I saw the penguin movie today. Baby Penguins are painfully cute, and now I am in the odd position of wanting to ask Billytea a penguin question that might be a spoiler for the movie.
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Fourthing the yay. Also saying that Hollywood Reporter and Variety both have fairly positive reviews of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory up, which you can get to through the metacritic site.
I wonder if Johnny Depp breaks out in a rendition of "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" at any point?
Finally saw BATMAN BEGINS over the weekend, and my response was "Oh HELL yeah!"
Quite possibly the best super-hero movie I've ever seen. Much as I loved the two Burton movies, this is the Batman movie I've been waiting for.
Oooooo. Just found out that Mizayaki's Warriors of the Wind has just been re-released on DVD as Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds. Not up to giving it the hours of rapt attention it deserves tonight, but I'm not making any plans for next weekend.
We watched this a few weeks back. I'd always heard great things about Nausicaä, but it all felt like a less complex dry run for Princess Mononoke to me. I liked Castle In The Sky (which I also saw recently for the first time) much more.
Nausicaä is a prototypical Mary Sue. Miyazaki's characterizations got better as time went on.
Nausicaä is a prototypical Mary Sue
I couldn't agree more. Also, the good guys were all good and the bad guys were all bad. The only ambiguity was in the motives of the gigantic cthulhu monsters.
Aw, I love Nausicaa. More than Mononoke, even, which I found more convoluted than complex.
Delurking.
'Cause I see things I want to respond to and then think "Damn, I better delurk before jumping into a conversation". And then I don't and the whole demented cycle begins again.
So... hello.
Hello! Uh, I'm not really sure how to nick your name. IANRAS?