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Hello! How are we all. I'm on holidays and I'm kinda bored already you guys lol. I'm off until the 27th of July when school starts up again and I've spent the last few days doing nothing, which has been wonderful but, you know, uneventful, because it's nothing. I have a big backlog of DVDs that I haven't watched yet (some of them I got last Christmas!) so I'm starting on that - I'm 6 eps into the second season of Numb3rs, which I love to bits because it's Numb3rs. It has all this crime but it still has so much heart and banter and it's just awesome. Anyway, along with the rest of that I have the second season of ER, the first season of The Office UK, and a bunch of movies (The Dark Knight, 3:10 To Yuma and Gladiator which I've seen and the Underworld trilogy I won in a contest that I haven't seen along with Stay). Which should I watch first? TDK? I think I'll bust out TDK this weekend. I love Bale.
Speaking of movies, I saw the first Harry Potter movie in the cinema last weekend because Hoyts is playing all the previous films. I forgot how much I hated Hermione in the first film! I think it's because during high school I knew so many girls just like her - show offs that are obsessed with being better than anyone partly due to perfectionism and partly due to, well, meanness. Near the end when she's all 'there's more important things than books and cleverness", my friend Heather and I looked at each other and agreed that in real life those kinds of girls really don't think anything is more important than cleverness. Besides not getting expelled. Also everyone in that film looks 5.
Still on movies! I did a picspam of the Time Traveler's Wife trailer on _drivingblind the other day and one or two things lily_268 pondered caught my eye. So I will mention in the interests of going back and fact-checking when the movie comes out:
Images lazily yanked from my own picspam.
One: That ain't 1991 dawg
Firstly, how pretty is this scene? This is (one of) my favourite scene(s) from the trailer (my favourite scenes are actually the little out-of-context ones, like the gazebo and the one in my icon). Anyway, when I was going through the book I decided to do some fact-checking. One, in this scene Henry is 28 and Clare is 20, which checks out because they both look their ages more or less. Secondly, besides her outfit, everything described in the scene is pictured pretty soundly - the reason I picked that first cap versus a prettier one is because you can see Rachel pulling something off her eyes, and in the book Henry ties his tie around her eyes and makes her count to a thousand so he can clean up his apartment. Third thing, though, is what got me - this scene in the book is set in 1991.
Now, to be fair, I was 2 in 1991, but I have seen photos of 1991-ness thanks to it being my bro's birth year and in 1991 I don't think anyone had hair like Clare does. I mean, if you look at the library scene in the trailer you could kind of buy it being mid-90's? Maybe? But not 1991. I'm almost wondering if they're going to either not mention dates and leave it up to the viewer, or up-date it and make this 'first' meeting be a little later.
Also, does anyone recognize the poster thing Henry has behind his sofa thing? Is that something obvious I am missing?
Two: it's not pretty! It's deadly!
Fun stuff: there are many people rollin' with icons of this scene treating it like it's something pretty or just a nice moment where they're professing their love for one another. I have a problem with that. They're crying! And there's fireworks! This was the only vague scene I was kinda certain of when I was matching quotes to caps: this has to be just before Henry time travels to where he dies, yeah? I mean his feet are conveniently covered. Granted, in the book he time-jumps just before the fireworks, but I'm still pretty confident that this is them saying goodbye before he time-jumps for the final time.
Also, you know what amuses me? IRL, Bana is 40. Henry dies at 43. His hair in this scene looks like his hair when he was promoting Love The Beast in Oz earlier this year, wherein he looked waaay more grey than he actually is. He looks good for his age thus they had to grey up his hair to age him 3 years LOL. (This is his actual non-grey state).
Three: cause meadows are prettier than museums, apparently
Lily made a very good point in speculating that this scene could be the one right after he sees Alba at the museum in the book, wherein he has been dead for five years already and Clare goes to meet him only for him to time-jump at the last second. I mean, they do catch each other in the trailer scene enough to do a bit of emotional chit-chat before he jumps off, but I'm pretty sure she's right. I'm thinking they'll bookend the movie that way - open with Henry meeting six-year-old Clare and finish with him meeting older Clare after his death in her present in that same meadow. And then the 82-year-old scene to end if they go that way.
Speaking of Time Traveler's Wife, I completely forgot about these set pics that surfaced last September, when the movie was actually meant to come out. I like that Rach and Bana are obviously friends. That one of them high-fiving is adorable, and he holds the door open for her! (Note to self: STOP SHIPPING HE'S MARRIED lol). The wedding dress is really pretty. You all may have to put up with my TTW obsession for a little while. It's been a bit since I was excited about anything like I am about this, probably since Heroes was in it's first season. Oh movie, how I love you.
One more thing because it reminded me of David: Emmy comedy roundtable where the five girls up for comedy Emmys talk about their shows and acting and Tina Fey on heroin. Finally, you know what's strange? Facebook. Facebook is strange. I don't get Facebook. That is all :D
Speaking of movies, I saw the first Harry Potter movie in the cinema last weekend because Hoyts is playing all the previous films. I forgot how much I hated Hermione in the first film! I think it's because during high school I knew so many girls just like her - show offs that are obsessed with being better than anyone partly due to perfectionism and partly due to, well, meanness. Near the end when she's all 'there's more important things than books and cleverness", my friend Heather and I looked at each other and agreed that in real life those kinds of girls really don't think anything is more important than cleverness. Besides not getting expelled. Also everyone in that film looks 5.
Still on movies! I did a picspam of the Time Traveler's Wife trailer on _drivingblind the other day and one or two things lily_268 pondered caught my eye. So I will mention in the interests of going back and fact-checking when the movie comes out:
Images lazily yanked from my own picspam.
One: That ain't 1991 dawg
Firstly, how pretty is this scene? This is (one of) my favourite scene(s) from the trailer (my favourite scenes are actually the little out-of-context ones, like the gazebo and the one in my icon). Anyway, when I was going through the book I decided to do some fact-checking. One, in this scene Henry is 28 and Clare is 20, which checks out because they both look their ages more or less. Secondly, besides her outfit, everything described in the scene is pictured pretty soundly - the reason I picked that first cap versus a prettier one is because you can see Rachel pulling something off her eyes, and in the book Henry ties his tie around her eyes and makes her count to a thousand so he can clean up his apartment. Third thing, though, is what got me - this scene in the book is set in 1991.
Now, to be fair, I was 2 in 1991, but I have seen photos of 1991-ness thanks to it being my bro's birth year and in 1991 I don't think anyone had hair like Clare does. I mean, if you look at the library scene in the trailer you could kind of buy it being mid-90's? Maybe? But not 1991. I'm almost wondering if they're going to either not mention dates and leave it up to the viewer, or up-date it and make this 'first' meeting be a little later.
Also, does anyone recognize the poster thing Henry has behind his sofa thing? Is that something obvious I am missing?
Two: it's not pretty! It's deadly!
Fun stuff: there are many people rollin' with icons of this scene treating it like it's something pretty or just a nice moment where they're professing their love for one another. I have a problem with that. They're crying! And there's fireworks! This was the only vague scene I was kinda certain of when I was matching quotes to caps: this has to be just before Henry time travels to where he dies, yeah? I mean his feet are conveniently covered. Granted, in the book he time-jumps just before the fireworks, but I'm still pretty confident that this is them saying goodbye before he time-jumps for the final time.
Also, you know what amuses me? IRL, Bana is 40. Henry dies at 43. His hair in this scene looks like his hair when he was promoting Love The Beast in Oz earlier this year, wherein he looked waaay more grey than he actually is. He looks good for his age thus they had to grey up his hair to age him 3 years LOL. (This is his actual non-grey state).
Three: cause meadows are prettier than museums, apparently
Lily made a very good point in speculating that this scene could be the one right after he sees Alba at the museum in the book, wherein he has been dead for five years already and Clare goes to meet him only for him to time-jump at the last second. I mean, they do catch each other in the trailer scene enough to do a bit of emotional chit-chat before he jumps off, but I'm pretty sure she's right. I'm thinking they'll bookend the movie that way - open with Henry meeting six-year-old Clare and finish with him meeting older Clare after his death in her present in that same meadow. And then the 82-year-old scene to end if they go that way.
Speaking of Time Traveler's Wife, I completely forgot about these set pics that surfaced last September, when the movie was actually meant to come out. I like that Rach and Bana are obviously friends. That one of them high-fiving is adorable, and he holds the door open for her! (Note to self: STOP SHIPPING HE'S MARRIED lol). The wedding dress is really pretty. You all may have to put up with my TTW obsession for a little while. It's been a bit since I was excited about anything like I am about this, probably since Heroes was in it's first season. Oh movie, how I love you.
One more thing because it reminded me of David: Emmy comedy roundtable where the five girls up for comedy Emmys talk about their shows and acting and Tina Fey on heroin. Finally, you know what's strange? Facebook. Facebook is strange. I don't get Facebook. That is all :D