Sunt Lacrimae Rerum

John Scalzi on an upcoming Gulliver's Travels film: "This film fills the "We are logy with 40,000 calories of holiday feast and now want to daze dumbly at a movie screen" slot for the holiday season; there's nothing about the film that does not say "cheerfully stupid" to me."

From where I sit, anything relating to Swift that could be considered "cheerful" (except from an extremely black humour perspective, in which case, sure, I'll grant at least the Partridge papers and A Modest Proposal) is So Wrong that it's not worth even considering going to see, or even buying on discounted DVD.

There was a film of Tristram Shandy a few years ago: I wonder what a film of A Tale of A Tub would be like...