Merry Day After Christian Winterthing!
L is still in the hospital, although they may move her to assisted living today. (It has to be: this is a split level house, but the bathrooms are either up half a flight of stairs or down half a flight of stairs. Either way, there are stairs. Also, everyone works, so if she falls again, no one would be home to help, even if she COULD make it up the stairs, or get transported up the stairs.)
In spite of the gloom, doom, and general darkness, we are doing our best to keep all spirits up, which is why today is going to be full of Potato Gunk and yesterday included good Chinese food, (the buffet place was quite crowded,) and a showing of Into The Woods.
[This is what they took out and what I think about the movie.]
They took out the summing up at midnight songs, except for the last which was played over the credits, so people who hadn't seen it kinda failed to notice it was happening. They took out Rapunzel's fate, as well as the reprise of Agony about Snow White & Sleeping Beauty, which given the EXCELLENT job they did with the first one, was sad. (Seriously, the entire theater was howling over the first one. It was epic.) They took out the Baker's epiphany song where he realizes he needs to be a good, everyday father, and they took out the first song introducing the second half.
Anna Kendrick's voice made me like the Cinderella part for the first time, (the original was fairly shrieky.) I do wish they hadn't turned Red and Jack into actual children, there was something a little more sinister about the Wolf when she was older, and Jack's story wasn't quite as punchy when he wasn't really old enough to know better. Having taken out the song from the opening of the second half, they compressed the timeline a lot, so it was when Cinderella was getting introduced to the kingdom as the princess that the second half starts, which isn't really enough time for the Prince to prove himself to be a cheating bastard, so again, some of the punch is removed. It also implies that the straying that Cinderella finds out about is with the Baker's Wife, and she doesn't even MENTION that's who it's with, so...not the best compression. Meryl Streep's version is SO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT than Bernadette Peter's that there is no comparing the two, which I liked infinitely. I really didn't want to have to compare them. And Emily Blunt was a delight as the Baker's Wife. I suppose Johnny Depp was good as the Wolf, but honestly, I'm Depped out.
In spite of my kvetching, I loved every second of it, and will HAPPILY see it again.
And Abby came with us, so that was awesome. Today needs to include laundry and the bank as well as potato gunk.
We'll see what happens.
In spite of the gloom, doom, and general darkness, we are doing our best to keep all spirits up, which is why today is going to be full of Potato Gunk and yesterday included good Chinese food, (the buffet place was quite crowded,) and a showing of Into The Woods.
[This is what they took out and what I think about the movie.]
They took out the summing up at midnight songs, except for the last which was played over the credits, so people who hadn't seen it kinda failed to notice it was happening. They took out Rapunzel's fate, as well as the reprise of Agony about Snow White & Sleeping Beauty, which given the EXCELLENT job they did with the first one, was sad. (Seriously, the entire theater was howling over the first one. It was epic.) They took out the Baker's epiphany song where he realizes he needs to be a good, everyday father, and they took out the first song introducing the second half.
Anna Kendrick's voice made me like the Cinderella part for the first time, (the original was fairly shrieky.) I do wish they hadn't turned Red and Jack into actual children, there was something a little more sinister about the Wolf when she was older, and Jack's story wasn't quite as punchy when he wasn't really old enough to know better. Having taken out the song from the opening of the second half, they compressed the timeline a lot, so it was when Cinderella was getting introduced to the kingdom as the princess that the second half starts, which isn't really enough time for the Prince to prove himself to be a cheating bastard, so again, some of the punch is removed. It also implies that the straying that Cinderella finds out about is with the Baker's Wife, and she doesn't even MENTION that's who it's with, so...not the best compression. Meryl Streep's version is SO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT than Bernadette Peter's that there is no comparing the two, which I liked infinitely. I really didn't want to have to compare them. And Emily Blunt was a delight as the Baker's Wife. I suppose Johnny Depp was good as the Wolf, but honestly, I'm Depped out.
In spite of my kvetching, I loved every second of it, and will HAPPILY see it again.
And Abby came with us, so that was awesome. Today needs to include laundry and the bank as well as potato gunk.
We'll see what happens.