At the Movies with Gwen, Who Is Actually Supposed to Be Working
I haven’t yet uploaded the pics I wanted to show y’all because I’ve been busy like a maniac trying to meet a self-imposed deadline. I told my editor (Brie, did you see that? I just referred to you as “my editor.”) that I’d have my manuscript to her by this Friday, so she could start tearing it apart while I was all unwitting on my visit to our fair neighbors to the North. Right? So, of course, I only have a hundred pages of revising to go. I did twenty-six pages today. MY EYES – THEY BURN.
Most importantly, though, I came here to tell y’all that, despite everything I used to believe to be true, Batman Begins freaking RULED. Oh my Christ, y’all, it was so much awesomer than I ever believed it could be. I read the Salon review, which indicated that it would suck. So I refused to go see it until my boyfriend laid it down as an ultimatum – a test of our love. We went yesterday afternoon, me with my teeth all clenched in resignation and a clothespin over my nose to keep the testosterone from making me sneeze. And it was just fabulous. I laughed. I cried. I gripped the armrests of my seat.
Maybe it’s just because I was PMSing, but I really thoroughly enjoyed that movie. I see that a lot of the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes are all like, “It’s good – but in a way that transcends mere goodness to become rather pragmatically, efficiently, glisteningly bad…” Don’t listen to them. You know you can trust me. I thought The Longest Yard was cute and Mr. & Mrs. Smith was forgettably, mildly enjoyable. And I knew that Revenge of the Sith was very, very crappy until the very end, when it was still crappy, but at least reawoke everyone’s nostalgia. So you can trust me when I tell you that I’m going back to the theater to see Batman Begins again. That’s how much I freaking liked it.
And I’m not just saying that because looking at Cillian Murphy’s face gives me chills, either.
In other movie news, can I tell you how disappointed I was by the trailer for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? Thank you. I was rather disappointed. I wanted to like and anticipate this movie so much, but Johnny Dep’s lines wouldn’t let me. Why did he sound as if Edward Scissorhands had gotten a voice and a peevish attitude? It was horrible. I hope to gosh that trailer wasn’t representative of the movie, and that the movie will be decent, after all. Otherwise, I’ll be pissed that I spent hard-earned money on it.
Also, lastly… The War of the Worlds trailer should be renamed, “Tom Cruise reads inane things in a pithy voice.”
All right. That’s all.
