Annie D ([info]clearblacklines) wrote,
@ 2006-09-12 08:33:00
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Current mood: cantankerous
Current music:Suddenly Seymour - Hunter Foster & Kerry Butler
Entry tags:monster house, oz, rl

Tuesday-itis
I'm not usually a coffee-in-the-mornings sort of person, but this morning when I woke up with every limb stuffed with pure lethargy, I knew coffee would be the only way to help me survive the rest of the day. So here I am, yawning over my cup of coffee, trying to look as if I'm typing up minutes as my boss yakkety-yaks in the next room.

So. Tired.

But I didn't even do anything particularly tiring yesterday! If anything, I should have been this tired last Friday morning, since the night before I'd gone for the night showing of Monster House with some mates.

Monster House, by the way, was awesome. Surprisingly Burtonesque, with snappy dialogue and children in actual peril. ~lovelovelove~ And it was genuinely scary!

The movie left me with the obvious conclusion that it's adults who are more disturbed with frightening children and seeing them in peril; children tend to be okay with both. It's like, when I watched The Return to Oz as a kid, I thought it was a great movie and with a great heroine, but when I watched it again as an adult the dark themes bothered me a bit (though it's still a great movie with a great heroine).

There's no point to this post, really. I'm just trying to wake myself up.

After this I'll start writing more fanfic.




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[info]beruche
2006-09-12 12:57 am UTC (link)
I so want to see this - and now I know it's good!

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[info]clearblacklines
2006-09-13 10:00 am UTC (link)
It doesn't feel like it's made for kids specifically... It feels like a movie, and I think that that's its greatest strength.

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[info]beruche
2006-09-13 12:41 pm UTC (link)
That's terrific! See, no one wants to see it with me except my youngest cousin Josh, because they think it's a kids movie.

(Technically my youngest cousin is Gabriel, but I hardly see him and that's beside the point.)

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[info]dinglehoppers
2006-09-12 08:42 am UTC (link)
I love Monster House too! But it's really scary and I was so surprised that an animated movie could actually spook me so much.

Yay more fanfic!!! =P

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[info]clearblacklines
2006-09-13 10:00 am UTC (link)
But it's really scary and I was so surprised that an animated movie could actually spook me so much.

I know! During the opening scenes when you-know-who collapses and you-know-who has the nightmare about the you-know-what, I found myself creeping closer to my friend. Scary stuff!

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[info]dinglehoppers
2006-09-13 11:46 am UTC (link)
Haha, my friend even suggested that we leave immediately.

And she said if she couldn't sleep that night it would all be my fault for dragging her to the movie!

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[info]mad_dancer
2006-09-12 11:42 am UTC (link)
Hey! I added you back. I don't know what time it is where you are, but it is 7:41 am and I just got back from a long run. I hope the rest of your day/night goes well!

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[info]joeytheteapot
2006-09-13 08:37 am UTC (link)
I've not yet seen Monster House, but Return To Oz IS pretty frickin' sweet, isn't it? XD

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[info]saft
2006-09-13 09:57 am UTC (link)
I watched Monster House for the 3rd time yesterday...XD It was awesome.

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[info]clearblacklines
2006-09-13 09:58 am UTC (link)
IT'S TRUE. ♥

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[info]clearblacklines
2006-09-13 10:01 am UTC (link)
Mmmm, Oz.

That reminds me, get the Oz Books!

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[info]joeytheteapot
2006-09-14 07:12 pm UTC (link)
I hope that's a mental note to yourself, as I have some Oz books! :P

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