Going to the movies

Saw The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe last night. I'm not wild about the books, but I had fun, and fans of the books ought to enjoy it. calair will probably do her own review in the next couple of days. Random thoughts, more or less as they came up:

- Those lame "video piracy is theft" ads they show before the movies. Did they show them before 'Pirates of the Caribbean'?

- So there's a LWW computer game. If you get to play as Aslan, is that 'godmode'?

- What I'd *really* like is to be able to play Narnians vs. LotR. For all that the Narnians have a wider range of mythical beasts, I'm betting the Uruk-Hai would mop the floor with them. Peter just isn't much of a commander (calair will discuss this in greater detail).

- When the script has characters referring to another character as "a man in a red coat", you might want to mention this to wardrobe to ensure that his coat is not, say, brown.

- Aslan talking looked wrong. His mouth moved way too much. I'm sure a RL talking lion *would* have to move its mouth that much, but after years of non-CGI talking animals where the voice is synched to whatever facial movement you can get out of a real animal, it was jarring, as if he'd grown opposable thumbs or something.

- That nitpick aside, mythical beasts v. good.

RIP, Hugh Thompson

Hugh Thompson - one of the very few people I am willing to count among my personal heroes - has died, at age 62. It saddens me to think that a lot of people will have no idea who he was. War is full of physical courage, and Thompson had his share of that. But what he also had, something much more precious, was moral courage.

I wish this world had more Hugh Thompsons in it.