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Roz spends a day at the cinema
Nov. 23rd, 2005 12:25 amThe great rewatch of Veronica Mars proceeds apace, except that I was out this pm and my sweetie decided to watch the last four episodes by herself, having got belatedly hooked. Incidentally, she worked out Lilly's killer after ten episodes, so it was not as gratuitous a solution as it seemed to some of us; she also, as supplementary possible murderer, came up with the other favoured theory that Rob Thomas Jossed. Which indicates that I have a very smart beloved and that maybe we should not have been so upset either way.
Also, pursuant to my theory, in 'Teen Dreams', that Rob Thomas references most of the classic teen movies and shows, is the moment when Logan confronts the Fed infiltrator and says to him 'Dream on, Jump Street'. I did not pick that up when I was writing the book, because I had not heard of the show...But it does confirm my theory, a bit.
None of this is what you want from me, nor my gloat at having got the discs for the Eccleston Dr Who - minus packaging, but poot!
What you will be wanting to know is my first reactions to The Chronicles of Narnia...
( The Cat, the Cutie and the Closet, as Colin Greenland once called in when asked to write Lewis in the style of Chandler. 'There was white powder on her hands, but it didn't come from no Turkish Delight; no wonder they called her the Snow Queen'. Colin's joke, not mine. )
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paratti and I went to see 'Harry Potter and the Plot Device of Fire' ( on which some quick thoughts )
Oh, and the trailers for 'King Kong' and 'Pirates 2' were fine, though it worries me about both films that desert island cannibals with painted faces are apparently back in fashion. I don't know what the answer is with the denizens of Skull Island, if you are doing a non-revisionist remake, but they didn't have to go with racist conventions just to put Jack Sparrow in danger. I did like the fact that, in Narnia, many of the centaurs and fauns were non-white, whereas the cyclopsettes and minotaurs were a variety of non-racial shades.
Oddly, perhaps because so clearly iffy, they worry me less than all the broken accents in 'Memoirs of a Geisha'. Hey kids, these people are speaking Japanese perfectly, so why represent this as speaking English badly?
Also, pursuant to my theory, in 'Teen Dreams', that Rob Thomas references most of the classic teen movies and shows, is the moment when Logan confronts the Fed infiltrator and says to him 'Dream on, Jump Street'. I did not pick that up when I was writing the book, because I had not heard of the show...But it does confirm my theory, a bit.
None of this is what you want from me, nor my gloat at having got the discs for the Eccleston Dr Who - minus packaging, but poot!
What you will be wanting to know is my first reactions to The Chronicles of Narnia...
( The Cat, the Cutie and the Closet, as Colin Greenland once called in when asked to write Lewis in the style of Chandler. 'There was white powder on her hands, but it didn't come from no Turkish Delight; no wonder they called her the Snow Queen'. Colin's joke, not mine. )
And then
paratti and I went to see 'Harry Potter and the Plot Device of Fire' ( on which some quick thoughts )Oh, and the trailers for 'King Kong' and 'Pirates 2' were fine, though it worries me about both films that desert island cannibals with painted faces are apparently back in fashion. I don't know what the answer is with the denizens of Skull Island, if you are doing a non-revisionist remake, but they didn't have to go with racist conventions just to put Jack Sparrow in danger. I did like the fact that, in Narnia, many of the centaurs and fauns were non-white, whereas the cyclopsettes and minotaurs were a variety of non-racial shades.
Oddly, perhaps because so clearly iffy, they worry me less than all the broken accents in 'Memoirs of a Geisha'. Hey kids, these people are speaking Japanese perfectly, so why represent this as speaking English badly?
