A Series of Unfortunate Events : Pales compared to the movie

I wanted to like this, but the movie had so much more style and atmosphere that is lacking in this adaptation. Not to mention the performances fall flat, and I much prefer Jim Carrey's Count Olaf to Neil Patrick Harris'. Enjoyable enough

Agree about the style and atmosphere. I think the series captured more of the eccentricities and obviously did the story better but the movie definitely succeeded overall. I still can't believe fans judge it so harshly. Face it guys, Olaf WAS a ridiculous guy.



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Ehhh, I gotta kinda disagree here. Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of the movie, and I definitely think it had a few elements here and there that were more well done.

I was a fan of the books before the movie was released, and being a movie, there were some pretty major changes that irked me. I understand that some of them were for time, since you can't capture every little detail of three books in a couple hours of film. But some of them just seem to be there for no reason, like events happening in different order, or things being added that would have been better traded out for more stuff that actually happened in the book.

I was definitely skeptical of the series at first, and during the first few minutes I was like "Ugh, what are they doing?". I originally wasn't impressed with Patrick Warburton as Lemony Snicket; I though Jude Law's melancholy tone and shadowed presence was very good in the movie. However, he grew on me pretty quick, and understanding that Lemony Snicket is a seasoned member of basically a super secret spy organization, I do think he is a good fit. His personality reminds me of a strict-yet-cool college professor.

The children, I think were about equally well cast and accurate to the book. I will give the edge to the series, because it seems like they really nailed a happy medium between the movie's look and the books' illustrations. Klaus seems younger (he was only 12 in the books) and actually wears his glasses all the time, which really bothered me that the movies left it out.

The big kicker was definitely gonna be Count Olaf. I though Jim Carrey did a good job on him, and definitely stole the show. Olaf is a very over-the-top villain and Carrey really adopted that.And when Neil showed up as Olaf. I was very surprised to find he also did a great job! Like the children, his image looks like it was taken straight out of the illustrations (Jim's got this right too). All of his disguises also looked extremely book accurate, and his alternative personalities were very enjoyable. His alter-egos are definitely very very good in the movies too, although they aren't exactly book accurate.

That's not to say the series was perfect. I feel like there were a few scenes that were very awkward and just didn't work, There were a few minor characters that I think were miscast. The one I was most disappointed with was Aunt Joesphine; although I liked the actress, I though the movie version was perfect, and the series seemed to just try too hard to be different at the cost of the tone the book set up. There was some dialogue that went on a bit long and overall unimportant, and ended up distracting from the story. It's good that they had a lot of time to dedicate to each book, but I feel like sometimes they weren't exactly sure what to do with their extra time. Also for some inexplicable reason there were still a few changes/exclusions to the core story. One example was in the events Miserable Mill, where in the book, Violet and Klaus adopted each other's talents for a moment, with Klaus actually coming up with his own invention to save another character's life. Most of the other ones were extremely minor; still, I would have traded out some of the extended dialogue to see them.

Overall, the movie is a classic and I will always enjoy it. But I am very happy with the netflix series, I have high hopes for a second and third season, and I think it does the books a lot more justice.

You enjoyed Jim Carrey's Olaf as Jim Carrey prancing around on stage like a T-Rex Dinosaur didn't you?



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He was acting, he's a actor

That's no excuse for over acting and a bad script.

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The movie got a score of like 6.6/10 on imdb, but somehow now that the series is out everyone has nostalgia goggles on. Top reviews about the movie complain how it was nothing like the book, and now that we get a series that's much more closely tied to the tone of the book we get people complaining about how it's not like the movie.

I like the movie well enough, but I adore the show.
The tone feels like a Wes Anderson film, which suits the stories more than the not-Burton tone that the film used (IMO). Also, Jim Carrey was far too funny almost all the time for me, whereas Harris is funny as well, but he never stops being a sinister, creepy character.

I just started watching the show and I've seen all this before. So far every one of the actors in the movie was better than those on the Netflix show. And I miss Jude Law's narration.

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