My Weekend + Pott - Casting
Feeling bored and tired today. Took Lissa swimming on Sunday, which tired me out a lot, then fuelled myself up on a full caffetiere of real Qwuaffeee.
This left me feeling completely wired.... (I could insert a John Barrowman line here but I shan't)
I also played some games:
I spent the rest of the day playing through about 8 demos on my PC then made use of an Xbox Live 48 hour trial I have by ripping the guts out of some muscle cars in Juiced 2 and shooting people a lot on Gears of War multiplayer games. Good times.
Will not be buying: Global Conflict: Palestine, Wild Earth: Africa, Prism, Gothic 3, or alas Unreal Tournament 3, which ran like rusted iron through a pasta machine on my, not crap, PC. It also is utterly identical to UT, UT 2003 and UT 2004. which begs the ask of why, when there are 3 previous games is it even called UT3?
and managed to see some films recently which was nice.
Viv and me watched a Fanedited version of the Hills have Eyes 2, which was supposedly much much better than the original, but in fact simply added in the teaser trailer at the start and then cut out the toilet-dwelling dude and some unnecessary exposition from the dying splat-headed Colonel. (Viv told me this afterwards) While the editing was brilliantly done considering what little was there to work from, the edit still didn't manage to fix the fact that the film itself is a limp turd on a stick, with crap writing, moronic unlikable characters and plot-holes you could hide a 9/11 in.
Better then had they just left in the sillyness and cut out anything that resembled character building and made for a proper schlock B-movie.
Also managed to watch Beowulf in 3D! which was a surprising experience, almost as much in how they'd managed to rape the original narrative of the poem but in a fashion that still managed to make it plausible. The 3D aspect was a tad wasted and the novelty wears off during the middle third of the film, where it's barely utilised, but otherwise I'd see the 3D version if you can.
Finally, we watched Big Fish. Which was great, and made me feel both very happy and very sad.
Then heard some HP news;
I notice that there has been some casting news on the latest Harry Potter film. With Bill Nighy as a shoe-in for Rufus Scrimgeour (assuming he's in it at all) and Jim Broadbent signed on as everyone's favourite terrifying limey paedophile Professor Slughorn, there assured of some class acting; and with the regulars all returning it leaves only a slight quandry about who will play Fenrir Greyback........ I hope they know I'm not busy....... ;)
The latest news is that Helen McRory, who was supposed to play Bellatrix LeStrange in Film 5, (but was too pregnant at the time) has now been cast as her sister, Narcissa Malfoy; mother of Draco. An odd choice I thought, seeing as I'd always imagined Cissy as some sort of Patsy Kensit-alike.
Insteat Helen of the Raven-hair will be playing her, suppose they managed with Jason Issac's wig, they can do hers too.
The powers that might be have also cast some 20 year old unknown as the infamous Lavender, ready to lock lips with the unlikely ginger hero Ron at any and all occasions. Presumably they picked someone new as the underager extras most likely held a strike rather than have to risk catching the infamous RED-DEATH from Rupert Grint.
What I am glad, is that they've resisted the urge to recast anyone major. i.e. Ginny. I had a great anguish that the directors would opt to re-cast Bonnie Wright at this point, in favour of some more conventionally attractive Hollyoakite bint. I rather like the fact that Ginny isn't this stunningly attractive girl, (not that she's ugly) but the fact that she is someone who Harry warms to over many years is one of the nicer aspects of the story. Now they just need to portray it convincingly in the film (which I'm wholly dubious about)
And with the actors who've previously portrayed the Patil Twins, Cho Chang, Percy Weasley and Professor Sprout all hoping to return, the universe has a continuation which keeps me happy.
So thats about it folks.
This left me feeling completely wired.... (I could insert a John Barrowman line here but I shan't)
I also played some games:
I spent the rest of the day playing through about 8 demos on my PC then made use of an Xbox Live 48 hour trial I have by ripping the guts out of some muscle cars in Juiced 2 and shooting people a lot on Gears of War multiplayer games. Good times.
Will not be buying: Global Conflict: Palestine, Wild Earth: Africa, Prism, Gothic 3, or alas Unreal Tournament 3, which ran like rusted iron through a pasta machine on my, not crap, PC. It also is utterly identical to UT, UT 2003 and UT 2004. which begs the ask of why, when there are 3 previous games is it even called UT3?
and managed to see some films recently which was nice.
Viv and me watched a Fanedited version of the Hills have Eyes 2, which was supposedly much much better than the original, but in fact simply added in the teaser trailer at the start and then cut out the toilet-dwelling dude and some unnecessary exposition from the dying splat-headed Colonel. (Viv told me this afterwards) While the editing was brilliantly done considering what little was there to work from, the edit still didn't manage to fix the fact that the film itself is a limp turd on a stick, with crap writing, moronic unlikable characters and plot-holes you could hide a 9/11 in.
Better then had they just left in the sillyness and cut out anything that resembled character building and made for a proper schlock B-movie.
Also managed to watch Beowulf in 3D! which was a surprising experience, almost as much in how they'd managed to rape the original narrative of the poem but in a fashion that still managed to make it plausible. The 3D aspect was a tad wasted and the novelty wears off during the middle third of the film, where it's barely utilised, but otherwise I'd see the 3D version if you can.
Finally, we watched Big Fish. Which was great, and made me feel both very happy and very sad.
Then heard some HP news;
I notice that there has been some casting news on the latest Harry Potter film. With Bill Nighy as a shoe-in for Rufus Scrimgeour (assuming he's in it at all) and Jim Broadbent signed on as everyone's favourite terrifying limey paedophile Professor Slughorn, there assured of some class acting; and with the regulars all returning it leaves only a slight quandry about who will play Fenrir Greyback........ I hope they know I'm not busy....... ;)
The latest news is that Helen McRory, who was supposed to play Bellatrix LeStrange in Film 5, (but was too pregnant at the time) has now been cast as her sister, Narcissa Malfoy; mother of Draco. An odd choice I thought, seeing as I'd always imagined Cissy as some sort of Patsy Kensit-alike.
Insteat Helen of the Raven-hair will be playing her, suppose they managed with Jason Issac's wig, they can do hers too.
The powers that might be have also cast some 20 year old unknown as the infamous Lavender, ready to lock lips with the unlikely ginger hero Ron at any and all occasions. Presumably they picked someone new as the underager extras most likely held a strike rather than have to risk catching the infamous RED-DEATH from Rupert Grint.
What I am glad, is that they've resisted the urge to recast anyone major. i.e. Ginny. I had a great anguish that the directors would opt to re-cast Bonnie Wright at this point, in favour of some more conventionally attractive Hollyoakite bint. I rather like the fact that Ginny isn't this stunningly attractive girl, (not that she's ugly) but the fact that she is someone who Harry warms to over many years is one of the nicer aspects of the story. Now they just need to portray it convincingly in the film (which I'm wholly dubious about)
And with the actors who've previously portrayed the Patil Twins, Cho Chang, Percy Weasley and Professor Sprout all hoping to return, the universe has a continuation which keeps me happy.
So thats about it folks.