Because I am bored beyond all human comprehension, I bring you links.

[apocalypsos]

Movie trailers ...

Hotel Rwanda -- I love Don Cheadle. Have I ever said that? 'Cause, seriously, man, can that guy act.

The Woodsman -- They can be as secretive as they want, but anybody with two brain cells to rub together can figure out the plot. But it looks good and it's Kevin Bacon, so that's forgivable. :)

P.S. -- The only reason I link this is because Topher Grace and Laura Linney look so cute together. ;)

A Love Song for Bobby Long -- I can't watch this trailer because I'm at work, so somebody tell me if it's good or if it blows. (It's got Scarlett Johansson, but it's also got John Travolta, so God knows it could go either way.)

The Phantom of the Opera -- Hey, I like this trailer. So there. ;P

In other news, Reverend Jerry Falwell, national chairman of the Faith and Values Coalition and Moral Majority founder, labeled the National Organization for Women (NOW) the "National Order of Witches," said he was going to invite People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to Christian men's gatherings called "Wild Game Night" so that they "can sit there and suffer," and called Americans United for Separation of Church and State "an anti-Christ" group. Really, who needs to make Falwell look like an ass when he does it so well all on his own?

A pod of dolphins circled protectively round a group of New Zealand swimmers to fend off an attack by a great white shark, media reported on Tuesday. Now that's just cool right there.

A Shih Tzu who, her owners say, longed for years to give birth — even to the point of going into false labor several times — finally is getting a chance to nurse some little ones: two stray kittens. Awww. That's so cute.

A mother who left her 7-year-old son locked in the trunk of a car while she partied in a bar has pleaded guilty to felony charges of child abuse and false imprisonment. "She has been a very good mother," Attridge said. "All of us were young and stupid once." Young and stupid?! *headwall*

EDIT: I'm thinking about stopping at Borders before I go home and picking up the first Earthsea book, just to see what it's about. And I know the premise is interesting, and I know more than one person I know has pointed out that he's not perfect for the role, but I also know that if I do pick up the book, it'll be all Shawn Ashmore's fault. Hey, I might as well be honest, right?

Comments

[storydivagirl.livejournal.com]

I saw The Woodsman in film class. It was well made and Kevin Bacon did a good job, but it just...I'm not sure how they're going to market a movie about a pedophile trying to reform himself.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Okay, Falwell and PETA's chairperson in a celebrity death match- textbook definition of a win/win situation :)

[anniesj.livejournal.com]

I'd like to add a big fat "WORD" to that.

Also, I want front-row seats. :)

[ilanalynn.livejournal.com]

It could be like the Celebrity Deathmatch with Hanson and the Spice Girls, where Marilyn Manson took a chainsaw and made the thing holding the lights fall down on all of them. :)

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Religous nutjobs vs. tree-hugging hippie freakbuckets is an entertaining idea.

[cavalaxis]

I love linkage posts like these. And the dolphin thing is way cool, 'cept who wrote the lame headline "Great Animal Story..." Dude. At the end of your creative rope?

[anniesj.livejournal.com]

God, I hate Jerry Falwell.

Also, it also never makes any sense to me that the uber-religious rail against separation of church and state when, in fact, that law was created to protect religion from the government. Do they not understand that if you allow religion to dictate government, government will in turn dictate religion? GRRRRRR.

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

But they want to be the government bodies that dictate religion, so that would probably be fine with them.

[ayrdaomei.livejournal.com]

I'm glad films about the Rwandan genocide are getting made. Thanks so much for the link to the trailer. I'll have to keep an eye out for P.S. and The Woodsman too.

[wal-lace.livejournal.com]

Heh. The best thing about the Shi Tzu story is that one of their other cats is called Demi Moore.

For the Kitchen list you and <lj user ="Mice"> posted

[seferin.livejournal.com]

[thesumo.livejournal.com]

I see your *headwall* and raise you a "Whatinthefuck?"

[fmith.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Mos Def movie!

[prettyveela.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one that didn't know that Dolphins actually ENJOY sex? I was like :O!

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Everybody loves Don Cheadle. He's cool being a bad guy, but mostly he just looks like such a nice guy. You wanna trust that face. And he acts the pants off other actors. I used to watch Picket Fences when I was little and he was on it.

I'm thinking about stopping at Borders before I go home and picking up the first Earthsea book, just to see what it's about. And I know the premise is interesting,

It is interesting, though the writing is somewhat dry. Definitely an older style of SciFi/Fantasy novel.

I am leery of the upcoming movies because it looks like they've taken 4 books and many years and compressed them into 4 hours. The actress from Smallville's character doesn't show up till the 4th book, for one thing, and she's a woman not a teenager, and at that point the main character is much older than Sean Ashmore can pull off.

Then again it's been a while since I read the books and maybe I'm forgetting stuff.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Well, right now I'm torn between that and the first "Series of Unfortunate Events" books, so I guess I'll just figure it out which one I want when I go there. Thanks for the mini-review. :)

[wal-lace.livejournal.com]

I'd recommend Earthsea. I read the first three when I was about eleven, and loved them. Then I read all four five years later, and still loved them. Just don't expect a traditional happy ending - there's a full arc in there for Ged.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

If you do read "Series of Unfortunate Events" I'll be curious to hear what you have to say about it; I noticed them on bookshelves and I know there's a movie coming out, but I've never read them.

One thing about he Earthsea books-- the dragons are cool. And the characters have good names. You know, some fantasy books try to have cool names but just end up sounding dorky or lame; the character names in the Earthsea books are good. Small point, but it's one of the things I remembered.

[gruyere.livejournal.com]

The thing about ASOUE is that you can't read just one - the first one is just setup, and the real plot doesn't get going until a few books in.

You'd probably do better to get them from the library, since they're all really short.

[fyrdrakken]

These both were discussed over Thanksgiving at my grandparents'. Apparently the Earthsea movie is in fact only going to be the first book, whereas the Lemony Snicket is going to be the first two or three books.

[silent-sybil.livejournal.com]

And I know the premise is interesting, and I know more than one person I know has pointed out that he's not perfect for the role, but I also know that if I do pick up the book, it'll be all Shawn Ashmore's fault.

*panicked run over to IMDB*

o_O* Dude, what the hell? There's this whole spiel in Earthsea about the "white-skinned barbarians," or something. Ged &co are supposed to be the racial equivalent of, like, Indonesians or something. *headwall, repeated*

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

Aw, you got to it first. Shawn Ashmore as Sparrowhawk? Are you serious? The guy is whiter than a marshmellow after a bleach bath, and the people from his part of the world are supposed to be brown-skinned. I wouldn't care much except for the whole "white-skinned barbarians in the south" thing sybil already pointed out. Oy. What are they going to do once they get to The Tombs of Atuan? Huh? HUH?

*end fangirl rant*

-blue

[dragonsinger.livejournal.com]

Squeee! I've loved Phantom of the Opera since I was fifteen. Such a fantastic trailer. Now, who can I talk into going with me to see it?

[gem225.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, YES! Read the Earthsea books (the first three for sure, I'm not sure how I feel about the fourth yet, and I haven't read any past that)! You'd love them! They're excellently written and full of compelling characters. They're favorites of mine, if you haven't gotten that already. *g*

[elorie.livejournal.com]

Hon, that's two days in a row you've posted something about someone doing something godawful to their kid. That stuff gives me the willies in a serious, not-good kind of way; please cut-tag it better, pretty please? So that I don't have to read any of the details.

[meril.livejournal.com]

The first three Earthsea books are short, quick to read, and were published as juveniles. The ones published after 1989 are none of these.

Le Guin was rather put out by the movie, if that is any indication of possible differences....

[leatherdykeuk.livejournal.com]

Earthsea novels 7/10
ASOUE 4/10