Name that Movie!

[muninnhuginn]

aka, "Wintersonnenwende - Die Jagd nach den sechs Zeichen des Lichts"

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[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I've no idea.

*goes to put it through Babelfish*

I've still no idea!

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Dark is Rising, I suspect. Which sounds like a very cool translation for the german market, they always have such creative titles. Still going to avoid it like the plague thanks to the lack of important book elements included, mind you..

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Indeed
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0484562/

[muninnhuginn]

Good stuff lurking in IMDB. There's a whole neat quiz to be invented with different titles in different languages. (Tho' the different sites are sometimes sadly out of synch, so my brother has far more listed on the German version than either the UK or US flavours [yup, I'm boasting 'cos my brother has an entry]).

[muninnhuginn]

Correct! I looked it up on IMDB, 'cos I'd not heard of it (even in English) and the children's cable channels are currently swamped with adverts--in time for half term. We may go: Looby Loo, at least, won't know what's missing. Then we'll read the book (if I can find my copy) and get all the good stuff.

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

I think if it were me I'd just read the book together - I mean, Will Stanton rather than being the 11 year old 7th son of a 7th son living with his loving English family in the South of England and battling the dark thanks to his intelligence and wisdom and a long heritage with much reference to Arthurian myth becomes a 13 year old American living in a Northern town with a very dysfunctional family and seems to spend most of his time having sword battles, oh and none of that "Arthurian crap". He has a girlfriend though. And gets angry and causes trouble in a shopping centre fights with his parents and his siblings etc etc. Its very modern you see, because modern kids wouldn't want all that wordy crap and boring story...

(sorry, I'm really really annoyed by the utter ruin of something I cherish)

[muninnhuginn]

I feel your pain. It does sound as if they've amputated much of the book--but wasn't there a certain amount of, at least, bickering chez Stanton? There's the bit with the cauliflower cheese for a start, isn't there? (It's twenty-odd years since I last reread, so I may be misremembering.)

OTOH, it's not Harry Potter, which Looby Loo has hated since she was about two. And it's a potential half-term treat. (I'm sure there's worse I might have to sit through.)

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

I re-read the whole series quite recently but cauli cheese doesn't ring any bells, they do bicker and argue I do remember but I get the impression this version has a lot more unrest than that. Anyways, hope she enjoys it, nice to have a big film to look forward to and I'm sure the special effects and stuff will be nice eye candy, which is pretty much my main demand these days, when they're not mucking about with best-loved writings :)

[muninnhuginn]

My reply's below rather than properly nested. My PC fu is low today.