A man has dreams of walking with Giants
I saw Robert Zemeckis' 3d animated version of Dicken's A Christmas Carol. Very excellent and perhaps the best version of the story I ever saw, keeping ALL the original dark elements and bizarreness of the true play he wrote, and adding some extra dramatic touches to keep the story flowing atmospherically, and drive the cruel message of humanity further home. People really forget how dark and unforgiving the real story is, and its more than just a christmas feel good with the family tale, it seriously is more at heart an ugly Victorian ghost story. Jim Carrey does an impeccable bitter old creepy English gentleman in my opinion. (Lucy, if you disagree about the accent you can argue futily all you like with me, cos I love Carrey anyway.:P ) I also loved how they stuck true to the colorful Victorian dialect and melodrama of the original words, and did not put everything into modern quick lingo just for kids to easily understand. The visuals were illustratively gorgeous, and intimately let you feel London and London's people much closer than most Christmas Carols do, it did not feel all the time like I was just watching a fancy video game, but looking at a real painting from a book, and you can see every pore and hair and red blotch on everybody's expressive faces, and the 3 spirits were not only true to their exact form from Dicken's vision, but even given an extra bit of darkness that was still in their league and the creative transistions between their journeys made them even more interesting. They did not just point, and there you are in another flashback like most versions. You felt sympathy for Scrooge and the rest of them, even though everybody knows this story like the way everyone knows all their popular fairy tales by heart. I really don't have anything bad to say about it, and it more than makes up for the disaster that was Polar Express.
Also got for a belated holiday gift another excessively big but cool present from Marcus that everyone else will hate due to its size and impracticality, like the white tiger. This time I got a giant poster of America Mcgee's Alice in Wonderland that glitters when the light hits it. And if I hadn't refurnished bright blue walls, and been trying to keep a better unified theme to my room, and if my dad wasn't going to KILL me with good reason, I'd just have hung it up by now. But it is a bit stupid to cover up most of the wall space with something so big and dark colored, cos why then did I even ask him to get it painted? I feel like a jerk cos I got overly hurt when my dad painted my sister's room cleanly and did a lot of fine detail edges, and then when he did mine it looked to me like he didn't give as big deal cos he left white spots everywhere and did just one coat, and left shoddy wiggly edges on all the corners, and that offended me in a stupid way, and I got very upset and asked him to do another coat. After being such an asshole, I shouldn't just cover it. Plus the fact I sincerely don't want the big heavy frame hanging directly over my head, cos there's nowhere else to put it. I don't want Marcus to be offended tho if he comes in and sees his nice gift lying to the side like junk. And I can't sell it cos that'd be rude and 2 I dunno anyone who'd even want it, its so large.
Also got for a belated holiday gift another excessively big but cool present from Marcus that everyone else will hate due to its size and impracticality, like the white tiger. This time I got a giant poster of America Mcgee's Alice in Wonderland that glitters when the light hits it. And if I hadn't refurnished bright blue walls, and been trying to keep a better unified theme to my room, and if my dad wasn't going to KILL me with good reason, I'd just have hung it up by now. But it is a bit stupid to cover up most of the wall space with something so big and dark colored, cos why then did I even ask him to get it painted? I feel like a jerk cos I got overly hurt when my dad painted my sister's room cleanly and did a lot of fine detail edges, and then when he did mine it looked to me like he didn't give as big deal cos he left white spots everywhere and did just one coat, and left shoddy wiggly edges on all the corners, and that offended me in a stupid way, and I got very upset and asked him to do another coat. After being such an asshole, I shouldn't just cover it. Plus the fact I sincerely don't want the big heavy frame hanging directly over my head, cos there's nowhere else to put it. I don't want Marcus to be offended tho if he comes in and sees his nice gift lying to the side like junk. And I can't sell it cos that'd be rude and 2 I dunno anyone who'd even want it, its so large.