The Artemis Fowl Movie is Awful
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 พ.ย. 2024
- I envy Baby Daniel, who would have been so excited for Walt Disney Studio's Artemis Fowl without anticipating the cinematic disaster that was to be.
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Artemis Fowl is a 2020 American science fantasy adventure film based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Irish author Eoin Colfer. Directed by Kenneth Branagh, from a screenplay co-written by Conor McPherson and Hamish McColl, the film stars Ferdia Shaw, Lara McDonnell, Josh Gad, Tamara Smart, Nonso Anozie, Colin Farrell, and Judi Dench. It details the adventures of Artemis Fowl II, a twelve-year-old Irish prodigy who teams up with his faithful servant, as well as a dwarf and a fairy, in order to rescue his father, Artemis Fowl I, who has been kidnapped by another fairy looking to reclaim an item the Fowl family has stolen.
Originally intended to be launched as a franchise by Miramax in 2001, the film languished in development hell with several writers and directors attached until Walt Disney Pictures revived the project in 2013. Branagh was hired in 2015 and filming began in 2018.
Artemis Fowl's intended 2019 theatrical release was delayed to 2020, and then cancelled in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, it was released digitally worldwide exclusively on Disney+ on June 12, 2020. The film received negative reviews from critics, who criticized the film's plot, dialogue, characters, visual effects, and changes made to the source material.
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Imagine being young Artemis actor Ferdia Shaw, thinking you're gonna be the next Danielle Radcliff in a film franchise that should take you into your late teens only to have it dumped on streaming, bypassing theaters because of a worldwide pandemic and THEN having everyone hate it with the fire of 1,000 suns.
And yeah.. this film Jake Lloyd'd him. He's never done another movie.
Don’t discount him just yet, he’s a nepo baby. They always land on their feet somehow 🫤
He's an idiot if he thought he was the next Radcliff
Is it just me, or do the vast majority of these Hollywood remakes always water down the stories to the exact same boring type of movie? Artemis Fowl, The Golden Compass, Percy Jackson, and many others are indistinguishable in tone, style, and story structure. Same bland style of directing, same basic looks and feel of the actors, same style of visual effects, etc. It's all really boring and predictable. The stories of the books are all unique yet if you were to show me a picture of the cast or a single still shot of any of these movies I would not be able to tell them apart. They all leave you feeling the exact same way too - sort of a bland boring hollow feeling. They always make the same bizarre changes to the story too - I don't even know how to describe it but they always manage to neuter the stories and characters in particular ways that I just can't seem to put my finger on but always recognize. Like making important or at least charming characters completely irrelevant or barely present while deciding for some reason to take other minor characters and make them take up more screen time OR by changing the personalities and functions of characters so much that it screws up the original plot entirely.
I agree. It feels like they want the name recognition of an existing popular story, but also a movie that is as marketable as possible to as many people as possible.
So it's a foul then?
**Ba dum tsss**
Artemis Fowl was and is my favorite book series ever, it perfectly fit what I would want in a contemporary fantasy. It was in my mind superior to any other book like it, and this movie unhinged its jaw and just went to town on a landfill all over this series. I am actually going to quote my own comment on another video about this movie, but it is long.
I have problems with this whole movie, but my biggest is with the lack of Artemis's mother. She was the driving force of the moral side of Artemis. From the very beginning, Angeline's influence showed cracks in Artemis's otherwise perfectly cold exterior. Artemis traded half of the ransom back for Holly to heal his mother, after everything he went through to get it, it still meant nothing in the face of his mother's needs. Artemis tried to enjoy a time with his family when it was just them, promising himself that the C Cube was his last scheme, so he could stop lying to his mother, so he could make her happy, and be a normal family again. Angeline's illness led him to trying his best, albeit in his own, sneaky Fowl way to save her, by traveling back in time to find a cure for her with Holly's Semi willing help.
And speaking of Holly, she reminded him a lot of her mother, and Juliet in the books, confident, smart and ready to put others before herself as seen with Angeline's and Holly's love and respect of animals and nature. The two of them together helped Artemis get to where he was by the end of the book. Angeline laid the groundwork with her love and selflessness, and concern for a son she cared for above all else, and Holly, in her constant urging of Artemis to do the right thing, and her influence being in his near daily life at that point.
Without Angeline to lay the groundwork, Artemis would have to be mutilated as a character to end in the same place with only Holly as his moral foil and teacher. Which is what the movie did. It mutilated Artemis, Holly, Butler, and Julius to come into existence, and most of all, it screwed over Angeline Fowl, and now, Miles and Beckett will never exist on screen with their adorable Yin and Yang personalities.
Who are Miles and Becket?
Top o' the marnin.
-Dame Judi Dench
Anyone still in pain over this movie, I recommend the Razzle commentary. At the very least, they harvested some decent potato jokes out of all of this.
Some of this dialogue is on Star Wars prequel trilogy levels of bad. But at least the Star Wars prequels had some actually good aspects
Before watching the vid.
Aside for ALL the obvious issues with this film.
I believe the biggest is that Artemis Fowl the second himself, is weak.
And I don't mean in a powerscaling sense. Since disney clearly thinks having him beat uo some NPCs makes him strong.
They're wrong.
Movie Artemis is a weakling, because he never takes any action independently. Everything he does in the film is either forced onto him, or falls in his lap.
Opal forces him to seek the maguffin, and when he needs to capture a faerie. One just lands in his fuckin front yard.
Book artemis, had been on his quest for Faeries long before the start of book one. And it's even implied he had butler kill some people who tried scamming them before.
When they had a location. They had to stake out the place. The comic even making a joke of seasons passing as they waited.
And when it was time to be raided. In the book, artemis does a few strange actions that later reveal, he was making preparations down to the literal last second.
Movie artemis, just reacts to things happening to him.
Book artemis, at least in book 1 is the instigator. Wich is why he was so interesting
Haha, that jaw moment made me stop in my tracks.
And it's still like the one thing that's accurate to the books.
Using Opal as the main villain was just the cherry on the pie of terrible writing with this movie. Her two book saga in the first half of the series was so good but then they turned into such a bad joke.
Still waiting for Schaff's video on this fucking dumpster fire of a movie. I feel so bad for Ferdia Shaw man, this was an absolutely horrendous performance and felt disingenuous to even someone who's never even HEARD of the Artemis Fowl book series
Great review as always! The sidenote about the 'bottles of water' had me uncontrollably laughing XD
Movie Opal: give me a magical mcgaffin of allpower and I will give you back your father.
Artemis: Uses mcgaffin to tp his father back and keeps the mcgaffin.
Opal: Wait, what?...
That's what happens when you use mcgaffins instead of real objects in stories.
Some of this dialogue is on Star Wars prequel trilogy levels of bad. But at least the Star Wars prequels had some actually good aspects
This movie is such a massive troll
That's not even mentioning Mulch's sudden turn to being on Artemis' side.
He broke into the place five minutes ago, had no more than one conversation with the residents, then just joined them. He disregarded the decreased prison sentence for the sake of this incredibly intelligent boy.
Talk about efficient character writing. So efficient, you almost miss the part where it's explained why he switches sides.
Before COVID they wanted to put it in the cinema. Then they changed it to just a streaming thing. Maybe that ruimed the thing more.
Its called "morbid curiosity" i believe
One of the first "villain is a hero" characters. Disappointing on every single conceivable level.
Very interesting review. Quick random thoughts
-I guess they "had" to ruin this fantasy book series as all the others were taken and made fortunes or already have already been ruined (we all know the list)
- We've never seen you so angry and frustrated with a movie while reviewing it. I honestly thought (and worried) you would smash your pipe on the ground.
But yeah... Disney should just stop...just stop
This movie lost every single good thing about the books.
Bro this movie was so goofy ☠️