At 10/13/09 05:41 PM, lolomfgisuck wrote:
Loved the book as a child.
But I remember the book being like 15 pages long, with full color pictures... not sure how they turned it into a 2 hour movie.
The book's spanned a great enough length of time that I think it's about perfect. I mean, I can envision a full 10,15,20 minutes spent giving the audience a feel for the kid's family (ie: a dinner scene where he's then sent to change into his pajamas and go to bed) followed by 5 minutes of the transition from dream to his bed becoming a boat and his landing on the shore, then 5-10 minutes of introducing the monsters, 5-10 minutes before he's crowned king, 5-15 minute devoted to his wild rumpus, and then I'd give them the liberty of 20-40 extra minutes to devote to miscellaneous plot items and the return to normalcy. That puts the movie between 50-100 minutes.