Yes, I'm still alive.
Oct. 5th, 2005 08:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fan_eluneSo, I've been pretty silent lately, but I've been watching things. Like The Brothers Grimm, wherein Heath Ledger redeemed my faith in his acting skills. While I loved him in A Knight's Tale, let's just say that it was a shock to watch Ned Kelly. But he was pretty good in The Brothers Grimm, and he did a weird thing with his voice now and then, like making it sort of grate or rasp or however you say that, that sometimes vaguely reminded me of Paul Bettany but possibly I'm just obsessed. Anyway. Now that I know Knight wasn't a fluke and he can actually act, I'm all the more looking forward to Brokeback Mountain! As for the film itself, well I wasn't convinced by the whole script, but it was good fun. Monica Belluci was as yummy as ever, there was definite Terry-Gilliamy-iness to it, and Jonathan Pryce I still adore. And Mackenzie Crook (love him!) and Richard Ridings were good surprises too. Heh.
That said, my main annoyance with the script is the kissing stuff at the end. True love? That wasn't true love. For the whole film they go about talking about true fraternal love, and when he has to kiss someone in true love he goes for the girl he barely knows? Puh-lease. And it works. *eyeroll* He should have gone for his brother. I don't mean I wanted incest, not at all. I mean fraternal love, no incest need be involved. That was highly disappointing. (And also, what happened to her father? Why wasn't he brought back? And how come that kiss worked for the brother as well, when he'd actually been killed, and not by magic, unlike the girls?)
We also went and saw Keane, which was... Well, it had never happened to me before to actually want to walk out of a cinema. Not that it was bad. Really not. It's just that I had rather not sit through it. And since we're only just back from it I don't have enough distance from it to say anymore than that.
What else... Oh, yes. Supernatural, the pilot. Jensen Ackles = teh pretty. But apart from that? Well, his brother's cute too, I'll give them that. But, while I have only seen the pilot, it still feels like there isn't much but that to the show. It seems so very... unsurprising.
Oh, and I haven't actually shared my thoughts on the second episode of Lost. Well. Hmm. I love Michael, don't get me wrong. Partly due to Harold Perrineau, who I adored in Romeo + Juliet before worshipping him in Oz. But, well. How pointless were those flashbacks? Exactly? They gave us nothing. Nada, squat, jackshit. Seriously. They brought us nothing in terms of characterisation or plot. What was the point?
That said, I really liked the Michael/Sawyer parts. Not just because Sawyer was there, no, also because of the blaming and recriminations and all-around great characterisation. And I actually liked Kate for once, when she grabbed the chocolate bars. Heh. I waspretty annoyed not at all surprised that JJ managed to still not give us the Jack/Des confrontation. And also? I love Desmond. And Jin! Man, was I glad to see him. And that first glimpse of the other guys. I'm really looking forward to this week's episode, because even JJ can't manage to not give us answers this time around. At least some bits of answers.
And, oh yes, the Alias pilot. Which totally fascinated me, not. I was very much not into it, and that was fairly annoying. But, well, Elodie Bouchez. And Victor Garber, as always. So I'll wait and see.
And, finally, about Serenity. I feel a bit disconnected from it all, since it's not like we here can go and improve the numbers. But while I was at first really annoyed that it wasn't doing that good, I've cheered up since. We shouldn't have had a film to start with, that's a small miracle already. We got to see our Big Damn Heroes once more. I'm gonna stick with being happy about that. Even if we don't get anything more, we'll have had more than Fox let us.What do you mean, the goal wasn't to screw Fox over all along?
That said, my main annoyance with the script is the kissing stuff at the end. True love? That wasn't true love. For the whole film they go about talking about true fraternal love, and when he has to kiss someone in true love he goes for the girl he barely knows? Puh-lease. And it works. *eyeroll* He should have gone for his brother. I don't mean I wanted incest, not at all. I mean fraternal love, no incest need be involved. That was highly disappointing. (And also, what happened to her father? Why wasn't he brought back? And how come that kiss worked for the brother as well, when he'd actually been killed, and not by magic, unlike the girls?)
We also went and saw Keane, which was... Well, it had never happened to me before to actually want to walk out of a cinema. Not that it was bad. Really not. It's just that I had rather not sit through it. And since we're only just back from it I don't have enough distance from it to say anymore than that.
What else... Oh, yes. Supernatural, the pilot. Jensen Ackles = teh pretty. But apart from that? Well, his brother's cute too, I'll give them that. But, while I have only seen the pilot, it still feels like there isn't much but that to the show. It seems so very... unsurprising.
Oh, and I haven't actually shared my thoughts on the second episode of Lost. Well. Hmm. I love Michael, don't get me wrong. Partly due to Harold Perrineau, who I adored in Romeo + Juliet before worshipping him in Oz. But, well. How pointless were those flashbacks? Exactly? They gave us nothing. Nada, squat, jackshit. Seriously. They brought us nothing in terms of characterisation or plot. What was the point?
That said, I really liked the Michael/Sawyer parts. Not just because Sawyer was there, no, also because of the blaming and recriminations and all-around great characterisation. And I actually liked Kate for once, when she grabbed the chocolate bars. Heh. I was
And, oh yes, the Alias pilot. Which totally fascinated me, not. I was very much not into it, and that was fairly annoying. But, well, Elodie Bouchez. And Victor Garber, as always. So I'll wait and see.
And, finally, about Serenity. I feel a bit disconnected from it all, since it's not like we here can go and improve the numbers. But while I was at first really annoyed that it wasn't doing that good, I've cheered up since. We shouldn't have had a film to start with, that's a small miracle already. We got to see our Big Damn Heroes once more. I'm gonna stick with being happy about that. Even if we don't get anything more, we'll have had more than Fox let us.
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Date: 2005-10-05 01:29 pm (UTC)About Lost, I'm not sure I liked the image of the "others", they seemed prehistorical (or whatever), almost running on four hands, and just screaming. Like they don't know what human are. It's not disturbing if they're not the other survivors but if they are it's just weird ^^
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Date: 2005-10-06 07:32 am (UTC)even though "our" survivors clearly couldn't bother that much. I stand by my comment. I like the image. It looks like they actually have a chance at survival, like they actually adapted to the island. I like that idea. What makes you say they don't know what human is?Analucia looks human enough to me... Heh.no subject
Date: 2005-10-06 09:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-07 03:18 pm (UTC)Attention!
Date: 2005-10-06 05:51 am (UTC)In a handful of minutes, two weird links on two LJ of my Friends list.... Grrrr....
Re: Attention!
Date: 2005-10-06 07:31 am (UTC)Re: Attention!
Date: 2005-10-06 07:45 am (UTC)Seems I tend to get protective of people I like. Like, some maternal instinct and.... Huh? What? Noooo!!!! Not that! Argh!!! *totally scared now* ^_^