Stardust
I saw Stardust on Thursday. For the most part, I really liked it. I thought all the actors did a really good job and the script stuck to the story pretty damn well and even when it didn’t, it fit. Some additions, such as making the pirate captain (Robert DeNiro) a more important and complete character, were actually quite clever.
One thing I didn’t like: whatever composer wrote the score must have not trusted the rest of the crew to adequately convey excitement and interest. Basically, the score was the musical equivalent of a guy standing around going “THIS IS EXCITING! LOOK HOW EXCITING THIS IS! HEY LOOK! SOMETHING HAPPENED! MORE STUFF!” for about 75% of the film. I’m halfway tempted to write into Neil Gaiman (since I know he’s answered sillier emails) and be like, hey, can we get a “not so much melodramatic music” option on the DVD?
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I saw the movie a few weeks ago and read the book this weekend. I was actually kind of disappointed, maybe mostly because it just plain wasn’t funny. I think my current theory is that Neil Gaiman books tend to be serious, but his movies (Mirrormask, Stardust) are hilarious.
1 Lisa said this (September 3, 2007 at 8:06 am)
Well, I saw the movie at the same time and didn’t really notice the music but I watched Ladyhawke over the weekend and the music really bothered me. Set in 18th +/- century Europe with 1980s Alan Parsons Project music — it just didn’t work. Still like the movie but the music was annoying.
2 majorloony said this (September 3, 2007 at 8:27 pm)
I thought Stardust was an okay movie; there were some changes I was disappointed with, and some that worked.
Re: Lisa’s comment, I actually find Gaiman’s writing to tend towards the humorous. It’s dark humour, certainly, but still funny.
3 flowerysong said this (September 4, 2007 at 11:58 am)