Checklist and a movie review
Oct. 7th, 2005 04:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tvordljInsurance cheque, obtained and in the bank... Check
Coins changed to paper money... Check
Passport application sent in.... Check
Hastily eaten lunch... Check
Post office, get stamps and pick up parcel...Check
Wallace and Grommit...Check!
All tasks present and accounted for. Actually i had to go up to Atlantic Photo to have my passport picture redone!! The clerk said that the top of my glasses was just over the edge of my eye and they wouldn't accept it. They are doing digital stuff now, and there will be processing and digital facial recognition at some point coming up and they need all of your face visible. No smiling. Even if a tooth shows, it's rejected. Sheesh. Anyway they gave me a note to take to the place i had the (second set of) photos done which is only a few blocks away from the Passport office. Up i go, back to the office i go, drop off the photos. They don't keep the birth cert. anymore either so i could bring that back home along with the old voided passport. I can't go anywhere out of the country now until i get the new one so don't ask me :)
I stopped to get a barbequed sausage from a vendor at the library but a few minutes' relaxing to eat was not in the books. Too fucking many wasps floating around. One little bastard i swear followed me down the entire length of the library wall so i kept walking and ate my snack standing up by the church near the building where the passport office is. grrrrrrr...Anyway, i went up to Park Lane to go to the new Wallace and Grommit movie.
They've renovated the cinemas. They have a lot of stadium seating and the arm lifts on the seats!!! Woo! They also raised their prices :S No matter.
The Curse of the Wererabbit was wonderful! Classic W&G, if you go see it, watch the background and take in as many of the little details as you can, things like the brand on the refrigerator 'SMUG' and on the car radio buttons, it spells out 'MUTT'. Watch for signs and newspaper headlines, listen for the terrible puns ("Arson around!") Helena Bonham Carter and Ralf Fiennes played the two other main characters and they didn't sound at all like themselves. I bet they had great fun doing it though. Very pompous, over the top and entirely silly. A few parodies of a couple of classic horror movies, look for em! Very little cgi and what there was was suitable. And maybe it wasn't cgi, maybe it was regular animation but i suppose they do that all by computer these days don't they. Anyway, i loved it and it's definitely on my dvd list. With Nick Park in the writer's chair and the director's hat, it's not gone "Hollywood" at all, i thought.
The little northern town is a-buzz. The annual giant veg competition and fair is nearly here. Eager gardeners nurture their veg and protect their gardens from pest with the help of humane pest controllers, Anti Pesto, owned and operated by our heros, Wallace and Grommit. They are ever on the alert for garden pests, mainly rabbits, and capture them without harm to animal or legume, which urges Lady Tottington "Call me Totty!" to call on them to rid her estate of rabbits. Her intended, or at least he intends to be so, Victor Quartermaine, will brook no quarter, and his methods of pest control are far more violent. After an experiment gone wrong, a giant wererabbit cuts a swathe through the gardens of the town folk, threatening the centuries old fair. Wallace and Grommit seem unable to trap the beast and Victor may be the last resort must to Lady Tottington's regret, having found that she has formed a bit of an attachment to Wallace but has been let down by his inability to be successful in his quest.
Grommit, as always, is silent but his doggy body language speaks volumes. Wallace is stalwart and true and a little bumbling as always and voiced by the same man that always did him. There are silly jokes, bad puns, parodies and candy floss. There are inventions that work and some that go horribly wrong. There is cheese, of course, and there are hordes of giant veg and hordes of angry gardeners. The full moon shines and the Wererabbit terrorizes the town and there is a happy ending.
Thoroughtly enjoyable. Lots of chuckles and i highly recommend it!
Coins changed to paper money... Check
Passport application sent in.... Check
Hastily eaten lunch... Check
Post office, get stamps and pick up parcel...Check
Wallace and Grommit...Check!
All tasks present and accounted for. Actually i had to go up to Atlantic Photo to have my passport picture redone!! The clerk said that the top of my glasses was just over the edge of my eye and they wouldn't accept it. They are doing digital stuff now, and there will be processing and digital facial recognition at some point coming up and they need all of your face visible. No smiling. Even if a tooth shows, it's rejected. Sheesh. Anyway they gave me a note to take to the place i had the (second set of) photos done which is only a few blocks away from the Passport office. Up i go, back to the office i go, drop off the photos. They don't keep the birth cert. anymore either so i could bring that back home along with the old voided passport. I can't go anywhere out of the country now until i get the new one so don't ask me :)
I stopped to get a barbequed sausage from a vendor at the library but a few minutes' relaxing to eat was not in the books. Too fucking many wasps floating around. One little bastard i swear followed me down the entire length of the library wall so i kept walking and ate my snack standing up by the church near the building where the passport office is. grrrrrrr...Anyway, i went up to Park Lane to go to the new Wallace and Grommit movie.
They've renovated the cinemas. They have a lot of stadium seating and the arm lifts on the seats!!! Woo! They also raised their prices :S No matter.
The Curse of the Wererabbit was wonderful! Classic W&G, if you go see it, watch the background and take in as many of the little details as you can, things like the brand on the refrigerator 'SMUG' and on the car radio buttons, it spells out 'MUTT'. Watch for signs and newspaper headlines, listen for the terrible puns ("Arson around!") Helena Bonham Carter and Ralf Fiennes played the two other main characters and they didn't sound at all like themselves. I bet they had great fun doing it though. Very pompous, over the top and entirely silly. A few parodies of a couple of classic horror movies, look for em! Very little cgi and what there was was suitable. And maybe it wasn't cgi, maybe it was regular animation but i suppose they do that all by computer these days don't they. Anyway, i loved it and it's definitely on my dvd list. With Nick Park in the writer's chair and the director's hat, it's not gone "Hollywood" at all, i thought.
The little northern town is a-buzz. The annual giant veg competition and fair is nearly here. Eager gardeners nurture their veg and protect their gardens from pest with the help of humane pest controllers, Anti Pesto, owned and operated by our heros, Wallace and Grommit. They are ever on the alert for garden pests, mainly rabbits, and capture them without harm to animal or legume, which urges Lady Tottington "Call me Totty!" to call on them to rid her estate of rabbits. Her intended, or at least he intends to be so, Victor Quartermaine, will brook no quarter, and his methods of pest control are far more violent. After an experiment gone wrong, a giant wererabbit cuts a swathe through the gardens of the town folk, threatening the centuries old fair. Wallace and Grommit seem unable to trap the beast and Victor may be the last resort must to Lady Tottington's regret, having found that she has formed a bit of an attachment to Wallace but has been let down by his inability to be successful in his quest.
Grommit, as always, is silent but his doggy body language speaks volumes. Wallace is stalwart and true and a little bumbling as always and voiced by the same man that always did him. There are silly jokes, bad puns, parodies and candy floss. There are inventions that work and some that go horribly wrong. There is cheese, of course, and there are hordes of giant veg and hordes of angry gardeners. The full moon shines and the Wererabbit terrorizes the town and there is a happy ending.
Thoroughtly enjoyable. Lots of chuckles and i highly recommend it!
