A very nice weekend. On Saturday we took Sebastian to a penguin class at the zoo - he got to see them and draw them. I picked up a cap at the gift shop that actually fit my head, for a wonder ( Read more... )

Sebastian asked me to read more of Cheaper By the Dozen this afternoon. I was happy to do it, since it meant that the TV wouldn't be on. So the three of us sat in the living room for several hours while I read. Teri slept for about two hours, but woke up in time to hear the last three chapters, as I hope she would ( Read more... )

First, I have to say that as a long-time Bostonian, it's really good to see a movie set in Boston that was actually FILMED in Boston. It was a real kick to see my former workplace and other old familiar spots in the background. Attention, Hollywood: Toronto is NOT a dead ringer for Beantown ( Read more... )

So we signed up for Netflix a few days ago. I hadn't realized that we could stream movies to the Wii and my computer! Pretty cool...

We saw "Despicable Me" tonight. Sebastian laughed so hard I thought he might throw up - he really loved it. Teri really liked it too. I thought it was quite good, but somehow it didn't quite carry me away. Very enjoyable, but not a classic like The Iron Giant. I'd give it somewhere between seven and eight stars out of ten.

We saw The Last Airbender today. I'd read all the reviews, and expected a cinematic atrocity. But the movie turned out to be much better than I expected. It wasn't great, but it surely doesn't deserve all the insults that have been thrown at it. And as for Roger Ebert saying that it looked as if it had been filmed through a dirty sheet, I can only ( Read more... )

Pretty funny, and it captures a number of things that irritated me about Peter Jackson's cinematic abortions of TLOTR.

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Ghost Rider was on TV tonight. I was a fan of the comic books, and I'd wanted to see the film when it came out - although the reviews were bad.

Jeeze. I can't believe what an incredibly bad job of acting Nicholas Cage is doing. His hair looks fake, his teeth look fake, he's not doing a credible imitation of a human being, and it's utterly ( Read more... )

Two people over on Goodreads now suspect that my post about Lewis' novelization of Prince Caspian was serious. I had to clear that up:

Actually, the whole post is pure sarcasm. I was half-way through reading Prince Caspian to my son while we were on vacation recently, when he saw that the movie was available for rent at a local supermarket. I was ( Read more... )

I couldn't resist doing this riff, inspired by my previous complaint about The Lord of the Rings. It's posted over at GoodReads.

Who is this "C.S. Lewis" hack, and who did he sleep with to get the novelization contract for the brilliant Prince Caspian movie?
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