It was kino

It was kino

the girl awakened something in me. and then she was in that other movie where she takes sleeping pills and guys use her. woo what a career trajectory

shame about the show. The tone was completely wrong.

Name a single actress hotter than Emily Browning in this movie. Pro tip: You can't.

Finally someone gets it. The style was like third-rate Wes Anderson meets Adams Family and the sanitized quirky/kiddie tone completely missed the point of the books.

Same

Just got into reading the books again after over a decade

it was different time...

Same for me incidentally, though I hadn't read any of them for much longer, probably since the last book came out. Unfortunately for whatever reason I never owned the complete series so I'm stuck until I can get my hands on books 3, 4 and 6.

The first mistake was doing it live action. To see Brett Helquist's illustrations come to life would've been Grade AAA Kinography.

ty for reminding this kino end credit
youtu.be/SVV0ONSiQoA?si=LtRsMcEa0k6ShDLs

bros...

Jude Law as Lemony Snicket fucking ruled

Not as good as the books at all

i'm a 40yo straight white man and i wish jude law would read me bedtime stories

this movie is the prime example of a movie i wish the studio would make all the footage shot available because you could make a 10/10 movie in the edit
just minimize the jim carey buffoonery and focus on the orphans like the books do

Maybe not, but it gets an A for effort. It nailed the aesthetic and tone of the books despite having a compromised plot.

Personally I thought the Jim Carey baffoonery was fine. He was cold and menacing when the scene called for it but he also leaned into Olaf's theatrical and whimsical side which is very much in the books but not really talked about. He IS supposed to be an actor, after all.

Very

I want to protect and care for Violet!

those scenes where it's clearly just jim carrey riffing, like doing a dinosaur impression, and his shit about being an italian man, is not at all olaf in the books

The jim carrey one sure it just sucks because they condensed the first three into one movie. And Jim was good but wasn’t nearly as mr burns tier evil as Count Olaf was in the books.

This movie was perfect I wish they ddint fuck up the plot.
Can't believe Handler hates it so much he did an entire podcast roasting it scene by scene.
Warburton was a perfect Lemony Snicket for the show.
Neil Patrick Harris did a decent job as Count Olaf but Jim Carrey was better.
All the VFD shit in the show early on was fucking retarded.
I first watched it in 2016 or whenever it came out. Watched 2 episodes with my dad then it was too cringeworthy to continue.
End of 2020 my brother told me they were removing it from Netflix so my dad and I binge watched it. Then after we were done I realized my brother must have been talking about the movie not the show.
Honestly the show wasn't awful but it wasn't good as an adaptation. It seemed weirdly low budget and also added too much stupid shit.
The movie was great even though it added stupid shit.
At least the movie had the great scene where all of Josephines fears come true. My dad laughed at that when we watched it in 2003.
I was bored at work and listen to stuff on earbuds all day so I listened to like 4 videos of sugar bowl theories and lemony snicket icebergs.
Also Daniel Handler interviews. Dude is pretty witty irl but I'm also concerned he's gay

How do you handle reading them as an adult?
I tried to eead the Penultimate Peril like 5 years ago when cleaning out my brother's room and I had to stop.
As a kid the illustrations, plus all the references to 1800s literature, was mega kino and gave me feels.
As an adult it became so obvious I was reading a kids book and I was not the same person anymore that I had to put it back.
They were fantastic books though and well written. Maybe in my 30s instead of 20s I won't mind ss much.
Even as a kid I was embarrassed liking these for some reason. I only read non fiction before, so being excited about a fiction series seemed cringe to me. My parents bought me the videogame and I remember feeling embarrassed playing it in front of them. Idk why.

Did he ever draw the man with beard but no hair and the woman with hair but no beard?

you sound insecure af

I listened to like 4 videos of sugar bowl theories and lemony snicket icebergs.

Young zoomers will never know the experience of pouring over every random photo and letter in the Unauthorized Autobiography and wondering what the hell any of it meant.

As a kid I definitely was. As an adult I still am but for different reasons.
Me reading the books as an adult and getting upset has nothing to do with that though, it's more just a memory that was built up in my head over time that got spoiled by actually reading the books again and they obviously didn't hit me the same way at age 25 as when I was 10.

Yeah I remember getting it for Christmas and I spent hours looking at it and understood nothing. Only thing I understood was that the kids die at the end from the picture in the beatrice letters but apparently that's been debunked because there's reference to them on land later on in their own careers. Apparently the show ending is basically canon.
Wish I was a kid again reading these for the first time.

Ersatz Elevator was the best book, objectively.

NTA but the writing style of the books is a huge part of it's brilliance for me. It simultaneously deconstructed and skewered the pandering and condescending conventions of children's literature while leveling with young kids in a very honest and relatable way. Yet for adults it also has tons of mature allusions and in-jokes and literary tricks that would fly over most kids' heads, and while the plots of the books are simple and breezy and easy for a kid to follow on the surface they're still interesting enough for adults.

What was the show ending? I never bothered to watch season 3.

Looking back, I do appreciate that the books actually did get more grim and morally grey as they went on, with the Bauldelaires having to make increasingly regrettable choices to keep going. It didn't feel like the series was ever pulling its punches in delivering on its whimsical depressing tone. Not that it got crazy "adult" dark, but it fit the vibes it was going for.

boy was insanely cute shota hot

Montgomery Montgomery

nicknamed Monty

studies snakes, which includes pythons

Monty Python

I feel really fucking stupid for never noticing that before

Damn, I never noticed that as well. Granted, I didn't know of Monty Python since I wasn't well-versed in sketch comedy yet.

Every time she ties her hair back it's like she is about to...you know

So are they canonically jewish or not? Was Handler just kidding about that?

not the slippery slope

I hate this movie because it was the first movie I brought a friend to, and he just left to go play in the arcade halfway during the movie

It’s sad movies used to be good even when they were just adaptions. Now the cultural cannibalism slop we churn out is horrible. All we have to look forward to is ai generated brainrot slop and remakes.

not the austere academy

fucking cakesniffer

Someone explain the big secret to me and what the hell was up with the question mark shaped sea-serpent and what VFD is for and how it all ties to the prequel series he did.

Author is a kike. Glad I never read that shit.

he says this on Anon Babble

I have bad news about most movies, anon...

Should we tell anon, anon?

...invent something?

me as a kid: ugh, olaf is gonna marry violet! how despicable!

me as an adult: lucky bastard…

do I need to read the book first? I was still reading captain underpants (aka retarded) when the books were coming out

Did anyone enjoy the new series? I thought they did a great job with casting, sets and keeping the general kooky vibe.