Category: Movies

discussion of Janie books/movie, Anne

Thursday, 20 June, 2002 at 4:38 pm

Hey, look, the 200th entry. :b *is still miffed, but has something entirely different from the other entry*

I forget what I wanted to say. O.o Something about the Janie books. Augh! I completely forgot! Something about the first two. The third can kick the bucket. ^_^;; I’m kidding, kinda … I mean … (spoilers) It was nice when Janie made family (heh, like make friends, get it?) with Jodie and Brian (Brendan is stupid), then later her New Jersey Mom and Dad and even Stephen (Brendan is still stupid).

But somehow the books aren’t like the other two. I don’t want to say things that sound like a critic … but still, I suppose the first was about Janie finding out (almost) everything about her past, the second about her finding out about her New Jersey family, and the third about her finding out about herself, and about her and Reeve, and about Reeve. But somehow the third isn’t as internal as the others are. I suppose I mean personal, but I like the feeling of internal better. ^_^

Recently I saw the entire movie, and of course thought about how much it stunk, but then I reread the books, and figured those two books aren’t very easy things to turn into a movie, which is all visual and almost nothing mental. Hmm, radio has an advantage against TV and movies, no stupid corny older-self-talking-about-younger-self voiceovers. Firstly, the actor playing Janie didn’t have wild, curly, red-gold hair, which was about half of Janie. ^_~ And Reeve stunk. He’s like … a wimp. ^,^ I don’t know. He isn’t, really. He’s just much less lackluster without the Janie confessing to Reeve scenes.

This kinda reminds me of the Anne books and movies. >.< *can’t believe the stupidity of the movies* I’ve forgotten the differences between the first movie and book, and haven’t seen the second movie, but I know that in the third movie Anne goes to the battlefield in WWI, I forget why, but the whole movie was completely made up out of stupid air.

World War I happened in the eighth book. How does one go from shooting a third movie in a series, and skipping five whole books??? Neither Anne nor Gilbert saw bloody war. Although it lived in their house through newspaper and other reports. *still can’t believe who died in the eighth book, although she expected someone to die*

Another thing, the Face on the Milk Carton movie changed Jodie into a younger sibling. Much younger. Like middle school younger. That’s not allowed! Jodie’s supposed to be the one expecting an automatic sister and best friend, not someone who couldn’t even remotely hurt Janie by pairing up with Stephen instead. Okay, that is extremely not understandable. O.o *shrugs*

Stephen also isn’t supposed to be so good-looking. :b He’s supposed to be someone lanky with big feet which everyone hopes he’ll grow into some day. Also, I somehow felt that the mothers would have been better switched, although I think maybe I’ve been reading the words wrong. But isn’t Mrs. Spring supposed to be more homey, and motherly, housewife, and kind of dowdy? Mrs. Johnson is supposed to be motherly, but with a flair, spends more time on her clothes, has a more HGTV house.

*is now finished*

Attack of the Clones

Tuesday, 4 June, 2002 at 2:23 pm

I went to Hometown Buffet with my NY cousins, my family, my great aunt and her friend, Grandma, and UR, after seeing AOTC.

I sat with Daddy, Mickey, Hidek, NYB, and NYK, and I asked them if they noticed how awful Sidious looked, when Palpatine didn’t look that bad. *shrugs*

Didn’t see a Coke can. :( Although I found it very hard to not laugh at the end of that scene … I found it very hard to not laugh a lot during the whole movie for some reason.

Count of Monte Cristo

Sunday, 3 February, 2002 at 8:01 pm

We (Mommy, Mickey, and I) went to see Count of Monte Cristo. I don’t understand why that one person said it was the most predictable movie she’s seen. I rather liked it. :b I really liked it. I saw the person who played Albus Dumbledore in there. Heehee. Yes, I like him better in this movie.

Mommy said this movie didn’t follow the book, that the book was very long and involved. She said … *spoiler* … that the guy wasn’t his son, that he and that lady don’t get back together again, but he is very generous with his money … *end spoiler* … the person who played the son interested me, in sorts. ^.~ I don’t know his name, though. I missed a part of the credits, or didn’t know his role’s name correctly. *shrugs* No biggie.

God, gays; hot weather; cartoons

Saturday, 14 July, 2001 at 1:41 am

Thoughts collected throughout the day.

How can anyone say God hates gays??? ;_; I don’t think God hates anyone except for the ones who blaspheme against Him. I mean, come on, I don’t hate people who do things I don’t like. I hate people who…well, I don’t really hate anyone. I guess I’d hate someone who blasphemed (umm, sp?) against me. Like a rapist, or robber, or something. ^_^;; In the beginning, anyway.

Then I went to godhatesfags.com (how can anyone use slurs, also? there’s such meanness behind it? *koff* there’s my answer ^_^;;) to find a passage saying God hates gays. There wasn’t one, really. I suppose I didn’t look hard enough, but I didn’t want to. I do believe that gays get to heaven in the end. But I don’t want to go deeply into that…heaven and all that is tricky, indeed.

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Earlier today, it was so hot!! Well, maybe around 80 or 85 degrees F. ^_^;; But I was upstairs…wearing leggings…with one window open. And no, our house doesn’t need air conditioning. We just need to know the location of the sun and we open/close windows accordingly. But this room is the hottest during the hottest part of the day, number one because one side gets direct hit from the sun, and number two because only one window can be open because of that, and if I wanted circulation, I’d have to drag the fan up here and find something for it to stand on. Too much work.

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I watched Walt Disney’s Snow White. The animation was a bit choppier than I remember, but that may be wear and tear, or something, I don’t know. But the fluidity and beauty was a lot, a lot, better than I remember. ^u^ Of course, Prince Charming was bland as usual, and the seven dwarves were entertaining, and Snow White was her innocent, domestic self. The Queen was all cool, though, with her cape, and dress. *drool* Gimme one of those! Man, even her old lady cape looked cooler than Snow White’s dress. The movie was also very spooky. I mean, the backgrounds, and everything, were very visual, and you felt the heightened tension. Well, I did at least. ^_^;;

Then before and during dinner I watched Disney’s version of Beauty and the Beast. I guess it was okay. Some of it was beautiful, but not so much as Pocahontas. *^_^* My fave Disney movie, sadly. I liked Belle’s dresses okay. *rolleyes* It’s all about the clothes. Her ballgown was a bit…tacky, or frilly, or something. Take that overgrown fringe off, dengit! It’s so weird. Ooh, I liked the way they designed the title.

Then I watched Rugrats, an episode I never saw before, and I saw only the second episode, Miss Manners (which I thought was very much so Rugrats) because I was watching the end of Ghostbusters II, and found out the people who play Ray and Igon were the writers. Wow. ^_^; Then I watched the first ep of the Fairly Oddparents. Kinda boring and stupid, but I sorta like those past/future jokes. Bill Gates named his idea Timmysomething, and Timmy’s name was Internet.

Then today I watched an ep of Digimon I’d taped over when I taped the first new ep of Card Captors. And I’d never seen it before. Stupid me. Well anyway, I saw it, and it was cool. I like Sora more, anyway. ^.^

Then I put in Anastasia, the animated FOX version, and fell in love with it again. I love her dresses. Except for that one where sections were cut away and scraps were sewn in. *shudder* Strange. Hmm, It was like, “Oh, just listen to Dmitri and go see Anya!!!” all over again. Teehee.