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I missed this in theaters, but it was just on Showtime.  Victorian fantasy movie where Claire Daines is a star that falls to heaven.  Hell of a lot of recognizable cast for something that should have been a predictable box-office flop.  Robert DeNiro in a dress was worth watching the bits I saw.  Pretty light-hearted, doesn't take itself too seriously. In all it was an enjoyable flick.  Has anyone else seen this?

Yup.

It's awesome.

Gaiman, I think.

Well worth a watch.

Also, Claire Danes.  In a really nice silky outfit.

I really loved this film, it is Gaiman. I think it's the closest thing I've seen to the Princess Bride which is also awesome.

Great movie, always loved Claire Danes.

Great film, amazingly I somehow ended up seeing it theaters. I think it was only because I'd heard it was by Gaiman - it certainly wasn't because of the marketing it got. A good solid light quirky fantasy movie, with a really strong cast.

Directed by Matthew Vaughn (who produced Guy Ritchies good films and directed "Layer Cake") and adapted for screen by Jane Goldman aka Mrs. Jonathan Ross. Wouldn't say it was a good adaptation of the book but I did enjoy it as a film although I recall thinking that the ending was a little flat. Keep meaning to watch it again.

EDIT: On a side note, some of this was filmed in the woods behind my house. True story.

Loved it, fun fantasy romp for the whole family. I too thought it was in the same league as the Princess Bride.

Damn good movie, worth watching just for the Deniro Whoopsie Pirate scenes.

A great flick, saw it when it came out in the theaters…

If The Princess Bride is like Stardust, then I need to go rent Princess Bride tonight.

DO IT! :drill:

Wait.. you've never seen it?  Damn kids. Yes, go rent it but never, ever buy the book the movie is based on.

Princess Bride is like a 100 times better than Stardust.   :drill:

I may be a bit biased since it's my favorite movie.

Stardust was good too, but I liked the book better. 

I've had the DVD in my possession many times, but always ended up giving it back because of a lack of time to watch it. I'm a terrible person and I'm well aware of that. Heading out in a bit to go rent it.

Fucking seriously.

I've seen it... dozens of times.  It's one of those movies that women of certain age love from their teen years.  (I've also seen parts of Dirty Dancing waaaay too many times, though usually I've managed to fall asleep.)

I'll be out on my lawn.  I think Merusk is next door.  Us codgers need to stick together.

I can't believe there are people who haven't seen Princess Bride.  Fucking awesome movie.

Next you'll be telling me you haven't seen Army of Darkness!

Not all of us are old :grin:

I know a lot of people younger than you who have watched it.  Most of the teenagers I work with have seen it.

You probably force them to as part of their orientation.

Holy shit! Columbo is in this movie!

I KNOW, RITE?!

I think the book is more awesome than the movie if only because it gives you the backstory on Inigo and Fezzik.

I love Stardust, I was shocked when I saw the movie poster for it as it seemed the least likely Gaiman to get made into a movie. But I think they did a very good job with it.

And yeah, Princess Bride. See it. Masterfully made film.

Both wonderfully romantic.

Haha, funny to see this movie cropping up here, NOW, of all times. The wife and I stumbled onto this a while back and its been saved on our DVR ever since. We both love it. It's just one of those great rewatchable movies, much like Princess Bride, due to its generally positive outlook, quirky humor, and the fact that it just doesnt take it self that serious. Plus the cast is excellent! And DeNiro gets his *swish* on, which, in and of itself, almost makes this worth watching..

I thought you all sounded like a bunch of dorks at first...I mean, Claire Danes?  A movie called Stardust?

But if it's anything like Princess Bride, then count me the fuck in.  Princess Bride is probably a top 10 all time as far as I'm concerned.  Even Andre the Giant is awesome in that movie.

Great movie. I can't say it ranks with Princess Bride, but then again I'm admittedly biased in that regard. But I am a fan of Gaiman and I thought this movie was very well done. So well done, in fact, that my wife, who typically despises "fantasy" films, loved this movie.

I actually liked the Stardust movie better than I did the book and that almost never happens. Now I wish they'd do a movie of Good Omens.

I hesitantly agree. Loved the book but would hate to have it Hollyraped.

Problem is that like all Pratchett books, a lot of the humour and context comes from the footnotes. Not sure how you'd either incorporate them or work around them in a film.

Something like what they did with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy would fit well, a narrator of sorts.

Oh God yeah make Stephen Fry narrate it. I'd watch that (mostly because Stephen Fry was involved)

The narrated sequences were the best thing about that movie though. It'd probably be the same for a film version of Good Omens.

I'll have to join the chorus. Stardust was a good, fun flick. It was, however, no Princess Bride if for no other reason than Princess Bride being a movie with many quotable lines in it.

Stardust as good as Princess Bride?

Inconceivable!

You keep using that word and I do not think it means what you think it does.

Stardust is a lovely film. I remember being surprised at the relatively critical hostility to the film: the MSM critics really didn't seem to get it.

I don't understand the comparisons of Stardust to Princess Bride, they seem to be an internet meme, even though when I read the comments they seem legitimate and not for the "luls".  The 2 movies might be similar because they are in the fantasy genre, but we don't see many comparisons between Krull and Lord of the Rings. Comparisons between these films seem to infuriate and enrage (http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22infuriates+and+enrages%22+simpsons+where+did+i+hear+this+quote%3F&btnG=Search&meta=) me for some raisin (http://www.tv.com/Futurama/The+Day+the+Earth+Stood+Stupid/episode/21349/trivia.html#quotes).

I enjoyed Princess Bride at least 9000 more than Stardust. I actually still laugh out loud while watching Princess Bride. The Stardust characters seemed to know they were movie "stars" in the movie, and the humor was "Oh look, I'm a Hollywood movie star, yet I'm in this obscure comedic fantasy film, which won't be obscure once I'm in it!". I watched it again just yesterday, just to make sure my feelings were clear. The most enjoyable parts of the movie, were scenes with the dead brothers and the Ricky Gervais scenes in which they didn't take themselves seriously at all, which seemed honest, since to take this movie seriously isn't really the point. I'm assuming the book was better, since I love anything I've ever read by Neil Gaiman (American Gods, Neverwhere, Sandman Comics, etc), and I'd be surprised if Neil really truly enjoyed this adaptaion.

Maybe I don't get "it" in this move. I'm not really sure what "it" is, and if everyone else has "it", maybe I was born without one and can get government assistance for a replacement "it". I wonder if my Canuckistan medicare covers that.

They are both modern fairytales based upon the classic tropes of the genre with a lot of self-aware fun poking at those very tropes. Stardust has bigger production values and names and pulls the whole thing off more slickly but I really don't see much else in the "modern, light-hearted, fantasy fairytale" genre to compare Stardust to. Just because you liked one a lot more than the other doesn't mean they're radically disimilar and to be honest the biggest gripe you seem to have had is that Stardust suffered from having a big name cast.

On a personal taste note the Ricky Gervais bits are my least favourite part of the movie because it's not a character. It's Ricky Gervais doing what he always does in the way he always does it and I can only see that bit as, "Our troupe of unlikely heroes encounter Ricky Gervais trying to buy lightning!" rather than an overly talkative merchant.

It's possible that I enjoy the fantasy genre too much to be entertained by Stardust weaker attempts to satirize it. It seemed like a "giggle" look at fantasy, rather than a "big laugh" look at fantasy.

It was a whimsical fairytale Neil Gaiman movie. It's compared to Princess Bride because that's about the only good whimsical fairytale movie anyone knows. Most modern day fairytale movies are either too much nudge nudge wink wink or they are the director's fucked up version of fairytale told to excoriate his childhood traumas.

It's ok not to like it. It's not ok not to like it because it wasn't what other people told you it was.

That makes sense. I think I'm trying to justify not liking the movie, and that is why I'm posting in this thread, just to make sure that my raised expectations aren't the reason for my dislike. I'm finding it very hard to detach myself from that first impression. It's a little bit of inner drama that's getting puked in here. I hope I don't discourage anyone else from having a look at the movie. I hope more like it are made, since iterations seem to make a lot of things better.

Typing about it is fun too!

I can see not liking there being big names in it. Part of the charm of the Princess Bride is that it isn't too polished while Stardust really has been given the treatment you'd expect of fantasy films post LoTR. While it looks better it does lose something as well, though I'd deny that the Big Names are just enjoying themselves because they're in an obscure movie. It seemed to me that they, especially De Niro, really enjoyed getting to play characters they really wouldn't normally be playing. I can see that coming off strongly as, "Oh wow look at me do all these wild and wacky things it totally wouldn't be wild and wacky to do if I wasn't a type cast Hollywood star!" but that wasn't the vibe I got. You don't like the film as much though, that's cool. It's not a crime to not enjoy something.

Oh yeah, it's the internet. You're opinions are bad and you should feel bad, warggle barggle :awesome_for_real:

Saw this last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. Lightweight, forgettable, meandering, and FUN. It's the same sort of movie as Oceans Eleven: a bunch of stars chewing scenery and having a great time playing goofy stereotypes. Everyone's got a tongue in their cheek, but nobody's just phoning in a performance. I can tell the source material shines in its details, and that the screenwriters were trying to mine a few in passing (the guard at the gap, the unfortunate goat and goatherd). There's obviously a deeper story there, but not truly deep or meaningful... mostly just a Campbell hero myth.

See it. Expect nothing. Be pleasantly surprised.

Um.  Without going too crazy with spoilers, the book actually starts off with the Victorian fairy story premise injected with lots of Gaiman whimsy and many, many subversions of expected tropes and conclusions.  The novel's ending is actually very sad.

My main complaint with the film is that the story was changed to a straight up fairy tale with a happily ever after ending.

Book is so much better, but yeah movie was quite fun.

I just read the novel last night (I had to test drive my Kindle  :grin: ) and: