The other night we saw
Troy, which was not nearly as bad as somehow I had expected it to be. I mean, it would have been nice if they'd selected a standard accent to use, so that Odysseus hadn't sounded like he was from Sheffield. :-) And some of the dialogue was kinda stoopid. But I didn't get bored for the nearly 3 hour running time, and there
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It is the invisibility, exactly, that appeals to me.
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This McCoy is still youngish, but I think he's very, very appealing.
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And McCoy is quite appealing as a character. The actor - I like him better scruffy, because he has such a tiny mouth and I think he looks odd clean-shaven.
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I saw Troy on the big screen when it was first released. I went with two like-aged women friends. We had a lovely time ogling the hot, pretty men, and the theater was so sparsely populated that we could entertain ourselves by chatting quietly when the occasional battle scene got just too damn long to hold our interest ( ... )
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Eric Bana doesn't wow me that much, but I liked the character of Hector a whole lot. Meanwhile, Paris was a self-centered idiot, and Achilles an arrogant asshole.
And I'm the opposite of you - I am mostly not interested in the younger versions of the characters I love as adults. (Which is why High School AUs leave me cold - and as someone on my flist pointed out, Reboot is basically Star Trek: High School AU.)
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It occurs to me to wonder, actually, if polling people on whether they consider plot or mood more important in a fic vs. whether they prefer past or present tense might be quite enlightening.
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Must keep an eye out for this.
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But in my count I didn't just pick Kirk/McCoy - I counted all the recs/fic on my flist, which actually had a lot of gen and Spock/Uhura as well. I don't recall any Kirk/Spock but I would be surprised if there wasn't some.
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