I really liked this film, and I think it's going to be to the young kids of today what The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast were for me (I was totally obsessed with these two movies in my childhood.)

It also made cynical me believe in TEH POWER OF LOVE for the duration of movie, and there uh, may have been tears at some points. But Naveen was suitably dreamy and Tiara was a kickass heroine and I need this DVD like yesterday. And they did a fantastic job of capturing New Orleans. Oh and LOTTE! I loved her and was so glad they avoided any stereotypical moments with her. They did a fantastic job of capturing the feel of New Orleans as well.

Unpopular opinion: I don't think the songs were up to snuff, but I have never been a fan of Newman's work. YMMV of course.

And next up: Snow Queen! One of my favorite stories plus I believe Menken is doing that score!

So estimates for the FIRST DAY ALONE are at $100 million.

I am trying to remind myself that Titanic was big when I was that age (although the hype already killed it for me), but wow. Just wow.

It is going to break Dark Knight's opening weekend y'all.

Guys. GUYS! IT IS SUCKING ME BACK IN.

( Spoilers. Thoughts )

ETA: Avatar teaser trailer made me SO ANGRY for a moment in the theatre. I just sat there thinking, damn, all this money thrown at a movie that could have been great ruined by racefail.

I stole this from both memlu and a_white_rain

Ask me my fannish Top Five [Whatevers]. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! And I will answer them all in a new post.

The blurb to the next book in the Attolia series...

( Cut though I really wouldn't consider this a spoiler )

-2 As a 1930s wife, I am Very Poor (Failure) Take the test!

For some reason, I am awesomely proud of scoring LESS THAN ZERO.

I'd just like to point out that Amazon has sweetened their preorder deal. If you preorder from then it costs $17.99 for the novel PLUS they will give you a $5 coupon to spend in August. Which kinda brings the cost to $12.99.

Just passing the news along to my flist.

I was browsing the bookstore today, and found the second issue of the Buffy "season 8" comic. I tried to find the first issue when it came out, but couldn't. They will be publishing the whole thing as a book eventually right?

It's just...I need Amy vs Willow!

I was looking at the manga section too, and just felt overwhelmed. I remember the days when it was difficult to get the Sailormoon manga....

Anyway, anyone following the Buffy comic?

Stolen from a_white_rain. There was a 20 OTP meme that went around that I missed, but since I probably couldn't think of 20 OTPs anyway, this is probably better.

( Read more... )

Wow.

Today sucked.

I think it's fair to say that I'm not really too impressed with what's on television these days. And it's not to say it's purely an American network problem; I found the fall season of anime to be kinda boring (and Code Geass crashed and burned for me), and I'm really only watching Heroes with enthusiam. While I followed Hana Yori Dango 2, I wouldn't call it breathtaking tv either. And goodness knows TVB hasn't put out anything interesting in awhile, what with the majority of their abled actors tied up in either one of their mega-episode series currently filming.

So it was delightful to discover "Slings and Arrows". Or as I like to think of it "The show that shows how truly awesome Studio 60 COULD have been".

( To be or not to be... )

http://randomc.animeblogger.net/2007/03/22/code-geass-22/

Spoilers there.

( Spoilers here too )

Hiatus under further notice.

Stolen from, like, everyone.

What character do I remind you of? And why?

You guys are free to pick the fandom, even fandoms I don't know about :)

Stolen from the_firefly

Ask me why I 'ship something. Why I'm into any particular 'ship or even why I'm *not* into another ship? Ex: What is it you like about so-and-so or why don't you like so-and-so? (Basically just ask me to explain m'self about why I like something about a ship, or how I feel about anything in particular about a couple, etc.)

Alternately ask me the same thing about liking/disliking specific characters or general series.

After my initial reaction of, oh HELLS NO, I've come to the following conclusion. It's not so much the idea of a live-action Avatar that horrifies. It's the Hollywoodness of it.

It's not like other manga/anime haven't made decent enough live action versions. But those versions were never dumbed down for their audience, and their producers got it. Live action alone isn't a toxic medium. (Though seriously, magic kung fu animated? Cool. CGI-ed to death? Probably going to be bad no matter what).

But I think we're going to end up with a product that's more Eragon and less, uh, Crouching Tigers, Hidden Dragon in style. Avatar was such a non-commercial show for the most part (it was more about the story than the trading cards if you get my drift), that I don't think people in Hollywood will get it. And I really don't understand why Nick would want to mess with their franchaise this early.

Not to mention the casting. I maintain there is no way they will do this correctly. No way. The cast would have to be entirely non-white if they wanted to follow the show. Given the age range of the characters, they would mostly be non-white unknowns. Do you know any studios that would bank on that? There's a reason why even "Memoirs of a Geisha" ended up with name-branded Chinese actresses in the main roles.

Just saying.

And if they pull the "color-blind casting" card, I'll puke. Seriously.

ETA: Final thought; this really doesn't affect me either way I guess. The only thing I'll go livid over, is if there is any compromise of the original product because of this.

ETAA: Also, this was probably released to trump the other "Avatar" movie, in a battle for the name-rights. I doubt it'll happen for awhile. And I'd like to hear from Mike and Bryan on this.

From tricianna: Live Action Movie Avatar

I seriously think that he was a one-hit wonder director, and that this is a terrible, no good, very bad idea.

If there needed to be a movie, it should have been an animated one. With Mike and Bryan at the helm.

Opinions?