Golden Compass
8/10
Docking marks for finishing too early in the book.
And i want a daemon more than ever now!
Golden Compass
8/10
Docking marks for finishing too early in the book.
And i want a daemon more than ever now!
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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[i]Atonement[i/] was AMAZING, and it's not just a chick flick. Far from it actually. It was so artfully done. It tell leaps and bounds of story so simply and VERY effectively. I'm going to go see it again. 10/10
I've just seen "Golden Compass"- it was OK for a fantasy movie but suddenly the evil northern people started speaking Russian- at first I thought I fell asleep- it certainly made my day
why do bad people in movies have either a british or a russian accent? It cracks me up, because it's post cold-war hysteria (i think)...
I think it's because in this parallel universe, they've got the same continents (the names are almost the same) and those evil guys were supposed to be Cossacks.
Well, they did look like cossacks, but it's not like cossacks live in the north- I obviously won't question their evilnessOriginally Posted by SleepyWitch
I think it's because in this parallel universe, they've got the same continents (the names are almost the same) and those evil guys were supposed to be Cossacks.
Their Russian was perfect btw, so they actually employed Russian actors
yep, I know cossacks don't live in Scandinavia. I found it a bit clichéd and geographically imprecise, too
The Mists of Avalon (...more of a mini-series, but never mind)
9/10
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.
-Goethe
Amalia, I love mini-series! I will have to check this one out. Who stars in it?
A, do I own you an email?
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I just saw 'I Am Legend". It was a little disappointing to me, but Wil Smith did a great job. I guess I was expecting something a little more creative. I'll give it 6/10 but it won't be a memorable movie to me.
I also saw 'No Country for Old Men'...it was pretty faithful to the book, but way too violent for my liking. Must be getting old. I'll give it 8/10, because it stayed true enough to the book, even the books flaws were in it.
"I am glad to learn my friend that you had not yet submitted yourself to any of the mouldy laws of Literature."
-John Muir
"My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light"
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
The third Pirates of the Caribbean movie. 9/10...the second best Disney movie I've seen.
no way! WHEN DID THEY MAKE THAT INTO A MINI SERIES!!!
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
my poems-please comment Forum Rules
I've seen one as well... a couple of years ago. T'was actually quite good! I can't remember her name, but it starred one of the nurses from ER (the very early ER).no way! WHEN DID THEY MAKE THAT INTO A MINI SERIES!!!
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~ Mark Twain
I last saw Atonement, at the cinema. It was absolutely incredible, captivating and so utterly moving (and that was just James Mcavoy...just kidding). In particular the scene at Dunkirk was exquisite... The plot does stick to the original story line quite well but I suppose I must applaud Ian Mcewen who wrote the novel. I would highly recommend the book too. I wont spoil the ending, but it is so inspiring. The music deffinitely adds the right tone for parts of the story and I was almost sad enough to buy the soundtrack CD. Keira Knightely and James Mcavoy show amazing on-screen chemistry and once again... James Mcavoy, hot, scottish accent. Need I say more? Deffinitely one of my favourites.
"Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day"
Oscar Wilde [The Picture of Dorian Gray]
I watched 2 aaawesome indy movies yesterday don't have time to write anything about em, but they were
Hard Candy (I'm so in love with Ellen Page her being canadian is even better) 8/10, aesthetically aaawesome, it's great what digital can do for indy films.
and.....
The Believer (more great work from a great canadian actor Ryan Gosling) 7/10 or so fairly good but nothing spectacular, fantastic performance however by my boy Ryan.
"Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls."
-Walt WhitmanThey have their worries, they’re counting the miles, they’re thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they’ll get there—and all the time they’ll get there anyway, you see.
-Jack Kerouac
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