It's strange that the day Lee brings home an enormous chocolate cake is also the day the least amount of people show up for Wednesday movies. Y'all missed out on chocolate cake! That'll teach you.
Anyhoo we watched the Brothers Grimm instead which I liked for all the fairy tale stuff but seriously disliked for the creepy creepy child kidnappings incorporating magic. The worst was the crow-well-mud-gingerbread man one which seriously squicked me out in exactly the same way as the episode of the Storyteller that I can't watch ever, ever again. (It's called A Story Short and also features people being victimised by magic...I just hate it.) I suspect as I watched it that someone has warned me about it, maybe Luke and Sam at my birthday? I watched those bits through my hands anyway.
I was annoyed by the extreme Gilliamness of it too, which actually got in the way of my enjoyment. He threw in an awful lot of bizarre torture for no good purpose. The story didn't require it at all. Things like instead of being transported in the back of a prison van, they were transported in a prison van inside individual cages that were suspended from the ceiling. Ok, I'm complaining a lot but the film could have done without all the eveil French and weird torture interludes and would have been better for it.
It did have some very funny moments and some very beautiful ones too. I was frustrated by the way the lead female started out really strong and then had her power drained away over the course of the movie. Suffice to say I won't be rewatching this one.
Tonight we've got a meeting with the co-ordinator from the caterers, which should be enlightening. I don't think we've sorted out the stuff they wanted us to such as who will MC and where's our cake coming from? We have finalised the menu and organised a bunch of other stuff though, so that's nice.
Point of Fashion: damp towel on shoulders
Current Obsession: sleeping