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Willow ,'Storyteller'
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You're craving musicals?
...that casting call is evil and wrong. I am sad. After the awesomeness that was the Chronic(what?)cles of Narnia, I keep wanting all of my childhood fantasies to be good movies.
I'm fascinated by the reviews of Tideland.
How can a movie that inspires that much upset be meritless? I mean, the tone of the reviews isn't just that the movie is bad, there's a moral tone of revulsion and disapproval. As if Gilliam gets his grimy little nails under their psyche.
But I haven't seen it. It may be utter twaddle, or a droning bore.
Did anybody see it? Jess?
It may be utter twaddle, or a droning bore.
This was pretty much E's reaction, IIRC. I didn't see it myself.
See #1: [link]
We just got back from seeing Pan's Labyrinth.
Wow. Just, um, wow. Jess, what was it you wanted to talk to me about, waaaaay back when you saw it?
I'm seeing it today!
Jess, what was it you wanted to talk to me about, waaaaay back when you saw it?
I wanted to know your opinion of the fantasy stuff, particularly the ending.
I've found that people who assume that all the fantasy elements are real and really exist come away with a much more positive view of the ending (when her earthly body has to die so that she can BE A FAIRY PRINCESS FOREVER) than people who think it's a story about a war-traumatized child who escapes into her imagination and then DIES.
Um, you can probably guess which side I fall on...
I...but...what? Why? WHO? WHY WHY WHY?
...I think I just had a minor heart attack.
I suspect this is how the LOTR bibliophiles felt when the films were being made, only they didn't make the Hobbits AMERICAN.