remembrance
Last night was spent in good company. My confession - yesterday was a bad day for me in depression terms. A complete lack of alcohol and inability to express without being a downer didn't help particularly as I hadn't seen either elrohana or her beloved this year and it's likely that this was going to be the only chance I'll see them this year barring outrageous good fortune.
As you do, whenever you're having a bad day, you work on containment. So I spent yesterday watching movies & TV shows, not eating too much and managing the metaphorical dog. Steeled up for the evening and it was nice if a bit larp widowy.
Movie: The Incredible Hulk (2008).
Surprisingly good but... ah I gotta do spoilers to explain this. Don't click the cut unless you've seen it already.
Nice touches: The cameos and name checking implied another two movies alone which given the quality of this movie is a good sign. Edward Norton played the best Bruce Banner I've seen (determined, resourceful, struggling with his Portuguese for comedy value). John Hurt turned in an understated but effective performance as General T. Ross and Tim Roth as the 'up for it' Emil Blonsky (a better origin than . Even Liv Tyler did angry (which is the big issue with any Hulk movie). I like the cut of Roth's gib in this one, if they ever do a British 'hard bastard' buddy movie, pair him up with Sean Pertwee and let them rip. The Supersoldier references (and if they do Cap like they did the first Blonsky/Hulk fight it's going to be interesting) and Hulk using debris as a shield to reference Captain America wonderfully. And the 'Days Without Incident' clock was a nice touch. And Tony Stark, you dark horse you...
What could be better: The Hulk/Abomination fight had dialogue from Hulk when he'd been previously going RAAAAGHHH!! for nearly all of the movie. 'HULK SMASH!' is iconic dialogue but feel free to use it earlier. A little more intelligence is good but changing direction right at the end is a bit, erm, inconsistent surely. If they'd paced it a little more like the bottling plant fight, it would have been a stronger film.
My condolences to caersidi , padfoot_uk , fallenseraph & theo1 on the loss of their friend, marvo. They say that grieving is for the living and you all have your journeys to go on. If there is anything I can do, let me know.
Now my dad has discovered Skype (only a year after I gave him the software). Should I be afraid?
As you do, whenever you're having a bad day, you work on containment. So I spent yesterday watching movies & TV shows, not eating too much and managing the metaphorical dog. Steeled up for the evening and it was nice if a bit larp widowy.
Movie: The Incredible Hulk (2008).
Surprisingly good but... ah I gotta do spoilers to explain this. Don't click the cut unless you've seen it already.
Nice touches: The cameos and name checking implied another two movies alone which given the quality of this movie is a good sign. Edward Norton played the best Bruce Banner I've seen (determined, resourceful, struggling with his Portuguese for comedy value). John Hurt turned in an understated but effective performance as General T. Ross and Tim Roth as the 'up for it' Emil Blonsky (a better origin than . Even Liv Tyler did angry (which is the big issue with any Hulk movie). I like the cut of Roth's gib in this one, if they ever do a British 'hard bastard' buddy movie, pair him up with Sean Pertwee and let them rip. The Supersoldier references (and if they do Cap like they did the first Blonsky/Hulk fight it's going to be interesting) and Hulk using debris as a shield to reference Captain America wonderfully. And the 'Days Without Incident' clock was a nice touch. And Tony Stark, you dark horse you...
What could be better: The Hulk/Abomination fight had dialogue from Hulk when he'd been previously going RAAAAGHHH!! for nearly all of the movie. 'HULK SMASH!' is iconic dialogue but feel free to use it earlier. A little more intelligence is good but changing direction right at the end is a bit, erm, inconsistent surely. If they'd paced it a little more like the bottling plant fight, it would have been a stronger film.
My condolences to caersidi , padfoot_uk , fallenseraph & theo1 on the loss of their friend, marvo. They say that grieving is for the living and you all have your journeys to go on. If there is anything I can do, let me know.
Now my dad has discovered Skype (only a year after I gave him the software). Should I be afraid?