Did I really only update twice in the past month? Huh.

Anyway, it's November, and I wanted to update my fall movie to-see list. It's officially Oscarbait season, which means we'll get a lot of treacly schlock mixed with legitimately good movies.

I want to be psyched. I want to look at the fall movie preview and get excited and schedule viewing dates, meeting up with friends and arguing over what to see.

But really? There are only three movies I care at all about seeing this fall: Precious, The Princess and the Frog and New Moon. Only two of those I expect to be *good* movies; New Moon is purely for the LOLZ. I *was* excited to see The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, but Terry Gilliam is dead to me for signing the Free Polanski petition and I don't want to support him financially. (This REALLY irks me because one of my Monty Python DVDs is missing and now I can't replace it!)

I don't know - am I missing something? What good movies are coming out this year?

Oh, and fox1013 alerted me to this.

Filmmakers, why are you trying to destroy our childhood? First you gave Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs a plot, then you gave the Wild Things all these Adult Issues and Angst, and now you're making the Berenstain Bears interact with PEOPLE?!

Where the Wild Things Are was an issue of adults dumping all their issues on a story and projecting their problems through someone else's characters. It made a children's book into a Movie For Adults ABOUT Childhood...wow, deep. I swear, sometimes I really love autism, because I saw that film with my brothers and the best part about it was watching Daniel crack up laughing during the movie's biggest "emotional" scenes.

But now? Now the Berenstain Bears will be a ZANY comedy about bears meeting people...except the entire point is that they live in a society of ONLY BEARS.

Some children's books just aren't meant to be movies, darnit. A kid's book/YA book that WOULD make a good movie? The Westing Game. But nowadays I don't trust anyone to do it right.