I hear it's like watching a video with a bunch of strangers and a sticky floor. (btvs 5:11)
My weekend was very relaxing!! There was probably too much ice cream and chocolate consumed, and not enough exercising but I’ve decided not to worry about it!! That’s for tomorrow’s cordelianne to deal with.
I’m now completely caught up on Lost and Smallville (I was 3 weeks behind on both shows). I adore my PVR (like a Tivo), but it’s bad in situations when networks (*cough*ABC*cough*) decide that it will be fun for their show to run an extra minute or two. Hello? Who is this fun for, other than advertisers? It screws over everyone who has a Tivo-type machine and people who programme their VCRs to stop at the hour. So my PVR cut off during the final speech of this week’s Lost. Fortunately I was able to quickly find a transcript but it’s still not as cool as actually, I don’t know, seeing the suspenseful ending. This is why I normally try to tape off of CTV (a Canadian station) because they always keep within the proper time so I get to see ALL of the episode. I was just disorganized and grumpy on Wednesday which caused the recording mix-up. /rant
Seeing She’s the Man was definitely one of the highlights of my weekend. Between my 3 other friends and I we laughed throughout the entire movie. Frequently AT the dialogue. In terms of teen movie Shakespeare modernizations, it’s not as smart and well done as 10 Things I Hate About You, but it’s still very fun. I thought Amanda Bynes did a good job of dressing and acting (or trying to act) like a boy. I enjoyed her character’s over-the-top takes on how a boy would act. Her character has some great girl power moments (particularly about not taking crap from her boyfriend), which I thought sent a good message to the pre-teen female audience in attendance.
The character of Duke Orsino is about as lacking in depth as I recall from the play (even though he thinks he really deep - this caused one of my friends to have a lengthy bout of laughter). He is part of a couple of adorable exchanges about cheese that reminded me of Riley and Buffy.
But the best part of the movie? I would say David Cross, who’s very similar to his Tobias role on Arrested Development (ie. cluelessly gay), but I have to say it’s how they used the famous line: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. Because they utilized it SO incorrectly that it was hysterically funny!! They completely took out the sexual connotation, and made it this incredibly hokey and cheesy line. AND, as a result, it didn’t make much sense in the context of the scene. Priceless.
My weekend - bizarrely - ended up having a completely unintentional Amanda Bynes theme because I also watched the series finale of What I Like About You (the tv show Bynes stars in with Jennie Garth). Since I’ve already disclosed that I paid to see She’s the Man, I’m freely admitting to crying during the episode (although I do cry at a lot of things, eg. One of the trailers before She’s the Man got me all teary). The episode had a number of the factors that can almost always make me cry: a wedding, a series finale (with sentimental flashbacks), and a happy ending. Now it becomes clear why I love Anne of Green Gables. Oh, I just remembered that there was a VERY slashy flashback, which I like to think they did just for me.
I love having a friend who’ll call me up just to tell me the Frighteners is on because she knows I’m a big Peter Jackson fan, but haven’t seen the movie yet!!! She also called me a bit into it to see if I’d caught Peter Jackson’s Hitchcockian cameo as a punk guy. Very good movie, by the way, very fun and thrilling in a scary way.
Tomorrow is new 24 AND 2 hours of new Everwood (8pm-10pm on the WB)!! It's been far too long since there was a new Everwood, I'm very glad it'll be back.
I’m now completely caught up on Lost and Smallville (I was 3 weeks behind on both shows). I adore my PVR (like a Tivo), but it’s bad in situations when networks (*cough*ABC*cough*) decide that it will be fun for their show to run an extra minute or two. Hello? Who is this fun for, other than advertisers? It screws over everyone who has a Tivo-type machine and people who programme their VCRs to stop at the hour. So my PVR cut off during the final speech of this week’s Lost. Fortunately I was able to quickly find a transcript but it’s still not as cool as actually, I don’t know, seeing the suspenseful ending. This is why I normally try to tape off of CTV (a Canadian station) because they always keep within the proper time so I get to see ALL of the episode. I was just disorganized and grumpy on Wednesday which caused the recording mix-up. /rant
Seeing She’s the Man was definitely one of the highlights of my weekend. Between my 3 other friends and I we laughed throughout the entire movie. Frequently AT the dialogue. In terms of teen movie Shakespeare modernizations, it’s not as smart and well done as 10 Things I Hate About You, but it’s still very fun. I thought Amanda Bynes did a good job of dressing and acting (or trying to act) like a boy. I enjoyed her character’s over-the-top takes on how a boy would act. Her character has some great girl power moments (particularly about not taking crap from her boyfriend), which I thought sent a good message to the pre-teen female audience in attendance.
The character of Duke Orsino is about as lacking in depth as I recall from the play (even though he thinks he really deep - this caused one of my friends to have a lengthy bout of laughter). He is part of a couple of adorable exchanges about cheese that reminded me of Riley and Buffy.
But the best part of the movie? I would say David Cross, who’s very similar to his Tobias role on Arrested Development (ie. cluelessly gay), but I have to say it’s how they used the famous line: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. Because they utilized it SO incorrectly that it was hysterically funny!! They completely took out the sexual connotation, and made it this incredibly hokey and cheesy line. AND, as a result, it didn’t make much sense in the context of the scene. Priceless.
My weekend - bizarrely - ended up having a completely unintentional Amanda Bynes theme because I also watched the series finale of What I Like About You (the tv show Bynes stars in with Jennie Garth). Since I’ve already disclosed that I paid to see She’s the Man, I’m freely admitting to crying during the episode (although I do cry at a lot of things, eg. One of the trailers before She’s the Man got me all teary). The episode had a number of the factors that can almost always make me cry: a wedding, a series finale (with sentimental flashbacks), and a happy ending. Now it becomes clear why I love Anne of Green Gables. Oh, I just remembered that there was a VERY slashy flashback, which I like to think they did just for me.
I love having a friend who’ll call me up just to tell me the Frighteners is on because she knows I’m a big Peter Jackson fan, but haven’t seen the movie yet!!! She also called me a bit into it to see if I’d caught Peter Jackson’s Hitchcockian cameo as a punk guy. Very good movie, by the way, very fun and thrilling in a scary way.
Tomorrow is new 24 AND 2 hours of new Everwood (8pm-10pm on the WB)!! It's been far too long since there was a new Everwood, I'm very glad it'll be back.