An Idea Is Bulletproof

My parents took me to go see The Libertine with them today. Woo Johnny Depp. Johnny Depp with the syph, not so hot. BUT his acting, WOW if the directing of this movie hadn't sucked I'd say he'd be up for an Oscar for the role next year. The directing was just... I guess unexperienced is a good word... Anyone who's taken film classes, or art classes has been taught some form of the "golden rule" of how to frame your shots/images. And why centering is often not interesting to the eye unless one does it like Kubrick or at least with some stylistic intent. In this case there were too many shots that were just framed like home movies and while I was into the plot my eyes would wander. The movie has been getting terrible reviews and I think it's much stronger than it's getting credit for... but it could have been filmed in a much more engaging way.

But we did get some interesting previews.

I want to see The Notorious Bettie Page when it comes out.

Kinky Boots looks cute but since it's by the same people who made Calandar Girls I'm hesitant as that movie was cute and then fizzled about 2/3 of the way through.

Also Basic Instict 2 looks not so good at all.. but I did see a hilarious picture of Sharon Stone giving the LoHo advice on gofugyourself... and that's what came to mind when I saw the trailer... that probably isn't the best sign.

On a side note my parents walk like tourists. As though they're seeing TO or the movie theatre for the first time. I hate walking with people who walk like tourists. I still have the best memories of Ashley and I avoiding almost all photos in NYC until her mom forced us to take a picture. We so did not want to look like the typical tourists.

My brother took me to see Narnia tonight, and his work gave me a nifty free Narnia poster that was supposed to be only for kids seeing the movie but I argue that my inner child wants a poster ;) Also the back of the poster is a map of Narnia which is much cooler than the movie ad side, so I'll be displaying that :)

I liked the Narnia movie but the BBC mini series was still better by far. Also the over analytical English major in me wonders if having the White Queen's sleigh be pulled by polar bears during the battle was any sort of dig at Phillip Pullman....? I'd actually like to reread his books...and then watch Narnia again (probably when it's out on dvd) and see if there were any other possible references to PP and his stories. Oh how interesting it would have been had the Dark Materials movies come out at the same time.

Also for a movie preview we saw the PotC2 trailer. Johnny... pirate... big screen. July 7th, I'll be there :D

Then during Futurama tonight my brother and I had our Bertie Botts Every Flavour Bean eating contest. We tied. The only one we couldn't force down was sardine flavour.... that was NASTY. I still feel like I may be sick. We left a bowl of the gross flavour ones out for our parents (sweetest kids ever we are...) but actually I know my dad will be curious to taste a few, he's just like that :)

A HUGE Jossverse (BtVS and AtS) icon post, along with NON spoilery Harry Potter HBP icons (just the book cover, British/Canadian edition) and two Johnny Depp icons. Enjoy :)

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