The Importance of Being Idle

What's This?

We watched Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas last night. Not that it is particularly festive at the moment, but we saw Corpse Bride the other day and I commented that I'd seen the start of Nightmare before and never liked it. That's true, I had seen the first half an hour or so a couple of times, all the while enduring the disapproval of She Who Shall Not Be Named, and it warped my perception of the movie so that none of the film I saw last night was recognisable to me. Which is really weird, 'cos I have quite vivid memories of it, but is a quality demonstration of the total and utter fallibility of human memory. And I thought Nightmare was a great film, and I've been squeaking along to "What's This?" all morning.
Ah yes, squeaking. That sore throat I went to bed with last night turned really nasty, and I believe that at some point my throat was replaced with sandpaper during the night. Not fun.
Finally saw the Spiderman 3 trailer this morning and... well I'm in two minds here. One says "Wow!" and the other, slightly grumpier one says "No Venom?". I mean I KNOW the story, I know what's gonna happen after Peter rejects the suit (and he does it in a bell-tower, just like he's supposed to!), and I also appreciate the value of saving that for people who don't know, so not having him in the trailer makes sense. And I suppose much as I want to see what he's gonna look like in the movie, I also really don't want to have that all spoilt for me by a trailer! Clearly I'm an awkward customer and difficult to please. Sandman looks really awesome though doesn't he? Shame I can't say the same for the Hobgoblin (assuming that's what he's gonna call himself) who (much like the Green Goblin from the first movie) looks like he's out of a much poorer quality comic book movie that doesn't believe in the strength of it's own source material.

posted by BadMonkey @ 2:01 PM