Soulless, Toothless

[spectralbovine]

I first encountered Soulless, by Gail Carriger, at the Buffista F2F, four months before it came out, and I kept hearing about it once it did come out. So when I came across a used copy in Borderlands, I picked it up and looked it over. On discovering that the first chapter was called "In Which Parasols Prove Useful," I decided I would enjoy it.

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[sainfoin_fields]

YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE

YES I DO.

I don't know if even the promise of 90 minutes of listening to Jay Baruchel is enough to make up for how annoying all those Olympics spots were, though.

Congratulations on closing your show! Probably!

[spectralbovine]

YES I DO.
I THOUGHT YOU WOULD.

I don't know if even the promise of 90 minutes of listening to Jay Baruchel is enough to make up for how annoying all those Olympics spots were, though.
I don't know how annoying they were, but the movie is decidedly not annoying.

Congratulations on closing your show! Probably!
Thanks! It is closed! Alas.

[spectralbovine]

Have you seen Alice yet?
No. I haven't heard good things.

When will we hear about your show?
When I find the time to write about it.

[kremlindusk]

Alice isn't terrible. It's just kind of okay.

Though there is one major "WTTTTTFFFFFFFFF" moment at the end. Like, I almost got up out of my seat to leave sort of "WTF." But on second viewing (with family) it wasn't QUITE so jarring. I still would have left it out, though. :P

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[sisterjune]

I keep hearing about soulless, I am skeptical on it cause even though I appreciate sharp wit and genre mash ups, I am less keen on paranormals (I just cant stand the premise for 95% of them) and even less keen on victorian period novels. That said, pretty much everyone on my flist has said it's a fun read so maybe I should just check it out anyway. Plus, the cover is cool

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[ste_noni]

I just wanted to piggyback on this and say how much I also appreciated the non-violence aspect. It was cool and exciting without violence and that was cool.

The other thing I thought they did really well was the Hiccup/Toothless flying scenes. There were a few points that brought tears to me eyes because they both looked so free and happy. Like, they were both who they were truly meant to be while flying together. I didn't initially like the fact that Hiccup lost his foot because I thought it was a tiny bit distrubing for little kids in an otherwise pretty kid-friendly movie, but it sort of cemented the idea that both Hiccup and Toothless were most themselves when they were together. I'm not sure he needed to lose his foot for that, but I saw where they were going with it.

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[spectralbovine]

That surprised me because, like you said, kid-friendly movie, but I respected that they went there, showing that sometimes the hero doesn't come out completely unscathed. I didn't think of it in relation to Toothless, though. For me, I felt sort of bad that Toothless could only fly by being ridden by Hiccup, but they did have a cute bond.

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[spectralbovine]

Soulless is entertaining and fluffy, but if you can't stand paranormals or the Victorian period, I don't know. Read the first chapter in a bookstore, and if you don't like it, you won't like the rest of the book. I knew from the first chapter that I would like the rest of it. It's very cute. The book made me chuckle a bit and laugh out loud at times.

I think the basic story of How to Train Your Dragon has been done many times-even the non-violence aspect-but it was still done well this time around.

[sdwolfpup]

Hm, we wanted to go see How To Train Your Dragon but weren't sure about whether to pay the (high) extra cost to see it in 3D. Thanks for the thoughts on that! I felt the same way about Up - we saw that in 3D and so did not need to.

[spectralbovine]

There were reviews that said Up was supposed to be great in 3D too, but I loved it in 2D just fine! I don't know. Coraline had some really good 3D effects, and I guess some of the Avatar 3D work made Pandora look more real, but it's hard to tell what 3D adds to the experience without watching the movie both ways.

[outforawalk]

I am amused by all the good reviews I see How To Train Your Dragon receiving, mostly because the people who are familiar with the book are all adamant about not seeing it. And it's only fitting that David Tennant is in there somewhere since he did the audiobook for the UK ages ago!

I;m planning to go see it with my mom.

[spectralbovine]

I am amused by all the good reviews I see How To Train Your Dragon receiving, mostly because the people who are familiar with the book are all adamant about not seeing it.
Yeah, I rummaged through Wikipedia, and it looks like they, um, changed a lot? For instance, "In the book, the tribe trains dragons. In the film, they fight dragons." THAT SEEMS LIKE KIND OF A FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE OF OPINION.

[outforawalk]

Hee. Yep. But I haven't read them yet, so I remain unbothered by the changes at this point. A case of random changes for no reason that not only fail to improve the movie over the book, but actually make it much more lame? The Lightning Thief. Such a disappointment.

[niteflite]

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