Noel loved it and has scheduled an outing with her friendlets to see it again; while I am not a good consumer of cinema, I did burst into tears at one point when the directorial choices proved that Ava DuVernay really GOT Meg, no matter what had happened along the adaptation's way; there is a flying Savoy cabbage.
That sounds excellent.
So. I liked it, and even -- though I don't see how they COULD -- wish they might make the sequel. I did not love it, but neither did I feel abused or robbed.
I am very glad to hear it. There's been a lot of mileage-may-vary among my friend group; it's been reminding me of the reactions to Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle, where I know a lot of people who love the Studio Ghibli film and equally love the novel by Diana Wynne Jones and I imprinted so strongly on the particulars of the novel that the movie has always sounded like essentially not-the-book to me, but it demonstrably does not work that way for everyone.
I would get weird around an adaptation of A Wind in the Door because it was always the most important of that series to me (and my mental fancasting for Mr. Jenkins turned out to be William Daniels), but I would be fascinated if it happened, because that is not usually how Hollywood YA properties go unless they're dystopian.
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That sounds excellent.
So. I liked it, and even -- though I don't see how they COULD -- wish they might make the sequel. I did not love it, but neither did I feel abused or robbed.
I am very glad to hear it. There's been a lot of mileage-may-vary among my friend group; it's been reminding me of the reactions to Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle, where I know a lot of people who love the Studio Ghibli film and equally love the novel by Diana Wynne Jones and I imprinted so strongly on the particulars of the novel that the movie has always sounded like essentially not-the-book to me, but it demonstrably does not work that way for everyone.
I would get weird around an adaptation of A Wind in the Door because it was always the most important of that series to me (and my mental fancasting for Mr. Jenkins turned out to be William Daniels), but I would be fascinated if it happened, because that is not usually how Hollywood YA properties go unless they're dystopian.