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25th December, 2009. 6:08 pm. 2009 Movies!
#100: Sherlock Holmes
It's actually really good. Not the action movie hinted at in the trailers, more like "House and Wilson in an 1890 buddy cop movie", which is a good thing. I've never liked the very upperclass Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone - too much forgetting that the London of the times was a very dirty place. The cinematography illustrates the difference between the haves and have-nots quite well, with the majority living in a dirty, blue-grey land, and the politicians bathed in a warm orange glow.
Highly recommended.
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24th December, 2009. 10:21 pm. "Happy Christmas!!!"
A Visit from Saint Nicholas
by Clement Clarke Moore
’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there.
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;
And mamma in her ’kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled down for a long winter’s nap;
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below,
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer,
With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be Saint Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name:
“Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!
On, Comet! on Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!”
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky,
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full of toys, and Saint Nicholas too.
And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney Saint Nicholas came with a bound.
He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.
A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.
His eyes — how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.
The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly.
He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself.
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk,
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose.
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!”
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18th December, 2009. 8:26 am. 2009 Movies!
BNAT Joins the Jams!
#86: Faust
#87: The Lovely Bones
#88: Girl Crazy
#89: The Red Shoes
#90: Shutter Island (World Premiere)
#91: Le Magnifique
#92: Micmacs
#93: Frozen (World Premiere)
#94: Centipede Horror
#95: Candy Snatchers
#96: Kick-Ass (Work print, so pre-world premiere)
#97: Avatar
This was really the best-programmed BNAT ever. The only clunkers were the ones that were meant to be (the early-morning slots are generally the films designed to torture the audience. This year that honor went to Centipede Horror and Candy Snatchers), and the rest of the movies were all at least interesting.
I am getting really sick of the people that either sleep through multiple films, complain about the movies, or both. There are 7-12,000 people that apply to get in to BNAT every year, and I would much rather any of them had your space.
#98 Watchmen (Director's Cut)
Watched this while sorting our work Christmas cards the other night. I liked the death of Hollis, which was left out of the theatrical cut, but the setup for it was really clunky, as opposed to the perfect way if was set up in the book.
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18th December, 2009. 7:15 am. "6 geese..."
I had several thoughts for geese doing laying, but then I remembered this is a family show.......
And so it goes.
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