ext_12512: Hinoe from Natsume Yuujinchou, elegant and smirky (Saiyuki Gaiden: history repeating)
Smilla's Sense of Snark ([identity profile] smillaraaq.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] freeradical9 2008-07-25 12:00 am (UTC)

Re: icon is too approriate once again

Yes, although I've not seen it as often as you -- I never owned a copy. But I remember seeing it, either rental or on TV, many years ago and laughing a lot.

And back when I bought my copy, I think the illustrated version was the *only* version, and they didn't bring out one with nothing but text until a few months later. (Which I don't see the point of, really, because Charles Vess does such beautiful, beautiful work!)

I have heard from folks who've seen the movie about all the massive changes, and some of them sounded troubling enough that they severely lowered my interest in catching the film. I will probably still watch it eventually, as a rental or when it comes around on TV, but it sounded like some of the changes would bug me enough that I would be annoyed if I paid first-run-theater prices to see it on the big screen. (If I'd been more on the ball, I would have waited until it hit a really fun small local second-run theater, which serves actual restaurant food instead of the usual theater snacks, and alcohol. Even a bad movie automatically becomes much more enjoyable after several ciders! *grin*)

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