Some thoughts about Artemis Fowl (with spoilers)

Clemens 2022-12-17 12:30:44

After watching this thing, I really don’t know how to describe my anger. How depraved and self-righteous is Disney to make this kind of thing, and how perfunctory is it to even the most basic commercial movie set? I can’t do well in stereotyped things. I think that it’s not an epidemic and there are plans for theaters to show online. I really think this is an insult to the audience.

In fact, this story is an IP with no commercial film adaptation value. Generally speaking, it is not particularly famous and has no educational significance suitable for family fun. It is even said that the original story is an almost brainless man child fantasy, the protagonist in the work. It is often a projection of the author. I think Mr. Eoin Colfer, who wrote the original book, should be a dick. To be honest, the department store detectives written by Dian in bojack are more interesting than this. Based on the reality of the original book, in fact, even if this film is made into a solid book-reformed movie, it is destined to be a flop or a failure that only struggles to make a lot of money. The film adaptation of this book has been delayed since the project was established. It finally came out in 15 years, which is enough to explain the problem. But this film is not even a commercial adaptation of Solid, this is a super shit to laugh at!

In short, talk about the movie itself. The beginning of the movie is a chaotic reporter report that can’t be chaotic. (Actually, you made it for children. What information do you expect them to catch in such a chaotic scene? I was in a cloud after watching this. ) In the report screen, a person was arrested and interrogated. In the subsequent screens, we know that this person will be our narrator. Everything is based on his memory. Then you know this is a flashback, and flashback is the most stupid. The storytelling method, the security option that has been used millions of times, does it work? Sometimes work, but not this time. This time, the film masters made the film forget that it has this structure in a timely manner. Our dwarf friend (yes, this person is a dwarf, no matter how you look at it, it is a one-meter-eight dwarf). Part of the time he tells things he doesn't know, and looks at everything from the perspective of God. This makes this movie stupid in terms of structure, but it’s more stupid than the structure, it’s the characters. The only two characters I don’t hate in the whole movie are the characters of Judi Dennch and Officer Holly. They are both of them. There are only two characters in the movie with a sense of justice, and although the portrayals of these two people are well portrayed in this movie, they are too flat to imagine. In fact, the most profoundly inked character in this movie is our narration, which is ironic because he is the narration, and the protagonist’s portrayal is simply a disaster. Although in the original book, the protagonist is also a "relentless and extremely Smart young criminal", but you expected him to be like that, because you know you are watching crime stories, but in the movie, the only place where he mentioned that his family is a crime family is the only messy reports, and the protagonist mentioned it on TV His father denied it when he was a criminal, so you would naturally think that he was an ordinary kid (the movie didn’t show him smart at all, and all his smarts were told to you by others), so from this standpoint, you will definitely hate him , As shown in the movie, he is a stubborn, self-contained dick who doesn’t care about other people’s thoughts at all, self-righteous, pretentious, ill-behaved, immature, and worthless dick. From any point of view, he is a person who is hateful. Scum, he can't justify any of his actions. We will like characters who are both right and evil because of their complexity and justify behavior that makes us empathetic, not because of the shit they do, but Artemis Fowl jr. It’s a bully who doesn’t have any complexity and does everything from petty theft (stealing officer holly’s gun) to drug delivery (narcotics on officer holly) to extortion (using officer holly as a bargaining chip to negotiate). He is empathetic, so you will definitely hate him like a criminal who hates reality. When you hate the protagonist of a story, how do you like a story? Even if you hate bojack, you will love him at the same time, because you see yourself in him, but when you look at our infamous figure here, what you see is pure evil, and you will only hate him. what a character, what a character!

In short, in the mouth of the dwarf, we knew that the world of elves really existed, and then introduced officer holly, we knew that the dwarf was a dwarf, and we saw the shining and beautiful, uncharacterized CG city, and a horse with stiff movements. The dying man, the visual effects of this movie really make people do not believe its cost. It is also unbelievable that the officer holly left the job to "wash his father's stigma" without planning after handling the troll problem, and our great protagonist actually anesthetized her like an anesthetized animal. And the kidnapping and detention of her. Actually seeing this, you will suddenly get angry, because the officer holly portrayed in the movie is a sweet girl, and the place she goes is where the protagonist’s father meets his elf friend, you will be treated like this because of officer holly. Being angry will also be angry because the protagonist actually wants to anesthetize and detain his father's friends, so angry that you are not interested in watching the confrontation and action scenes afterwards. I just hope that the stupid fork is about to die at any moment. When you are angry and survived a series of chaotic and speechless CG melees, you will find that the movie has already passed most of the time. In this mess, if he does not kidnap and detain the officer holy, nothing will happen before. The butler of this self-righteous kid will not almost die, and there will not be everyone who is almost eaten by the troll. If you drop this kind of thing, at this time your remaining sympathy for his father was kidnapped will disappear. Your feelings for him will be like any annoying villain, so the question is, who is the villain?

The answer is that a person who did not show his face at all and kidnapped the protagonist’s father needs to explain his purpose through the suddenly inserted fragments, hoping to steal an elf artifact and destroy the world. The playing time is less than five minutes, and he needs to be the villain in the next episode. Obviously, this is a means for you to watch the next episode. Disney thought of the money and thought of splitting what can be done in a movie into two parts, shortening the length of the movie to one and a half hours.

This is a kind of insult to the audience. It puts aside the ineffective characters in the movie, the meaningless explanatory dialogue, the logical flaws, and the messy action scenes. This movie is all time worst. , Because he doesn’t finish the story, compare it with the Avengers, which also divides the story into two parts. The previous episode is at least finished. Thanos destroyed half of the universe. It won’t leave a tail. The audience pays. It's for watching a complete movie, not for a movie without ending. In fact, it's really wise for Disney not to let this movie go to theaters, at least they don't have to face the backlash that the audience is angry in the movie theater. I hate this movie, even when it comes to the actor who extends hatred to the male protagonist, I now see the big nose and the ugly lips, so I want to put my middle finger up. Forget it, I won’t talk about it anymore. The obvious plot holes, procrastinated rhythms, unconnected characters, and blunt emotions in this film are the problems of moral corruption in the works for children. You also forgot the annoying damn created by the original author of man child. Role, this movie is a masterpiece, in terms of making people hate people who don’t know their lives

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Extended Reading

Artemis Fowl quotes

  • Butler: Scared, Artemis?

    Artemis Fowl I: I prefer scared to dead.

  • Artemis Fowl Sr: May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face. May the rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, may a friend be always near.