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Gosh, I thought there were some kind of fireworks going on but apparently there's a thunderstorm coming. Well, they did say the weather was going to change tonight..
The 16th Lund International Fantastic Film Festival started yesterday, and I went and watched Scott Pilgrim vs. the World with T. It's always so much more fun to watch those kinds of films with the fff people, the audience really loved the film and laughed and applauded when they wanted.I've just read the first tome of the comic/manga but I enjoyed the film a lot, and think it managed to mix the genres and use the video game graphics brilliantly. Of course I loved Wallace, but he kind of disappeared in the last part of the film. I need to get the other books in the series. The cast felt very close to the comic, and all the evil exes where great. Yet I do wish that Ramona Flowers had a bit more of a voice of her own, she never really became a strong character and she has such potential. Knives felt much more alive than Ramona in the film, and I'd really like to read the reast of the comics so I can compare the source with the film.
Hm. Anyway, I'm finally going to be able to watch Luc Besson's The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec on Wednesday, which I'm don't have great expectations about quality wise, yet the trailer was so steam-punky and fun that I hope it will entertain, and it has Paris, mummies and a Pterodactyl!! And hopefully they haven't destroyed the coolness of Adèle too much. She's one tough character in the Tardi comics.
Then I might watch Sean Bean in Black Death on Monday, just because it sound like such a bloody terrible film. Haven't really found any other films in the program that I MUST watch.
In TV watching, my sister and I rather enjoyed the first ep of Hawaii 5-0, even if it wasn't the best show ever. But the guys were pretty, which they kind of unfortunately weren't in Nikita, which we also watched. In Nikita the women were gorgeous, but they had totally mis-cast Michael and the über-boss whose name I never remember. I did enjoy the story though, so will keep watching sans guy-candy. Writing that, Aaron Stanford as Birkoff wasn't that bad actually. Pyro!! Mostly Nikita made me want to re-watch the French original Nikita, and even the tv series La femme Nikita with Peta Wilson - and yet again moan over how much better Peta Wilson would have been as Eowyn in LotR than weepy Miranda Otto. Also, very tellingly my sister and I have completely different favourites in the original Nikita, even if we're both of course very fond of Jean Reno as Victor the Cleaner - for me it's very much Jean-Hugh Anglade as Niktita's clueless boyfriend who's the typically cute French guy with a big nose, and my sister completely preferred Tchéky Karyo as the original mentor (Michael in the tv series, but he's called something else in the original film). When it comes to the best Nikita I just don't know. Anne Parillaud is pretty great, but I liked Peta Wilson a lot. And I think Maggie Q has a good chance to do something with her version. So we can just wait and see.
Also, as someone on the f-list said, Nikita is one of the VERY few new shows that actually make the Bechdel test, it has at least four important female characters, who actually talk with each other, and about something else than the men in the series. Wow. Always amazing when that actually happens. So, also as someone else on the list said, the show will probably be canceled after the first season.. too bad!!!
The 16th Lund International Fantastic Film Festival started yesterday, and I went and watched Scott Pilgrim vs. the World with T. It's always so much more fun to watch those kinds of films with the fff people, the audience really loved the film and laughed and applauded when they wanted.I've just read the first tome of the comic/manga but I enjoyed the film a lot, and think it managed to mix the genres and use the video game graphics brilliantly. Of course I loved Wallace, but he kind of disappeared in the last part of the film. I need to get the other books in the series. The cast felt very close to the comic, and all the evil exes where great. Yet I do wish that Ramona Flowers had a bit more of a voice of her own, she never really became a strong character and she has such potential. Knives felt much more alive than Ramona in the film, and I'd really like to read the reast of the comics so I can compare the source with the film.
Hm. Anyway, I'm finally going to be able to watch Luc Besson's The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec on Wednesday, which I'm don't have great expectations about quality wise, yet the trailer was so steam-punky and fun that I hope it will entertain, and it has Paris, mummies and a Pterodactyl!! And hopefully they haven't destroyed the coolness of Adèle too much. She's one tough character in the Tardi comics.
Then I might watch Sean Bean in Black Death on Monday, just because it sound like such a bloody terrible film. Haven't really found any other films in the program that I MUST watch.
In TV watching, my sister and I rather enjoyed the first ep of Hawaii 5-0, even if it wasn't the best show ever. But the guys were pretty, which they kind of unfortunately weren't in Nikita, which we also watched. In Nikita the women were gorgeous, but they had totally mis-cast Michael and the über-boss whose name I never remember. I did enjoy the story though, so will keep watching sans guy-candy. Writing that, Aaron Stanford as Birkoff wasn't that bad actually. Pyro!! Mostly Nikita made me want to re-watch the French original Nikita, and even the tv series La femme Nikita with Peta Wilson - and yet again moan over how much better Peta Wilson would have been as Eowyn in LotR than weepy Miranda Otto. Also, very tellingly my sister and I have completely different favourites in the original Nikita, even if we're both of course very fond of Jean Reno as Victor the Cleaner - for me it's very much Jean-Hugh Anglade as Niktita's clueless boyfriend who's the typically cute French guy with a big nose, and my sister completely preferred Tchéky Karyo as the original mentor (Michael in the tv series, but he's called something else in the original film). When it comes to the best Nikita I just don't know. Anne Parillaud is pretty great, but I liked Peta Wilson a lot. And I think Maggie Q has a good chance to do something with her version. So we can just wait and see.
Also, as someone on the f-list said, Nikita is one of the VERY few new shows that actually make the Bechdel test, it has at least four important female characters, who actually talk with each other, and about something else than the men in the series. Wow. Always amazing when that actually happens. So, also as someone else on the list said, the show will probably be canceled after the first season.. too bad!!!