http://ambival.net/movies/heavenly-creatures Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:49:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://ambival.net/movies/heavenly-creatures#comment-10112 Ambival.net » Movie Reviews » My Top 100 Movies [current] Wed, 09 May 2007 01:22:31 +0000 http://ambival.net/?p=491#comment-10112 [...] Heavenly Creatures Peter Jackson [...] [...] Heavenly Creatures Peter Jackson [...]

]]> http://ambival.net/movies/heavenly-creatures#comment-2781 Ambival.net » Movie Reviews » Bridge to Terabithia Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:40:30 +0000 http://ambival.net/?p=491#comment-2781 [...] The first thing to mention is how slow the movie is to actually get to Terabithia itself – but like so many things that could be seen as a bad thing in this movie, I’m quick to say, this is slow starting in the best way possible. When the visuals of the kids’ imaginary world do finally start to creep in, the movie I was most reminded was, funnily enough considering the Weta connection, a Peter Jackson film, the otherwise entirely different Heavenly Creatures – AnnaSophia Robb even sounds strangely like Kate Winslet’s Juliet as she tells Jesse, asked which desk belongs to the school bully, “It’s the one with dried up blood and dusty old bones,” – but the fantasy elements here are even more subtle than those in that movie. [...] [...] The first thing to mention is how slow the movie is to actually get to Terabithia itself – but like so many things that could be seen as a bad thing in this movie, I’m quick to say, this is slow starting in the best way possible. When the visuals of the kids’ imaginary world do finally start to creep in, the movie I was most reminded was, funnily enough considering the Weta connection, a Peter Jackson film, the otherwise entirely different Heavenly Creatures – AnnaSophia Robb even sounds strangely like Kate Winslet’s Juliet as she tells Jesse, asked which desk belongs to the school bully, “It’s the one with dried up blood and dusty old bones,” – but the fantasy elements here are even more subtle than those in that movie. [...]

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