The Chronicles of Narnia

[the_masked_squiggy]

That's cool. My one friend who was there who hadn't read the books didn't get it until we told him but understood the reason it wasn't really played up. So maybe it's hit-or-miss?<br /><br />Although my friend isn't the most subtle person in the world <br /><br /><br />On a totally different topic, I took another friend to see Serenity, which is still playing in a theater in Santa Ana (CA). They didn't even have the reel spooled up, and we had to ask them to start it--twice. Although by the second time, there was a projector eating another reel and the only two projection guys there (why only two? it's like a 12-screen place!) wrestling it out. So we got to sit there for 25 minutes listening to bad Disney music. Basically everything from the 50's to the 90's. Sleeping Beauty to Lion King. We started to go a little nuts before the end. For those of you with 8-year old nieces and nephews or who ever babysat, and said "if I hear 'Hakuna Matata' ONE MORE TIME I'm going to KILL SOMETHING!" you know what I'm talking about. But seriously, if a theater is going to advertise a movie, they should have it spooled up so someone can just push the darned button and start it. Or at least the person who sold the tickets should have notified them since she was just reading at her booth. Grrrrrr.<br /><br />Oh, and Narnia managed to be great DESPITE being Disney. And Disney managed not to plaster their logos all over it. Yay!!!

 

[CalliArcale]

That's because Disney's only the distributor. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> They didn't produce it. After declining "Lord of the Rings", I guess they wised up. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>

 

[the_masked_squiggy]

Ah. That does explain quite a bit.

 

[sorehed]

Just for the record, Turkish Delight (the real thing) sucks worse than any candy that has ever sucked before. Blech.

 

[JonClarke]

People who like it really, really like it. People who don't find it rather sickly sweet and unpleasantly messy and sticky to eat.<br /><br />Of course that is part of the point. It bad enough selling your birthright for a mess of pottage, so as for betraying your family for something so sickly sweet.... <br /><br />Jon <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Whether we become a multi-planet species with unlimited horizons, or are forever confined to Earth will be decided in the twenty-first century amid the vast plains, rugged canyons and lofty mountains of Mars</em>  Arthur Clarke</p> </div>

 

[CalliArcale]

I tried Turkish Delight once when i saw some in the store. Of course I tried it because of Narnia. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> I liked it. It is insanely sweet, so you definitely have to like uber-sweet stuff. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>

 

[sorehed]

hehe I tried it for the same reason but with different results. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

[JonClarke]

Ditto! I was sadly disapointed! Of course in our case we would have asked the WW for, and got, something else (peppermint creams in my case).....<br /><br />Jon <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Whether we become a multi-planet species with unlimited horizons, or are forever confined to Earth will be decided in the twenty-first century amid the vast plains, rugged canyons and lofty mountains of Mars</em>  Arthur Clarke</p> </div>

 

[sorehed]

shortbread cookies <img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" />

 

[the_masked_squiggy]

Hot wings. Definitely hot wings. I mean, you're standing in the freaking snow.

 

[zensphere]

Saw this movie today, finally. It had some very good things about it, and some not so great things. <br /><br />I will have to 100% agree with the people in this thread that are applauding the White Witch. Brrrrrrr. She went well beyond my expectations of how the witch might be portrayed. <br /><br />3 out of 5 stars on my movie-o-meter. Did actually get drowsy at one point though. <img src="/images/icons/frown.gif" /> <br /><br />(P.S. Obviously kind of new to this board. Hello to you folks. I like aliens.)