1&2: I’m a little late but I really want to see Dark Knight and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2. How eclectic am I with a villainous action movie and an uber chick flick?
3: The Secret Life of Bees Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys, AND Jennifer Hudson in the same movie? Seriously? Got to see it. It doesn’t come out until October but I can’t wait. Queen’s southern accent is a bit too much but it should wonderful anyway.
4: House Bunny I know. I know. It doesn’t look that great. It’s more of a wen you’re 19 and you and your friends need to kill some time after you’re done with finals to unwind. Well even at 2?, I still think I could enjoy a completely slapstick, wannabe-Legally-Blonde movie. Right?
There’s been so much to talk about this week and I haven’t had the time to talk about it. Now’s the time so I’ll be posting more than one.
Maddy/Tiana
Disney’s new black princess: So Disney has gone back to 2-D, hand drawn annimation and decided that (after dacades) they would try their hand at a black American princess. “Maddy” would be the princess in The Frog Princess. They thought that it would be okay to make her somewhat like the other princesses. She would be a servant, not to a family member, but to an upity, spoiled white woman. She would have her prince/hero, but he wouldn’t be a black American prince/hero. He would be white. A few people didn’t like that so much. I can see why. Maddy (though my grandmother was Mattie) can be perceived as demeaning by some of today’s society. It’s like calling her Mammie. Also, having a white woman as a servant turn princess is a fairy tale. Having a black woman as a servant turn princess is a fairy tale that hits a bit too close to home. And is Disney so unwilling to step outside of their comfort zone that they couldn’t have a full black animated cast. The voices don’t have to be of black people, but if Aladdin can be full Arabian and Mulan full Asian, why can’t this princess be surrounded by people of her own race? They’ve tried to redeem themselves by making her a heroine named Tiana. I still don’t know that many black girls named Tiana. I know more named Britney and Ashley than I do Tiana. Like one of the articles says, you can’t satisfy everyone. 
So I have a new obsession. I don’t know how long it will last, but it all got started by Sex and the City. In one of the scenes, Carrie is doing research by reading a book called Love Letters from Great Men or something like that. Well I just found out that it’s not a real book!. But I did find Love Letters From Great Men and Women: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day. On Amazon, it takes 1-3 weeks to ship so I was trying to look elsewhere when I found GoodReads.com. DadWonder told me about this site a while ago but I never took a look. Like he was then, I am addicted now. It’s a great site where you review, comment, discuss, swap/sell books. I was on the site for an hour before I noticed. And I only got 27 book on there so far. So take a look.
A Happy Father’s Day blast from the past…err…future. You get what I mean.
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Sea. 2, Ep. 26
For a Father’s Day project, Elroy films George, who also uses the camera to follow a lovesick Astro.
I’ve just come from the Zigfield Theatre in NY, seeing Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End and I have to say that it was not at all what I expected. It wasn’t the best script and the scenes just didn’t flow well. Half the time we (me, Tom, and my dad) had trouble following the plot. They didn’t explain things very well-most of the time because the scene was overrun with too many jokes, bantor, and innuendos.
One plus was the action sequences. They were great! The camera followed well and the cinematagraphy was on point. And the special effects were a key element in the movie.
All in all, I have to say that we were all highly disapponted.
