I prefer chips to popcorn as a movie snack

2007 seems like it's going to be a very good year for entertaining movies. All the obvious third installations are coming out (Shrek, Spiderman, Pirates of the Caribbean), a very intruiging(in a sense that I'd never thought it would be a spielberg-produced movie) Transformers will hit theaters, not to forget Harry Potter, but i doubt Daniel Radcliffe's(sp?) acting will have improved much(sorry, no offense to anyone who's a fan), there'll be charlotte's web, but i don't think it'll be able to beat the original animation, 300,plus a whole bunch of other movies.

There are two movies i specifically want to mention, that being 'Bridge to Terabithia' and 'The Other Boleyn Girl'. Terabithia is actually based on a children's book of the same name, has anyone else ever read it? I'd never even heard of it, till i came across a blog whose author mentioned it as a favourite. Fortunately, i found it at pay less books' stock clearance. It's a great book, i must say. made me cry,surprisingly(the last book to do so was when i was 8 and read an enid blyton story where the gnome had to miss out on the prince's party because he didn't mend the hole in his sock. yeah. moving stuff :P).

The story's about [SPOILER ALERT!]a boy who befriends this girl, and the two get along despite their differences. When they play together, the go to this hidden place in the forest or something where they make believe that they are the rulers of a magical kingdom called Terabithia. Anyways, to get to the place where they main ni they have to cross a brook by swinging across it using a tree vine or a rope ke apetah. So to cut a long story short, one day the boy comes home from an outing with his teacher and finds out that the girl had gone off by herself to Terabithia, and when she swung across the brook(which had swelled into a bigger stream because of heavy rains), the vine had snapped and she'd fallen and drowned.

Right, it sounds sad --> cue crying, but the book it still great. I think the author managed to portray the characters so..camne nak ckp..humanely, i guess. i'm crap at describing stuff, you have to read it for yourselves. At the end of the story the boy builds a rough crossing over the brook, the bridge to terabithia.

I love the book, i love the human aspect of it. When i heard the movie was coming out i was moderately surprised. I thought it was going to be something like another 'My Girl'. But then i took a look at the trailer. Argh. Disney seems to have turned it into another fantasy epic. True, Terabithia WAS a mystical kingdom with magical creatures and all but that was just a minor portion of the story. It mostly concentrated on the boy's life and how he discovered himself when leslie entered it. Haisy. Now disney is using it to make another narnia. it'd better be as good (though the trailer seems to show otherwise).

The other movie, 'The Other Boleyn Girl', is also based on a book, by Philippa Gregory. Aah, this one i TRULY anticipate. It tells the story of the infamous King Henry the 8th, during the period of his courtship of Anne Boleyn, and it's told through the narration of Anne Boleyn's sister, Mary, who was the king's mistress before he turned to Anne. I read the sequel to the book,'the Queen's fool', quite some time ago since my sister has it, but i've only recently read 'the other boleyn girl' (thanx shao for lending it to me,muchos grazias)!, and this one is just as brilliant. I think Phillipa Gregory is a really good writer, and the fact that the core of the story is based on actual events makes the book even more fascinating.

The book is great, and i think i have reason to believe that the movie will (hopefully) be as stunning. Why? Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Eric Bana(yummy!). What better cast could there be? Portman will play Anne Boleyn, Krsitin Scott Thomas will be Anne and Mary's mother, Scarlett will be Mary, and Henry the 8th will be played by the amazingly hot(excuse my air-headedness) Eric Bana. While i was a little surprised at the choice of actors in their respective roles, nontheless, i'm convinced that they'll be able to pull off their parts with aplomb. i hope.

The only bad news is that:
a)though they say it'll come out in 2007, the realease date hasn't been confirmed yet, not even in the states. There's not even a trailer yet. so ntah2 it'll come out in Malaysia only in like what, 2009? tahula how we are sometimes ketinggalan in movie releases.

b)for all you know, it won't even be released here. Or else it'll be censored to a point were half the movie's gone.

Hmm.

Well,anyhow, i'm still looking forward to watching the movies that are heading this way. And though this year is major-exams-to-determine-next-course-of-education year, i'm optimistic towards the thought of me being able to go see them anyway.

Right. So who's up for teman-ing me to go see them? anybody? no?oh. jomlah.