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Please to stop using "Carol of the Bells" to advertise Charlotte's Web (the movie) because something so wonderful should not be involved with something so horrid. (Here I mean the live-action spider, not the story itself. I love the book, but seeing a live-action spider is too much for me, too much I say!)
Dec. 30th, 2006
[ads] Harry Potter vs. Eragon
Dec. 30th, 2006 10:52 pmA little while back, J. and A. went to see Eragon together because A. wanted to see it. (J. didn't know what it was. This isn't surprising.) J. hated it, possibly more than I hated the book. (There's a reason I have no interest in seeing it, and that's because I find it a derivative piece of badly-written crap and couldn't even finish the book. That makes two books in my life I couldn't finish. Two. I've read a lot of crap, but that was some of the worst.)
Anyway, every time there's an ad on the television about the movie, he starts to grumble and growl and make snarky comments about it. The last one we saw said something about Harry Potter moving over and this was taking it's place. (That's wishful thinking.) J. was practically apoplectic over it, and said, "If that replaces Harry Potter, I really worry about society."
He's such a cute little fanboy. (This is the guy who, after being interviewed at the OotP book release party, was featured in the paper with a quote about how he didn't read the books, he cheated and watched the movies. He was interviewed because he was working with me at a bookstore. [He was the photographer, and his job was to take pictures of the kids with this Harry Potter cut-out provided by Scholastic. He dressed as Hagrid. He was such a good Hagrid the kids wanted their pictures taken with him, instead.] I thought the store owner [and my boss at the time] would kill him, but luckily everyone found it funny. This is also the guy who, every time I take him to a Harry Potter movie, complains to me, but loves it. He makes me laugh.)
So anyway. People choosing Harry Potter over Eragon means society is going downhill. I have to agree.
Anyway, every time there's an ad on the television about the movie, he starts to grumble and growl and make snarky comments about it. The last one we saw said something about Harry Potter moving over and this was taking it's place. (That's wishful thinking.) J. was practically apoplectic over it, and said, "If that replaces Harry Potter, I really worry about society."
He's such a cute little fanboy. (This is the guy who, after being interviewed at the OotP book release party, was featured in the paper with a quote about how he didn't read the books, he cheated and watched the movies. He was interviewed because he was working with me at a bookstore. [He was the photographer, and his job was to take pictures of the kids with this Harry Potter cut-out provided by Scholastic. He dressed as Hagrid. He was such a good Hagrid the kids wanted their pictures taken with him, instead.] I thought the store owner [and my boss at the time] would kill him, but luckily everyone found it funny. This is also the guy who, every time I take him to a Harry Potter movie, complains to me, but loves it. He makes me laugh.)
So anyway. People choosing Harry Potter over Eragon means society is going downhill. I have to agree.