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Cutting to the chase: No calls on Friday
May. 24th, 2008 06:11 pm...which means I have to go nag at people now. Meh.
Meanwhile, Debbie took me to see Prince Caspian today. I haven't read the book in so long, I had no mental arguments or doubletakes going on. I thought the Prince himself had a pleasing resemblance to Keanu Reeves and 'Peter' might be set to be the next Cary Elwes, since Cary had abandoned what made him popular in the first place (irrelevant to talent, mind you).
My goodness, haven't the younger ones grown alarmingly! Actors are as bad as puppies. Their action scenes were so nicely done, I wonder if they kept up training between movies, or this is just actorish body memory and three months of hard pre-production.
I was surprised to see Slovakia as a location, but considering how closely the forest resembled that of a bright and sunny British Columbia, I'm fairly sure that's where Slovakia came in. Puzzling, though - they've got perfectly lovely forests in NZ. I measure all this by Xena, I should mention. It was not bad as a travelogue (so to speak) for an adventure show. :) My weird location bug kicks in at times like these. Wish I could find some way for it to make me money....
Anyway, I quite enjoyed the whole thing, book differences aside - some of them were, of course, because you don't pay actors to not be on screen. I loved seeing how the Xena/Hercules centaur technology looks with some serious money and another 5-10 years of technology applied. New Zealand, home of centaurs! Even more than the elves - the elves still have the Celtic parts of Britain to claim, even if they were shot down under.
It's hot here, and I have some mildly Mad Science to apply to a bathtub, and virtual mushrooms to hunt. :)
Meanwhile, Debbie took me to see Prince Caspian today. I haven't read the book in so long, I had no mental arguments or doubletakes going on. I thought the Prince himself had a pleasing resemblance to Keanu Reeves and 'Peter' might be set to be the next Cary Elwes, since Cary had abandoned what made him popular in the first place (irrelevant to talent, mind you).
My goodness, haven't the younger ones grown alarmingly! Actors are as bad as puppies. Their action scenes were so nicely done, I wonder if they kept up training between movies, or this is just actorish body memory and three months of hard pre-production.
I was surprised to see Slovakia as a location, but considering how closely the forest resembled that of a bright and sunny British Columbia, I'm fairly sure that's where Slovakia came in. Puzzling, though - they've got perfectly lovely forests in NZ. I measure all this by Xena, I should mention. It was not bad as a travelogue (so to speak) for an adventure show. :) My weird location bug kicks in at times like these. Wish I could find some way for it to make me money....
Anyway, I quite enjoyed the whole thing, book differences aside - some of them were, of course, because you don't pay actors to not be on screen. I loved seeing how the Xena/Hercules centaur technology looks with some serious money and another 5-10 years of technology applied. New Zealand, home of centaurs! Even more than the elves - the elves still have the Celtic parts of Britain to claim, even if they were shot down under.
It's hot here, and I have some mildly Mad Science to apply to a bathtub, and virtual mushrooms to hunt. :)
