[ SECRET POST #3396 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3396 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

06. http://i.imgur.com/9Q6gZsE.jpg

[morieris]

Sometimes it was believeable and sometimes it was just painfully obvious this kid was talking to people in green suits.

[(Anonymous)]

Adults struggle with performing with non existent characters. Can't imagine how hard it is for a young, new actor.

[morieris]

I know. There's no way they could do this remotely 'as real as possible', just an unfortunate happenstance.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh it's out? How was it?

[(Anonymous)]

my mom saw it yesterday and reeeally liked it.

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP, obviously, because I thought it was very good, and Neel Sethi's acting was fine for the most part. I'd even say it was impressive given the limitations he had to work with. Definitely have to remember that the intended audience is children, though.

[sarillia]

I really enjoyed it. I thought the celebrity voices might be distracting but I ended up hearing the characters instead of them most of the time. Bill Murray was a bit distracting for my mom but he was so much fun as Baloo that it didn't really matter.

Personally I liked the kid too. A lot of movies try to make them too precocious and that's kind of a pet peeve of mine but I don't feel like this one fell into that trap. I thought he was cute.

[(Anonymous)]

If you don't mind the fact that it's basically a reboot of the Disney cartoon rather than a more faithful adaptation of the source material (albeit with some nice nods to the source material, which then never pay off, much to my frustration), it's really good. My husband (who's never read The Jungle Books) thoroughly enjoyed it.

I was hoping for the more faithful adaptation, and so I'm still unpacking how I feel about it. The Mowgli stories are some of my very favorites and I just wish that someone, somewhere, would do something cooler with them than Disney has.

[(Anonymous)]

Ahh I feel you so much on the desire for a more faithful adaptation. Sad to hear this one makes nods to the source material that never pay off, I saw some familiar bits in the commercials (buffaloes!) and had hopes. I know there's another live action adaptation in the works by a British studio slated for 2018 that I had hopes for (apparently Tabaqui is in it) but there's at least one original character in there so my hopes have scaled back.

Honestly I'd just like to see an adaptation that *doesn't* involve Shere Khan. He's in like three of the stories (and no one ever adapts How Fear Came so it's really only two), there are more than that! I'd love to see an adaptation that covers the letting in of the jungle or the red dogs.

[tabaqui]

There's no Tabaqui in this latest one?

[(Anonymous)]

If you don't mind it being animated and him looking like Wile E. Coyote, then Chuck Jones' Mowgli's Brothers might appeal to you.

[tabaqui]

Erhhh....um. I shall have to see. That doesn't sound terribly appealing.

[(Anonymous)]

It's worth it! Mowgli threatens Sher Khan towards the end and it is epic

I believe it stays pretty true to the book :)

[tabaqui]

Ah ha ha. In the stories, Mowgli kills Shere Kahn and skins him, with the help of his wolf brothers. But that's probably a bit much for a kid's movie.

[(Anonymous)]

probably

Although, I will confess that I never actually read the Mowgli chapters - I've read The White Seal and Rikki Tikki Tavi [both of which received a very well done adaptation by Chuck Jones]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7qnp_HUREM - the Mowgli's Brothers vid if you're interested

[tabaqui]

Oh, I remember seeing that ages ago. And that Rikki Tikki Tavi is awesome! Thanks for the link! You should read the stories, though - they're so fun, and a lot more detail and depth.

[(Anonymous)]

welcome :D [and if I really wanted to date myself, I have a copy of Mowgli's Brothers on VHS]

Rikki Tikki Tavi was one of my favorites.

I'll have to see if I can locate that book then :D Thanks for the rec!

[tabaqui]

I adore The Jungle Books, and really hope for a more faithful adaptation some day, as well.

[(Anonymous)]

it's getting great reviews already