narnia:

su-lin disapproved vehemently of the narnia trailer, but i was interested enough by the weta production interview that i thought i would have a look anyway. i am sorry to say that she is perfectly right about the plasticky look of the set and about the mis-cast lucy. actually none of the children look right for their parts. peter was passable, i suppose, but the others were rather vacuous and unpolished. and in additon i object to the white witch, who ought to bear some resemblance to the snow queen but was without majesty, without seductiveness, without icy contempt. i am particular about my snow queens.

hitchhiker's:

when i said we should all go when yen was here von the idiot boy forbade me from going because he says no good can come of much-hyped adaptations. i asked him twice and twice he said this. then a day ago he queried my not having been to see it, whereupon it emerges that he had not only seen it but enjoyed it tremendously, having forgotten completely his injunction. don't ask why i bother listening to him. occasionally some good comes of it. yu zhe qian lv bi you yi de, as the proverb goes.