another public service announcement or three

[jazzfish]

Go see Stardust. It's a lot of fun. It isn't really much like Princess Bride at all but it's more like Princess Bride than any other movie I can think of offhand.

I'm seriously considering going again next Satyrday morning at Springfield mall, since it's only $4. This would make Stardust the first movie I've seen twice in the theatre since, um, Sin City? Totally worth it, for the pretty and the fun and Robert De Niro's Captain Shakespeare.

(Just close your eyes during the trailer for The Dark Is Rising. Better yet, leave the theatre and come back when it's done.)

Also and unrelated, for those of you still near Blacksburg, there's a white groundhog hanging out in a suburb northwest of Roanoke.

Comments

[shadowsong.livejournal.com]

i was quite excited to see eccleston in the trailer for elizabeth: the golden age in the hopes that it meant he was in one non-crappy movie this year. then elizabeth got on a horse in plate armor in front of her army. at least they aren't butchering a beloved children's book with this one.

[shadowsong.livejournal.com]

although according to imdb i may have hallucinated him.

[jazzfish]

Elizabeth Of Arc was a bit much, granted. On the other hand, Clive Owen as Walter Raleigh.

[salzara-tirwen.livejournal.com]

they are confusing elizabeth with joan of arc??

[idoru.livejournal.com]

I saw that [Elizabeth: Golden] trailer, and was like "seriously how many times are they making this movie?", because while Elizabeth: 1998 was gorgeous, and I'm sure Elizabeth: 2007/2008? will be as well.. um, ? Clearly, it's not like her life only spanned a couple key points or something, but. Also I thought briefly that Cate Blanchett was Tilda Swynton.

[jazzfish]

Tilda Swinton is someone I had never heard of until a couple years ago (in Narnia) and who I now think is AWESOME.

I think this Elizabeth movie is a sequel to the one from 1998. I base this mostly on the fact that it looks like Geoffrey Rush is playing the same character (Burleigh?).

[idoru.livejournal.com]

Did you see Tilda Swinton in Constantine? ALSO awesome. I'm in awe of her capacity for duplicity, for androgyny, for.. everything? Just. Wow.

I think you're probably right re: Elizabeth, but the trailer made me think THE SAME MOVIE, WHAT IS GOING ON?! because of course I haven't seen the first one for a good seven-to-ten years, so for all I remember she might have been dead at the end of it. Unlikely, but.