Things to do with movies, with no clever seguing.

After a lot of soulsearching I've become convinced that I will never appreciate anime.

*pauses while sundry friends try to come to terms with this shocking revelation*

Even now a dvd sits on my shelf, waiting forlornly, lent me by a well-meaning friend. 'Look, it's got vampires!' Hopeful look in his eyes.

Just saw 'Kill Bill'. Which seems to be just anime with actors so they can make the blood and gore even more...entertaining? Having said that, I did like the stylistic stuff, the club with the band with the beehives and the jivey dancing, and the way the gang arranged themselves along the upper floor. Also deep appreciation for Uma Thurman in all the scenes where she wasn't blood covered, but then I've had a crush on Uma most of my adult life so not unbiased here. But my opinion overall... Meh. My first reaction when the credits finally rolled was 'Oh thank god.' followed by 'Not even for Uma am I seeing the second one.'


I thought from the promos that I might not love 'The Village' I'm only 2 for 3 in liking M. Night's films, as I inexplicably failed to appreciate 'Unbreakable' despite my intense love for Bruce and Samuel. *shrug* Anyhow, glad to be wrong. Joachim was amazing, so was Ron Howard's kid and The Pianist guy. It was suitably creepy and suspenseful and the twist at the end was twisty. I do have one quibble. ( which I'm lj-cutting because I'm not spoiler!girl. )

But. Very Cool Film.



Ah Clive! *shakes head* Clive, Clive, Clive. What happened? You signed your contract before you read the script? Or were you there for Keira in blue body paint? God knows the rest of us were... If this sounds like I didn't like 'King Arthur' just cos I'm bitching about it, it's just not so. The film was pretty. The countryside, the costumes, and lordy, lordy Keira and Ioan were all pretty. And Clive was Manly. Even the story was reasonably good (not in an excess plotty way) But the script! The script! Not point-and-snigger bad...just damn tedious.

And Ioan? Should play 'The Master' in the new Dr Who series. Or else spend the rest of his life making pirate movies. I'm just saying.

In other news, mr_booboo stopped by tonight to show off in an unbecoming gloatingly way her new fabulous car because she wanted to share some quality time with her friends. We revenged ourselves by inflicting Bunny on her. Our own personal WoMD.

*still sulking*

I'm a little traumatised right now, and too afraid to try to post recs, oh, for the foreseeable future. I'm hoping nearly all of you missed my LJ fuck up and am just going to say -

*meekly* Please go and read Blood Magic, like NOW. It's finally finished. (Though that's only a good thing because now all you strong types who don't read WiP's can read it.) I was all pushy and demanding before but see how well that worked out. Go find it here - gatewaygirl

One foot at a time.

One of the many fics I tried to rec earlier was a creepy fic about Stalker!Colin. But now I can't link addies, so go to mirasfics, which links to her website. And now that I've been there myself. Just wow. Amazing writer. There's an interesting Ginny fic a H/D WiP, and her misc. section has a Spiderman drabble thingy and an original fic about an obsessive fan that creeped me out big time. Read it. Really. Read them all!! *cackles maniacally*