it starts...(you think you know a guy)

Avatar: The Last Airbender teaser trailer

(so did James Cameron win the lawsuit or what? anyway, talk about bad omens, not even getting the full title of the thing in.)

but amidst it all, my real reaction?

fuck this liveaction shit.

granted this reaction is probably influenced by all the horrible language in that most glorious of films, Bridget Jones's Diary, but if Colin Firth can say "fuck" then so can I.

(OH GOD COLIN FIRTH.)

( two paragraphs of elaborating on the theme of liveaction wrongness )

so fuck this liveaction shit, and give me my cartoons, dammit.

Public Service Announcement

As many of y'all know, I sometimes do things that other people might consider bizarre, such as hugging my television after discovering my favorite cable network is showing two of my favorite movies in the same weekend (i.e., this one). So I went online to double-check the schedule, and felt compelled to alert y'all to some classic films coming up on Turner Classic Movies:

(all times Eastern)
Wednesday: The Thin Man and After the Thin Man, coming on at 4:00pm and 6:00pm, and the all-important Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb at 10:30pm.

Friday: Dr. Zhivago at 1:30pm, The Bridge on the River Kwai (which I have never seen) at 5:00pm.

Saturday: In vein of Great Injustices All Over, I have to work from 9-6 on ALFRED HITCHCOCK DAY. Suspicion, Rebecca, Spellbound, Psycho, North by One-Day-I-Will-See-This-Movie-Northwest, etc. etc. etc. going on all day. MOST IMPORTANTLY, the "Essentials" (hosted by Robert Osborne ♥ and Alec Baldwin) for that night at 8:00pm is Notorious, which has come up before as one of my favorite movies ever OH MY GOD WATCH IT.

Sunday: There are going to be Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn movies like Gaslight at 12:15 and the movie Gaslight at 2:15pm and then on the Essentials Jr. at 8:00pm The Philadelphia Story which has also come up as like one of my favorite movies ever DID I MENTION I WAS A SHAMELESS CARY GRANT FANGIRL?

anyway, every Thursday in July they're going to be showing a 1939 movie (best movie year ever UNLESS YOU LIVE IN AUSTRALIA oops) because it's the 70th anniversary of it WOO GONE WITH THE WIND HERE I COME.

and then August is "Summer Under the Stars" and then...I go back to school and pretend TCM doesn't exist for another four months of my life. *cries*