Saturday, January 8, 2005

As you may have told from the post directly below this one, we went to see "A Series of Unfortunate Events" today. It was very good, even though it only follows the first three books. Sadness...my favorite book is the 4th.

Of course, it means that I've seen the only movie I really wanted to see all winter...now, the next two movies I want to see don't come out until summer.

One is "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". The original movie is hilarious (I especially like Wonka...he's creepy and funny at the same time.) The idea of Johnny Depp playing Willy Wonka is just so funny. I can't wait for that.

The other movie is...well...not as family friendly. I was sitting in the theater, trying to survive commercials for stupid kiddy movies when this commercial comes on...it's a picture of the night sky, and a deep voiceover starts:

"No one would have believed in the early years of the twenty first century that our world was being watched by intellegences greater than our own..."

And I immediatly perk up, because (might as well own up) I am a Space Geek. And that's followed immediatly by what I call the "Once Burned, Twice Shy Syndrome"...I started cringing, expecting some stupid, obnoxious psuedo-alien to make some crass comment and the deep symphonic sounding music to stop like a record. You know - needle swiped?

Anyway...I'm sitting there dreading the other shoe when I hear this:

"Yet across the gulf of space, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded our planet with envious eyes...and slowly and surely drew their plans against us..." I kicked myself for not recognizing the speech at the start of the commercial... And automatically I'm in Movie Anticipation Nirvana. Anyone who loves SF can't help but recognize those lines as the opening of *dun dun dun*


Heh. Heh heh heh heh...

I cannot wait for June 29th.

THEY'RE ALREADY HERE...


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