i must have a thing for the girlie men

So I went to see Prince Caspian last night. contrary to the Post's review, which seemed to emphasize everything except the magnificent prince himself, I dislike the Pevensie children, their poor acting, poor attitudes, and poor attempts at flirting and/or pretending to be mildly in love with said prince without ever holding an intelligent conversation with him. and I don't like susan's lips. like angelina jolie's. they are not attractive. they are weird. anyway, the film was pretty good, though the dwarf humor was tiresome and the random attempts at divergent personal stories (à la centaur wife) were confusing. and there were a few too many obvious lord of the rings parallels. but of course, we're talking about c.s. lewis here. anyway, I made no joke of it to my parents or anyone else that the real reason to see this movie is the good looks and delectable unplaceable accent of prince caspian. I think my favorite part of the whole movie was Regina Spektor's pure voice and poignant message that trumped anything hollywood could have to say about allegory or god. maybe director adamson knew that Regina had captured the spirit of his film in a way that all of his noble battles and child actors couldn't and let her finish it for him instead of relegating her to the credits no one stays for. here is a Post Style front page blurb that my dad gave me to read. it was too funny and true not to post.

Some of us in the Style section (well, one of us) would like to say something about Prince Caspian's hair, as seen on the head of 26-year-old British actor Ben Barnes in "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian," which opened yesterday, and can also be seen on movie posters pasted up around town and in newspaper ads. What we want to say about his chestnutty, floppy, feathery, David Cassidy-derived hair -- without having to go through the charade of scheduling an interview with the actor and subjecting readers to the many hundreds of words about conditioners and layering that could needlessly result -- is that we think Prince Caspian's hair looks really, really good. Some of us (well, one of us) would give anything to get our hair to do what his does, especially while wearing a suit of armor on horseback during battle scenes and in other on-the-go situations.

We congratulate everyone involved with Prince Caspian's hair.

That is all.