Where is the thread on the Terabithia film?

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The sandbox thread refers to a main board thread. I has a google, but I can't find it.

― Zora, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

Went to see this my son - and I pretty much cried throughout. I am getting so soppy in my dotage.

― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 7 May 2007 23:07 (eighteen years ago)

I realise now thatI should have posted in the thread where we ask people to dig up things on ILX we can't find. I forgot there was such a thread. O well.

SPOILER

I didn't start crying until the funeral. I thought that was soppy enough. I took a sneaky look around the cinema and I didn't see anyone else crying, but there were a lot of kids who looked like they'd wandered into the wrong film and were thinking wtf?

I haven't read the book, but it's going on my 'to read' list.

― Zora, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 00:15 (eighteen years ago)

My son was all quiet afterwards - which is very different to his usual reaction to films, but then his usual films aren't really like this. I've read some comments elsewhere about people taking their kids to see it thinking it was a fantasy film like in the trailer and then complaining about their kids getting upset but in the listings i saw it mentioned "emotional distress" so I kind of knew what was coming.

― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 09:27 (eighteen years ago)

I think the ads for it have been very interesting because the film works best when you don't know whats coming. So the ads are all saying "Whooo this great fantasy film" for that very reason, though one wonders if there is a case for misrepresentation?

Hmmm.

― Pete, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:24 (eighteen years ago)

Hmmm, indeed.

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=1&id=40014&type=0

The filmmakers behind Disney's upcoming fantasy film Bridge to Terabithia disavowed any connection with the movie's ad campaign, which they told SCI FI Wire was deliberately misleading.

― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

This was linked to from the sandbox thread but it's worth linking to again.

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809420332/user

So many of these reviews are complaining that they didn't get what they wanted from the trailer and warning people not to take their kids! I thought it was good for kids to be honest, at least in the 8 plus bracket.

― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:11 (eighteen years ago)

I liked the ad campaign for that very reason, its the old Sixth Sense thing. If you know there is a twist, you look for it. Here it comes out of the blue and turns the film into a very different thing. It reminded me of the Aussie film Japanese Story (with Toni Collette) which does a very similar thing. But for kids.

― Pete, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:02 (eighteen years ago)

ok i think maybe it was more million dollar baby.

― s.clover, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

ten years pass...

I've always taught this to grade 6s, this year I'm trying it with my 3/4s. I have to explain more, but they're getting it and they're enjoying it. Anyway, we got to Leslie's death today, and I was reminded why, temperamentally, the adjustment downward has been difficult for me at times--sometimes comically so. The conversation basically went like this:

"Well, death is part of life...Has anyone here had a pet die? (Two or three hands go up.) See? You've already experienced it...What about a grandfather or grandmother? (Two or three more hands.) Yeah, that's usually next on this list. Later..."--and this is where I step outside my body and hear myself tell a roomful of 9- and 10-year-olds that one day, yes, their parents will die. A quick look around the room and I'm like, "Hey, hey, don't worry--that's far, far into the future!"

I'm laughing about it now. Hopefully there won't be any calls tomorrow about traumatized kids.

― clemenza, Thursday, 5 April 2018 23:50 (seven years ago)

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