hooo.

[kaigou]

Kifed this link from Tiercel, who had it posted awhile back but I'd never followed it...damn, I should've. You want Narnia? You want Disney doing Narnia? Here's your response, babe.

Cripes, they're doing a live-action version of Charlotte's Web...with Julia Roberts as Charlotte? Yegawdz.

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[kaigou.livejournal.com]

I keep thinking, what was wrong with the original (animated) version of Charlotte's Web? I rather liked that version, and the voices were excellent. Wilbur's voice, and Charlotte's voice, were just right. Then again, the fact that we can make Babe means that now all "stories with talking animals" can be done, and don't have to be animated -- as if animation, straight old-fashioned cel animation -- is somehow not-as-good.

Heh, maybe someone will do a good version of Animal Farm...

[underpope.livejournal.com]

Heh, maybe someone will do a good version of Animal Farm...

*snort*

Yeah, right. I guarantee that if someone did, in Bush's America, they'd completely reverse the entire point that Orwell was making with that novel. "Some animals are more equal than others" would be presented as the defining principle of American democracy. You know it's true. ;-)

WRT Charlotte's Web... Well, it's just another example of how Hollywood has given up on any semblance of originality and innovation in favor of tepid remakes of past movies, in spite of overwhelming evidence that these are not what the movie goers want.

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

How does it go again? Good is Bad, Right is Wrong... I mean, spin is spin, but these days I really do feel like I'm trapped in 1984.

*grabs the macintosh and the sledgehammer*

[underpope.livejournal.com]

War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength

A few years ago, a right-wing group started putting up fliers on the UC Davis campus with those slogans and supporting the Iraq War. I contacted the leader of the group to congratulate them on their brilliant satire, only to discover (to my horrified dismay) that (a) they were dead serious; and (b) they had no idea who this "George Orwell" person was.

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

Yeah. That would definitely be a case of "okay, please let your response be a joke..."