Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
An interesting choice for a subject, Disney no less, but ultimately an interesting failure. The main problem may very well be the casting of the two boys and their lack of chemistry (they are meant to...
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Your analysis is spot-on. This is my favorite Bradbury novel - surprised some cable channel hasn't done a remake ( they do Journey to the Center of the Earth every few years!)
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Very good overview. I will say that sometimes Bradbury's two boy-characters are a little too much like curious little men as well, but that's the nature of Bradbury's super-poetic writing. His boys...
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People's favorite way of showing they aren't homophobes is by seeing "gay" everywhere they look. In other words, acting just like people who ARE homophobes!
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I would not read any gay (as understood in occidental culture) subtext in the original story or the movie. There are plenty best friend boy couples in real life and fiction. You could just as easily...
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Attending a screening of Something Wicked This Way Comes with Ray Bradbury in attendance at the New Beverly Cinema in Hollywood a short time ago, the great man introduced the film by saying the...
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The thing that always struck me about the film is that is seemed to be missing about 20 minutes of buildup in the middle. Does anybody know if scenes were shot but cut from the final production? It's...
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Watched this a few months ago and it just misses being a great film. It just kinds of falls apart about half way through.
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I found a quote of Bradbury indicating that both kids are meant to be the two sides of the same person (him, mainly) thus discussion of homosexuality miss the point altogether. The description of...
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gene phillips wrote:I don't think Bradbury intended anything of the kind, but he leaves himself open to the charge. As an avid reader of Bradbury's work since adolescence, my take on it is not...
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That's what I meant. You don't have to be any kind of homophobe at all to get really goofy about that subject. In fact, nowadays it's mainly the NON-homophobes who rattle on and on about it.
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By the whistling of my denturessomething wicked this way venturesIn "A Medicine for Melancholy" some random fellow offers to cure a sick daughter by having her sleep outside one night. Am I wrong, or...
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I haven't seen it since it came out, but Hermanthegem's assessment I agree with. I thought it was very disappointing and didn't capture that sense of wonder and imagination and fear I would have...
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hermanthegerm wrote:...These are no real boys, compare for example with Stand By Me, The Sand Lot or even The Lady In White...Also see To Kill a Mockingbird for a realistic and touching portrayal of...
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If Spielberg remade this movie, I'd be up for it. The first film was okay but never lived up to the greatness of the book.
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Wanted to love this, but it just hung fire. The promo radio piece, with film dialogue bridged by Orson Welles, actually had a better flavor.
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I saw this theatrically upon its initial release. I liked it, but I thought is biggest flaw was one I almost never attribute to a movie these days: it was too short! The couple of sequences involving...
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