- i grew up reading the ramona books. loved them, though i never read the ones that came out after "ramona quimby age 8" (kind of like Judy Blume's "Fudge" books, i didn't care for the characters after I and they reached a certain age). i am incredibly troubled by the upcoming movie:
now, the casting actually seems good/right (even selina gomez), so i don't have a problem there. i think my issue is with what Walden media does to kids books when turning them into movies: add ridiculous looking "fantasy" elements. yeah, it's great to see what Ramona is imagining, but is it really necessary to have THAT much detail. that ruined their "Bridge to Terabithia" for me - by turning the Terabithia scenes into "lord of the rings light," they sort of missed the entire point. and really, the books are better when it's just ramona being mischievous honestly, i was too big a fan of the uber cool, sarah polley before Avonlea (and then awesome goto indie actress), Canadian tv series that pbs showed for about a year to accept any other live action version of the books.
also, that kid beezus is talking to had better be henry huggins! they left him out of the tv show. henry huggins is the bomb.
- i'm also not terribly thrilled about the tron sequel. i think they are doing some pretty cool things with it, but i just don't see it as necessary. my memories of tron will always revolve around when the Disney channel was fairly new, so all they seemed to show was Tron, Ozzie and Harriet, and Mr Boogedy. i love mr boogedy.
- is curious why Marvel has to revisit the 90's so much. first onslaught, then the clone wars, then "x-men forever" and "x-factor forever"... now a new look at the Infinity Gauntlet? I do like that it will be through Marvel's "all ages" Marvel Adventures line but... still. that said, i do think it's great that Marvel is bringing back Thanos, even if it's just in the cosmic books. if i had to pick a favorite Marvel villain list, he'd be up there...
- i think, as much as the whole "brand new day" spiderman stuff has kind of made a nice niche for itself, and has had some really great moment's story telling wise, for them to go back and remind us of the bullshit that started it all - apparently they are going to have us see the new version of what happened at peter parker and mary jane's wedding that caused them to not get married... i have heard some rumor that it might ultimately lead to an undoing of it all, which might not be bad (as long as it's not done in some ham fisted "okay, other reality restored" kind of way...). i, for one, really didn't have a problem with spider man getting married. who cares if it "aged" him - he is supposed to be an adult, after all. and if people really are into the single peter parker, i would think part of that is because they want to see him develop into the no-longer-single peter parker.
okay. that's all for now. maybe more coherence later?
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For what it's worth, I was a little bit in love with Henry Huggins.
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