turkey day
Nov. 29th, 2003 10:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
molly_oSpent Thanksgiving with CGU's family, who (as usual) were fun and comfortable to hang out with, despite recent family drama. It looks like his cousin is going to be keeping her baby, and it looks like we are not going to be asked to adopt (whew).
After a really nice dinner, we saw Cat in the Hat. The book is better. The movie is didactic -- which the book isn't. I mean, yes, the book has a lesson, but the beauty of the book is that the story makes the point without ever being preachy. Not so the movie. Also, the movie attempts to please both kids and adults, but I think it will only bore everyone. And the music is weird and arbitrary; I mean, they have a couple great songs -- a cover of the Beatles' "Getting Better" (which will be familiar from those Phillips commercials) and "Tangerine Speedo," by I-forget-who, which was on the Charlie's Angels soundtrack -- but the songs don't fit into what's going on. The movie is really only satisfying if you're a serious Mike Myers fan -- or maybe a set decorator; the visuals are pretty great. And Alec Baldwin is slimy-wonderful.
So CGU and I have been working through the early seasons of Buffy (thanks to Netflix), and we just saw "Ted." Wow. I mean, I knew John Ritter was good, but he was *really* good, funny and menacing and (naturally) really good at the physical comedy.
Just finished reading: Nora Roberts' Key of Light. For a while there, I felt like she was going through the motions, but not with this novel. She's really into these people and their dilemma, and she's also freshened up her writing a lot. OK, yes, she still describes things as "jazzy" at least twice a novel, but she also had some dialogue that really felt original.
After a really nice dinner, we saw Cat in the Hat. The book is better. The movie is didactic -- which the book isn't. I mean, yes, the book has a lesson, but the beauty of the book is that the story makes the point without ever being preachy. Not so the movie. Also, the movie attempts to please both kids and adults, but I think it will only bore everyone. And the music is weird and arbitrary; I mean, they have a couple great songs -- a cover of the Beatles' "Getting Better" (which will be familiar from those Phillips commercials) and "Tangerine Speedo," by I-forget-who, which was on the Charlie's Angels soundtrack -- but the songs don't fit into what's going on. The movie is really only satisfying if you're a serious Mike Myers fan -- or maybe a set decorator; the visuals are pretty great. And Alec Baldwin is slimy-wonderful.
So CGU and I have been working through the early seasons of Buffy (thanks to Netflix), and we just saw "Ted." Wow. I mean, I knew John Ritter was good, but he was *really* good, funny and menacing and (naturally) really good at the physical comedy.
Just finished reading: Nora Roberts' Key of Light. For a while there, I felt like she was going through the motions, but not with this novel. She's really into these people and their dilemma, and she's also freshened up her writing a lot. OK, yes, she still describes things as "jazzy" at least twice a novel, but she also had some dialogue that really felt original.