Kranky

Forgot to mention that I saw The Incredibles for a fourth time, this time with one of my nieces. Man, do I love that movie. Yes, I'll probably see it again, though each time I see it, I grow even more sick of seeing the trailer for Christmas With The Kranks.

Even if I had the slightest urge to see the movie (which I didn't), the urge would have been long been killed by the over-hype, not to mention the Botox scene. Now I think I'd rather be forced to listen to the space hippy song in This Way To Eden on forever repeat than spend Christmas with the Kranks.

Other than overplay, my other major beef about movie trailers is the tendency of some trailers to GIVE AWAY THE ENTIRE PLOT, leaving me with little incentive to actually pay money to go to see it in the theatre.

Speaking of movies...I loved Philip Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy, and have been both excited and filled with dread at the idea of the books being turned into a movie. It would be SO easy to do a bad job at this. For those interested, here's an interesting article about how three writers adapted Pullman's work for stage and screen.

To all you Americans about to go off and turkify...have a great Thanksgiving!

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