This, that, and the Turkish delight

[cleolinda]

New Narnia Heroine Addict icons. As a Sagittarian, I'm a teensy bit obsessed with archers, so... sorry about that. But there are Lucy icons in there as well.

The official Narnia movie site has some fun 360-degree walkthroughs and games. You get to play Tumnus's flute and try to save Edmund and read excerpts from the book, all in the search for "

Comments

[rhapsody]

I could never understand why Edmund would betray his siblings for Turkish Delight of all things.
Cake? I understand.
Cookies? Sure.
Chocolate? WHERE?
But Turkish Delight? Not happening.

[cleolinda]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'd sell my sister down the river for some Lindt PDQ.

[rhapsody]

My brother stands no chance between me and some Tiramisu.

[silvermoon13]

i've actually had turkish delight and it's pretty good - however, no way i'd betray family for it. but tiramisu? let's just say they're as good as gone.

[etherealshores]

Archers are teh awesome. I'm obsessed with them myself, so I've snagged a bunch.

I'm in total agreement on what a good year in films this was - the Oscar race should be incredible to watch. I'm following it with interest.

I've only seen GOF twice. I'm a bad person...*le sigh*

[cleolinda]

Actually, I just got an email to the effect that Brokeback Mountain won the LA Film Critics Top Prize. Everything I'm hearing says that BM is far and away the best movie, just in terms of sheer quality. But I can't figure out what the political climate of the Academy is right now--so exasperated with the Bush administration that they'd give BM the Oscar just to spite conservatives and to hell with the fallout afterwards, or still so cowed (or conservative itself; the Academy is largely older people) that it would rather go with a crowd-pleaser. I'm still kind of shocked that Million Dollar Baby won last year, just because they don't usually go with a movie that bleak. I can think of a dozen good movies that could get the feel-good/lightweight slot this year, the way Four Weddings and a Funeral or Sense and Sensibility or Chocolat did--Pride and Prejudice, Narnia, any number of things.

Oscar Race

[skyblade]

There's no clear winner at this point

Brokeback is in. Regardless of political affiliations, Ang Lee does okay at the awards circuit, and it was the first Oscar-contender--at least that hasn't lost steam.

Walk the Line has survived in the game by virtue of the Academy really wanting to look for a blockbuster to support. However, King Kong is beginning to look like a much better tolken in that arena.

We have three political thrillers; Munich, Syriana, Good Night and Good Luck. All three have their support, but there seems to eb something....dispassionate about all three movies--Munich is still very much in the game though.

I'm waiting to see what The New World does. Malick has his supporters out there. And there's also Match Point, which many are considering Woody Allen's return to form.

Regarding the light movies...I don't think Narnia will get in the Oscar door. It's doing quite well in the populist arena, and its reviews are good, but it just doesn't have that...extra fire catching you could say. Likewise, I don't think Pride

Re: Oscar Race

[cleolinda]

Well, I wouldn't have said Chocolat was a Best Picture candidate, either. That's what I meant by the "lightweight slot."

(I'm still waiting for Munich to throw some weight around. I cannot believe an Important Spielberg Movie would not make a dent at all.)

[kvschwartz]

I clicked "'King Kong' sixth most expensive Hollywood film" and got an article on Richard Pryor.

[cleolinda]

Fixed! They changed the article at that URL, fnarr.

[kvschwartz]

Thanks.

[sigma7]

I've given up on following the Sony debacle any further. It's just expanded and broadened to the point that I try to keep up on Boing Boing and I don't let music CDs made after 2001 anywhere near my computer.

And despite Edmund's hunger for it, "Turkish Delight" just never sounded appetizing to me. I could never hear it without thinking of Airplane! ("Joey, have you ever been to a Turkish prison?") The connotation just will not go away. It still sounds like prison slang for an act of reprehensible perversion of the like you don't see outside its own LJ community.

[miss_alchemist]

Just had to say, your icon rocks

[anne_jumps]

Must have archer icons....