Freedom of speech should be limited...

[venta]

...to those who have something to say.

(According to The League Against Tedium)

Hmm. I've observed that for various reasons (mostly involving lack of time, and not currently having my laptop back from Evesham (bastards)), I've stopped reviewing gigs and things on here. So those of you who enjoy vicarious concert-going have missed out recently on Edwyn Collins, Loudon Wainwright III, the Pixies, PJ Harvey, and other goodness. I would be apologetic, but to be honest you should get off your backsides and go to gigs yourself.

I can now report that, in my opinion, Shrek 2 is worth seeing. It seems to be trying harder than Shrek, and is the worse for it, but still comes out as an entertaining couple of hours. And does anyone else who's seen it think that some sections of it make more than a passing reference to The Princess Bride ?

[This paragraph added in later, because I forgot first time round.]
The one thing that really disappointed me was the soundtrack. Why did they have to use poor covers instead of good originals ? I'm quite happy with the songs that were, in context, sung by the characters and so on. But Changes and Ever Fallen In Love With Someone (You Shouldn't Have Fallen In Love With) were just really, really bad. I'm prejudiced, because they're both songs I'm very fond of. But (particularly in the Buzzcocks' case) I couldn't help thinking that the original would have worked so much better as part of the soundtrack.

However, more importantly, I can also report that I saw wimble beaten by a piece of gingerbread. Frances has just come back from the Lake District, so our house has Grasmere gingerbread. If you've never encountered the stuff before: it's lovely, but it's hardcore. Three parts ginger, one part citrus peel, three parts gravel.

It defeated Wimble in fair combat, and he left the house a vanquished man.

Comments

[beckyl.livejournal.com]

They did fix the credits - there's an additional credit slide at the very end of the whole thing for the localised UK voices. Right at the very very end, last thing on the reel.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Ah. Having been suckered by secretrebel's complaint about people who don't stay to the end, we stayed to the end of the credits of "Prisoner of Azkaban". Only to find there was nothing at the end, except the end. So we didn't stick around for all of the credits.

Which did result in the very bizarre feeling of walking back from the cinema to the car at only 9.30. Rather than the other way around.

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

You'd have missed fun stuff during the credits though - the feet do some vaguely amusing things on the map in PoA (running away from a room marked 'stink bomb store', changing from human to dog prints, etc) and the little illustrations in the Shrek 2 credits were quite nice (medieval woodcuts depicting matte painters, film editors and so on, heading credits for each section)

[dr-bob.livejournal.com]

cuthbertcossand I just went to see it, and stayed to the end. Unfortunately, our local cinema raised the lights and turned off the projector during the copyright slide. So we didn't get to see the very very end. Though we tried (despite having not read this first. And I thought it sounded like Jonathan Ross! Couldn't tell Kate Thornton from a box of chocolates, 'though.