Hairpieces and honour
To prove that I don’t just talk about TV, the films I’ve seen so far this year are:
American Hustle, which was entertaining, but too long, and as with The Silver Linings Playbook, I’m a bit unconvinced about ALL the award nominations it’s getting/might get, though the music supervisor should get a pat on the back. Of course it was hard to stop my brain from thinking ‘That’s Bruce Wayne with Lois Lane’ and ‘Are Katniss and Clint discussing archery?’ Just a little. In my defence, I have long wanted the crossover fic where Katniss, Hawkeye, Legolas and Meridia, plus Robin Hood too, turn up at an archery contest.
Since watching the film, I’m trying to think of a list of actors who could keep up with JLaw when she tears through the screen as a character in a David O. Russell film. It’s basically a list of actors who I think can go big.
One of whom might be Rinko Kikuchi, who vamps it up in 47 Ronin. Yes, I went to see that too, because it had Keanu Reeves, swordplay and Rinko Kikuchi. It’s a fantasy adventure set in a feudal Japan where monsters and magic are real, so at least it had some novelty value, but I’m not going to pretend it was good, although there was lots that was interesting about it. I found quite a lot of it entertaining but probably not for the right reasons. Oh, and I hope it gets festividded next year.
Trailers: I don’t think I can make myself go see I, Frankenstein, because I’m just going to spend the whole film enraged about the waste of Yvonne Strahovsky and Miranda Otto.
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American Hustle, which was entertaining, but too long, and as with The Silver Linings Playbook, I’m a bit unconvinced about ALL the award nominations it’s getting/might get, though the music supervisor should get a pat on the back. Of course it was hard to stop my brain from thinking ‘That’s Bruce Wayne with Lois Lane’ and ‘Are Katniss and Clint discussing archery?’ Just a little. In my defence, I have long wanted the crossover fic where Katniss, Hawkeye, Legolas and Meridia, plus Robin Hood too, turn up at an archery contest.
Since watching the film, I’m trying to think of a list of actors who could keep up with JLaw when she tears through the screen as a character in a David O. Russell film. It’s basically a list of actors who I think can go big.
One of whom might be Rinko Kikuchi, who vamps it up in 47 Ronin. Yes, I went to see that too, because it had Keanu Reeves, swordplay and Rinko Kikuchi. It’s a fantasy adventure set in a feudal Japan where monsters and magic are real, so at least it had some novelty value, but I’m not going to pretend it was good, although there was lots that was interesting about it. I found quite a lot of it entertaining but probably not for the right reasons. Oh, and I hope it gets festividded next year.
Trailers: I don’t think I can make myself go see I, Frankenstein, because I’m just going to spend the whole film enraged about the waste of Yvonne Strahovsky and Miranda Otto.
This entry was originally posted at http://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/91047.html.