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of books and movies
Nov. 21st, 2008 03:37 pm1. So, anyone going to see Twilight tonight? I wish I was. I have friends going, but I've got my husband convinced to go with me! :) And he has to work tonight. :( (Really--who wants to spend their Friday evenings practicing conversational German with their professors??) And we don't yet have a babysitter, although I have more ideas today than I did yesterday.
2. Speaking of film adaptations, I checked out a BBC production of Gaudy Night. Um. What have they done to this book?? Films are not books--if you reproduce every line of the book, you will have a very tedious film. Not to mention the fact that there is no, ZIPPO, chemistry between Harriet and Peter, and even alone, I don't care for their Peter. Urgh.
3. One BBC production that wasn't bad was the Narnia one, though. Yes, it's low-budget, yes it's too long, yes, it's got a lot of amateurness about it. But at least they somehow managed to capture the heart of the stories. (Which makes me very glad for the new films that have the $$ to do them justice. I'm looking forward very much to Prince Caspian coming out on DVD, since we missed it in the theater--moving, baby--and you don't get everything when you watch it on an airplane if you are also watching your kids and trying to stay awake after spending all night packing.)
4. We really watch very few movies in the theater--usually adaptations of favorite books. But it's a logistic extravaganza to pull it off, so we wait for the DVD. Any especially good films of the past few years I should have seen?
5. Since I can't go to the movies tonight, I'm going to content myself with the comic/graphic novel series![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rj_anderson put me onto: The Dreamer. (Time travel to the Revolutionary War.) Alas, I am all caught up on the archives.
2. Speaking of film adaptations, I checked out a BBC production of Gaudy Night. Um. What have they done to this book?? Films are not books--if you reproduce every line of the book, you will have a very tedious film. Not to mention the fact that there is no, ZIPPO, chemistry between Harriet and Peter, and even alone, I don't care for their Peter. Urgh.
3. One BBC production that wasn't bad was the Narnia one, though. Yes, it's low-budget, yes it's too long, yes, it's got a lot of amateurness about it. But at least they somehow managed to capture the heart of the stories. (Which makes me very glad for the new films that have the $$ to do them justice. I'm looking forward very much to Prince Caspian coming out on DVD, since we missed it in the theater--moving, baby--and you don't get everything when you watch it on an airplane if you are also watching your kids and trying to stay awake after spending all night packing.)
4. We really watch very few movies in the theater--usually adaptations of favorite books. But it's a logistic extravaganza to pull it off, so we wait for the DVD. Any especially good films of the past few years I should have seen?
5. Since I can't go to the movies tonight, I'm going to content myself with the comic/graphic novel series
rj_anderson put me onto: The Dreamer. (Time travel to the Revolutionary War.) Alas, I am all caught up on the archives.
