode of Stargate which was great, because I've always loved the Norse Gods. So a nice night... and it's 7am.. I'm off to shower and clean catbox and fall asleep for 3 hours until my meeting. Needless to say, I'm not giving blood this morning with my boyfriend. *sigh* Ah well, they always yell at me for bleeding too slowly anyway. Night!
Anyway, I did enjoy it as a 'playing in the background as I wrote my paper' sort of movie. The 'Danit, Jim! I'm an astronomer not a doctor!..." lines were TOO FUNNY for words. I replayed them about 20 times. LOL
I followed the movie up with the 10th episode of Stargate which was great, because I've always loved the Norse Gods. So a nice night... and it's 7am.. I'm off to shower and clean catbox and fall asleep for 3 hours until my meeting. Needless to say, I'm not giving blood this morning with my boyfriend. *sigh* Ah well, they always yell at me for bleeding too slowly anyway. Night!
Re: Treasure Planet
Date: 2003-03-28 01:52 pm (UTC)I know a lot of people who boycotted the movie because of that- which is fine, I've done the same thing with some things- doesn't sound odd, I think it's very good of you. But I personally like remakes that are very different from the original in time/place (like the Romeo and Juliet done in 'modern day' that came out a few years ago with Leo and Claire) I think it takes a lot of creativity to tell a story in a completely different way. And I'd heard the graphic effects were great, which many were.
I think I'm definitely going to boost Treasure Island to to top of my reading list behind Fellowship now... thanks for the brief description of those aspects... *G* In Treasure Plant, there was a short bit of that torn between two very different characteristics in Silver... and I was actually pretty startled with the fatherly one won out over the mean and greedy. I think the book would be a much better place for me to get that struggle in depth :-) ANyhoo, thank you!!!!!