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Too much news coverage of the terrible events in New Orleans. Needed something to try and take the mind off of things. Saw CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY. It was great. Nicely creepy, and fantastical. Also saw THE BROTHERS GRIM. I had real hope for the movie, unfortunately, the hope was not realized. It’s the number two movie at the box office this week, and we contributed to that. I hope others who saw it were happier with the movie than I was. The movie tried to do too much. Action adventure, buddy film, comedy, horror movie. A very ambitious mix for anyone to attempt, and sadly this movie just didn’t pull it off. Very disappointing. So disappointing in their use of fairytales that it pissed me off. I thought, I could do better than that. I had this same sense of anger and frustration years ago about vampires, and then fairies. I got two book series out of the fact that people were just not doing things the way I wanted to read them. Well, I got twelve pages, and the first chapter of a book where fairytales play a role. It’s the first chapter probably of a book at least one, or two down the road from where I’m at now. Twelve pages in a rush of muse driven bitchiness. I can do better, well, then do it. Few things inspire me like seeing something that could have been really good miss the mark. Of course, my take on the whole fairytale has nothing in common with the movie that frustrated me, except that fairytales are involved. You’re supposed to use things as inspirations not rip them off, or regurgitate them on paper. You can be inspired but find your own voice, and your own unique vision. Because that’s what it’s all about. Your own take on an idea that no one else could do.