I just cried for two hours.
Jun. 1st, 2005 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rsadelleIt's well documented that deep down inside I am (a) a sap and (b) a twelve-year-old girl, so it should surprise none of you that I went to see The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants on opening night.
I was nearly in tears even before the lights dimmed. The people filtering in were groups of women--teenagers, middle-aged women who probably read the books when their daughters did, and even some women who looked old enough to have granddaughters the right age for the movie. I think I was the only person in the theater who was there alone, and it made me miss the good days in high school when my three best friends and I would see chick flicks or camp out in my living room or pass notes in class.
Although some of the people there were older, the majority of the audience was teenage girls, which has its ups and downs. On the one hand, it was mildly annoying because teenage girls are loud and because every time I see large groups of teenagers I despair at how they all seem to have come out of the same cookie cutter. On the other hand, it was great because I wasn't the only one crying and much of the noise was girls whispering to each other about how the movie was different from the book.
The Harry Potter trailer was awesome! I hadn't seen it yet. I had, however, seen trailers for all the other movies we had trailers for today. But the Herbie: Fully Loaded one was new. Breckin Meyer is in it. Breckin Meyer! This almost makes me want to see it, despite the desecration of yet another childhood memory. (My brother and I used to watch the Herbie movies whenever they came on our local PBS affiliate when we were kids.)
And then there was the movie. It was so, so good.
At first, I was a little worried that Amber Tamblyn was just going to be Joan, but she wasn't. She did a fantastic job as Tibby. I am now filled with mad Amber Tamblyn love, as the saying goes.
I haven't seen Real Women Have Curves, so I didn't know anything about America Ferrera other than what I'd seen of her in the trailer. The trailer does not do justice to her body. It's fabulous, and she was absolutely perfect as Carmen.
Blake Lively was good as Bridget, and you get a totally different perspective on her than you do in the first book. You can see how obvious she is about chasing Eric. Because the narration in the books is so close, you don't see it until she realizes it in the third one.
Alexis Bledel did a very good job with Lena. She was a little stiff--when she's doing one of Lena's voiceovers her cadence doesn't fit with the rest of them--but that's just right for Lena. I have almost no memory of her second summer, so I can't remember if the whole Kostas storyline really is different. I thought he was the beloved friend of Lena's grandparents who breaks everyone's heart when he gets some other girl pregnant, but that may have been in the second book. Also, I missed Lena going to get Bee. I thought that was really important in the book.
You can't make a movie from a book without cutting something. We lost Lena's sister, Bridget's brother, and Tibby's rodent (hamster? gerbil? I can't remember). Also, I think Carmen has some kind of bonding experience with Paul, or maybe it's in the second book. I'm sure there are other things that other people were attached to that got cut. Even though I missed a couple of things from the book (like Lena getting Bee), none of it detracted from the movie experience.
Miscellaneous actor notes: Bradley Whitford plays Carmen's dad, which I didn't realize. I also did not realize that the stoner kid from The Perfect Score (the one who was so slashy with the basketball player) is playing Brian! This is going to be totally awesome in the third one. The headline in today's paper raves about Jenna Boyd's performance as Bailey, and she is, indeed, wonderful.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants gets five hankies and as many stars as possible from me.
I was nearly in tears even before the lights dimmed. The people filtering in were groups of women--teenagers, middle-aged women who probably read the books when their daughters did, and even some women who looked old enough to have granddaughters the right age for the movie. I think I was the only person in the theater who was there alone, and it made me miss the good days in high school when my three best friends and I would see chick flicks or camp out in my living room or pass notes in class.
Although some of the people there were older, the majority of the audience was teenage girls, which has its ups and downs. On the one hand, it was mildly annoying because teenage girls are loud and because every time I see large groups of teenagers I despair at how they all seem to have come out of the same cookie cutter. On the other hand, it was great because I wasn't the only one crying and much of the noise was girls whispering to each other about how the movie was different from the book.
The Harry Potter trailer was awesome! I hadn't seen it yet. I had, however, seen trailers for all the other movies we had trailers for today. But the Herbie: Fully Loaded one was new. Breckin Meyer is in it. Breckin Meyer! This almost makes me want to see it, despite the desecration of yet another childhood memory. (My brother and I used to watch the Herbie movies whenever they came on our local PBS affiliate when we were kids.)
And then there was the movie. It was so, so good.
At first, I was a little worried that Amber Tamblyn was just going to be Joan, but she wasn't. She did a fantastic job as Tibby. I am now filled with mad Amber Tamblyn love, as the saying goes.
I haven't seen Real Women Have Curves, so I didn't know anything about America Ferrera other than what I'd seen of her in the trailer. The trailer does not do justice to her body. It's fabulous, and she was absolutely perfect as Carmen.
Blake Lively was good as Bridget, and you get a totally different perspective on her than you do in the first book. You can see how obvious she is about chasing Eric. Because the narration in the books is so close, you don't see it until she realizes it in the third one.
Alexis Bledel did a very good job with Lena. She was a little stiff--when she's doing one of Lena's voiceovers her cadence doesn't fit with the rest of them--but that's just right for Lena. I have almost no memory of her second summer, so I can't remember if the whole Kostas storyline really is different. I thought he was the beloved friend of Lena's grandparents who breaks everyone's heart when he gets some other girl pregnant, but that may have been in the second book. Also, I missed Lena going to get Bee. I thought that was really important in the book.
You can't make a movie from a book without cutting something. We lost Lena's sister, Bridget's brother, and Tibby's rodent (hamster? gerbil? I can't remember). Also, I think Carmen has some kind of bonding experience with Paul, or maybe it's in the second book. I'm sure there are other things that other people were attached to that got cut. Even though I missed a couple of things from the book (like Lena getting Bee), none of it detracted from the movie experience.
Miscellaneous actor notes: Bradley Whitford plays Carmen's dad, which I didn't realize. I also did not realize that the stoner kid from The Perfect Score (the one who was so slashy with the basketball player) is playing Brian! This is going to be totally awesome in the third one. The headline in today's paper raves about Jenna Boyd's performance as Bailey, and she is, indeed, wonderful.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants gets five hankies and as many stars as possible from me.