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Royal Canadian Air Farce (1993)
Air Farce under mountain of grey dust
Alright, it's been said but I must say it again. This show got old a LONG time ago. I remember telling some teacher in grade nine that I thought it was awful, tired and unfunny (1997?). I believe she disagreed. I could never stand watching Luba Goy or Abbott as they can NOT act, and are so odd in appearance that all you see in their impersonations is them. The political satire never seems to focus on anything beyond the news headline.
Lots of good shows have come from the CBC. This is not one of them. It's safe, middle-class suburban and DULL. This Hour has 22 Minutes, though suffering at times from cast changes, was always funny. Kids in the Hall was funny. Air Farce has always played to a lower denominator. I find it unwatchable as I find SNL unwatchable. I might have enjoyed it briefly when it first came on TV when I was ten, but that didn't last very long. Though my parents seemed to have enjoyed it on the radio back in the day, the radio has the bonus feature of not having to WATCH who's speaking.
Finally, this show reinforces an incorrect view of Canadians. C'mon, no one likes to see stereotypes reinforced in the same way, over and over.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
Heartbroken!
I'm sorry everyone but I HATE this movie. The comments all seem to be positive. Does no one else see things the way I do? The first trailer I saw had me so excited that maybe they'd done gorgeous justice to my favourite books of all time.
Not so.
Yes it has lavish sets/costumes/props/pixels/unnecessary action... but it sure as hell cheaps out like any blockbuster does in telling the story.
Disney has been making me angry since I was a kid watching 'The Little Mermaid' and knowing she should turn into sea foam at the end. This is no different. It felt like this movie had been made to sell a video game. What's with the rushing across a breaking up river? What's with the battle scenes and DIALOG!? almost jokingly copied straight out of Lord of the Rings? This story is not a complicated mess of meanderings and secret meetings with underground (no pun intended) animals. This wasn't Narnia, it's a modern mockery. It is a movie for it's time when audiences want bigger and better CGI, millions of orcs/centaurs/whatevers fighting each other in clean digital fashion. DOES NO ONE HAVE IMAGINATION ANYMORE TO SEE THINGS FOR THEMSELVES? That was part of the point to the story in the first place. The books inspired my imagination like nothing else ever did. This movie leaves NOTHING to the imagination. Like so many movies these days, it hands everything out on a silver platter. Sometimes I yearn for the days of 2-d animation and creativity in solving problems without computers. Yet, 'Pan's Labyrinth' used CGI without overdoing it. Maybe this is what you get with the director of 'Shrek' at the helm. I have very little hope for 'Prince Caspian' being any better.
I'll just stick to my books and the badly animated, yet so much more entertaining, 1979 cartoon version that actually has some real feeling. -From a girl who used to look in everyone's closets.