Seeker - Dark is Rising Susan Cooper words/ SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIE SPOILERS

[marion11111]

> 
> Alla:
> 
> I would like to bet that you had more fun at your convention than 
> during this movie ;)
> 

marion11111:
We had an Elvis impersonator entertaining us during our Friday night 
banquet.  And guess what, he was better than this film!

 
> Alla:
>  
> Will after reading Book of Gramarye does not get any wiser, no? 
> Isn't that the coolest part after him reading that hidden wisdom 
> comes to him and he becomes such an endearing mixture of old one 
and 
> eleven year old ( I mean fourteen) english ( I mean american) 
> youngest child ( I mean with younger sister) BOY.
> 
> I mean when he switches from thinking about Darkness rising to the 
> food that he is eating and has fun with his family. TOO sweet and 
> hunting too.
> 

marion11111:
Agreed.  One of the best parts for me as a kid reading these was 
when he would suddenly have the look and voice of an Old One and 
then would just as suddenly be excited about a boat or a dog or 
something just like a normal kid.

> > marion11111:
  But anyway, who is the 
> guy in the hoodie?
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> As I said elsewhere, Walker's sudden dissappearance made me think 
> more than anything else that I am in some sort of bizarre dream.
> 
> The only explanation I was able to come up with and this is 
> obviously just a GUESS - that screening audience reacted so badly 
to 
> Walker story that they cut it out completely.
> 

marion11111:
Do you imagine the screening audiences reacted well to what was left 
IN this movie?  Who the heck did they screen to?  I was so bothered 
by the sudden disappearance of someone on the @#$%^! movie poster 
that I looked it up and googled the actor listed as the Walker.  He 
must be really ticked off right now. See this link.  He had a really 
big part. http://www.movieweb.com/news/97/23197.php

This is a little like Rik Mayall being cast as Peeves in the first 
HP movie and then being cut entirely.  But at least he got cut 
before they got this far.  By the way, I just love Rik Mayall and 
have not gotten over this.


> Alla:
> 
> Does it matter? They are ALL the same and there was no underlying 
> connection with the way he received the signs, no nothing, so 
> whatever I did not know which one is which. Bronze? What bronze? 
> Fire? What fire?
> 

marion11111:
I'm thinking we got the stone one - mostly because someone told us 
it was stone and he DID get it by smashing that agate-type necklace 
he bought Gwen.  I see the water one.  I guess the one in the shield 
is wood.  And then we have the bone sign - the one he got out of 
the  skull.  We also seem to have the Chicken Sign. Or maybe it's a 
feather sign. This gets laughable. In any case they all looked like 
they came out of  gumball machine.


> Alla:
> 
> HAHAHAHHA. Indeed. Do you think Rider and his mommy Batilda was 
the 
> funny thing they wanted to do with Rider? Shudders.
> 

marion11111:
yeah, that's right.  wasn't there supposed to be something funny or 
tongue-in-cheek about the Rider?  I'll have to look for that 
interview and see what exactly he did say.