I saw Prince Caspian yesterday. I thought it was incredibly dull and ponderous, and everything Aslan said was horrifically "Chicken Soup for the Soul". Also, the score was completely ineffective, until the last song, which I thought was so obnoxious as to be offensive. Then too, If I hadn't read the books a dozen times and enjoyed the first movie, I would have had no idea what was going on. Couldn't they have had a couple of hundred fewer shots of Lucy's face looking cute and mysterious and replaced them with at least a LITTLE exposition?
In the plus column.... um. Reepicheep was cute, if way underused.
ETA:
Edited because "pithy" does not mean exactly what I thought it meant.
So, if I absolutely hated the first movie, and didn't feel that it took me into the land of Narnia, I shouldn't see Prince Caspian? Because, wow, I so did not feel any magic in the first movie, didn't care a jot about the characters or the story, and hated the inconsistent CGI. Laughed riotously at the beaver family be smashed inconsiderately to smithereens by our supposed heroes.
Loved Mr. Tumnus' goaty landing strip, though, naughty me.
(I loved the books, although I haven't read them in decade)/
In the plus column.... um. Reepicheep was cute, if way underused.
Also, if I heard correctly, Eddie Izzard. Does that make Aslan/Reepicheep slash less or more acceptable? Discuss.
I just watched
Waitress.
It was a lovely little movie and absolutely hilarious at times, so understated with its humor, like it hardly acknowledges its punchlines. I had some small issues with the ending (
the relationship with the doctor just sort of...ends, kind of anticlimactically, and it's hard to tell what the point of it all really was when Jenna's real epiphany appears to come when she sees her baby [although I guess he did show her that she had the ability to be happy]; and I really didn't think Earl would just disappear from her life that easily, especially if she stayed in the same town
), but it was still sweet and fun.
I really enjoyed the other two waitresses, and I thought the redheaded one was very cute and really pretty post-She's All Thating. And then when the credits roll, I discovered that it was Adrienne Shelly! Oh man. I'd forgotten she was an actress too. She was even in an episode of
Oz
! Stupid random murdering dude.
Aims and I saw Indy 4 on Friday.
Didn't like it. I mean, it wasn't
Spider-Man 3
levels of not liking it, but I didn't like it.
Aww, MM, that's too bad. I went with my dad and we enjoyed it a lot. I loved Shia Labeuf (not sure I spelled that right),
with his ducktail and motorcycle. And fencing! Hee.
It's all so over-the-top, but when is Indy not?
I didn't mind the over-the-top, though the
"Tarzan" routine
almost made me get up and leave. But, come on...
ALIENS?! Even "interdimensional" aliens?! What the...?
It's always been a staple of Indy flicks that he deals with
magic. The Ark of the Covenant, the Stones of Whateverthefuck, the Holy Grail. To switch that to super-science just felt...like a big ol' WTF? Ancient Astronauts? Really? The whole Van Daaniken thing just put me off and the giant 1950's cheap ass flying saucer at the end just made me wanna spit.
Why not go back to the
magical relics bit? What's wrong with the Lance of Longinus? Excalibur? The Commies wouldn't want those? A magical sword that would make Stalin invincible? You know?
It just felt like horseshit to me. The whole
chase through the jungle was "speeder-bikes" redux, the plot...okay, let me get this straight. Ox finds the grave of what's-his-nut, gets the skull, *takes it to the temple*, somehow fails to open the door so he puts it back where he found it, goes batshit and gets locked away so he can conveniently scratch psedo-mad-dribble all over his cell and lead Indy to find the skull that he, Ox, *already found*? Buh-whuh?
Meh, I say. Meh.
t smooches on sumi
$10 says the HPHBP trailer is tied to Dark Knight.
