Spielberg Directing Roald Dahl Adaptation 'BFG'

[Warhammer]

Is the book a flaming bag of turds or something? What's wrong with the idea of making The BFG into a film?

It's not at all. But from the get go, I didn't think it was a movie worthy of making the big money. The trailers solidified that for me and apparently everyone else in the country.

 

[Kyle]

Well, it's a competition as well as being able to give more individual attention to the marketing of each film as well. It's not as much as a nightmare, but it is still questionable as to if you can - why don't you give yourself more breathing room?

ADDING: I should note I think that is largely what's going wrong this summer. Across all studios. I think it's too tightly compacted now. There's too Many blockbusters and not enough space for enough of them to get any breathing room or a real chance like they had in the past. I think the answer to this is to just utilize the whole year. Spread things out, give these films time instead of this summer there's seemingly one big film every week.

 

[Kyle]

Just saw it. Refreshingly optimistic. I loved it. 8.5/10 and the only thing really holding it back is that it doesn't measure up to Spielberg's classics. I can see how the marketing department had a challenge though, it was a very small tale with not a lot of trailer moments rather warm character ones and unsure how you would market that... Just a very warm, inviting, optimistic, and humbling movie.

 

[dark_b]

its funny that they didnt just writte steven spielberg on the posters. they tryed to promote it to old people with ''from the human beans that created ET''.

i think the marketing did a bad job. almost no tv spots.

 

[Kyle]

its funny that they didnt just writte steven spielberg on the posters. they tryed to promote it to old people with ''from the human beans that created ET''.

i think the marketing did a bad job. almost no tv spots.

Exactly. As said there wasn't a lot of trailer moments. Rather instead I would keep on hitting home the point "from director STEVEN SPIELBERG and the writer of E.T. comes their next big family film of the summer THE BFG." Have tons of marketing materials in front of people about this creative reunion, have that drive the marketing of it. Someone a couple pages back said they didn't even know it was a Spielberg film.... that's what they should have sold here.

 

[Lord]

I'm not surprised with the #4 placement at the box-office. I saw the trailer of this when I saw Civil War, Finding Dory and Jungle Book and I wasn't interested at all. So I just skipped this movie and saw The Legend of Tarzan instead. And I have no plans of checking it out when its out in home media.

Consider that for a moment........

 

[NotSoLongAgo]

I'd much rather watch this again than watch tarzan

 

[The Joker]

I'm still looking forward to it. I grew up reading Dahl, and The BFG is one of my favs of his. At worst I'll be entertained since it's Spielberg.

 

[samsnee]

I don't think I daw any tv spots for this thing. Also, I just don't think the BFG himself was sold as a character kids really want to see. I haven't seen the movie so maybe he's great, but from the trailers he just didn't seem lik an appealing character.

 

[Octoberist]

I give The BFG a solid C.

The pacing's weird; it feels like it's just kiling time. I think it would've worked as a 90 minute movie, not nearly 2 hours. Hell, there was a 30 minute set up for a silly joke which was baffling. And yes, at the hour mark, I had the admit that I started to drift off.

But there are some good things here: the visuals, the lead child actress, and some of the CG (though the composition of the girl with the giants are horrible). Also, it shows that Disney is a legit studio who often doesn't interfere with projects like these. This is all Spielberg.

I'm glad that The BFG exists, too bad it wasn't a better movie.

 

[Octoberist]

I feel like if Speilberg directed this in the late 80's or the early 90's with the same script, it would've been a better film for it even without the advancements of CGI. More earnest energy. I think his age is catchup up to him.

 

[flickchick85]

I liked this. Mark Rylance was absolutely brilliant in it, imo, and the visuals are very lovely. I do agree it has pacing issues, though. But I saw this film and Finding Dory the same day and slightly preferred this.

 

[Octoberist]

I'm of two minds of The BFG, because it is a sosphicated piece of filmmaking with a heart. At the same time, RIP to the lovely screenwriter, I just wish the film was tightened up a bit more, which is one of modern day Speilberg's problems.

 

[Alex Murphy]

 

[Spider-Aziz]

[blackout]Symphony of farts.[/blackout]

I have one question:
How come children disappear if the only child abducted before Sophie is one boy? And they were both abducted by the friendly one instead of the flesh eating ones?

 

[Ivan Drago]

I liked BFG! It's a lesser Spielberg film, but still very charming and enjoyable. It just needed to be more faster paced, and trim some fat.