Rusty Traque posted:Adriatic posted:Nick Chillianis posted:Berkshire posted:The Polar Express is one of the most memorable train movie I remember watching, I know it's new, but man is that movie good.
I wound up watching it because I was with my girlfriend who was babysitting her grand-rug-rats.
C'mon, great movie?
Maybe if you're ten years old.
Not our fault if you chose to outgrow having fun.
Polar Express is OK. But just OK.
Personally, I find the old Rankin-Bass Christmas specials fun.
Rusty
My daughter (who I started reading PE to in 1988) took my 3yo granddaughter and I on Saturday. It was much better suited to her than most early-childhood movies: rich scene depictions, plenty of good deeds and well-meaning, lots of belief in higher ideals, no implied violence, relatively little death-defying suspense, an almost complete lack of vindictive plotting, and very little dishonesty. As I read the book, I've always imagined it best as a 30-minute "featurette". But it works much better for young kids than I had expected, and far better than any other feature-length adapted childrens' story I've seen before.
Its inclusion of book-exact dialogue, complete with scenes to match the pictures, really helped. When she got antsy and said it was time to go, I said "no, there's still 2 pages to go - remember?" She did, and settled down to watch the final 10 minutes of the story.
