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Post before I leave for Joensuu tomorrow morning. List, because I like lists.
1. Constantine
It truly was one huge anti-smoking ad. Apart from the fact that Keanu sort of made smoking really cool for the first two hours or so. So it did not get that message through very well. It was entertaining enough, overall. We laughed at the clichés and the übersarcastic Constantine and I bet the comic book is so much better, but hey, that's just what happens when you make movies based on comic books.
With the exception of X2, even though sonormalithurts disagrees with me on that one.
Also, I'll gladly go see a movie where Keanu randomly straddles people, breathes heavily and starts muttering in Latin. And the part with the cat! BEST.EVAR.
2. The trailers omg.
Batman Begins - I always thought the title was even more stupid than "Batman Forever", but I'm not letting that distract me. The trailer wasn't anything special, to be completely honest. It had promises of "Oh, this'll be a gloomfest like whoa!" but then it also had Bruce Wayne climbing up some mountains in Tibet or something. Searching for "all the dark places in the world". Uh. Okay. Come to Finland when it's snowless in January. You'll most probably find the dude who killed your parents. Yeah, that's him, right there in the shadows. Having a cold one.
Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith - I'm not saying anything until all those who really don't want to be spoiled fuck off. To play it safe (hightlight if you really want to read - this is about the new theatrical trailer that many of you might've not seen so BEWARE!):
This is the superficial part of me talking but okay, Hayden's hair? Not on. It's like wannabe-prettyboy and it's just.not.on. Curls. Eurgh.
Sorry, had to get that out of my system. Moving on. Maiju (my precious movie company) kept saying, "This might actually be a good film!" during the trailer and I agreed, but it strangely reminded me of when I went to see Episode II with another friend and we kept telling each other "It wasn't that bad, really, it wasn't that bad!". Because, okay, while some moments in Episode II rocked (Yoda fight, anyone?), some sucked balls the size of the Millenium Falcon (love couple on the flower fields, omg so in luv yay! EURGH!). But it was promising in the sense that if they find a balance between the sucky stuff and the cheesiness that belongs to the SW movies (come on, you have to admit it!) and the ubercool stuff, yes, Ep III can be a good movie.
That wasn't so spoilersome, just general blah blah, but this is where it gets REALLY spoilery.
Okay, Yoda&Palpatine (as the oooh scary Emperor) fight omg omg OMFG. If they pull that off, it'll be the best fight ever omg. Also, I hope they can pull off the whole Anakin-falling-to-the-Dark-Side-thing well, because in the trailer he just sort of trailed after Palpatine and was like, "Wow, Dark Side? Really?".
This just came to mind, what the hell was Chewie doing in there? It was like, one minute you're watching some big fight in space and then suddenly there's Chewie making Chewie voices. Whoa, freaky. Not that I don't think it's cool that he's in there (if it fits the story and everything, that is), but it's just strange.
Okay, Padme? Omg so pretty & so tragic. Why turn to the Dark Side when you've got a wife like THAT? Gah, men.
I didn't like Obi-Wan's "But you were the Chosen One!" line, it just didn't fit the trailer, I think. Maybe in a different place, I don't know. But the Obi-Wan&Anakin fight has to be spectacular, right? And believable and just great cinema.
Lucas, you're so filthy rich you probably don't even realize what kind of pressures you truly are under, my man.
3. A few really quick HP fic recs.
Smudged Lenses by sioniann - A story where Draco turns into Harry's glasses. Also features Blaise/Theodore.
Fibonacci by thysanotus - Writing can make Mathematics sexy. Terry Boot/Professor Vector, Terry Boot/Michael Corner.
How the Story Ends by sioniann - Beautiful Neville genfic. Because who doesn't love Neville?
4. Oh, by the way, sioniann, I dreamt about that thing we discussed yesterday AGAIN. Nothing adult-rated, but I still felt mighty dirty when I woke up.
5. What is with people & fluffy het?
6. I don't have much money because Mr Buy-me-America-The-Book-online-I'll-pay-you-back hasn't actually paid me back yet. GAH. Asshole, it's MY America The Book until you pay for it. So stop stroking the Jon Stewart on the cover!
7. Dad taped a show about Bollywood on the Finnish radio for me. Fucking ace. Listening to it tonight.
8. I'll be back on Sunday evening. See you all then.
1. Constantine
It truly was one huge anti-smoking ad. Apart from the fact that Keanu sort of made smoking really cool for the first two hours or so. So it did not get that message through very well. It was entertaining enough, overall. We laughed at the clichés and the übersarcastic Constantine and I bet the comic book is so much better, but hey, that's just what happens when you make movies based on comic books.
With the exception of X2, even though sonormalithurts disagrees with me on that one.
Also, I'll gladly go see a movie where Keanu randomly straddles people, breathes heavily and starts muttering in Latin. And the part with the cat! BEST.EVAR.
2. The trailers omg.
Batman Begins - I always thought the title was even more stupid than "Batman Forever", but I'm not letting that distract me. The trailer wasn't anything special, to be completely honest. It had promises of "Oh, this'll be a gloomfest like whoa!" but then it also had Bruce Wayne climbing up some mountains in Tibet or something. Searching for "all the dark places in the world". Uh. Okay. Come to Finland when it's snowless in January. You'll most probably find the dude who killed your parents. Yeah, that's him, right there in the shadows. Having a cold one.
Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith - I'm not saying anything until all those who really don't want to be spoiled fuck off. To play it safe (hightlight if you really want to read - this is about the new theatrical trailer that many of you might've not seen so BEWARE!):
This is the superficial part of me talking but okay, Hayden's hair? Not on. It's like wannabe-prettyboy and it's just.not.on. Curls. Eurgh.
Sorry, had to get that out of my system. Moving on. Maiju (my precious movie company) kept saying, "This might actually be a good film!" during the trailer and I agreed, but it strangely reminded me of when I went to see Episode II with another friend and we kept telling each other "It wasn't that bad, really, it wasn't that bad!". Because, okay, while some moments in Episode II rocked (Yoda fight, anyone?), some sucked balls the size of the Millenium Falcon (love couple on the flower fields, omg so in luv yay! EURGH!). But it was promising in the sense that if they find a balance between the sucky stuff and the cheesiness that belongs to the SW movies (come on, you have to admit it!) and the ubercool stuff, yes, Ep III can be a good movie.
That wasn't so spoilersome, just general blah blah, but this is where it gets REALLY spoilery.
Okay, Yoda&Palpatine (as the oooh scary Emperor) fight omg omg OMFG. If they pull that off, it'll be the best fight ever omg. Also, I hope they can pull off the whole Anakin-falling-to-the-Dark-Side-thing well, because in the trailer he just sort of trailed after Palpatine and was like, "Wow, Dark Side? Really?".
This just came to mind, what the hell was Chewie doing in there? It was like, one minute you're watching some big fight in space and then suddenly there's Chewie making Chewie voices. Whoa, freaky. Not that I don't think it's cool that he's in there (if it fits the story and everything, that is), but it's just strange.
Okay, Padme? Omg so pretty & so tragic. Why turn to the Dark Side when you've got a wife like THAT? Gah, men.
I didn't like Obi-Wan's "But you were the Chosen One!" line, it just didn't fit the trailer, I think. Maybe in a different place, I don't know. But the Obi-Wan&Anakin fight has to be spectacular, right? And believable and just great cinema.
Lucas, you're so filthy rich you probably don't even realize what kind of pressures you truly are under, my man.
3. A few really quick HP fic recs.
Smudged Lenses by sioniann - A story where Draco turns into Harry's glasses. Also features Blaise/Theodore.
Fibonacci by thysanotus - Writing can make Mathematics sexy. Terry Boot/Professor Vector, Terry Boot/Michael Corner.
How the Story Ends by sioniann - Beautiful Neville genfic. Because who doesn't love Neville?
4. Oh, by the way, sioniann, I dreamt about that thing we discussed yesterday AGAIN. Nothing adult-rated, but I still felt mighty dirty when I woke up.
5. What is with people & fluffy het?
6. I don't have much money because Mr Buy-me-America-The-Book-online-I'll-pay-you-back hasn't actually paid me back yet. GAH. Asshole, it's MY America The Book until you pay for it. So stop stroking the Jon Stewart on the cover!
7. Dad taped a show about Bollywood on the Finnish radio for me. Fucking ace. Listening to it tonight.
8. I'll be back on Sunday evening. See you all then.