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I love Totoro, but it pushes some particular buttons of mine very hard, so I always spend part of the movie crying. Which is why I prefer to watch Kiki's Delivery Service more.
But they're both movies I'm planning on introducing Princess Tickybox to. Those, Monsters, Inc., and Lilo and Stitch.
Lilo and Stitch.
One of Emeline's FAVORITES.
It's okay, my dog found the chainsaw.
Also cute and FLUFFY!
Blue punch bug!
Mal *is* Stitch.
Newsweek didn't like Stardust at all, except for De Niro's performance. Also they said it was based on Gaiman's illustrated novel. The paperback I read was most definitely not illustrated - to what were they refering?
to what were they refering?
From Wikipedia: [link]
Stardust was originally conceived by Gaiman and Vess as a "story book with pictures", created by both, and to be published by DC Comics. Initially it was released in 1997 in what is known in the medium of comics as a "prestige" format four-issue mini-series.
Gaiman and Vess originally intended the story to be released complete, as a single book which would better reproduce the painted illustrations of Vess and be a "story book" for all ages, and a release in this format was made in 1998. There was both a hardback and a trade paperback edition.
Gaiman retains the copyright to the text and in 1999 decided, encouraged by publisher Avon, to publish Stardust as a conventional novel in hardback without illustrations.
If you've never seen the illustrated version of Stardust, I highly recommend it. It's beautiful.
Has anyone seen Fido (2006 and about to be released on DVD). My DH just asked me to add it to our NetFlix queue.
Has anyone seen Fido
No, but I wanted to. A heart-warming movie about a boy and his pet zombie! I need to ask Pete add it to our NetFlix queue, too.
I just got back from Stardust. I loved it. It was so very much fun and exciting. And similar enough to the book in tone that I didn't mind at all the plot differences. I want to hug it and squeeze it and call it George. I may have to go again this weekend.
Unfortunately, I had to see the Dark is Rising trailer, too. Which I had been avoiding. It was so bad I almost started to cry. The Dark Is Rising was my very first fantasy series. I've read every book in it at least 10 times. The fact that they made... this... out of it makes me rather irate. Especially in an era where fantasy books are, generally, getting made into at least decent movies right and left.