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06/11/2004: "Movies: Immortel: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Fahrenheit 9/11"
This looks like it could be an interesting movie. It's called Immortel in France, so it'd probably be called "Big Daddy's Day Care" or something here in the U.S.
The trailer keeps with today's apparent "boobies" theme, so of course I had to post it.
In other movie-related news, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe has cast wolves as minions of the White Witch. Someone took photos of some promotional banners for it, and based off the banners it looks like it'll be visually interesting. Before I get too excited, though... I have to admit that they're just promotional materials done before filming... and Disney is involved. Further, they're starting with the second book in the series, not the first... though I can cut 'em a bit a slack there. There's still plenty of possibility that it'll suck horribly, but I'm still going to hold out some hope.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie looks like it has massive potential for greatness, however. Moz Def and John Malkovich have both been cast in it, and this self-interview from/with the head writer (Karey Kirkpatrick) helped me to understand that he has as much respect for The Guide as Peter Jackson did with the Lord of the Rings series.
| "You should know that my first reaction - literally, my very first reaction after putting the script down - was "I can't write this, this guy's a genius and I'm no genius." I thought to myself "there is no way I'm going to try to write words that blend seamlessly with this guy's words." It was my Wayne's World "I'm not worthy" moment. I mean, really, this is a guy who wrote "flying is easy, just throw yourself at the ground and miss." I'm not sure I could ever write a line like that." |
The last in this bit o' babble about movies is about Fahrenheit 9/11, the new Michael Moore movie. I personally dislike Michael Moore, though I thought Bowling for Columbine was well worth watching. However, based on the trailer, I'm definitely going to see this movie. The trailer has two bits that are insanely revealing to me... the part where Moore is attempting to get senators to register their children for military service (and the expression on the face of one of 'em)... and George W. Bush on the golf course and his complete insincerity. To me it's an astounding summarization of who George W. Bush is... unscripted, and in context.
