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Mostly for the world building and the special effects and the characters. I thought the plot was ordinary and the fighting scenes interested me not at all.

( A few things )

Check out Colin Firth's new movie!!!

I am still psyching myself up to get stuck into my last big assignment, due 8am Monday*. Then I have two weeks to prep for exams. We all know how that's going to go, right?

I still have stuff to get out my system. I have answered emails, read my flist and now I have to talk about Hancock.



I almost randomly acquired this film, it having come and gone at the cinemas without me noticing. I have a vague recollection that people found it disappointing. It's not a perfect film by any means, but it does a lot of things damn well, and I loved it!!!!

Trailer

Two awesome fics by Resonant


Hee! I almost revised my Yuletide sign up AGAIN, but I checked and it already has 5 requests and 18 volunteers, so it's popular enough already. Yays!!!




*technically 5pm yesterday. Whatever

Iron Man is FUCKING AWESOME.



When did 'the bit at the end of the credits' start getting called the Easter Egg? That's new to me, not that I'm ever at the forefront of these things anyway. Someone shouted it out when the bit at the end of the credits started at the end of Iron Man tonight, and then I just saw it referred to in angriest's post.

yuletide is kicking my ass this year. I hate to think about how long it's taken me to write 1400 words, and I totally don't have any middle to my story at all.


Apparently, however I can write 700 word comment fic in an hour if someone tells me to, and if it's in one the most obscure fandoms ever, and oh yeah, writing's fun! I forgot that.


Anyone want to come over to my house and watch Let's Go to Prison?

Trailer

Conversation in a cell

End credits, just cos I like them

Watched a film I'd never heard of last night, Stranger Than Fiction, starring Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhal, Dustin Hoffman and Queen Latifa.

Will Ferrell in a dramatic role - wait! Don't leave! It was lovely! Also, Emma Thompson is always awesome.

How much do I love War of the Worlds?

...anyone who badmouths it before the high wears off to my face gets bitchslapped.

Actually, not really. I just love the word 'bitchslap' and really don't have enough opportunities to use it.

However, War of the Worlds unbelievably good.

( Annoying bit, sort of spoilerish )

And here's something I never thought I would say... Tom Cruise was brilliant.

Go see it. Really.


Edited to add

I originally typed in that the film was 'nearly perfect' but then I imagined the scorn that would be heaped on me and was afraid. But now I have Jody at my shoulder doing the 'this close' gesture with her thumb and forefinger and now that I have back up *is brave*

War of the Worlds is *nearly* perfect.

*holds head high*

*runs away and hides*

"OH GOD SHOOT IT! SHOOT IT!"

That's me quoting me, not the film, since I said this a great many times while watching this for the first time tonight. I say, 'for the first time', because on returning to the menu at the end of the film, I discovered the clearly labelled Extended Version. And hit play, obviously.

This is a rockin' film. To sum up in two major points in no particular order of importance.

1. It has Aliens. And Predators. And they fight each other, quite a bit.

2. It has a black woman in the lead role. And she kicks ass in a reasonably credible manner given that she's, you know, a bit outclassed in terms of size, weight, number and sharpness of teeth and other pointy bits, and also has no guns.

**And on a purely personal note, it has that gorgeous black guy from the Bond films, (well for a while) who makes me melt.

I nearly got Dragonfly to post something today!!! She was sitting in my computer chair doing nothing much and I said 'I'm going to hang out the washing and then going to the shops for food...and you have all these interesting anecdotes like how your credit card was hijacked and used in America, Bunny's new interesting facial scar, fluffing chickens...'

Much nagging in point of fact.


So then as I'm coming inside from hanging out the washing I thoughtlessly say, 'hey wanna come for a ride to the shops' not realising that Dragonfly was five whole lines into a post Then it was like watching the Road Runner in action, a blur of speed, a dust stir and there she was, waiting by the front door, keys in hand.

*shrug*


There are times when I watch a movie and don't react with extreme love (or, occasionally, hate). The Bourne Identity for example. Maybe I'd have liked it better if it had been Colin Firth or Hugh Grant or Christian Bale playing the lead...

...which brings me to 'Bridget Jones Edge of Reason'. Laughed, squirmed, laughed til I nearly fell off my seat and had to apologise to the lady sitting in front of me after the film. MASSIVE LOVE for Mark Darcy. HUGE. Also for Bridget. And Rebecca. And I would definitely have shagged Daniel Cleaver in Thailand. Hugh Grant played him fabulously, with a minimum of his trademark facial grimaces and a gorgeous deep tan showed of by white linen shirt....okay now I'm thinking about Colin Firth, in see-through white linen shirts, soaking wet...

Annyywway.


Also, 'Equilibrium'. Christian Bale film. And Christian Bale is pumped and martial-arty and the top ranking 'cleric' (law enforcers) and Sean Bean is his partner (for about 12 seconds) Also William Fichtner, who I have a thing for is a resistance leader. So I got this film for my birthday from Jody and looked at it, saw a scifi film that I'd never heard of and forgot all about it. Until Jody came over this week and made me watch it and OMG it ROCKS. It's dark.