Is anyone going to go see the movie? I am, but I wish I knew what it was about- I have never actually read the books because I wasn't interested, but knowing that Jim Carrey is in it, is the best! He is probably my 3rd favorite actor [besides Dan Radcliffe + Orlando Bloom]. Oh, yeah, Liam Aiken is going to be in it as well. He is SO cute! Did you know he tried out for HP and barely made it? He looks like Dan, and looks like he could take his place if Dan decides to leave. [Which I hope he doesn't.]

Anyway, it just looks like a really great family movie. I am for sure seeing it.

~Amanda

hey!
yea, i've never really been interested in the books either, but the movie looks really interesting. i don't know the actors name, but the teenage girl in it is really pretty.
but yeah, i'm definately going to see the movie.

none of you guys read the books but need to see the movie?Dang! you should read them!!Lemony is the coolest writer!!!(sorry jk)

i wanna see the movie cuz the boy in it i think its Liam Aiken looks like Sean Biggerstaff. oh yeah i heard the movie is supposed to be wicked too. i like your siggy JazzetteQuartet! my desktop backround is james and rupert!

i wanna see it because ive read some of the books (1-1/2 of 5) and i really like them!

I've read them all except the latest book thats out.
I've been kinda broke. I spent all my money on presents and goddies and I'm out short.

Ah, well I've read part of the first book. I love his style of writing, but I haven't been able to pick of copies of the books. (I'm currently just getting into LOTR - hehe!)

I want to see the movie, but I don't know if I'll be able to. My brother is going to see it next week because his school has a fun day planned! ehhh.

i am going to see the movie a series of unfortunate events i have only read one of the books so far and it is the bad beggining. i really enjoyed reading that book. lemony sniket is an inspirational author and i totally agree with u that liam aiken does look like danile radcliffe and is cute as daniel radcliffe.

i've read probably about 6 of the books... i'm not sure because i stopped being interested in it, after i got into harry potter... hehe..

i'm probably going to see a series of unfortunate events this saturday, and i can't wait... but it's not as exciting as going to a harry potter movie

the books are scary and unique... but sometimes i feel too sorry for the Baudeliare children that i want to cry

if you haven't read the books... read them and watch the movie!

I'm going to see the movie at some point next week and I can't wait. The movie is only of books 1-3 though, which makes since, I mean the series isn't even finished yet. Jim Carrey will definatly be hilarilous as Count Olaf.

The books are amazing. I love them. I've read all of them except for the one that just came out (because I'm broke at the moment and the library never gets new kid books) inculding the UnAuthorized Autobiography. Not only are the books good but I like the entire mystery surrounding the books. Also has anyone else looked at the dedications?

OMG! I love the books! I just finished 11. If you've ever read the books, you know it's just great because he is soooo random and uses big words and then gives you the definitions. Well I love the books and can't wait to see the movie!

I have read 7 out of the 11 boooks. I really like them and I can't wait to watch the movie. Especially since Jim Carrey is in it.

i've read all the books (1-11) but i don't think the movie could ever match upto the books! They're just so hard to act i guess because they're so complex(to me). And a smuch as i love Jim carrey he's more of a comic count Olaf not at all like the one in the books...

whoever likes Liam Aiken will want to see the movie 'Good Boy' he is soo cute in it.

My friend saw the movie and she said it was really funny. So I can't wait until I see it next week.

Love the movie really funny. Hmm......... that Liam Aiken quite a cutey huh?

OMG! i love Liam Aiken he is soooo adorable! i saw him on Oprah a few weeks back and i was like oooh he is sooo cute! anyways i havent seen the movie still! im gonna see it on Christmas Day for my Jewish Christams party. i heard it made like 9.0 million dollars on the east coast or somthing.

iam going to see the moviea series of unfortuante events but unfortunateley i have had no time to go to the movies and watch it i ahve been so busy with my homework lately well i would love to go see the movie and i have started reading the books already so i know the plot of th movie and atleast have a clue to wahts going on in the movie.

I loved it! sorry but i just had to say it! and Liam is cute, he's give ma an H, give me a O, give me T, what that spell? HOT!

liam aiken is sooo hot! im seeing the movie today in like 1 hour and 15 minutes. i cant wait!

I'm so happy! I got the video game! But we don't have a memory card yet! My mom didn't think of it till the last minute and the stores were probily all closed. But I'm gonna see it again. Video games have there adventges as in a free ticket!

i saw it yesterday and it was soooooooo cool! i love Liam Aiken!

I want to see the movie so much

I saw the movie a couple of days ago. Overall it was pretty good. The scene where Aunt Joesaphine's house collapes was really good. They didn't stay completely true to the books but it was still alright. One complaint is that Count Olaf (Jim Carrey) didn't seem like the murder and crazed, greed driven mad who could kill children without a second thought, which is how he is portrayed in the books. Not that didn't like it, Jim Carrey was hilarious as Count Olaf.

I thought it was smart of Nickelodeon to end it like they did, now they have more of a choice on wheather or not to make a sequel.

I thought it was kinda funny that the author of these books (Lemony Snicket, a.k.a. David Handler) is American and in (my guess) his 40s and in the movies he is played by Jude Law who is British and very good looking .

Did anyone else realize that Mr. Poe was played by Timothy Spall (who also plays Peter Pettigrew in the HP movies)?

LIAM! he is soooo HOT! i love him! now i have two famous crushes! LIAM AIKEN AND RUPERT GRINT! OMG did you guys watch the whole end? it was sooooo cool!

i thought it was good and all... and jim carrey was absolutely HILARIOUS.. but the beginning scared me a little because i thought it was going to be SOOO boring. it started out a little slow. nontheless, i was quite impressed.. they did a good job!



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I saw it a while ago, and really like it. I've read most of the books, so I was curious to see how they would make them into a movie, and if it would take away from the tone of the books if they did.

Happily, the tone of the movie was very close to that of the books. Yay! I love how they had Lemony Snicket narrating it, and only showed the profile shots of him.

The biggest thing that I didn't like was the person who 'looks like neither a man nor a woman' in the books. In the movie, he/she was dressed as half man and half woman. The costume was really cool, but I didn't think it fit.

It was a good movie to go see, and they did a good job on it. I'm thinking they'll make a sequel, and try to buy into the Harry Potter phenomenon.

i wanted to see the movie but i can't - i have read the books and they are awesome- i like the 11th the best

I love the books, they're AWESOME!! However, I'm sorry, the movie sucked! I didn't like it, I hate Jim Carrey, and the movie was kinda, blah....(even thought the guy who played Klaus was cute!

~~**strength

Yeah, the movie almost seemed like a vehicle for Jim Carrey, rather than a faithful representation of the books. It could have been a lot worse though....

yeah the girl's pretty cute in the movie

but in real life she's urghhh!

horrible

I personally liked the movie and though I know it wasn't exactly true to the book, I liked the adaptation of the story. I mean Snicket's vision vs the director's vision are two different things but they stem both from 3 kids in series of troubles who together overcome them.

I whole premise behind the movie is awesome, but I don't think the actual movie lived up to it. They could have done much better.

i loved it but i never ever read the books and all my friends said it was bad cuz it wasnt like the books but i dotn care cuz Liam Aiken is a total hottie.

ASOUE was ok, it was kinda rushed to get through all three of the first books but it was pretty good (not as good as HP!)

These books are pretty cool, i've only read 1-7 though, cuz our city library just collapsed one day so i didn't get to get any of the others, and our school one only has 1-7....i haven't seen the movie yet, and im not sure i want to...i mean putting in the first 3 books together, i dont know about that one, and Jim Carry as Count Olaf...he's suppose to be mean, not funny

I read the first 3 books that the movie was supposed to be based upon and I reckon the movie turned out about as good as it can be.

Think about it people. Compressing 3 books into 1 movie is no easy feat. I highly doubt any of us could have done it any better.

For those of you who have been here long enough, y'all would know that I am a very active and passionate defender of the HP movies.

I feel exactly the same way for this Lemony Snicket's movie too.

To me, I felt the director/screenwriter did a great job within their means. As in, the decision was to compress the first 3 books into 1 movie and they worked accordingly within that.

Of course it would have been nice to see them in individual movies, but think abou it. It's just not feasible. Not only is each book not thick enough to stretch to a standard 90-minute movie, but there are flippin' how many books in the series? More than 10 right? From a budget standpoint, it would make more sense to combine few books into one.

The movie captured the right SPIRIT of the 3 books. All the significant events that happened were depicted in the movie. And I thought the ending was awesome, weaving in the value of family into the story. Brilliant.

I thought Jim Carrey played Count Olaf very well. Who else could have played a schizophrenic/multi-character role better than he? And of course the 3 kids were brilliant too. Good choice of casting, in my opinion.

Have a little more faith, people. The crew behind this movie are, after all, experts in their field.

And it won a couple of awards too...that must mean something.

This is all IMHO, of course. Just me two-cents worth...

I wrote a letter to Lemony Snicket and asked if he could hook me up with a casting agency for his next sequel to the movie on his novels.

I was fairly dissappointed with this movie...although Jim Carrey is an excellent actor, and he did a great job with his part in the movie.

-tucker-

I think the Movie was pretty rubbish. They mixed up the plot and took away important bits and added even worse bits like the train bit. and they cant do the miserable mill because Klaus needs to have glasses to go to the opticians to be hypnotised. But if i hadnt read the books, i would of thought the movie was good

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the books are awesome they are wicked funny

the movie wasnt that great, but i thought jim carrey was hilarious!

does anyone know when the 12th book comes out?

I LOVE ASOUE!!! I bought the new book and the movie was OK ... well I want the DVD for my bday. I think Jim Carrey kinda wrecked the individualism of the books and just made it another "Jim Carrey movie". But I love Sunny she's so cute and Emily Browning is cool!!

I liked the movie a lot! When I was on a 15 hour plane ride to Hong Kong, I watched it over for three straight times. But when I read the books, the movie seemed not so good.

The movie is terible(sp)!(although occasionally funny) It does not follow the book at all! And the make Klaus seem like the oldest and smartest and that Violet is just there tocarry Sunny around!

THe books are,, as always, way better. Any idea when the 13th'll come out?


ginevra

I loved the movie and I liked the performing that Emily Browning (Violet Baudelaire) made...

Most of all, I like the music they had. The last music, in the credit, it's just so melodious (sp?) and interesting, not to mention good...

Jim Carrey has always made me laugh (The Mask, Bruce Almighty, etc) and he will always do...

The movie has good values such as perseverance (sp?), unity, hope, happiness, family and so...

It's really a movie worth to be seen...

Ever~

I can not beleive I have not found this thread before now. I am the hugest SUE fan. Between that and HP, well...
The movie bugged me in two ways, they pronounced Klaus Klows (that may be right but I don't care, I pronounce it Klaws, rhyming with oar) and HE DID NOT WEAR GLASSES!!! Thsat seriously bugged me, but I still bought the DVD. And I don't think Violet looked like Violet at all. But other than that it was great. I espeically loved they way all the stuff Aunt Jo warned about came true like the fridge squishing them flat, and the doorknob exploding and all. I thought Jim Carey made an awesome Count Olaf. He had the mad actor thing down perfect.

The books! Oh where to start! I love I love I love! I love in the Ersatz Elevator he used two black pages to describe the falling down the elevator shaft! Although the Beatrice thing seriously winds me up. Who is she? WHO??? I have many theorys, each as ludicrous as the last. My latest one is that Lemony Snicket is a skitzaphrenic and is half Beatrice, half Lemony. Yeah, I know. Well, we know she isn't the Bauldilaire mum, or his sister so who else?? ARGGGG!!! Can't wait for the next book. And the sugar bowl! What is it? Why is it in a taxi with Lemony Snicket with Beatrice in the back (Ok i'm guessing here) Why did Lemony snicket deside to play the Accordian? So many mysterys...

Oh, and what do people ship? Personaly, I'm a Violet/Duncan Klaus/Isodora but I'm not that one minded about it...

the movie barely followed the books, but it was a good movie.
i liked the actor that played "Klaus" his name is liam Akien, he almost got picked for harry potter. he's also hot.