Lemony Snicket: C or D?

My kiddos didn't dig him too much when I read one of the books to them. Fuck them, what do they know?

http://www.lemonysnicket.com/movie.html

because
a) Jim Carrey is in it
b) Billy Connolly is in it
c) Meryl Streep is in it

These are 3 of my least favourite actors of all time. Also, Klaus has no glasses in the film

Agreed horrible casting - apart from Tim Spall. I have a sense of dread about the film which I suppose is only appropriate.

This looks surprisingly good, given that it's a kid's movie and has Jim Carrey. A Tim Burton-lite vibe.

Thanks milo!

...but he didn't.

Also, shorter.

; )

billy connolly, meryl streep, timothy spall, I'm not so sure.

"There's nothing wrong with him at all.
― ls, Saturday, 1 February 2003 02:02 (10 years ago)"

I hope this was Handler posting about himself.

ha! awesome find

ilx from nine years ago seems awfully down on meryl streep

my kid is loving these books like none other he's ever read, you can barely get him to lift his head from the page

these books are surprisingly close to being pynchon jr. think there are a couple direct references, even. also the gothic archies album w a song for each book has some great stephin merritt doggerel on it, partic "shipwrecked" which takes a sick second-verse turn i always love.

movie's pretty good, prefer the imagery (meryl streep's house clinging to the cliffside, emily browning's practical gothwear) to most of harry potter's.

I think the books, especially being ostensibly aimed at kids, are truly subversive and challenging. Whether she knows it or not, my daughter picked up on so much literary irony, post-modernism, etc. from these books. The fact that there are entertaining digressions into the intricacies of, say, King Lear, made this as much fun for me to read as it was for her.

I actually looked this up because we're about half way through book 4 and my son is obsessed with them. I'd read the first 3 around the time they came out and liked them but reading them to/with a 7 year old is way more fun.

The Netflix series is fantastic--very "Pushing Daisies"

yeah, watched this over the weekend having never read the books or seen the movie and i was really impressed - the deliberate stagey/fakiness of the production design is super-striking and the performances are wonderful, especially patrick warburton. the darkness of the story, and the general idiocy of the adults set against the smartness and composure of the kids, really reminded me of roald dahl

My wife said she had to bail on this after a few minutes because it was too much like a Wes Anderson movie -- which certainly piqued my curiosity.

K. Todd Freeman is so good as Mr. Poe, the ultimate procedural uncurious drone.

devoured these books as a kid, but i lost interest by the time the last (13th?) one came out. 2004 movie sucked, doubt i'd be into the new one with NPH. have no interest into revisiting the books: just looking at the covers and remembering the miserable stories remind me of how shitty and powerless being a kid could be. they also seemed designed to get kids that weren't into Harry Potter hooked on reading. i learned a lot of words though from LS - ersatz, austere, penultimate, quagmire. so, CLASSIC

The Wes Anderson comparisons are apt, precocious kids, anachronisms such as the internet coexisting with rotary telephones, an independent narrator...

Really, the show's stylistic antecedent is Pushing Daisies, which was also directed by Barry Sonenfeld--it shares the visual inventiveness (though Pushing Daisies was very colorful and ASOUE is intentionally gray), the omniscient narrator, and the whimsical, yet serious, take on death.

I thought the books were sort of brilliant, totally subversive and one of those few things people say that have as much to offer for adults as they do for kids, save those handful of kids who find "King Lear" gags, Melville references and the like funny. If anything it reminded me more than a little bit of "Tristram Shandy." Anyway, saw a couple of the episodes with the kids and thought them pretty solid, though by nature they lack a lot of the intentionally and hilariously indulgent literary riffs.

definitely remember feeling a sense of superiority reading the books over Harry Potter as a kid, because of all the big words and literary references. i loved how creepy, dark, and fucked up they were. but the Sisyphean struggle of the kids is not really something I want to revisit right now.

xp - they manage to sneak in some literary references in weird places--there's a cab driver who has a strange fixation with Melville in one of the later episodes, for example.