On my way to dinner

[cleolinda]

Re: Fox picking up Narnia news: Am I really the only person who enjoyed Prince Caspian? I'm not saying either of the two Narnia movies are perfect, but I love them both and didn't find either one of them to be any kind of travesty.

(Although, yeah, Aslan's headgames in the second movie were kind of bullshit.)

(From annlarimer: Madame Alexander made two Narnia dolls? Hmm. Lucy really works at that size, and the White Witch... really, really doesn't. It's kind of... chibi!Jadis. Needs moar evil.)

made_of_fail_pc: Episode Twelve: Buckets Of Explosions!

From foresthouse: Michael Dirda at the Washington Post has a new book discussion group. "The Reading Room is relatively new, so it needs to build up sufficient numbers to keep it open. I'm trying to spread the word. : )"

More linkspam!

ohnotheydidnt broke LiveJournal.

Browsing knockoff fashion jewelry, I discovered a Casino Royale-style Algerian love knot necklace (hey hey!) and Bella's bracelet (sigh).

Cutbacks hit boxes of Girl Scout Cookies. NOOOO!

Nerd Merit Badges! Needs more fandom-related activities before I'll get interested, though.

Headset Vince fighting Church of Scientology through ShamWow proceeds: "He filed suit against them in 2004 for ruining his movie, his life, his business, and being dickholes. I couldn’t find any information on the outcome of this lawsuit, but according to ESPN, Vince is still fighting the good fight. And he is using every dime he makes from selling ShamWows and SlapChop as well as all the proceeds from Underground Comedy to fight them." (What's a ShamWow, you ask? Why, it'll absorb your fucking DOG!)

T-Shirt Hell is closing with a massive flounce: "Anyway, rather than cater to the masses, I'm just going to stop making shirts. It's not enjoyable anymore and I have enough money to move on to something more rewarding. Maybe I'll start my own hooker farm or maybe I'll practice sleeping. Whatever I decide to do, it will be better than this."

Mary-Louise Parker & 'Hedda Gabler' director feuding.

Is 'Waiting for Guffman' goin'...to Broaaaadway?!

Lost Executive Producers Answer 'Jughead' Questions; Can You Explain Lost? Theoretical Physicist Michio Kaku Attempts To; Sawyer Would Let You Beat Him Up; What's up with Lost's Nestor Carbonell not aging? And the 'guyliner'? Turns out he just has "really dark eyelashes."

'True Blood' set pics.

'Witches of Eastwick' Conjures Up Director.

Real Sitcom: A Vampire, A Werewolf And A Ghost Share A House [Being Human].

Showtime Intending To Turn 'The Tudors' Into Gay Porn, Apparently.

Images: Daniel Day-Lewis and Nicole Kidman filming 'Nine'; New 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' Set Photos; First Look: Soundwave from 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'; Orlando Bloom gets fug for new role; 'Machete' Getting Less and Less Fake; Release Date, New Photo for 'Blood: The Last Vampire.'

Trailers and clips: EXCLUSIVE: Watch The ‘Race To Witch Mountain’ Super Bowl Spot!; Must Watch: One Final Trailer for Liam Neeson's 'Taken'; Exclusive Clip: Check Out Clive Owen In ‘The International’; New 'Echelon Conspiracy' (The Amazing Cell Phone-Based Thriller) Trailer!; A Trailer for Daniel Myrick's 'The Objective'; Meet The Mother Of Undead Bloodthirsty Babies ['Grace']; Watch This: 'Downloading Nancy' Trailer ("I believe I made history during Sundance 2008 by being the only one who actually liked 'Downloading Nancy'").

Watchmen pics: Snow Owl has a pimp coat, Dr. Manhattan has an important photo, Leotard Hitler has no pants; Dr Manhattan & The Comedian in Vietnam 1970; One Final Watchmen Poster Hits the Web!; New Watchmen video clip: My Chemical Romance "Desolation Row."

Neil Gaiman and Fairuza Balk at a Coraline screening; Discuss: Will 'Coraline' Be Too Creepy for Kids?

Daniel Radcliffe's Harry Potter stunt double seriously injured; Updates on Rupert Grint's 'Cherrybomb'; Harry Potter And The Zionist Conspiracy [Riddikulus].

Why J.J. Abrams doesn't sweat Star Trek details—plus a tiny spoiler!; Create Your Own Original Star Trek Story [Chart Porn].

New Moon Casting Call Launches Tween Exodus To Vancouver; Twilight Soundtrack Setting a Record; Stephenie Meyer Continues To Avoid Leaked Sequel, a story that is being re-reported across the internet for no discernible reason; The DVD Run Down, in which 50 smillion retailers are selling 50 smillion different special DVD sets, all of which are unique. And expensive. And sparkly.

Related: Kristen Stewart Hangs With Joan Jett, Preps For ‘Runaways’ Biopic; 'Ohio' movie cast may include Robert Pattinson, and apparently there's some professional jealousy involved? "Zac [Efron] and Justin [Timberlake] have been working for a lot longer than he has. There is a bit of jealousy there. Zac’s people want him to have the lead. And Justin’s people have asked that he get a lot of screen time.” Given that the movie is "based on the 1970 murders of anti-Vietnam War protesters at Kent State University," I'm sensing some award-bait jostling here.

‘Sherlock Holmes’ Exclusive: Robert Downey Jr. On MTV, Mickey Mouse And Bruce Jenner, Plus A Cameo By Jude Law!; Is That You, Sherlock?; Downey, Law Talk Sherlock.

Slumdog's Simon Beaufoy Writing 'Leap Year' for Spyglass.

B.J. Novak On ‘Inglourious Basterds’: ‘One Of The Coolest Movies I’ve Ever Seen.’

John Orloff to Write Ian Fleming Biopic. Actually, there was already a TV movie called The Secret Life of Ian Fleming with Kristin Scott Thomas (the poster looks nothing like the actual movie).

Tom Tykwer Adapting 'Cloud Atlas' with Wachowski Brothers.

Is 'Youth in Revolt' Being Pushed Back ... Again?

Alex Proyas Moving Forward with 'Dracula Year Zero' and 'The Tripods.'

Full Cast for Gore Verbinski's 'Rango.'

Will The Apatow Crew Follow Jason Segel Into Muppetland?

Jeffrey Tambor To Berate Michael Cera Until He Signs Up For 'Arrested Development' Movie.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan to terrorize Hilary Swank in 'The Resident.' Well, I know who I'm rooting for.

Fassbender, West & Kurylenko in Marshall's 'Centurion.' I like how they just went ahead and poached two of the actors from '300' and called it a day.

William Nicholson to Pen '1066.'

By the Power of Grayskull! We've Got a Director.

Aronofsky Promises His ‘RoboCop’ Will Respect Fans, But Weller Cameo Not Guaranteed.

How Battlestar's Ron Moore will 're-imagine' 'The Thing.'

Rumor: Robert Rodriguez Producing a Predator Reboot?! OH MY GOD HELP WE'RE BACK IN THE '80s I NEED SOMEONE TO BE MY CONSTANT

Wait, They Want To Put More Camera Confessionals Into 'Blair Witch'? And... a poetry reading?

Faye Dunaway thinks Hilary Duff is not a real actress; the world agrees.

Goku's Fists Get Their Own Cameras In 'Dragonball Evolution.'

Nuclear Energy Cost This Mutant Berzerker A Special Body Part [NSFW] [Found Footage].

Comments

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

We enjoyed Prince Caspian. We were looking forward to the rest of the movies as well.}:/

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

Cutbacks hit boxes of Girl Scout Cookies. NOOOO!
I know! But here!

http://bakingbites.com/2009/01/homemade-girl-scout-cookie-recipes/

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

I haven't actually seen Prince Caspian yet. Library waiting list.

[oh-la-la.livejournal.com]

I loved Prince Caspian! I didn't know a lot of others who liked it either though...I thought it was a really wonderful piece that complemented the movie really well [even though Aslan was kinda a douche].

Oh, Edmund...I mean KING EDMUND - None of that prince bull around HERE!

[divadeanna.livejournal.com]

I liked Prince Caspian, too! I thought it was better than the first one.

Also YAY TRUE BLOOD!

[plazmah.livejournal.com]

Holy fucking shit, I've never been to T-Shirt Hell before and some of those shirts were so very unfunny.

LOL GUYLINER. I love me some Richard.

(I'LL BE YOUR CONSTANT, CLEO. *clings*)

[evilbearhunter.livejournal.com]

Dude, I know! The idea that anyone would actually wear pretty much any of those makes me sad for people.

re: Caspian

[atlanta06.livejournal.com]

No. :D I saw in it theaters and it's a great popcorn movie.

I've just finished Coraline and the bookart creeped me out. :

Re: Caspian

[zeroxgirl1201.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know, right? The book itself was awesome. The art upped the creepy factor like woah, though. I'm looking forward to the movie.

[poinsley.livejournal.com]

I liked Prince Caspian. And I didn't read the book.

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

although Faye is right, at least we will get to see Hillary Duff in the bio's ending... unless the woman who thinks she needs to re do the story changes it to a Hollywood ending... I mean Hillary Duff DOES know how the story ends, doesn't she??

[kinnosuikazura.livejournal.com]

I loved the first Narnia movie, thought the changes were needed to bring it from book to screen, like 80% of Caspian and got through the other %20 because I was finally seeing a production of one of my favourite books. However, if they screw up Dawn Treader, I will freaking end them. It is my FAVOURITE book IN EXISTANCE and has been since I was 11. Seriously, I wouldn't mind some slight changes to it, maybe almost as many changes as Caspian (although I've always thought Dawn Treader would make a better big screen movie than Caspian anyway, with the pacing and it being such an adventure story and all) but I know Fox, and I don't trust them as far as I can throw them, and I have /no/ upper body strength. *growls ala Aslan*

[lollapulizer.livejournal.com]

So weird for me to see the Michael Dirda mention. I lived next door to him for ten years and was best friend's with his son.

I haven't thought about him in years

[dramedy.livejournal.com]

I liked Prince Caspian. EDDIE IZZARD AS REEPICHEEP! BEN BARNES! SUSAN HAD BREASTS! PETER WAS STILL HOT! SO MUCH PRETTY!

That's a...bizarre twist on the ShamWow thing. Is that for real? Weird.

[kinnosuikazura.livejournal.com]

Eddie MADE that movie, dude.

[metonymy.livejournal.com]

I went to see Caspian twice on opening weekend. NO SHAME.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

I loved Prince Caspian and was far more entertained by it than LWW. They did the best they could with the material they had. The book itself is one of the more boring and hard to translate to screen.

And what the heck, Tudors? I don't remember the part of history class where Henry VIII ascended his throne of naked bodies and brooded. I must have been sick that day.

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

I don't remember the part of history class where Henry VIII ascended his throne of naked bodies and brooded. I must have been sick that day.
that's what ya get for cuttin!

[aiyakiu.livejournal.com]

*raises hand* I loved Prince Caspian, and I've been a Narnia fan since I was a little kid and read the books obsessively over and over. I know it angered a lot of people that the movie was different from the book, but you have to admit, the book was kind of random what with the AslanParadeParty! running through town with random gods and whatnot.
I really liked it T_T

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

Re: the NY Times article on the upcoming Sherlock Holmes movie, how the hell do you compare and contrast actors who have played Holmes and omit Jeremy Brett?!?

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

THIS.
He IS Sherlock, to me!

[chrissy-sky.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD HELP WE'RE BACK IN THE '80s

Predator, RoboCop, He-Man... Yeah, you're right.

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

Alex Proyas Moving Forward with 'Dracula Year Zero' and 'The Tripods.'

no. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. DO NOT WANT.

[rainbowdarling.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed Caspian, too. I was super-bummed to hear that Disney was dropping the series. I love the books.

[coconut-zebra.livejournal.com]

I thought "Caspian" was as good as the first, for different reasons. The battles were intense and the whole thing was a lot darker (the castle courtyard scene?), but yeah, Aslan wasn't exactly warm and fuzzy this time.

[inaurolillium.livejournal.com]

I liked Prince Caspian a lot, actually. And Aslan's head games are in the book.
As long as Fox is simply funding it, and lets the creative team do their jobs, I don't much care that they have it now, except that it means Dawn Treader will get made, which is all I really want from this series. Dawn Treader was always my favorite.

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

I rather enjoyed the Caspian movie, whereas the book (years ago) failed to make any impression on me.

I'm not really sure we need another "The Thing." The first was rather silly in that way that much 50s sci fi now looks to us, but Carpenter's set a standard that will be very difficult to meet, let alone beat.

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[serenity-valley.livejournal.com]

I loved Prince Caspian. More than the first, actually. I liked that it was darker and that the battle was grittier, and I loved, loved, loved the sword fight between Peter and Miraz. Oh and hello, Edmund!

It's been a loooong time since I read the books, so I didn't have a problem with the changes, and Susan's characterization in particular was a HUGE improvement. Pretty boys with swords and pretty girls kicking ass...what's not to love?

[amaz0n-princess.livejournal.com]

*waves hand emphatically like Hermione*

Are you kidding? I loved both Narnia films! I loved Prince Caspian So much I made Susan's Purple Dress & I'm 1/2 done with Caspian's armor!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

OOH! I loved the purple dress! I keep hoping Tonner will make a Purple Dress Susan.

[kudzita.livejournal.com]

I liked Prince Caspian a lot! There were attractive menfolk and ass-kickin' womenfolk, and I freely admit to having specific (and sort of shallow) taste in movies.

Just, um, Ben Barnes' accent...was kinda not good.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

God bless him, it kind of wasn't. But it was consistently not good! I only remember hearing him slip once.

[robinmc.livejournal.com]

Ok, seriously, that old RPattz modeling photo is scaring the crap out of me, and I feel like it is following me around the internet, showing up everywhere I go. It's going to give me nightmares.


Is 'Waiting for Guffman' goin'...to Broaaaadway?!

YES YES YES OH PLEASE YES! It is the day of the show, y'all.


Jeffrey Tambor To Berate Michael Cera Until He Signs Up For 'Arrested Development' Movie.

And THAT is why you don't disobey Pop-Pop.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah... the modeling photo, I just... I scrolled back up so fast I nearly broke the mouse. Creepy creepy creepy. Shoulda warned for that, really.