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

[vond.livejournal.com]

That movie was much better than the trailer made me think it would be. Was the book better?

Also while I was doing my post-movie IMDB crawl, I was inspired to do a search and discovered that they're currently writing a movie adaptation of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. That could be pretty good because I thought the book moved a bit too slowly.

[jazzfish]

The book has gorgeous art by Charles Vess. The words are pretty good too. There's no Captain Shakespeare; there are a number of other minor characters that are just as delightful, though in different ways. The ending is slightly different, as is the end of Tristan's mother's enslavement. Victoria's less of a shallow bitch. Yeah. I'd say the book is different in a lot of small ways, and in general they're for the better.

Wow. I am really curious to see what they do with a movie of Strange & Norrell. That could be pretty decent. (I thought the slowness was part of its charm as a book; it'd get tedious /real/ fast in a movie.)