stoltsignhild
Joined Oct 2018
Welcome to the new profile
We're still working on updating some profile features. To see the badges, ratings breakdowns, and polls for this profile, please go to the previous version.
Reviews6
stoltsignhild's rating
Alot of people are coplaining about how this is not equated with the novel, and how this series does not reflect the time in which the story takes place. Those complainers can't have given this series the chance it deserves (wich is more than half an episode).
Me, personally, would have found another perfekt adaptation of the novel boring, we see that way to often in period dramas. It goes on and on until we have about five movies based of the same novel.
This way of thinking outside the box, and make something new, is refreshing. I found myself binge this show.
So more of this please!
But, if you really want to see a true adaptation of the novel I could recomend the 1988s version, it has all the evil, backstabbing, raping-teenage-girls themes you can muster. And some really great casting too.
This version is more of an "how did those two get to be so sinister as they are in the book?" kind of version.
And obviously takes place before the novel.
It's the same theme of storytelling that we find in 'Black Sails' which is inspired by 'Treasure Island'.
I find this series well written, whit interesting characters and storytelling. Good casting. The costuming is wonderful. And the music and sound is great.
You should really watch it.
Me, personally, would have found another perfekt adaptation of the novel boring, we see that way to often in period dramas. It goes on and on until we have about five movies based of the same novel.
This way of thinking outside the box, and make something new, is refreshing. I found myself binge this show.
So more of this please!
But, if you really want to see a true adaptation of the novel I could recomend the 1988s version, it has all the evil, backstabbing, raping-teenage-girls themes you can muster. And some really great casting too.
This version is more of an "how did those two get to be so sinister as they are in the book?" kind of version.
And obviously takes place before the novel.
It's the same theme of storytelling that we find in 'Black Sails' which is inspired by 'Treasure Island'.
I find this series well written, whit interesting characters and storytelling. Good casting. The costuming is wonderful. And the music and sound is great.
You should really watch it.
I liked the first season and am absolutetly loving the second.
In the first season we get some really oldy musical vibes from the 1930s to 1950s. Falling in love with no sense what so ever ... and lots of frills, pastels, and plastic trees. And what else would you want?
In the second season we find our selfs in more reasent years and musicals. Like Hair (70s) and Sweeny Todd (00s). It becomes a weird mix of the dark streets of 1800s London, the smoke filled lokales of 1920s Chicago, and all the flower-power you can handle from the 1970s (actually a bit more than that, to be frank).
The songs and dancing numbers are (at least in my opinion) well written, and well performed by the actors.
If you plan to watch this, do so with an open mind.
This is not meant to be a masterpiece. But to entertain and make us laugh.
Which I think the creators and the cast succeeds perfectly.
In the first season we get some really oldy musical vibes from the 1930s to 1950s. Falling in love with no sense what so ever ... and lots of frills, pastels, and plastic trees. And what else would you want?
In the second season we find our selfs in more reasent years and musicals. Like Hair (70s) and Sweeny Todd (00s). It becomes a weird mix of the dark streets of 1800s London, the smoke filled lokales of 1920s Chicago, and all the flower-power you can handle from the 1970s (actually a bit more than that, to be frank).
The songs and dancing numbers are (at least in my opinion) well written, and well performed by the actors.
If you plan to watch this, do so with an open mind.
This is not meant to be a masterpiece. But to entertain and make us laugh.
Which I think the creators and the cast succeeds perfectly.
Just got home from seeing this nostalgic gem at the cinema, and my dimples still hurt from laughing so hard.
This is truly a tribute to the games, the comics and the TV series from the 80s, where the co-creator of the movie is the man behind the entire game series himself. Which clearly, by the movie's rich references from everything we remember from the earliest games, is the evidence.
We got to revel in music and sound effects from the early games, and some new twists based of the comics.
From the first second to the last, I could feel the nostalgia overcoming me, my widening smile only interupted by laughter.
So if you where born in the 80s, loved playing Super Mario Bros, and enjoyed the comics, then you have to see this movie.
This is truly a tribute to the games, the comics and the TV series from the 80s, where the co-creator of the movie is the man behind the entire game series himself. Which clearly, by the movie's rich references from everything we remember from the earliest games, is the evidence.
We got to revel in music and sound effects from the early games, and some new twists based of the comics.
From the first second to the last, I could feel the nostalgia overcoming me, my widening smile only interupted by laughter.
So if you where born in the 80s, loved playing Super Mario Bros, and enjoyed the comics, then you have to see this movie.