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11.12.05

on seeing the narnia:

the most religious, awe-inspired, silent-moment-in-the-theatre was when the opening credits (as in, a gleaming firey Disney logo) rolled and everyone went "this is it!" and "shhhh!" and there was this complete everyone-holding-their-breath silence. This in the ten o'clock show full of grownups.

The star centaur was sort of boring until he killed that minotaur like an asskicking TOREADOR. Dear Star Centaur Dude, I Love You. Rock The Fuck On (with your Bad Self). Plus he was pulling swords out of scabbards you couldn't quite identify in advance (and that quite frankly we're going to have to see again, and pause, just to see what exactly he's getting them out of) - they appeared to be integrated into his codpiece-armor-thing somehow. Oh, and the star centaur had a codpiece-armor-thing, which makes one wonder exactly how they mate and where their tender bits might be - with the horse half, or the human half?

That, and there were girl centaurs, which i'm not sure i've ever seen before. i didn't notice any female fauns, or dwarves, or Nasty Bad Creatures in the witch's army, and there was one dryad - or thing that i think was supposed to be meant to be a dryad, though certainly nothing i would picture upon hearing the word - but she was only employed as a messenger, and peter didn't even fucking believe her immediately, or that's the suggestion. where are all the girl Nasty Bad Creatures? home making tea? ohhh, is she a jealous Witch?

They were loving that ugly butt minotaur though. every freaking shot was of that guy.

Also, Tilda Swinton (sp?) is a badass. Everyone can agree on this.

And they thought of things - tiny little details - that make you go, oh of course, yes. mostly. some were off. but most.

some really lovely wolf footage.

and this annoys me almost as much as not seeing any women in the armies (you sexist pigs): why is it that perfectly good creatures are supposed to be Mean Bad Evil creatures? wolves are lovely and cuddly and soft and very very smart, and there are traditions that say snakes are the wisest animals, and all sorts of things - only wolves are nasty in narnia. and all snakes are in league with voldemort. and lions are scavenging, foul creatures, for that matter, only they're never portrayed that way. it isn't fair.

scrawled @ 08:32