Sent out half a dozen queries to agents with a shiny new query letter yesterday, expecting to have a relaxed weekend working on the current project, but I've already had a partial request from someone I expected to cut me dead, and a form rejection from someone I was actually quite hopeful about, and I am all jangly with nerves and it's only just ( Read more... )

Movies: To conclude our merry traipsing through the Aliens franchise, obviously we also needed to rewatch Alien: Resurrection. This took on a whole additional layer of analysis when the opening credits flashed up "Written by Joss Whedon", and I inhaled my dinner. (No, I hadn't known that before. I'm not a Whedonite, remember?) ( A:R is the rough draft of Firefly? )

Hmm, Prometheus. HMM. I just do not know about this shit. Which is sad, because you had some magnificent actors delivering really interesting characters, and there were three just damn splendid scenes (all, interestingly enough, featuring Charlize Theron - that girl is on fire). But you do appreciate that science is sort of painstaking and ( Read more... )

Went to see Snow White and the Huntsman. Good lord, that was rubbish.

Charlize was splendid; she did magnificently well with the scenery-chewing given to her, and basically 95% of everything good about the movie was related to her and her character. (Oh Ravenna. You made my heart beat frantic origin-of-the-dark-queen inspiration, and your magic ( Read more... )

Finally saw The Avengers. (Despite it coming out a week earlier than the US here, my mother arrived the day before, and she is not into that sort of thing, and I didn't want to abandon her for three hours to see it. I was pretty confident it would still be around when her visit ended. And lo ( Read more... )

Went to see Crazy, Stupid, Love last night, which was definitely as good as it looked from the trailer, possibly even better. I thoroughly enjoyed it, though sadly I don't think my life will ever provide good opportunities for using lines like, "I don't want your slutty money." I was impressed with its subtlety of elements - a prime example being ( Read more... )

Went to see Real Steel on the weekend, aka One Must Fall, the movie, which is what I've been calling it since we saw the first trailer. And I stand by it, because sure, the fighting robots weren't 80 feet tall and the movie was more actual boxing versus the game's street-fighting (points for realism), but the statue of the robot outside the arena ( Read more... )

Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters. Starring Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton in the title roles. I thought I was hallucinating this, but no, it's actually on IMDB as a real movie that will exist. AND I QUOTE: "the story of the grown up Hansel and Gretel, and they have some unresolved issues from childhood. The two are now professional bounty hunters ( Read more... )

It's not so much the number of movies I saw this weekend - though four in a three-day stretch is something even we haven't done in a while - but more the wide variety we managed to achieve within that limited number that impresses me. From the top (references, but no actual spoilers):

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Gosh, Fassbender was good.

(We managed to see it after all, because we are dedicated fans and hoyts is actually quite reasonable.)

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