I'm rereading the series RIGHT NOW!
AIFG!
Buffy: You tossed that vamp like he was a... little teeny vamp. Riley: You wanna go again? C'mon. I bet this place is just teeming with aerodynamic vampires.
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Aims - Mar 23, 2006 12:57:49 pm PST #1124 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
§ ita § - Mar 23, 2006 12:59:58 pm PST #1125 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm re-reading The Phantom Tollbooth. IMDB tells me there was an animated version made of this. Anyone seen it? How was it?
I think it needs to be redone.
JZ - Mar 23, 2006 1:05:34 pm PST #1126 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Anyone seen it?
Yes.
How was it?
Meh. Completely different animation style than the Jules Feiffer illustrations, which probably does not bug anyone but me, but it bugged me a lot. Animated Milo was weirdly cute, and Tock and the Humbug looked all wrong. It also had a cheesy live-action intro.
Man, I sound like a cranky conservative prescriptivist bitch, don't I? Nevertheless, I stand by my Meh.
DavidS - Mar 23, 2006 1:47:55 pm PST #1127 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm re-reading The Phantom Tollbooth. IMDB tells me there was an animated version made of this. Anyone seen it? How was it?
It was okay. As JZ notes the animation wasn't Feifferesque enough. But there was a dearth of animated movies back then anyway, so I was glad to have it.
DawnK - Mar 23, 2006 1:54:20 pm PST #1128 of 10001
giraffe mode
Nevertheless, I stand by my Meh.
Agreed. Wholeheartedly. I think it's the live-action that bugs me. Plus I saw it in a skeevy theater, packed to the gills with summer camp kids (hell, I was one of those kids, but one who thought that movie-going was a special occasion not a playground), during a hot, hot summer so that may color my opinion. I mean, it should be great! Chuck Jones did the animation, it's got Mel Blanc, June Foray and Daws Butler doing the voices. Maybe it's my unholy hatred of Butch Patrick that makes me dislike this movie.
ita, it's funny that you are reading PT, as I just handed it to my son to read. He just finished Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach. He's on a kid classic book roll!
Jessica - Mar 23, 2006 2:21:44 pm PST #1129 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Feh to your mehs, I say! I love that movie to pieces -- I think I saw it at exactly the right age though. I don't know that I'd recommend it to an adult (unless they had kids to show it to).
DawnK - Mar 23, 2006 2:28:17 pm PST #1130 of 10001
giraffe mode
It's probably just my unholy hatred of Butch Patrick (he threw a lit sparkler at me one 4th of July for no reason, I was just 11 or 12!)
§ ita § - Mar 23, 2006 2:33:34 pm PST #1131 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I want a mixed media version of it, and I want it NOW.
Mr. Broom - Mar 23, 2006 4:23:35 pm PST #1132 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
Meh. Completely different animation style than the Jules Feiffer illustrations, which probably does not bug anyone but me, but it bugged me a lot.
No, I'm with you. Feiffer's Tollbooth is my Tollbooth and that's that. It was my favorite book as a child and will always be a favorite, but I doubt I could enjoy a film depicted as you describe.
Volans - Mar 24, 2006 4:07:13 am PST #1133 of 10001
move out and draw fire
Never heard the term "Janus word" before, but it's a keeper.
I read "resigned for" as "resigned to" and thought it was unusually un-political for Mr. Oldman to say something like that.
V is being majorly advertised here, which is unusual. Not even Star Wars 3 got any adverts, but there are billboards everywhere, and floor stickers in Metro stations, and stuff, for V. Can't wait to see it - a friend who's never read the book has not stopped messaging me about the movie. He was totally blown away.