More Movies this week
Aug. 8th, 2007 08:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
voxwoman As part of our summer catch up of all the films we've missed in the theaters over the past year or so we rented another pile of movies. I don't mind doing it this way, as I spend more in the theater on one movie than I do renting 5 at the local Blockbuster.
The kid and I watched The Last Mimzy last night. I really enjoyed this film - the children were extremely well cast - the little girl as cute as any LOLcat kitten. And I had a vague tugging in the back of my mind that I had read the source story some many years ago (and the credits say it was based on a "Lewis Padgett" short story Mimzy Were the Borogoves - I know I've read that. For those that may not know, Lewis Padgett was a pseudonym for the husband and wife writing team Henry Kuttner and CL Moore - and I believe I've read everything they've ever written).
So I had a really "good guess" as to where the story was going. I think they added a lot of stuff - obviously the Intel logo and the whole Homeland Security part - that was unpleasant, but it's part of our current millieu, so if nothing like that happened, people would be bringing that up. I think the government intervention was resolved way too easily, however, even for a fairy tale.
I also would have liked to know if the kids got to keep their superpowers afterwards as well.
The other amusing annoyance was the big to-do over the boy "creating" the sri yantra "from scratch" - and that our Newage-y science teacher and his flaky girlfriend had to go all the way to Nepal to see any mandalas (I have a bookshelf of them right here in my home, and I've viewed a real "made by Tibetan monks" sand mandala in New Hope, PA). But I had to decide that Seattle has no yoga community whatsoever and that there aren't any persons of Hindu descent within a day's drive of the Puget Sound (so there aren't any Indian software engineers in Seattle? Really??), so that the child would never have seen what is an extremely common geometric shape in that community.
I think it's time that Hollywood made a movie of the Sturgeon book, More than Human. I think that would be pretty cool.
Films "on deck" for this week: Pan's Labyrinth, Because I Said So, and My Super Ex-Girlfriend. I'm also planning to see Stardust in the theaters on Friday or Saturday.
EDIT: I think the More than Human juxtaposition happened because "Baby Is Three" (which was a short story that became the middle part of the novel) was contained in the same anthology as "Mimzy Were the Borogoves"... I'm going to have to hunt through my paperabcks as soon as the weather breaks and I can stand to be in the attic for more than 5 minutes.
So I had a really "good guess" as to where the story was going. I think they added a lot of stuff - obviously the Intel logo and the whole Homeland Security part - that was unpleasant, but it's part of our current millieu, so if nothing like that happened, people would be bringing that up. I think the government intervention was resolved way too easily, however, even for a fairy tale.
I also would have liked to know if the kids got to keep their superpowers afterwards as well.
The other amusing annoyance was the big to-do over the boy "creating" the sri yantra "from scratch" - and that our Newage-y science teacher and his flaky girlfriend had to go all the way to Nepal to see any mandalas (I have a bookshelf of them right here in my home, and I've viewed a real "made by Tibetan monks" sand mandala in New Hope, PA). But I had to decide that Seattle has no yoga community whatsoever and that there aren't any persons of Hindu descent within a day's drive of the Puget Sound (so there aren't any Indian software engineers in Seattle? Really??), so that the child would never have seen what is an extremely common geometric shape in that community.
I think it's time that Hollywood made a movie of the Sturgeon book, More than Human. I think that would be pretty cool.
Films "on deck" for this week: Pan's Labyrinth, Because I Said So, and My Super Ex-Girlfriend. I'm also planning to see Stardust in the theaters on Friday or Saturday.
EDIT: I think the More than Human juxtaposition happened because "Baby Is Three" (which was a short story that became the middle part of the novel) was contained in the same anthology as "Mimzy Were the Borogoves"... I'm going to have to hunt through my paperabcks as soon as the weather breaks and I can stand to be in the attic for more than 5 minutes.
