cat trauma
Jan. 9th, 2006 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calimacYesterday was another traumatic day for the cats as we had the local Mythopoeic Society group over for a meeting. Both cats huddled in fear in the morning as I brought out the dreaded vacuum cleaner. Pippin spent the meeting tucked in between two large boxes in B's workroom closet, with his little face peering out: so cute. He didn't look traumatized, though, and darted around in his usual manner afterwards.
Though he's generally more people-averse than Severian was, at least he didn't replicate Seven's most renowned kittenhood feat: caught in the living room when guests arrived, he darted under the couch, staying there as the entire meeting took place above him, and when it was over refusing to emerge for another six hours.
At 2 pm as the meeting was scheduled to start, nobody was here, and the carrots, Hershey's mint kisses, and garlic dip on the table were beginning to look lonely. Soon enough two cars disgorged five of the usual members, and we had a lively time discussing the Narnia movie. General agreement that numerous plot problems and other awkwardnesses in the film could easily have been solved if somebody had just read the book and tried what it said. I presented my theory that "Andrew Adamson" on this film was a pseudonym for "Peter Jackson," the film being overblown and tiresome in much the same way as Jackson's LOTR epics, with some of the same scenery and the same huge extra-textual battle, and quite unlike the snappy, clever Shrek films with Adamson's name on them.
It looks like this film was successful enough that sequels will be made. If they film all the Narnia books one per year, the last one will come out in December 2011. Can't wait, can you? I wonder if I can maintain interest that long. It took me 5 1/2 books to get too tired of Harry Potter to continue, but only 3 movies was enough for me.
Though he's generally more people-averse than Severian was, at least he didn't replicate Seven's most renowned kittenhood feat: caught in the living room when guests arrived, he darted under the couch, staying there as the entire meeting took place above him, and when it was over refusing to emerge for another six hours.
At 2 pm as the meeting was scheduled to start, nobody was here, and the carrots, Hershey's mint kisses, and garlic dip on the table were beginning to look lonely. Soon enough two cars disgorged five of the usual members, and we had a lively time discussing the Narnia movie. General agreement that numerous plot problems and other awkwardnesses in the film could easily have been solved if somebody had just read the book and tried what it said. I presented my theory that "Andrew Adamson" on this film was a pseudonym for "Peter Jackson," the film being overblown and tiresome in much the same way as Jackson's LOTR epics, with some of the same scenery and the same huge extra-textual battle, and quite unlike the snappy, clever Shrek films with Adamson's name on them.
It looks like this film was successful enough that sequels will be made. If they film all the Narnia books one per year, the last one will come out in December 2011. Can't wait, can you? I wonder if I can maintain interest that long. It took me 5 1/2 books to get too tired of Harry Potter to continue, but only 3 movies was enough for me.
