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

[ndkid.livejournal.com]

It was when I was walking out of a movie a couple of weekends ago and say the poster for that... thing... (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0484562/) that I realized how horrible it must have become.
1) It needed a title change? The Dark Is Rising wasn't enough for them? Ohgod ohgod ohgod, the producer who got this greenlit is going to hell...
2) There was no bearded old man on the poster, but there were three kids. I don't know what that says, but it does not bode well.

[jazzfish]

Confusion between "series title" and "movie title" is an okay reason to change the movie title. I guess.

Merriman and the Rider actually look decent. Too bad they're going to be overshadowed by that annoying twerp. I have no idea whatsoever who the other two children might have been. If one of them is female she may be playing the part of Jane in later movies. *sigh*

[ndkid.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my best guess was that they were somehow mixing Over Sea, Under Stone in with The Dark is Rising to make a single (bastardized) story (Though it could be Greenwitch mixed in, for that matter)... But my brain keeps channeling a Hollywood producer: "hey, Merriman has a female 'niece'... wouldn't it be *great* for her to be a love interest for Will?"