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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flyspeck23" data-source="post: 2098914" data-attributes="member: 10648">It's pretty hard to measure the quality of a film, commercial success notwithstanding. Prior to this year's Oscars I've heard some people say (as they were being interviewed on TV) that this year's Oscar for best movie should go to "Alien vs Predator". So for them AvP had everything that makes a good movie... Anyway, I watched tPM again yesterday, and it didn't suck - imagine my surprise.  There's a catch: The Potter novels go to great length to show a means to escape the real (miserable? ordinary?) life - kids can relate to that. They can't relate to a pod-racing kid living on a desert world.  And that's not necessarily the age I'm talking about - although 9 is pretty close. I was thinking 10-12, give or take a few years (and at a later age most kids will think of themselves as adults <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ). And it might work if the kids in the story are older than the kids reading the story.(Animals are a totally different matter, but I'll stop now, as we're rapidly approaching off-topic.)</blockquote>