The Chronicles of Narnia

Posted on 18/1/2006 by WeatherGrrrl

Slow. A faithful retelling of C.S. Lewis’, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. Great for younger children but there’s not quite enough going on for anyone else. There were some great emotional moments, like the death scene (I didn’t think it suffered through lack of gore, unlike others) and Tilda Swinton is pitch perfect as the witch.

As for the whole Christian allegory issue, it’s a brouhaha in a teacup. I didn’t see it when I read the book as a child and I didn’t see very much of it as an adult. This fantasy world seems to be just that too me. Eye of the beholder seems the relevant tag.

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Beginning in the Basement

Posted on 18/1/2006 by WeatherGrrrl

So instead of buying a bigger house or adding an addition to our humble abode we’ve decided to try and make our stuff fit the home we actually own and not some fantasy version that we imagine in our wildest dreams. To do this we have to get rid of stuff. This is very difficult. We’re pack rats of the highest order and parting with stuff is such ‘sweet sweet sorrow’. Actually it’s probably closer to ripping our innards out without the help of anesthetic.

Anyway, the show is on the road and we began in the basement. It was a mess. We have an unfinshed basement and for a couple of years we’ve just been dumping stuff down there without much serious thought to longevity.

After much hard work and numerous trips to the dump,as well as mounds of recycling, we radically overhauled the state of the basement. You can find things down there now! There are still items that need to be disposed of, like the original house windows, but otherwise it is done.

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Just a little fun

Posted on 16/1/2006 by WeatherGrrrl

It’s all New Kid on the Hallway’s fault. lol.

Silliness abounds.

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Angel Food Cake report

Posted on 16/1/2006 by WeatherGrrrl

Well, even if I do say so myself, the cake was very yummy. I liked the consistency, very cakey. Sub Evil Boy seemed happy and he ate his cake unadulterated by sauce.

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At Sub Evil Boy’s request …

Posted on 15/1/2006 by WeatherGrrrl

… I’ve just put an angel food cake in the oven. Of course, it couldn’t be any old recipe, it had to be as Wendel would have made it. He was very particular about that. Let’s hope it lives up to that illustrious angel food cake auteur. Keep your fingers crossed for me. We’ll know if it looks any good in about an hour.

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A History of Violence

Posted on 13/1/2006 by WeatherGrrrl

Maybe overrated. Can’t quite make my mind up whether this is one of the best films of the year or the greatest con on offer. Just what is this movie really about? The true nature of men? You can’t escape your past? Seeing how far you can push the envelop and get away with it? Movie cliche abuse?

Whatever it is about, you should still see this film, regardless. The physical and psychological transformation that Mortensen undergoes is stunning.

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Supernatural

Posted on 13/1/2006 by WeatherGrrrl

I just want to shake the script writers on this show and jiggle loose whatever part of their brains have become stuck in the ‘stupid’ position. They manage to come up with some very scary ideas and yet this show is let down time after time by the little details and the resolution of the stories. It’s so frustrating. It’s like they expend all this energy coming up with the creepiest outlines but then don’t have enough time to pay attention to the details that will give the characters the depth they deserve.

The two leads have a great chemisty together but the writers have to get their brains in gear and raise their game a great deal if they’re going to produce a product that will survive beyond a single season.

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Valiant

Posted on 12/1/2006 by WeatherGrrrl

Duh? I don’t understand why this movie was even made. If we were in the 1950s I could understand it. WWII was not long over and the German’s looked like pretty good bad guys that close to events. But today? We’re all friendly European types, crabby at times I’ll admit, but this stereotypical nonsense just doesn’t make sense.

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PS This is an animated kid flick!?!?!?!?!?!

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Jarhead

Posted on 12/1/2006 by WeatherGrrrl

Intense. Put young men with too much testosterone together with the US Marine ethos and you have pretty explosive fare. All I can say is this film reinforces my pacifistic tendencies in a pretty serious way. (As the mother of a son this stuff scares the shit out of me!)

Some reveiwers seem to be claiming this film was slow or boring or dull or some such descriptor. I don’t think we’ve been watching the same movie. You should definitely watch this movie it has some very inciteful things to say about young men and some of their hardwiring.

Scary as all get out.

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Derailed

Posted on 12/1/2006 by WeatherGrrrl

Unsatisfying. Attractive cast and interesting premise completely sabotaged by an inadequate script. This is one of those movies where you want to scream at the screen – don’t do it. The ‘hero’ keeps digging a bigger and bigger hole for himself. All he has to do is tell the police what happened and it’s all over. By the end the male lead’s behaviour is so gratuitous that it is completely unbelievable.

Aaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

Where’s a half way decent script writer when you need one?

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