Shame on the idiots who made this film. Children and parents who see it will be confused at best and turned off a masterpiece of literature at worst. I wish parents would be more discerning about what they allow their children to see -- garbage in, garbage out. You have done a service -- families should save their money, stay home, and read the book.
Mr. Scott didn't save anyone from anything! It's a great movie that every kid I took enjoyed. SEE the movie before you PAN it!
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Rule #1 in film-making: Never use the word "pan" in your title unless you are quite sure no one will ever review it.
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Suddenly every villain from Maleficent to Hook has to have an elaborate and sympathetic backstory.
How tedious.
And this sounds like dreck.
Thank you, Mr. Scott!
How tedious.
And this sounds like dreck.
Thank you, Mr. Scott!
Wow. It sounds like all of you grew up. How sad. If you still saw things through a child's eyes, you wouldn't have missed the magic. Barrie wrote a magical story about a magical place called Neverland. That's what I saw in this movie! I'll never grow up!
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I saw the Disney version of Peter Pan when I was about 12. Pure enchantment! I saw the Steven Spielberg´s movie with Robin Williams. Does someone remember that film? I left when the children started the food fight. What a bore! This is the ¨too much money syndrome¨. Spielberg had so much money for that awful film that he piled up the screen with whatever came to his mind and forgot all about the tender story he was supposed to tell. Pan? Same syndrome. I saw the preview and it is a nightmare. The bad Spielberg phenomenon. Too much money, too many special effects, too much make up, too many people in every scene. And no heart. Wild horses could not drag me to see this movie!
This was originally scheduled for a summer release but got pushed back. Never a good sign. And Blackbeard's costume? Oy!
Barrie's Peter Pan wasn't all full of beautiful thoughts so I wouldn't mind a real-ish Peter Pan but I concur with the commenter who thanks Mr. Scott for saving us from a hack job.
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"Think of a wonderful thought, any special little thought". Well, the garbage treatments of Peter Pan since I heard that song are all a bunch of - well, you fill in the blank.
Really -- Tiger Lilly? Possibly the only mainstream movie to feature a major native American character this year, and the part went to Rooney Mara?! Why does Hollywood keep doing this?!
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I don't think J.M. Barrie ever thought that he was writing about real Native Americans. Tiger Lily and her tribe don't even come from North America, they come from "Neverland." No Native American would ever have seen a tiger, and so would not have given a name with "Tiger" in it to their child.
I would much rather see parts created for Native Americans that show them in their real complexity and that deal with their real history or their current situation than simply offer them the opportunity to play a paternalistic representation of a fairy tale creation. Wouldn't you? That's what we should be asking Hollywood for.
I would much rather see parts created for Native Americans that show them in their real complexity and that deal with their real history or their current situation than simply offer them the opportunity to play a paternalistic representation of a fairy tale creation. Wouldn't you? That's what we should be asking Hollywood for.
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I'm also incredibly annoyed that a part that was depicted as native American - at least in the famous Disney animation - went to a white actress. Again, as you say, it's one of the few roles where someone who is not white may be represented in mainstream popular culture and it is gone. That's irritating.
On a similar note, Marvel has hired Tilda Swinton to play "The Ancient One" in its upcoming "Dr. Strange" movie. I like Tilda Swinton, but the Ancient One was always portrayed as an elderly (as the name suggests) Asian man. Again, one of the few roles that could go to an Asian actor is rewritten for a white actress. Why? I know that actresses complain about not getting roles beyond a certain age and I certainly sympathize. But their plight is nothing compared to that of non-white actors and actresses in Hollywood.
On a similar note, Marvel has hired Tilda Swinton to play "The Ancient One" in its upcoming "Dr. Strange" movie. I like Tilda Swinton, but the Ancient One was always portrayed as an elderly (as the name suggests) Asian man. Again, one of the few roles that could go to an Asian actor is rewritten for a white actress. Why? I know that actresses complain about not getting roles beyond a certain age and I certainly sympathize. But their plight is nothing compared to that of non-white actors and actresses in Hollywood.
Of course Sir J. M. Barrie wrote his own origin story for Peter Pan in "The Little White Bird" and reprinted as "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens." It can be found in "The Victorian Fairy Tale Book" published by Pantheon.
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In search of "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens", a 1957 edition with somber beautiful illustrations by Arthur Rackham, it reached this reader decades later, and it was his one of Peter, portrayed as a six-month old baby, trying to come home to his mother, the most poignant of all. He sees his mother asleep through grills that have been placed on her bedroom window, holding by her side a newborn baby.
There were many accidents of toddlers falling to their death in those days, and J.M. Barrie wrote this story in mind, donating the funds of his publication to a children's hospital in London.
Peter Travers, on whom this classic story was inspired, his having lost his mother early in life, became an eminent publisher & and there are novels by famous authors to be found in Pan Books.
There were many accidents of toddlers falling to their death in those days, and J.M. Barrie wrote this story in mind, donating the funds of his publication to a children's hospital in London.
Peter Travers, on whom this classic story was inspired, his having lost his mother early in life, became an eminent publisher & and there are novels by famous authors to be found in Pan Books.
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Steven Spielberg's 1991 film "Hook" has a space in my list of worst and most boring films ever. I felt I couldn't leave because I had taken my daughter and a friend, but they told me afterwards that they hated it too. Although I remember enjoying the Disney animated film as a child, and might have loved the Mary Martin stage version, "Hook" vaccinated me against Peter Pan films forever, and I will certainly not see this one.
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Oh good grief, Mr. Scott! Thank you for saving us!
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The movie lost me when a pirate ship flew through the air in a "dogfight" with German and British fighter plans during the aerial Battle of Britain.
I think the actors deserve better material. They gamely trudged through their dialogue but I found myself wondering why they spent millions on CGI and not a penny on decent script writing. (See, "Titanic"...great ship, with nothing interesting for anyone to say).