The Adventures of Sharkboy & Lava Girl

[Mr B Natural]

I really liked the film, and, like many, I wasn't crazy about the 3D. It was cool, but I kept on wanting to see the colors better -- the red/blue hues, shadows, & double-images were distracting at times.

Even so, the film is really fun. It functions on a child's imagination kind of logic -- and in a different way than Spy Kids (yet equally effective), which is a plus. It felt just like how I imagined as a child, which is a real gift and quite rare in films.

I hope they release a theatrical version in normal D. If not, I'm gonna grab the DVD when it comes out.

[DonLewis]

are you high? Sharkboy and Lava Girl was atrocious. It was like when you were a kid and someone said you couldn't play with their toys so you sat there and watched them play. I'm not sure if the headache I got was from the crappy 3D or the general badness of the film on the hole. Blah!

[Mr B Natural]

Sorry you didn't like it, Don. It reminded me of how I used to imagine on the playground when I was six or so, and I saw it in a theater full of young kids, who ate it up. So I was certainly in the right frame of mind to enjoy the film, and I did.

It definitely had some storytelling issues, especially near the end, but it proceeds with a child's logic, and I was willing to stay with it because I gave myself up so willingly to thinking like that again. For the length of the film I felt like a kid (just like in the first 2 Spy Kids films), and I really enjoyed myself.

[DonLewis]

I wanted to like it, I really did. But it was just so...annoying. It was pretty a-typical Rodriguez too in that the guy has zero sense of story or plot but is really good with the camera. This time he was able to use his son's co-writing credit as an excuse for his piss-poor story execution. Rodriguez needs to slow...it...down...man. It's not a race to see who can make movies the fastest...

[Mr B Natural]

This time he was able to use his son's co-writing credit as an excuse for his piss-poor story execution. Rodriguez needs to slow...it...down...man. It's not a race to see who can make movies the fastest...

Right there with ya regarding the lighting speed with which RR puts out his films...I love that he's enabled Troublemaker Studios to thrive independently, but I wonder if he gets ahead of himself sometimes. I wonder if using so many of his filmmaking talents at once (directing, editing, music, DP, sfx) affects his judgement in the long run. Don't get me wrong, I give him a lot of credit for being such a renaissance man, but when you get involved in that many elements of a production it must be very hard to know whether you've made a good film or not.

[bronsonseven]

I wonder if using so many of his filmmaking talents at once (directing, editing, music, DP, sfx) affects his judgement in the long run. Don't get me wrong, I give him a lot of credit for being such a renaissance man, but when you get involved in that many elements of a production it must be very hard to know whether you've made a good film or not.

He did all of that for Sin City, and hurridly made it, and it remains the finest comic book movie ever.

Yet with other stuff he hurries on (ie, Once Upon A Time...), he doesn't do such a good job. I guess he just works better with other material. He needs to stop writing.

[Mr B Natural]

He did all of that for Sin City, and hurridly made it, and it remains the finest comic book movie ever.

Yet with other stuff he hurries on (ie, Once Upon A Time...), he doesn't do such a good job. I guess he just works better with other material. He needs to stop writing.

Right on -- being so faithful to the Sin City story, down to using the comic books as shot-by-shot storyboards, helped him immensely. It's also worth noting that the immense crews on his films must help him get them done so quickly. Before I left the end credits for SB & LG, I had already seen 6 SFX houses go by.

BTW bronson, great Ep 3 article...

[bronsonseven]

BTW bronson, great Ep 3 article...

Thanks a lot man, I appreciate it.

-MF