"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" Review

1/2/2014

Had a quadruple feature at the theater the other day, beginning with Ben Stiller's The Secret Life of Walter Mitty!

Lady Stardust

6/10/2014 02:47:47 am

While i don't think i daydream quite as much as you Brad i do tend to go into my own world at times. It's pretty well developed too.

Screw the rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the critics gave Trash Humpers a 58% rating and that movie bored me. Harmony Korine is such a hack.

angelique_sp

2/7/2015 11:30:36 am

I'm really glad to hear 'Walter Mitty' turned out to be a damn good film.... He's James Thurber's most well-known creation and deserves a decent movie treatment. (Man, that guy could write a turn-of-a-phrase that was a thing of sheer beauty!)

tomservoindrag

4/4/2015 11:50:00 pm

I was hesitant to see this, as I am also a huge fan of the story. I think that on the whole, the backlash is coming for us purists who were disappointed that only the first 15 minutes followed the original story. But, taken as a movie inspired by the story and left to follow its own fantasy, it's quite good. Sean Penn's appearance is very poignant, and Walter's realization was not over-inflated. It was pretty realistically portrayed.

So, on the whole, I do agree that even those of us who have lives that we never saw coming will always dream, and dream hard. That's the stuff that keeps most creative people going - our aqua vitae, if you will. We're not so much ADD as e are just overly creative and hopeful. At least, that's my take.

Anyway, if you want a good movie that speaks to taking a chance, see 'Walter Mitty'. If you want some very faithful adaptations of the original Thurber story, check out Chuck Jones' two Ralph Phillips cartoons that he did for Warner Brothers, "From A To ZZZ" and "Boyhood Daze". Seriously--they're masterful. :)

Thank You Brad, for all of your terrific work.

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