Today I went to the movies and saw a Christmas Carol. It was an interesting movie. Yes, that it was. I was surprised, though, because it was quite a bit on the scary side. I mean, I'm 21 years old and was a little creeped out at times (granted, certain parts of the Haunted Mansion are creepy/scary to me...so I might be a bit of a wimp, but still!). One kid couldn't take it pretty early in the movie and he & his mom left. It was creepy. Be prepared. This movie + small children (may)= a problem. For example, when the ghost of Scrooge's old partner visits him, at one point his jaw essentially becomes detached from the rest f his skull and is hanging there weirdly and to speak he uses his hand to move his jaw up & down. I found that super creepy and it was about that time that the little boy & his mom left (this is pretty early in the movie. Before the three ghosts come). One other note: Disney should reeeeeeeally consider making all of their digital animation movies with Pixar. The quality of the images is much better in Pixar films. No offense at all to the digital animators, but the people and their movements looked very odd to me. At times they reminded me of a Barbie I had when I was younger, Lemona. Lemona was one of the gymnastic Barbies, so her arms were movable (you could move her arms at the elbow, and her shoulder joint was more flexible than that of the regular Barbies), so she could "hold" things, but she couldn't hold them in a super realistic, human type way. Holding her arms in a "circle" looked much more like a hexagon (her hands being the top, her elbows being two of the points, and each shoulder being a point). Sometimes the characters in the movie looked like that. But I did like the movie. I kind of want to read the book. But I've never read anything by Dickens (I'm a language major, but not an English major =D ), and am somewhat intimidated...but maybe I will. Depends on how long the book is.
The movie has me SO ready for Christmas. I'm looking forward to the holidays. Last fall I was in Spain, so I didn't get the whole Thanksgiving season (I did get Thanksgiving dinner, though, because my cousin's cousin lives there and she made dinner for me) as they don't celebrate it there (obviously. It's a holiday celebrating the kindness/sharing of the Native Americans and the pilgrims and all). And the Christmas season was not as enthusiastic or as much as part of popular culture there as it is here. I never heard any Christmas music or anything. I'm definitely looking forward to that this year.
Peppermint Hot Chocolate anyone?
(No seriously. Go to Williams & Sonoma and buy some of their Peppermint Hot Chocolate. it's delizioso!)
I saw the movie too this weekend! I thought it was okay - definitely creepy! Especially in the end with the graves and the future ghost.
ResponderEliminarAlso I thought Jim Carrey was not the right person for the part.. I thought Scrooge's voice sounded really forced as if Carrey was trying too hard to sound old. Plus msot of the jokes fell flat I thought. Almost every xmas I used to go to South Coast rep and see their xmas carol and it is SO good. You should see it if you are home. It is really funny and so much better than this movie!
ps I want peppermint hot chocolate!
pps your blog is totally not boring I love it :)
-Kirsten