I suppose I must be a romantic fool. I love stories where in the end everyone (or almost everyone) I like ends up dead. But it's got to be tragic, like a Russian tale.
I suppose part of it having seen the movie first I was expecting bitter sweet chocolate. Instead I felt like I got a pickle with a chocolate bar wrapper. I mean it felt like a horrible bait and switch when it look like a ride off into the sunset ending and then it turns into A Series of Unfortunate Events. I did like the first book, The Bad Beginning because I knew going in that it would turn out badly.
And I did really love the movie, so in a weird sort of way the book seemed like a bad novelization of a movie I really liked. Even though logically I know it came first.
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Date: 2003-09-11 12:30 pm (UTC)I suppose part of it having seen the movie first I was expecting bitter sweet chocolate. Instead I felt like I got a pickle with a chocolate bar wrapper. I mean it felt like a horrible bait and switch when it look like a ride off into the sunset ending and then it turns into A Series of Unfortunate Events. I did like the first book, The Bad Beginning because I knew going in that it would turn out badly.
And I did really love the movie, so in a weird sort of way the book seemed like a bad novelization of a movie I really liked. Even though logically I know it came first.