A look at Harry Potter World in Orlando and Prince William has a "Harry Potter scar".
Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books!
Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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sumi - Mar 21, 2009 5:51:17 am PDT #536 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Laga - Mar 21, 2009 2:02:46 pm PDT #537 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I watched Dead Like Me: Life After Death. Mostly I was disappointed. I thought it started out with promise, that deeper mysteries would be revealed, and failed to deliver. In the end I didn't feel that it was a story crying out to be told. It felt more like the first episode of season 3.
Jessica - Mar 21, 2009 4:25:56 pm PDT #538 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
DH and I saw Monsters Vs Aliens today and it was great. Really, really fun, great characters, great vocal performances, great animation.
It does earn its PG rating - the humor is pretty adult, and it's *very* violent for something being marketed as a kid's movie. The violence is all bloodless of course, but the body count is higher than I was prepared for. There were some really young kids in the screening audience who did not sound like they were having a good time.
But for grown-ups who like monsters and aliens and 3D animation and Stephen Colbert, I highly recommend it!
Fay - Mar 21, 2009 6:49:25 pm PDT #539 of 30000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Prince William has a Harry Potter scar
...for the love of heaven, don't tell the Empress!
Aims - Mar 21, 2009 8:08:08 pm PDT #540 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Prince William has a Harry Potter scar
...for the love of heaven, don't tell the Empress!
::faints from the beauty of a beautiful thing::
sumi - Mar 21, 2009 8:08:36 pm PDT #541 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Ha. The Empress is exactly the audience I posted that link for.
Polter-Cow - Mar 21, 2009 10:27:35 pm PDT #542 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
But for grown-ups who like monsters and aliens and 3D animation and Stephen Colbert, I highly recommend it!
This is me! Thanks for the rec; I thought it looked good from the trailers.
Laga - Mar 21, 2009 10:58:56 pm PDT #543 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Dreamworks is predicting insanely huge numbers for Monsters v. Aliens. I hope they're right. They sent us managers a gift box including our own stuffed Insectosauruses (Insectosauri?) and I must say they are cute as giant mutant insect larvae could be.
flea - Mar 22, 2009 3:41:11 am PDT #544 of 30000
information libertarian
I would appreciate any more comments on Monster v Aliens, as Casper (5.5) is very interested in the previews.
She seems to be a bit cold-blooded, actually - we watched Animal Cops (by mistake) recently, and while she had a lot of questions, she wasn't distressed.
Jessica - Mar 22, 2009 5:20:22 am PDT #545 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Violence-wise, it's probably about on par with Star Wars.
I think it's probably more violent-seeming to adults because a 5 year-old isn't going to be extrapolating the consequences of all the collateral damage. (That is, the onscreen body-count is mostly alien clones who don't quite count, but if you stop and think about the logistics of some of the action scenes, there's no WAY most of the background extras could have survived.)
There's a lot of slapstick that will be funny to young kids, but most of the pop culture references will go right over their heads - they reference just about every classic SF/action movie ever made, as well as 24 and The Colbert Report.
Gender politics-wise, I think all little girls everywhere should see it. It never really occured to me before that Pixar, much as I love them, has never once had a female protagonist in any of their films.