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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].

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I LOVED Prince Caspian! My friends and I saw it like seven times in the theatre, and then listened to the soundtrack over and over again until the DVD came out...

... I thought Caspian was BETTER than Wardrobe, honestly >.> So I don't get the bad business and complaints, myself.

And sadly, the head tricks with Aslan were in the book and the old BBC version, too =/ At least as far as I remember (it's been a long time).

I will add to the Prince Caspian love. For all its flaws, I think it was a worthy sequel to the first, and captured what there was to love in the book.

I definitely liked Prince Caspian. I haven't read the books. Unless I did and totally forgot everything about them. One of these days I'll have the money to buy both DVDs.

I kept thinking I have then I saw the first movie, and I couldn't recognize anything in it. *shrug*

I enjoyed "Prince Caspian" a lot. Glad to hear the third movie is getting its shot.

is it bad that i'm looking at bella's bracelet thinking "they did it wrong. the wolf should be made of wood"?

also, $60 for silver tone? really? wear it for a week and it will look like copper. really crappy copper. make it in sterling and maybe i'll decide if i'm that much of a nerd or not.

I've actually been wondering what's up with the Twilight Guide (because I'm just really curious as to what she could possibly put in a book that she can't put on her site) but it looks like there's been a lot of tomfoolery going on in that front. From what I've heard, the release dates differ depending on where you ask (from February, to September, to never) even though originally it was supposed to be released in December. So I'm wondering if they've pulled the plug on that one as well.

I work at a bookstore, and the last I've heard is an April-May release.

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r-a-black.livejournal.com - 2009-01-30 07:46 (UTC) - Expand

I liked Prince Caspian better than the first one, which seems like Tilda Swinton blasphemy, I know. But I liked the kids being older!

(Actually my favorite bit from either of the films is when the kids are adults at the end of the first one.)

Yeah, except the Edmund actor aged past the age his character is supposed to, I think and they didn't really take account of that in the script. Isn't there a line with him being grossed out by Susan and Caspian kissing? I was like, yeah, you've gotta 15, kid. If you still think girls have cooties, you have got problems.

I think they just should have embraced the older kids . . .

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anaroriel.livejournal.com - 2009-01-30 18:58 (UTC) - Expand

Okay, so Headset Vince just became amazingly awesome and now I want a ShamWow even more.

ICM has some HQ pics (http://www.rupert-grint.us/wordpress/2009/01/29/new-high-quality-cherrybomb-stills/#comments) of stills from CB that we've already seen and an interview with Robert Sheehan (http://www.rupert-grint.us/wordpress/2009/01/28/new-interview-with-rupert-grints-cherrybomb-costar-robert-sheehan/#comments), who plays Luke in the film.

MOAR is coming. The Year of the Grint is here. XD

My main problem with Prince Caspian was that it had so little similarity to the book. I get that a screen adaptation needs some editing to make it more watchable, but there's "tweaking for the sake of the medium" and then there's "an attack on Miraz's castle in which the combatants are dropped off by griffins"

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

After they had the token gay guy anally rape his wife on their wedding night, I figured that they'd alienated that paticular audience. Guess they want it back.

Oh wow, poor Headset Vince. I wanted a SlapChop anyway, so why not contribute to the good fight? (I tried to explain the Anonymous-RickRolling CoS protests and got looks from people. Somehow, it just doesn't translate.)

I love Mary Louise Parker, but not only can I not see her as Hedda (Nora maybe), but I do think her style of acting clashes with Rickson's directorial style. I saw his staging of The Seagull a few months back, and I can see where they'd have differences.

It brings a whole new meaning to "Look at these nuts!" in the slapchop adverts, doesn't it ?

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kismeteve.livejournal.com - 2009-01-30 04:41 (UTC) - Expand

I'm always the first to say that as a kid, I was super wimpy when it came to visual stimulus, and I was seventeen before I managed to actually sit down and watch The Nightmare Before Christmas. That being said, I think Coraline is much, much more the sort of thing I'd have been able to tolerate. See, while Nightmare is a soft sort of scary, it's all darkness and goth, even in the christmas parts.

Coraline is a superdark idea wrapped in an adventure story, and that's exactly what I craved as a kid. That and I had a habit of hiding in crawlspaces, hoping they'd lead to a secret dimension.

Am looking at my copy of 'Prince Caspian' as we speak.

Steven Moyer is looking good for a very pasty guy! Poor guy probably isn't allowed out in daylight per the contract. ;)

I was totally unsurprised re: Rpattz modeling, because I distinctly remember looking at Rankin's (http://www.rankin.co.uk/) website in 2004 and saw him in the "Beauty" section (OBVS)! I am absolutely sure it was him but unfortunately I can't find the photo...but to be sure it is even more-- well-- just more than that modeling photo.

And I am skeeved out by all of it. Man, I wish I'd remembered that picture was at the end of the article and linked the original source or something.

I, personally, actually thought Caspian the movie beat the hell out of the book, blasphemous though that is. Can't help it though, cause while the book made sense in the C. S. Lewis has POINTS and switching stuff up is the way to make this a SERIES ways, the movie made sense in the much more captivating we've got characters whose development should really evolve LOGICALLY and a world that can KICK YOUR ASS ways. Much more important.

Also, I'm a history major and not at all new to the fucking-it-over-to-the-point-of-mind-explosion syndrome, but there's a way to do gratuitous nudity right, and that way was in HBO's Rome. They should pay attention.

Huzzah for Pop-Pop! Of course, I always figured either Cera showed up or about a third of the movie would be making fun of him somehow, anyway. He should know better.

I am so pumped for the ~~sparkly~~ Twilight DVD. Particularly the one with sparkles! Really, though, it's going to be a pain looking at all the deals and deciding. Wah, merchandising.

I for one loved Prince Caspian so much that I saw it multiple times in the theater. I loved them both about equally, but travesty? No. hmph.

I liked Prince Caspian a lot even though they took some liberties.

Also, thanks for the link. :)

That ONTD thing is just... amazing. My mind is blown. One day YOU'LL have 16,5 million comments, Cleo!

I love Prince Caspian =)

You're not alone. I adored Prince Caspian.

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.

RHETORICAL QUESTION, RIGHT CLEO?

Considering that I own 6 different editions of the books, including my original pbs from the 70s, I'd say I was a HUGE fan, and I loved the movies. In fact, I think the movie improved Prince Caspian, and was far better than the book.

In fact, I think the movie improved Prince Caspian, and was far better than the book.
Yessum.

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cleolinda.livejournal.com - 2009-01-30 03:33 (UTC) - Expand

Also-also, the Twilight Teez's Bella's bracelet is much cuter. http://www.twilightteez.com/bella-s-bracelet-tm.html

My friend (yes, a friend - not me) has it and it's surprisingly nice. The wolf is cool, I'm just not a fan of the heart, but you can totally buy a Swarovski cristal and replace it! Sure, it's expensive, but it would look amazing and take away the "white-trash" factor of the bracelet. http://www.swarovski.com

I liked Prince Caspian! I liked it far better than The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. For assorted reasons.
1) Lack of Aslan. Pontificating lions have never been a turn on.
2) Hot male actors. Barnes' accent aside, he got prettier as the movie went on.
3) Caspian/Susan romance hooray!
4) The storyline about Peter not being able to readjust to life as a child after ruling a country as a king really struck me, and the children's joyful return to Narnia was just charming.
5) Edmund the Awesome

so yeah.

I loved the Caspian movie, and when I got the DVD I forced my brother and dad to watch it. They were like "All right we'll watch the first ten minutes" but then got totally into it and stayed for the whole movie. But they've never read the books so they don't have that whole "purist" mindset.

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