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. :(

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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.

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