"Yes. You're the manwoman."

[moonsheen]

So. Right. Movies watched recently: Pride & Prejudice (the new one), The Libertine, and Stage Beauty.

Pride & Prejudice: Was no Colin Firth but the dude who played Darcy was *~HOT~* and so I am willing to forgive his not being Colin Firth. As well as this movie's not being the miniseries in general. Spent most of film giggling like girl. Possibly

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[themodestotter]

-pushes index fingers together-

I-I want a Mr.Darcy...

[moonsheen]

Oh, don't we all. Socially awkward and brusque? OKAY I CAN HANDLE THAT. JUST STARE BROODINGLY IN MY GENERAL DIRECTION A LITTLE MORE, GOOD SIR.

[themodestotter]

:D

Could... C-could I quote you there? Because you are made of awesome and cool...?

-nervous twittering-

[aerie]

I mostly find Keira Knightley insufferable, but I totally bought the P&P dvd just so I could watch Matthew Macfayden confess in the rain over and over again. (His ~*hot*~ also extends to television roles! He's the lead in the first two seasons of Spooks/MI-5, in which it is proven, by science!, that any given amount of hot can be magnified thousandfold by the addition of SPIES.)

...Stage Beauty's still at the top of my netflix queue! I'm looking forward. But I was a manager at Blockbuster when Libertine first released on dvd and you cannot even imagine the number of casual "is this any good?" questions I awkwardly and utterly failed to answer within the average attention span of 30 seconds. 'Is it good?' uh, yes? 'Will I like it?' Uh, probably not? It is something I appreciated fully and yet never intend to see again.

[moonsheen]

I think that's about the most accurate description of The Libertine I've come across. It's not really an easy movie to explain. "It's good at dying of syphilis"? "It's filmed to look sootier than Silent Hill"? I really do GET what they were trying with it, and I think they succeeded pretty masterfully, but...it's not one to pop in for multiple viewings. Hats off to Johnny Depp for that one, though.

And I thought Keira Knightley was pretty out of place compared to everyone else in P&P, but oh man most of this was indeed eclipsed by the ~*HOT*~ of Darcy... I...may have to look into Spooks.

[sasorion]

Oh, god, Stage Beauty fic! I have been pining for them since I watched it on the plane two (three?) years ago XD.
I love Ned's catty, bratty, diva-ness. It's spot on.

[moonsheen]

I pretty much finished the movie and was horribly crushed to find there was no fic of it anywhere. Why is there no fic anywhere? It has everything! Canon gay! Canon het! Canon in-between! I was just: FINE I'LL DO IT MYSELF. I am very happy someone else recognizes and likes. ♥

[motorbike]

Mmmmmmmmanwoman.

I need to see these movies. Except Pride and Prejudice, which is a lame story. Also Colin Firth is not hot. THERE I SAID IT.

[moonsheen]

my dirty dirty thing for Colin Firth is CALLING YOU OUT DUDE.

Wait, I have a more menacing icon:

[mcspamalot]

OH IT'S SO ON

...I want my stupid stepsister icons back

[moonsheen]

I BITE MY THUMB AT THEE

[wordsofastory]

STAGE BEAUTY = AWESOME. Your fic is really good too; I love the dialouge.

I was really disappointed by The Libertine. I prefer my pretty, self-destructive assholes to be sympathetic!

[moonsheen]

That movie made me go out and finally actually, you know, read Othello. I really, really liked it. And thank you! I... have to admit Kynaston is sort of ridiculously fun to write.

And, yeah, The Libertine really doesn't bother with such pesky little details as, I don't know, making the protagonist particularly redeemable. Which is the point, I know, I know, but GAH.

[wordsofastory]

Heh, yeah. I had that whole speech about stars memorized by the time I got to the end of the movie.

[moonsheen]

...I could pretty much recite most of Desdemona's death scene. Mostly because I just kept watching it from the rehearsal at the end to the big finale over, and over. It'd been a long time since I'd held my breath during the climax of a movie.