"Youse doesn't haveta kill 'im, but youse damn sure betta break BOTH his legs"

[dwenius]

So last night A. came back from the video store with a Disney straight--to-video of A Wrinkle in Time. "I was curious" she says.

All I have to say is, Michael Eisner must pay. I can't believe this monstrosity had Ms. L'Engle's support or approval in the final form, but as A. pointed out, she is kinda old, and financial concerns do make us all into poor thinkers at times. Damnation, it was horrrrrible. Offensively out of touch with the simple poetry of the book, and flat out wrong in several crucial character aspects.

You have your instructions. Fly, my monkeys, fly!

Comments

they'd better not touch Ursula LeGuin

[nancy73.livejournal.com]

well, not *exactly* straight from Disney to video. The recapper from Television Without Pity pretty much agreed with you on the horror that this wonderful book turned into under the groping, capitalistic tentacles of Disney.

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GAH!

[nancy73.livejournal.com]

F*@# HTML code!

http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/story.cgi?show=56&story=6684&limit=&sort=

there's the bloody link.

GAH! i say!

[dawn-guy.livejournal.com]

Boy watched that video last weekend at his father's house and found it quite disappointing and irritating in places. At one point he discovered Home Alone playing on the Radio Canada (the French CBC Station) and watched that instead. I know this because I got a running commentary of Maman, J'ai Raté L'Avion by telephone.