it's not really striking me as a "flop".

i know lots of people...not people in fandom either...who went to see it. most of them enjoyed it. without the baggage and expectations "we" have for it it's probably two hours of harmless fun.

considering how obscure the source material is...a 45 year old soap opera...it seems to be holding it's own.

indeed i think that parker is trying to work her stories into the framework or series continuity. not a new or different spin on the tale as burton/depp have openly done. at least that's how she promotes them.

my original point is that with this book, the audiodramas, the comics and now the film there are oodles of variations and reworkings of the same source material floated around right now that all tell different stories.

it's overwhelming. so like the audiodramas, which i also do not care for, i'll sit parker's book(s) out.

speechless.

sorry i didn't mean how many people were in the theater but more what it meant that i went to see it again after the negative reaction i had to the film's climactic scene the first time around.

i knew it would be quiet at that time which is one of the reasons i went.

same here,

i didn't love it. it certainly wasn't a bore.

i enjoyed a large chunk of the movie. the ending just sort of ruined it for me.

that was very weird and i noticed it too. don't you have to give a name when you apply for a job? and references? where was she living between her escape from windcliff and collinwood?

speaking of windcliff now it does make sense as to why her hairdo and fashion sense are sort of early 1960's.

as deeply as i despised the climactic scene i can't consider it a "betrayal" of the OS because you just know if can curtis had had the budget to stage a similar scene on the series he would have. curtis was not "above" anything.

in later years he seemed to develop a sentimentality about the series' "mythology". hence the tone of the 1991 series was more serious and reverent to it than alot of what happened on the OS. no adam and no leviathans. lots of damsels in diaphanous sleepwear and loose curls.

but on the OS he wasn't above and beyond trying just about anything. often to the point where the storylines made absolutely no sense.

i will say that the caroyln "reveal" was not something he would have gone for or approved. curtis liked his heroines unsullied. for me it was the one part of the film i found unforgivable.