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[trinibelle]

Catching up with the journal a bit. Hoping to catch up on some other stuff, if libertyrose would cut me some slack with her deadlines and committments. (Currently it's judging a RWA writing contest. One more entry to do. Yay!)

Terminator (the first one!) is on the TV as I'm typing this. I had forgotten how much I love this movie. I love the second one, too

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[thekristeen]

Thinking about Michael Biehn had me recalling "Deep Red" the other night, and I looked it up on Amazon.com. It was available through third parties for almost less than it took to ship it (on tape, not on DVD) so I sent for it, because I recall MB was good in it even if the story itself was...well, improvable. As it "it could have been better." I watched it again when the tape showed up the other day, and found my first impression was the same again. But he looked VERY good in that movie, too.

My trip to the Michael Biehn Fan Gathering is being subsidized by an LJ friend who is so totally over the top in love with him it's almost tragic. She lives in Redding and can't make it here to so herself, so she's paying for my sister to go in her place, so Sis can take ME (since I can't go alone) so we can get HER an autograph. If not for that push I'm not sure I'd be going, but as it is I'm taking the chance that I'll be healthy enough to make it on that weekend. Taking all kinds of super vitamins in the mean time and keeping my fingers crossed.

I'm a little more charitably inclined toward "Titanic" because when it came out I was going through a phase regarding that tragedy. I'd been looking it up on the Web, watching every special that came up on the Discovery channel, etc., and knew a lot more than the average nerd about the ship and the real people who lived or died that night. Cameron did a lovely job of reproducing the setting, the ambiance, and oh, yes, those costumes. A lot of them were vintage from the period, too. All the actors and even the extras were sent through a kind of boot camp to learn how to wear them properly and how to conduct themselves as people of that time and place, every little detail covered. I appreciated that effort very much.

As for Rose and Jack--who? I was busy looking at the setteing, I didn't really pay them that much mind.

I liked the director's cut of "The Abyss." The original release cut was about four-fifths of a good movie, but fell apart in the end. The director's cut added back the footage that explained sooo much that we really needed to know for the ending to make any sense at all. I've heard that Ed Harris and James Cameron didn't get along at all well on the set--Harris swored he'd never work with Cameron again. Must be the ego. I've heard Cameron has plenty of it. In fact that's one reason that the Schwarz says he likes working with Cameron--it's the only time that Ahnold knows he's not the biggest ego on the set.

When you're talking about the Governator, that's saying something.