I caught up with Life of Chuck recently, after giving it a decent-but-not-great review out of TIFF (on this site, no less!). At the time, I felt like the reliance on Nick Offerman's voiceover narration took what should have been a stellar movie and turned it into just a pretty good movie.
Now, 8 months later, surrounded by a crying audience and in a time when it seems like everything is imploding...I feel exactly the same. Lovely first act, immaculate second act, then takes a nosedive as it becomes more about narrating how meaningful stuff is, rather than actually showing us anything meaningful (to your point, anything about adult Chuck!). It's sporadically beautiful still, but man, it could have been transcendent.
Pretty sure you saw this more than 4-5 times, Dave 😀
I think it was more like 10(!) times.
"If I were a kid watching this and it was my first exposure to this story, I could totally see this becoming a formative fantasy movie for me like Willow, The Goonies, or Hook." How dare you, HTTYD is actually great compared to those 😀
I always rely on your recommends for films as life is so busy - thx for your thoughts of Life of Chuck. Looking forward to both these movies even w/caveats😉
I caught up with Life of Chuck recently, after giving it a decent-but-not-great review out of TIFF (on this site, no less!). At the time, I felt like the reliance on Nick Offerman's voiceover narration took what should have been a stellar movie and turned it into just a pretty good movie.
Now, 8 months later, surrounded by a crying audience and in a time when it seems like everything is imploding...I feel exactly the same. Lovely first act, immaculate second act, then takes a nosedive as it becomes more about narrating how meaningful stuff is, rather than actually showing us anything meaningful (to your point, anything about adult Chuck!). It's sporadically beautiful still, but man, it could have been transcendent.
Pretty sure you saw this more than 4-5 times, Dave 😀
I think it was more like 10(!) times.
"If I were a kid watching this and it was my first exposure to this story, I could totally see this becoming a formative fantasy movie for me like Willow, The Goonies, or Hook." How dare you, HTTYD is actually great compared to those 😀
I always rely on your recommends for films as life is so busy - thx for your thoughts of Life of Chuck. Looking forward to both these movies even w/caveats😉