Things to do with movies, with no clever seguing.

[sarren]

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. Ivy got really lucky running into that treestump. I can believe that once. Getting that lucky twice? Running into someone who would go 'Hey, here's a confused blind kid in distress who needs vital medication, I'm not, though I am in a position of responsibility, going to take here to relevant authorities/medical personnel. Instead I am going to leave her alone on the deserted road while I go and behave in a loitery and suspicious manner in front of my boss and the reflective surfaces.' And it would have been so easy to make that situation work: have M. Night be In the Know. The Kid relays news of girl's story. M. Night gets out there with the medicine, sends boy off with a timely pat on the ass, assuring him he will get the girl some *wink* help (read: the men in white coats) and then discreetly throws her back when the Kid's gone. 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.

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[cricketk.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

You know that thing where you say "I hate fruitcake" and all the fruit cake fans say "Just try this one. It's different and yummy-delicious". And you make a face, but they nag and nag and you eventually give in to find that ... it's ffuitcake and you don't like it.

I so want to rec anime things at you at the moment, but I have been traumatised enough times by fruitcake that I'm breathing deeply and letting the moment pass.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

YES!!

goddam fruitcake reccers

The one the bloodbank gives you isn't bad though, probably cos it 's just yellow foodcolouring, sultanas, sugar and flour *g*

...but we weren't really talking about fruitcake, were we.....

*whistles tunelessly*