No cowboys here...

[chickwriter]

First, Narnia - it's pretty and prettily done.

That said, I agree with beledibabe's assessment. Just a bit too heavy-handed with the allegory.

Evidently, in Narnia, battles are bloodless. No one dies (really) and all the creatures must have sprung from magic, because honestly, no one has genitals...or secondary sex traits.

The female centaurs - never see any *hint* of boobs. Same for the Ice Queen...ehr, White Witch. Her costumes were fascinating, but engineered to remove all gender identification - other than dress=female.

The male centaurs and horses fared worse. A white stallion ridden by Peter rears up at one point, his genital area is blacked out. WTF?

The whole thing was a bit too sanitary for me. No real tension. No feeling of impending doom/loss.


'Twas an enjoyable evening with C, but I don't think I'll go see the movie again.

Now, onto the subject of my subject line.

Evidently, we in the D.C./Baltimore area will *not* be standing in line for Brokeback Mountain, because it's not opening here this weekend. GRRR bloody arrgh.

This I do not get. Are we not a major metropolitan area? Again with the WTF?

I've not yet discovered when we are getting it. There was a poster at Mazza Gallerie, where we saw the Narnia movie, so evidently it is going to show here, but no idea when.

DAMNITALL.

If I could afford it, I'd be heading NYC way. Seriously.

Oh, and GIP to me. I made this using one of the lovely screencaps provided by oxoniensis - I thank you kindly.

C - I'll make you one tomorrow.

ETA:

Here you go. This is for beledibabe



Now I'm off to bed without promises of a great movie ahead. :(

Comments

SQUEEEE!

[beledibabe.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you!!!

Re: SQUEEEE!

[chickwriter.livejournal.com]

you're very very welcome...at least my insomnia has creative output. ::g::

[akite.livejournal.com]

This I do not get. Are we not a major metropolitan area? Again with the WTF?

I know! Houston is the fourth largest city in the U.S., and we have to wait until next week too. Grrrr...

[chickwriter.livejournal.com]

I'm just grumpy as heck about all of it. :(

[ezust.livejournal.com]

I hear ya. In September, when all the press was saying was "Opening! December! 9th!!" I booked a ticket to go down to Florida and see it with ann_tara on her birthday. It was literally a few days after I made my reservation that the info popped up that the 9th was just a 3-city limited release. Grrr. So I changed my flight to the weekend of the 16th, and now we're just hoping against hope that Orlando is considered a "major metropolitan city" by Focus Films' standards.

Grrr.

[chickwriter.livejournal.com]

stoopid stoopid marketing people - did they not *know* all us slasher girls/boys would be PANTING at this?

GRRRHHHHH

[neadods.livejournal.com]

The whole thing was a bit too sanitary for me. No real tension. No feeling of impending doom/loss.

Which means, she types dryly, it is just like the book after all. I just reread a couple, and the battles were covered in something like 4 lines, and the only context for injuries was Lucy healing folks.

As for sex... well, isn't that what got Susan kicked out?

[chickwriter.livejournal.com]

You know - I so don't remember these books at all well. What I do remember, is I read LoTR first - then at some point, picked up the Narnia books. I remember not enjoying Narnia as much as LoTR. (this was sometime in early HS)

For equivalent YA books - I vastly prefer the Susan Cooper Dark is Rising series.

[(Anonymous)]

I recently reread a couple to refresh my mind before the movie. I adore them from nostalgia, but in terms of writing and depth of world-building, they don't hold a candle to most other YA fantasy these days. Cooper, Alexander, Bellairs (who also had a religious subtheme), Duane, Pierce, even Rowling, bless her magpie soul, have more dimensional characters and more detailed worlds.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Sorry, the above was me, forgot to log in first!

[allaboutm-e.livejournal.com]

feh. I was assuming BBM would be at the art house in Tucson semi-soon, but if it's slow in getting to actual metro areas, my hope is diminished... :(

and ooh! pretty pretty icons!

[chickwriter.livejournal.com]

Thanks for icon love!! I'm learning more and more about Photoshop Elements and having fun.

Re: Cowboys - from what we can gather (I have sources calling sources) - the 12/9 release was limited to 3 cities.

The more general release is next weekend...when I'm supposed to drive to NJ to visit Dina. GRRRR.