It's still on at the pictures, just about. I saw on another thread Eric Plumrose was off to see it some time ago.
I went to see it myself this afternoon. I'd been looking forward to it, but as it turned out, I'd been looking forward to it rather too much, because it's a very serious and dreary beast, with no lightness to relieve the doom and gloom. As Eric surmized, it was far too CGI for its own or anybody else's good.
What I would have liked to have seen was a bit more gaiety at the begininning, like in the 1940s version which had Angela Lansbury in it, but no: right off the bat we know we're in the realms of moral jeopardy and that very, very quickly messing with the supernatural is going to have very, very bad consequences. After that the film became a study in inevitability, and all suspense was throttled to death.
I went to see it myself this afternoon. I'd been looking forward to it, but as it turned out, I'd been looking forward to it rather too much, because it's a very serious and dreary beast, with no lightness to relieve the doom and gloom. As Eric surmized, it was far too CGI for its own or anybody else's good.
What I would have liked to have seen was a bit more gaiety at the begininning, like in the 1940s version which had Angela Lansbury in it, but no: right off the bat we know we're in the realms of moral jeopardy and that very, very quickly messing with the supernatural is going to have very, very bad consequences. After that the film became a study in inevitability, and all suspense was throttled to death.