Get you some of this distilled Carduus Benedictus and lay it to your heart.
Soooooo gloomy and rainy today. COULD NOT WAIT to get home and get into my PJs and have a cocktail. Mmmmmmmmm. *snuggles in*
Was inspired by Festivids to rewatch the 1993 Branagh/Thompson movie of Much Ado About Nothing (in fact I really wanted to watch Slings and Arrows--there is a WONDERFUL Slings and Arrows vid in that bunch--but I couldn't decide on an episode; I really just need to watch the whole thing, so I am scratching my Shakespeare itch in other ways). I miss the days when someone was doing Shakespeare movies well, and everyone in this film is so wonderful, except for Keanu, who is hysterically bad. Can you imagine watching him in Hamlet for three hours? Holy crap. I feel so sorry for everyone who was involved in that, Keanu included. (I had a director in college who'd worked with Keanu in Devil's Advocate and he said Keanu was the kind of actor who went around repeatedly reciting his lines with different inflection: "I went to the store. I WENT to the store. I went to the STORE." Oh, honey.)
But this is Branagh and Thompson at their best, and OMG I love Robert Sean Leonard so much. He's so young and earnest in this, with his dazzling, goofy smile, and he manages to make me entirely forget that Claudio is, in fact, a giant toolshed (and never more so than when he was played by my toolshed ex-boyfriend in high school, but never mind that).
So anyway. YAY, I love this movie.
Also, brought to you by the fact that I keep wishing that it were Rachel McAdams playing Hero in this movie (though Kate Beckinsale is very good, in, again, a somewhat thankless role): I finally saw Sherlock Holmes yesterday and BREAKING NEWS: IT WAS AWESOME. Smart and capable people being smart and capable! Banter! Explosions! And all four of them lived together in happy polyamory forever after, right? RIGHT.
P.S. I was thinking about Titus Andronicus the other day, and how troyswann cruelly subjected me to it twice in one year*, and how in the last production we saw, the guy who played Bassianus looked a lot like David Cook. Which I noticed at the time, and appreciated, but wow, I would appreciate that SO MUCH MORE now. David Cook doing Shakespeare. Add that to the list of "Ways Brynn Would Not Mind Dying."
Okay I'm really done now. BYE.
*because I am her monkey and I do what she tells me, and also, FINE, I LIKED IT, EXCEPT FOR HOW IT TRAUMATIZED ME
Was inspired by Festivids to rewatch the 1993 Branagh/Thompson movie of Much Ado About Nothing (in fact I really wanted to watch Slings and Arrows--there is a WONDERFUL Slings and Arrows vid in that bunch--but I couldn't decide on an episode; I really just need to watch the whole thing, so I am scratching my Shakespeare itch in other ways). I miss the days when someone was doing Shakespeare movies well, and everyone in this film is so wonderful, except for Keanu, who is hysterically bad. Can you imagine watching him in Hamlet for three hours? Holy crap. I feel so sorry for everyone who was involved in that, Keanu included. (I had a director in college who'd worked with Keanu in Devil's Advocate and he said Keanu was the kind of actor who went around repeatedly reciting his lines with different inflection: "I went to the store. I WENT to the store. I went to the STORE." Oh, honey.)
But this is Branagh and Thompson at their best, and OMG I love Robert Sean Leonard so much. He's so young and earnest in this, with his dazzling, goofy smile, and he manages to make me entirely forget that Claudio is, in fact, a giant toolshed (and never more so than when he was played by my toolshed ex-boyfriend in high school, but never mind that).
So anyway. YAY, I love this movie.
Also, brought to you by the fact that I keep wishing that it were Rachel McAdams playing Hero in this movie (though Kate Beckinsale is very good, in, again, a somewhat thankless role): I finally saw Sherlock Holmes yesterday and BREAKING NEWS: IT WAS AWESOME. Smart and capable people being smart and capable! Banter! Explosions! And all four of them lived together in happy polyamory forever after, right? RIGHT.
P.S. I was thinking about Titus Andronicus the other day, and how troyswann cruelly subjected me to it twice in one year*, and how in the last production we saw, the guy who played Bassianus looked a lot like David Cook. Which I noticed at the time, and appreciated, but wow, I would appreciate that SO MUCH MORE now. David Cook doing Shakespeare. Add that to the list of "Ways Brynn Would Not Mind Dying."
Okay I'm really done now. BYE.
*because I am her monkey and I do what she tells me, and also, FINE, I LIKED IT, EXCEPT FOR HOW IT TRAUMATIZED ME