Anactoria called it right! ....

... In response to my post about the awfulness of the trailer of an Americanized movie version of "The Dark is Rising" she said:

They've taken away everything that made the story good and the movie promises to be a huge flop. :(

Carmen told me with a certain amount of malicious glee to check out the Rotten Tomatoes reviews of it. They're brutal. It only earned a 16% rating. The Cream of the Crop critics only gave it 12%. Here's a sampling of the reviews:

It communicates almost no sense of its own identity; everything seems borrowed and tired.

Screenwriter John Hodge strips Cooper's story of its details and charm, reducing it to a kind of characterless, elemental video game -- an apocalyptic scavenger hunt.

And our favorite, proving that Carmen's instincts were absolutely right (well, they usually are):


Remember hearing that the early studio inclination with Harry [Potter] was to Americanize him? This tedious, plodding, thoroughly unmagical movie could well be what that Hollywood Harry might have been.


So there.



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