Movies

[meteorite]

Robots is o.k., but not as much fun as The Incredibles. My husband bought The Incredibles for me the day it came out on DVD, and we watched it again that night. Then again, I'm a sucker for superheroes. See Robots on a matinee.

Thank heavens my parents never forbade me reading anything, although I think they decided the jig was up when they caught me reading the King James Bible (Revelations) and shaking my head at age 10 or so...

[papercrane]

alla: Well, I think it's mostly the parents of kids who don't have problems reading that ban. Example--my friend Meg isn't exactly a bookworm. She mostly reads chick novelettes, and her mom's just happy she's reading. My beloved parental units, on the other hand, got upset when they found me reading Ender's Game when I was about eleven or twelve.

As for HHGG...April 29, yo. Unfortunately for me, I won't be seeing it until after the AP Calc AB exam.
I don't know what's up with Zaphod either. I seem to recall the director posting something about adding the head in later (?!) but that might be my fevered imagination.
And for the record--Marvin is the best character there.

[Cress]

I agree completely about Marvin. I personally love that he hates the happy doors. I don't know why, but that makes me laugh so hard every time.
The Aviator was one of the most boring movies I have ever seen. Not that it was a BAD movie exactly, I just didn't think it had a plot. It went on and on with no point. For somebody who likes historical fiction though, I'm sure it would be really good. My parents both liked it. And Cate Blanchett was the best part. I absolutely loved her character.
I saw Miss Congeniality 2 today. It was better than I expected since all the reviews said it was absolutely horrible, but it was amazingly funny. That might have been because my friend and I were both extremely hyper and would probably have laughed at anything, but it was still really good.

[Lisa]

Alla
It puzzles me why parents ban certain books. Here so many parents have trouble just getting their kids to read something and then they go and complain when they don't read anything when more often than not the parents have banned the sort of books that the kids want to read... its so silly

And...

PPC
alla: Well, I think it's mostly the parents of kids who don't have problems reading that ban. Example--my friend Meg isn't exactly a bookworm. She mostly reads chick novelettes, and her mom's just happy she's reading. My beloved parental units, on the other hand, got upset when they found me reading Ender's Game when I was about eleven or twelve.

Exactly, Papercrane. My older bro and I read constantly; the problem is getting us to stop. But my other sibs would rather watch <STRIKE>TV</STRIKE> Yu-Gi-Oh or play <STRIKE>video games</STRIKE> Yu-Gi-Oh/Star Wars games. She was so happy when they read Animorphs and the Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice books. I, on the other hand, get a little bit more censoring. But mostly, she doesn't care. Only when it's got "inappropriate" or "mature" content, it gets...not banned, exactly. Just...put on hold. And it's great, because she never intrudes. It's like "Okay, let's go to the bookstore!", and when I check out, she doesn't ask what I got; she trusts my judgement, and knows that I'll tell her anything important about what's going on.

I'm thinking we should move this discussion to the Book thread.

[Cress]

Yeah, we probably should. But I'm too lazy, so I'm going to reply here anyway. I never go to the bookstore, I go to the library, so if I get something my mom doesn't like she can just make me return it. Which generally doesn't happen, as she doesn't even pay attention to what I read. I mean, she's suggested some stuff that's pretty muture. She gave me a book called Rain of Gold that involved a woman running around yelling that she was going to cut her husband's balls off. And that really was not the worst part, just one of the funniest.

[papercrane]

I borrow things online and my mom picks them up while I'm at school every Tuesday, so she's got a lot of control there. It has to look pretty legit and preferably obscure for her not to return it on the spot.
But I have somehow gotten my paws on stuff like The Godfather, so...

[Kathy Li]

So, what's the movie you're most looking forward to seeing this year? Star Wars Episode III? I think for me, there are three films at the top of the list, and I probably have to wait until fall for all of them: Mirrormask, Serenity, and the Wallace & Gromit movie (PM: it's a Quicktime link, just for you!).

Is anybody excited about seeing King Kong? On the one hand, it's Peter Jackson. On the other, well, it's King Kong and there's no way you could duplicate Fay Wray's screaming, or the effect that THAT stop-motion animation had back in the day.

BTW, the Apple website has put up another featurette on The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, about the director. Turns out he's the guy who did Shrek, which makes me both happy and a little alarmed. Do you think it'll turn out ok?

[meteorite]

OOh! OOOhhh! Wallace and Gromit! Thanks for the trailer -- I wonder if it will make it as far as HI?

Looking forward to an incredibly noir Sin City. They managed to make live action look like the graphic novel successfully. Bad vs. worse; who will you root for (heh-heh-heh)...

[Peter Murray]

As trailers go, that was a good summary of the characters' careers to date .

Hmmm. Last year, after seeing Prisoner of Azkaban, the next film I wanted to watch was Ring of the Nibelungs. Now I think the next film is Sword of Xanten .

Or maybe The Incredibles, since my sister rang and asked if I wanted to go round and watch their DVD of it.

[Kathy Li]

meteorite: you're welcome. And given that it's Dreamworks, I bet it will. I'm just curious about the extras they'll put on the dvd. I'm really hoping the W&G inventions shorts are on there, as well as the Creature Comforts series, but that's probably not gonna happen.

I'm looking forward to Sin City as well, partially just to see Alexis Bledel playing a Bad Girl. Should come as something of a shock to her Gilmore Girls fans. I really wanna know just which part is going to be Tarantino-directed, though.

PM: Wait. Goblet of Fire isn't on your list?! (migod. IMDb already has a release date listed: Nov. 18, 2005; then again, they're also listing a release date for PotC2. July 7 2006. Bet that one moves). Speaking of which, pictures!. Loving Harry in white-tie. Bet they've got him in a swallowtail coat, too.

[papercrane]

Nobody is fooled by Daniel Radcliffe pretending to be fourteen. And...Emma Watson. You most likely already know of my opinion regarding the AntiHermione, so I shall leave it at that.
Bwah. I am being negative today.

[Cress]

I think I want to see POTC, Harry Potter and Wallace and Gromit most. Has anybody here seen Bride and Prejudice? Or have I already asked that? I really can't remember.

[Birdhead]

There are a lot of movies I want to see that are on right now: Spanglish, Closer, Maria Full of Grace (I think I missed that one actually ) Les Choristes, IN MY FATHERS DEN OMG HAVE TO SEE THIS, Constantine (sorta), House of Flying Daggers.

Naturally, I can't afford to see any of them (although I think I absolutely have to get to In My Father's Den sometime.) I'm also kind of haning out for GOF and I just saw (finally, yes, I know) the Revenge of the Sith trailer and now I TOTALLY get why it's killing people. Because you know, shots of Luke! And Obi-Wan! Old Obi-wan AND young Obi-Wan! And please please don't let him stuff this up... look what he did to Clones, oh god, but....

Also, Asthmatic Ultimate Evil!

I'm also looking forward to Mirrormask but am willing to bet it won't make it here. *sigh* On the other hand, I'm willing to trust The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe for two reasons:
1. It was filmed in Auckland (I bet you didn't know the guy who did Shrek was a Kiwi )
2. In The Embassy, which is the theatre Return of the King world premiered at, they've had this cardboard model of the cupboard up for a while now. It's kind of very exciting, because apart from the obvious Aslan they don't have any of the motifs (Jadis, snowflakes, broken tables, etc) that you;d expect: instead they have the Tree and the Garden and the phoenix.

It kind of makes me cry to look at, though, because the simple fact that no-one ever produces The Magician's Nephewdrives me nuts. Call me silly, but I think it'd make a GREAT movie: They just always do Wardrobe first because it's famous. But a whole new generation of kids are going to grow up not knowing that the first King and Queen of Narnia were a milkman and his wife, and that the Professor was one of the first kids to go to Narnia, or that Jadis was from another universe, or about the wood between worlds...

... you know, it just makes me sad. They probably won't do The Horse and His Boy, either. Woe.

[Peter Murray]

Originally posted by kli6:
I'm really hoping the W&G inventions shorts are on there, as well as the Creature Comforts series, but that's probably not gonna happen.

Here, at least, there's a Creature Comforts DVD with half of the new series on. It'll probably stay a separate title. "Inventions shorts"? I know there are the Christmas idents - they're on the DVD I've got with Grand Day Out, Wrong Trousers and Close Shave.

PM: Wait. Goblet of Fire isn't on your list?! (migod. IMDb already has a release date listed: Nov. 18, 2005; then again, they're also listing a release date for PotC2. July 7 2006. Bet that one moves). Speaking of which, pictures!. Loving Harry in white-tie. Bet they've got him in a swallowtail coat, too.

GoF's on the list, but it's not next on the list.

Originally posted by papercrane:
Nobody is fooled by Daniel Radcliffe pretending to be fourteen. And...Emma Watson. You most likely already know of my opinion regarding the AntiHermione, so I shall leave it at that.

Well, as a 47-year-old, I can't tell the difference between a fifteen-year-old (which DR apparently is) and a fourteen-year-old. While EW is still fourteen anyway - and she seems like a good Hermione to me.

[papercrane]

Really? Could'a sworn he was sixteen. Looks it.
At any rate, I wasn't referring to little miss Watson's age. I really don't know why people go on about her apparent perfection for the role; to me she comes across as a bad attempt to revive the sparkly pink-tinted 'girl power' that went out with the Spice Girls. The over-pronunciation stopped being cute in the first movie. She wants to be Hilary Duff. I admit some fault lies with the script-writer, whose name I am too lazy to look up but I believe it starts with 'k' or something, and the director--but honestly. Hermione is not supposed to be a bouncy, preppy, wannabe blond with 'cute' hair.