If you live in a country where Stardust is opening this weekend and you have any interest in seeing it, please consider going this weekend. Tonight, if you can.

Stardust is Neil’s attempt to write “pre-Tolkien fantasy,” and is one of a select few books that I read every now and again just because it makes me happy. The movie is almost as good as the book. It has a fallen star, a flying ship, a coven of witches, and Ian McKellen’s voice. There are fairies and snowdrop charms and significant hearts. It is filmed in rural England and set in Faerie. There is very little not to love.

According to Neil, Stardust doesn’t have “much in common with The Princess Bride, [but] they’re at present the only two things in that genre.” If that doesn’t immediately excite you, check out some of the many positive reviews the film has gotten from both professionals and random prescreen audience members. You probably won’t regret spending a couple hours of your Friday, Saturday, or Sunday watching this movie, and you will do something great for fantasy.

It does make a difference, if you really like a movie, whether you see it opening weekend or not. Hollywood goes completely bonkers over opening weekend box office sales and pretty much ignores what happens after that. So the better a movie does its first weekend, the more likely we are to see more things like it in the future. And everyone wants to see more films in the genre that includes The Princess Bride, right?

So if you possibly can, and have the inclination, go see Stardust this weekend. Please. Neil wants us to.

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