Let's get this out of the way: I loved it. I'm a sucker for 3-D movies, and if I'd seen this one when I was 12 years old, I'd have stayed right there in the theater and watched it again. Everybody knows the story. The twist this time is that Jules Verne's book isn't a novel. It's nonfiction. So a scientist and his nephew go looking for proof of that. They hook up with a hot mountain guide along the way, fall immense distances without harm, deal with monsters and such, and seem to be having a great time. Sure, the "science" makes no sense. Who cares? This isn't a documentary. Give your inner kid a treat and check it out.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Journey to the Center of the Earth 3-D
Let's get this out of the way: I loved it. I'm a sucker for 3-D movies, and if I'd seen this one when I was 12 years old, I'd have stayed right there in the theater and watched it again. Everybody knows the story. The twist this time is that Jules Verne's book isn't a novel. It's nonfiction. So a scientist and his nephew go looking for proof of that. They hook up with a hot mountain guide along the way, fall immense distances without harm, deal with monsters and such, and seem to be having a great time. Sure, the "science" makes no sense. Who cares? This isn't a documentary. Give your inner kid a treat and check it out.
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I haven't seen it yet but having liked the 3D in BEOWULF, I'm tempted to catch it in a suitably equipped theater. I'm heartened that this old warhorse keeps getting remade (there was a made-for-cable version a couple of months ago, with Rick Shroeder, and another one a few years ago with Treat Williams). Maybe Hollywood doesn't completely suffer from the tendency to forget stories that were written before last Monday. I'm still fond of the James Mason/Pat Boone version, probably because I was the right age of 10 when I first saw it, but it's probably hopelessly old-fashioned for today's kids. Maybe the recent nostalgia for the NASA moon missions will prompt somebody to remake FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON.
The Pat Boone version had the goose. I didn't really miss it in this one, though.
Roger Ebert said it would have appealed to his inner eight-year-old. Overall, though, he didn't care for it that much.
Roger's much more mature than I am. His inner 8-year-old is like my 12-year-old.
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