Much Ado and the Millennium trilogy
I've just been cleaning out the my fridge. Having emptied out four half eaten, now mouldy pots of hummus, I have come to the conclusion that I buy too much hummus.
I think everybody's aware of my epic love of the duo Tennant and Tate (even their names go together well), and yes I desperately want to go see Much Ado About Nothing. Not only has those two doing a romantic comedy been incredibly high on my wish-list for years, it's one of my favourite Shakespeare plays to boot (I suppose it would be Shakespeare that they would do together, since they both seem to be massive Shakespeare dorks). I hope they film it like they did Hamlet. Anyway, I adore those two, so much and good on them for just being able to be able to just decide, 'hey, let's do some Shakespeare together,' and just like that get a West End production happening.
As my parents are huge fans, over the Christmas period I watched the entire Millennium trilogy, which is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl who Kicked the Hornets' Nest. Gritting crime drama isn't really my genre (I'm more a country manor whodunit kind of girl), but I found the movies enthralling, especially the first one. The characters, especially - the titular 'girl', Lisbeth Salander - are quite wonderful. But I found what really endeared the series to me the most is that even with all the violence and corruption, it's strangely optimistic. By the third movie you realise that for every villain, there's also more than one hero - and these heroes aren't rogue vigilantes (well, Lisbeth is, but she's got her very good reasons for not trusting authority), but journalists, police officers and lawyers going about doing their jobs. I've become a huge fan of Noomi Rapace and cannot wait to see the second Sherlock Holmes movie since she'll be in it.
I can't say I'm looking forward to the American adaptation, even with David Fincher attached. I'm sure it'll be amazingly directed, but I think the cast of the original movies will be a hard to follow, and I'm slightly worried some aspects would be changed for an American audience.
I was also given the books for Christmas, but I haven't made any headway into reading them yet to be able to comment (problem is, I know the ending).
And I'm going now to get back to what I've been doing this past week, vidding and working my way through the first series of Stargate SG-1.
I think everybody's aware of my epic love of the duo Tennant and Tate (even their names go together well), and yes I desperately want to go see Much Ado About Nothing. Not only has those two doing a romantic comedy been incredibly high on my wish-list for years, it's one of my favourite Shakespeare plays to boot (I suppose it would be Shakespeare that they would do together, since they both seem to be massive Shakespeare dorks). I hope they film it like they did Hamlet. Anyway, I adore those two, so much and good on them for just being able to be able to just decide, 'hey, let's do some Shakespeare together,' and just like that get a West End production happening.
As my parents are huge fans, over the Christmas period I watched the entire Millennium trilogy, which is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl who Kicked the Hornets' Nest. Gritting crime drama isn't really my genre (I'm more a country manor whodunit kind of girl), but I found the movies enthralling, especially the first one. The characters, especially - the titular 'girl', Lisbeth Salander - are quite wonderful. But I found what really endeared the series to me the most is that even with all the violence and corruption, it's strangely optimistic. By the third movie you realise that for every villain, there's also more than one hero - and these heroes aren't rogue vigilantes (well, Lisbeth is, but she's got her very good reasons for not trusting authority), but journalists, police officers and lawyers going about doing their jobs. I've become a huge fan of Noomi Rapace and cannot wait to see the second Sherlock Holmes movie since she'll be in it.
I can't say I'm looking forward to the American adaptation, even with David Fincher attached. I'm sure it'll be amazingly directed, but I think the cast of the original movies will be a hard to follow, and I'm slightly worried some aspects would be changed for an American audience.
I was also given the books for Christmas, but I haven't made any headway into reading them yet to be able to comment (problem is, I know the ending).
And I'm going now to get back to what I've been doing this past week, vidding and working my way through the first series of Stargate SG-1.