A Series of Unfortunate Events - Nostalgia Critic

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With the Netflix show winning everybody over, the movie seems be getting a bit of backlash. Nostalgia Critic argues there's more to it than some let on. Let's take a look at Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events.
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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (also simply known as A Series of Unfortunate Events) is a 2004 American adventure black comedy film directed by Brad Silberling. It is a film adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, covering the first three novels: The Bad Beginning (1999), The Reptile Room (1999), and The Wide Window (2000). The film stars Jim Carrey, Liam Aiken, Emily Browning, Timothy Spall, Catherine O'Hara, Billy Connolly, Cedric the Entertainer, Luis Guzmán, Jennifer Coolidge, and Meryl Streep, as well as Jude Law as Lemony Snicket (the pen name of American writer Daniel Handler).
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[@MusicDecomposer]

Jim Carrey’s Olaf is funny around everyone else, but scary when he’s alone with the kids.

[@unbakedalaska1301]

The show was able to showcase the diversity of ridiculousness the Bauldelaire’s had to encounter with their later guardians, while the movie focused more in-depth on the insidiousness and danger behind the ridiculousness. NPH’s Olaf is a bad actor who has killed people, Carrey’s Olaf is a murderer with a hobby. I love both portrayals

[@mrcritical6751]

“What the fuck Mr Poe?” Pretty sure that’s how everybody reacts to every action Mr Poe makes in this entire franchise

[@linksbro1]

I think Jim Carrey's Olaf being goofier for the first act makes sense because within the context of the story, he thinks he already won. That becoming the orphans' guardian was the victory in of itself and he was basically just killing time with his theater troupe as he waited for the court papers, at which point he could kill the Baudelaire orphans and their fortune would be his. To Olaf, there wasn't anything standing in his way at that point. It's not until they survive the train and he has guardianship taken away does Olaf actually view the orphans as being in the way and to be taken seriously.

[@cherriegetison6093]

"Do you have a hall pass?" is the scariest line in the film to me, just because you know after he casually intimidates Violet back into her room, he kills Uncle Monty that same night. Jim Carrey's Count Olaf is silly until he's not.

[@QuarterLifeCrises]

I think it's less of a "the show leaves the movie in the dust" and more of a "the movie ran so the show could fly." I absolutely loved and still love the movie, if nothing else because it introduced me to the books.

[@fred9136]

This film, much like 1999's The Mummy, is one of the rare cases of absolutley perfect casting.

[@jongon0848]

I'm pretty sure the payoff with Meryl Streep's character was that all her reasons for being overly paranoid were valid. The kids initially think she's just overreacting but once all the stuff she was worried about begins to happen to them, they begin to realize she wasn't acting as paranoid as they thought she was.

[@g-dog_eswshockwave]

Here’s something I don’t understand. People hated Jim Carey’s version of Count Olaf for not being the Count Olaf from the book, but Gene Wilder’s version of Willy Wonka is praised by everyone, despite the fact that he’s not the Willy Wonka from the book?

[@nancygonzalezgarcia8701]

I’d really watch a version of a Series of Unfortunate Events with the Nostalgia Critic as Count Olaf

[@robertlauncher]

“Maybe the idea is that he knew the spyglass would-“

[@TheHannahcast]

I loved this film ever since I was a kid. Fun fact: A Series of Unfortunate Events is the first Nickelodeon film to win an Oscar. It won Best Makeup and was nominated for Production Design, Costume Design, and Original Score.

[@rckblzr]

If nothing else, this movie was a triumph of production design.

[@oliviapanzica8833]

I love this movie so much! As someone who read the all the books, I’d agree the silly and dark spirit was captured more with the TV series, but the movie is still very unique, atmospheric, and makes you care for the children on a human level. It feels more grounded in reality whereas the show is silly and out there. Neither adaptation is better then the other because they tell a story but in two different ways.

[@meganobgutzkraka2398]

"you dont get much screen time but you REALLY feel like you know them by the end of their story"

[@Engineer_Who]

The reason Olaf's "sentencing" is weird is because the film has an alternate, unreleased ending.

[@keybladeduelist]

One thing I love from the movie is when Violet goes to sign the document with her left hand and Olaf catches her and tells her to use her right. If you haven't red the books or seen the show, that seems out of place, but it's actually a clever reference to the fact that the document must be signed in their own hand. A loophole violet uses outside the movie is that it isnt in her hand as she used her non dominant hand. This is such a simple call back to the books that I loved it and when I share it with others that haven't read the books yet they do as well

[@nicholasdangelo5423]

As someone who read the books, albeit a while ago, I’d say that the movie and the show are both solid adaptations in their own right. The show was able to encompass the entire series (including the VFD subplot the movie didn’t have time to explore) and thus give all of the side characters more time to breathe and allow those who didn’t read the books to not be as confused while the movie IMO gave us better versions of Mr. Poe, Uncle Monty and Aunt Josephine (mainly because the movie picked better actors to portray them and, in Mr. Poe’s case, made his personality less goofy and more relatable).

[@ReaperKingMTG]

As a follower of the books I think one of the biggest issues that the movie had run into was simply the fact that they tried to cram three stories into one movie, then sadly when the box office didn't go over well with the movie the rest of the series was scrapped as well. The show giving an episode or in the later half two episodes to each story let the full book be recognized. Both are good in their own rights. The movie was good as a movie, where as the TV show with its ability for length gave the book readers more homage to the full story.