Just One Of Those Days - Feelin' Like A Freight Train
Ugh: my lips are all chapped and sore from where I've been chewing on them again. Plus I just ate way too many cookies.
Plus, somewhere between walking home from campus and actually getting here, I somehow went from "eager to write and filled with inspiration" to "completely blank of ideas and without motivation to even open up the stupid Word file". Maybe if my beta would get back to me on an earlier part it might help, but at this point I don't even know. I guess I'm just in One Of Those Moods. Blaaaaah.
Last week, as previously mentioned, I saw Watchmen with Dr. Boyfriend and some of our friends, who were all in costume (we had a Hooded Justice, a Rorschach, a Dr. Manhatten and the Minutemen versions of Silk Spectre and Nite Owl). I really, really liked it. It was visually splendid, the soundtrack kept me engaged and titilated, and I thought all the actors were fantastic at bringing their characters to life, sometimes in ways I didn't necessarily predict. Dr. Boyfriend and I both agree that the changed ending is, in some ways, actually better than in the graphic novel...it's certainly tidier, at the very least. I found that I liked best different characters and different parts than I did in the comic, although that may be as much a product of the sheer amount of time that's passed since I read the latter as it is anything. In the end I still prefer the comic overall (well, duh) but the movie was quite enjoyable and I think I would like to see it again.
Really, I think I honestly enjoyed the movie because it was exactly what I had wanted it to be: a slavish fanboy love letter to its source material. I loved the comic. The director and actors loved the comic. How could this possibly go wrong? I'm also very pleased to report that at the midnight premiere showing I went to was completely packed - we had to sit in the third row, and I saw more than a couple people we knew, and overall the audience was very responsive.
Who watches the Watchmen? A hell of a lot of people, that's who. And it's a good thing.
Regardless of whether you enjoyed the movie, are a fan of the comic or even plan on seeing it at all, however, everyone who knows enough about the story and characters of Watchmen to get why the idea of a Saturday morning cartoon based on them is inherantly lolarious needs to watch this flash movie.
It's been linked all up and down my flist already, I know. But on the off-chance someone has still missed it, it needs to be linked again. (Rorschach's "intro" made my jaw drop as I laughed in a mixture of shock and adoration. Oh god, IRONY.)
Also last week I did catch the episodes of Lost, Dollhouse, and Battlestar Galactica. I don't really have much to say about any of them that I mainly liked all of them. Not anything else. I doubt I'll even be making a snarky post about Lost as per usual (sorry vuvarys).
I don't know what's up with me lately that I just have absoltely no inclination towards meta. It could be anything from I'm just tired and drained from other stuff that's going on, to I just don't care enough about the source in either direction to comment. But in short: stuff happened on BSG that blew my mind, stuff happened on Lost that made me smile for a certain character (I'm sure you know the one), and there was dialogue on Dollhouse that really made me smile (I'm more than a little convinced that "blue skies" was supposed to be a self-aware jibe at "five by five", aka "the catch-phrase I never really effin' got". also: bison. HEE).
Over the weekend, Dr. B took me to A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum. Which was fantastic, and hilarious. They had a great cast, and production too.
Oh, and again thanks to Dr. B, as of last night, I have finally seen Labyrinth. All the jokes about David Bowie's penis suddenly make much more sense now.
Plus, somewhere between walking home from campus and actually getting here, I somehow went from "eager to write and filled with inspiration" to "completely blank of ideas and without motivation to even open up the stupid Word file". Maybe if my beta would get back to me on an earlier part it might help, but at this point I don't even know. I guess I'm just in One Of Those Moods. Blaaaaah.
Last week, as previously mentioned, I saw Watchmen with Dr. Boyfriend and some of our friends, who were all in costume (we had a Hooded Justice, a Rorschach, a Dr. Manhatten and the Minutemen versions of Silk Spectre and Nite Owl). I really, really liked it. It was visually splendid, the soundtrack kept me engaged and titilated, and I thought all the actors were fantastic at bringing their characters to life, sometimes in ways I didn't necessarily predict. Dr. Boyfriend and I both agree that the changed ending is, in some ways, actually better than in the graphic novel...it's certainly tidier, at the very least. I found that I liked best different characters and different parts than I did in the comic, although that may be as much a product of the sheer amount of time that's passed since I read the latter as it is anything. In the end I still prefer the comic overall (well, duh) but the movie was quite enjoyable and I think I would like to see it again.
Really, I think I honestly enjoyed the movie because it was exactly what I had wanted it to be: a slavish fanboy love letter to its source material. I loved the comic. The director and actors loved the comic. How could this possibly go wrong? I'm also very pleased to report that at the midnight premiere showing I went to was completely packed - we had to sit in the third row, and I saw more than a couple people we knew, and overall the audience was very responsive.
Who watches the Watchmen? A hell of a lot of people, that's who. And it's a good thing.
Regardless of whether you enjoyed the movie, are a fan of the comic or even plan on seeing it at all, however, everyone who knows enough about the story and characters of Watchmen to get why the idea of a Saturday morning cartoon based on them is inherantly lolarious needs to watch this flash movie.
It's been linked all up and down my flist already, I know. But on the off-chance someone has still missed it, it needs to be linked again. (Rorschach's "intro" made my jaw drop as I laughed in a mixture of shock and adoration. Oh god, IRONY.)
Also last week I did catch the episodes of Lost, Dollhouse, and Battlestar Galactica. I don't really have much to say about any of them that I mainly liked all of them. Not anything else. I doubt I'll even be making a snarky post about Lost as per usual (sorry vuvarys).
I don't know what's up with me lately that I just have absoltely no inclination towards meta. It could be anything from I'm just tired and drained from other stuff that's going on, to I just don't care enough about the source in either direction to comment. But in short: stuff happened on BSG that blew my mind, stuff happened on Lost that made me smile for a certain character (I'm sure you know the one), and there was dialogue on Dollhouse that really made me smile (I'm more than a little convinced that "blue skies" was supposed to be a self-aware jibe at "five by five", aka "the catch-phrase I never really effin' got". also: bison. HEE).
Over the weekend, Dr. B took me to A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum. Which was fantastic, and hilarious. They had a great cast, and production too.
Oh, and again thanks to Dr. B, as of last night, I have finally seen Labyrinth. All the jokes about David Bowie's penis suddenly make much more sense now.