Weekend tidbits:
1. Nothing, but nothing, expresses the joy of the holiday season more than a rampaging fight between a small plastic monkey that doubles as a weapon and a small rubber duckie that doubles as a weapon.
2. However, I think that aiming the monkey at various helpless neighbours and the sky may be been a bit much.
3. The evening after monkey games, you may just find yourself saying that you were playing with a monkey and getting off the monkey and thinking of spanking the monkey in all kinds of ways that could be severely open to misinterpretation. Just warning you, in case you end up playing with your own monkey.
4. So we're sitting in the movie theatre, waiting for The Golden Compass to begin, when they run the usual little segment reminding us to please turn off our cell phones, and the cell phone on the screen rings, followed immediately by coldecho's phone ringing. Sometimes, it's all in the timing.
5. Speaking of The Golden Compass: visually, the film is spectacular, and the CGI effects marvelous. Nicole Kidman is superb. And the film has bears. Lots of bears. But it's also rushed in places and overly slow in other places, wasting what could be outstanding performances (Christopher Lee, as just one example, is on screen for perhaps 20 seconds; Derek Jacobi stretches out his role for 45 seconds) and on a not so small quibble, instead of allowing us -- and Lyra -- to find out about this world and its mysteries and Dust, the movie decides to spend the first few minutes explaining it all.
2. However, I think that aiming the monkey at various helpless neighbours and the sky may be been a bit much.
3. The evening after monkey games, you may just find yourself saying that you were playing with a monkey and getting off the monkey and thinking of spanking the monkey in all kinds of ways that could be severely open to misinterpretation. Just warning you, in case you end up playing with your own monkey.
4. So we're sitting in the movie theatre, waiting for The Golden Compass to begin, when they run the usual little segment reminding us to please turn off our cell phones, and the cell phone on the screen rings, followed immediately by coldecho's phone ringing. Sometimes, it's all in the timing.
5. Speaking of The Golden Compass: visually, the film is spectacular, and the CGI effects marvelous. Nicole Kidman is superb. And the film has bears. Lots of bears. But it's also rushed in places and overly slow in other places, wasting what could be outstanding performances (Christopher Lee, as just one example, is on screen for perhaps 20 seconds; Derek Jacobi stretches out his role for 45 seconds) and on a not so small quibble, instead of allowing us -- and Lyra -- to find out about this world and its mysteries and Dust, the movie decides to spend the first few minutes explaining it all.