[movies: hitchhiker's guide, local hero, the opposite of sex]
the boy and i watched "in the shadow of two gunmen part one" this morning before he went to church, and i spent most of the episode clutching my hands to my chest and squealing "leoooooooo!". i watched s5 concurrently with s6 this spring, the former tivoed off bravo and the latter as it aired on nbc, and the sharp difference between the two is still hanging heavy for me. there were large chunks of s6 that i didn't enjoy, that felt clunky and awkward to me, but for the most part, by the end, they'd gotten it right. the season finale had me searching for sorkin's name somewhere in the credits other than "created by". i have some more things, i think, to say about the end of s6, but those are not for today.
mostly, though, omg leo. watching the early episodes with the end of s6 fresh in my mind, i just want to squeeze leo until he explodes. <3
the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy: first things first: i enjoyed this movie a great deal. i don't think it was particularly good, i don't even think it was a particularly good adaptation - but i think that it retained a great deal of the loopy, surreal adams humor that makes the book(s) so appealing to me, and that was most important. mos def was wonderful. bill nighy as slartibartfast was wonderful. martin freeman was competent and often hilarious. but! i could have done without them trying to force a plot on it. i could have done without them hollywooding it up. and i certainly could have done without all the trillian/arthur heavy-handed crap, because i really spent most of the time she was on screen wanting to punch zooey deschanel in the face. but, um, maybe that was just me. all that said - it wasn't particularly good, it wasn't particularly episodically faithful. but it was funny, adams-funny, and i enjoyed the hell out of it, and isn't that what douglas would have wanted? B
local hero: i have no idea why i thought i needed to see this movie, except that perhaps in my early days of putting together a netflix queue, netflix recommended it and i didn't think that it looked too awful. but seriously, people. it stars burt lancaster. there was no way this could be good. it was cheesy and over-the-top and kind of sweetly entertaining, but not very good. C+
(can i just take this moment to say that i'm really sort of heartbroken that i finished my netflix marathon of movies starring hotass men who used to be on due south? because it was nice, when netflix was delivering ckr and paul into my mailbox twice a week. now it's like ... well, sometimes there's hot, and sometimes there's not.)
opposite of sex: i'd forgotten how much christina ricci's voiceovers in this movie drive me absolutely batshit crazy. but it's such a dark funny comedy, and lisa kudrow has a couple of moments of ultimate perfect hilarity, that i can manage to overlook how much i want to smack ricci's narrator most of the time. and the moments between bill and matt are often so honest and startling that i remember why i love it. B
capping homicide is turning out to be harder than i thought it would be, mostly because so much of the show is so dark - by which i mean the lighting, not even the subject material. regardless, what i've done so far is here; i've cleaned them up the best i could. predictably it's primarily kay and bayliss and pretty baltimore scenery, but feel free to use them for graphics if you want or can, as long as you credit me and don't hotlink. yeah.
mostly, though, omg leo. watching the early episodes with the end of s6 fresh in my mind, i just want to squeeze leo until he explodes. <3
the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy: first things first: i enjoyed this movie a great deal. i don't think it was particularly good, i don't even think it was a particularly good adaptation - but i think that it retained a great deal of the loopy, surreal adams humor that makes the book(s) so appealing to me, and that was most important. mos def was wonderful. bill nighy as slartibartfast was wonderful. martin freeman was competent and often hilarious. but! i could have done without them trying to force a plot on it. i could have done without them hollywooding it up. and i certainly could have done without all the trillian/arthur heavy-handed crap, because i really spent most of the time she was on screen wanting to punch zooey deschanel in the face. but, um, maybe that was just me. all that said - it wasn't particularly good, it wasn't particularly episodically faithful. but it was funny, adams-funny, and i enjoyed the hell out of it, and isn't that what douglas would have wanted? B
local hero: i have no idea why i thought i needed to see this movie, except that perhaps in my early days of putting together a netflix queue, netflix recommended it and i didn't think that it looked too awful. but seriously, people. it stars burt lancaster. there was no way this could be good. it was cheesy and over-the-top and kind of sweetly entertaining, but not very good. C+
(can i just take this moment to say that i'm really sort of heartbroken that i finished my netflix marathon of movies starring hotass men who used to be on due south? because it was nice, when netflix was delivering ckr and paul into my mailbox twice a week. now it's like ... well, sometimes there's hot, and sometimes there's not.)
opposite of sex: i'd forgotten how much christina ricci's voiceovers in this movie drive me absolutely batshit crazy. but it's such a dark funny comedy, and lisa kudrow has a couple of moments of ultimate perfect hilarity, that i can manage to overlook how much i want to smack ricci's narrator most of the time. and the moments between bill and matt are often so honest and startling that i remember why i love it. B
capping homicide is turning out to be harder than i thought it would be, mostly because so much of the show is so dark - by which i mean the lighting, not even the subject material. regardless, what i've done so far is here; i've cleaned them up the best i could. predictably it's primarily kay and bayliss and pretty baltimore scenery, but feel free to use them for graphics if you want or can, as long as you credit me and don't hotlink. yeah.