Comments | alixtii: Netflix!

alixtii

Netflix!

Jan 20, 2007 22:03

My brother and I have been, since Christmas, sharng a Netflix account.

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Battlestar Galactica (The Miniseries, and Season 1 Disc 1)

Very slow-paced, and alternating between bits which are extremely will-to-powery (Roslin!) and those which aren't. Mostly, I've spent most of the time lusting after Specialist Cally. I mean, seriously.

( Specialist Cally picspam )

nothing to see here, big love, picspam, textual analysis, harry potter, battlestar galactica, tina majorino is teh awesome, arrested development

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executrix January 21 2007, 04:12:52 UTC

About DaVinci Code: I'm not even a *Catholic* and the book bugged the hell out of me not only for its amazing ineptitude but for its crude anti-Catholicism. I thought my Firefly version was pretty cool though.

alixtii January 21 2007, 04:29:54 UTC

And you see, I never got that from the book. I got an anti-conservative Catholicism vibe from it, but I could get on board there--perhaps because in the previous book the Pope had been established to be a good guy? But in the movie the distinction, while not completely lost, was far too subtle, and ended up IMHO painting the RCC as if everyone from Benedict XVI to Leonardo Boff were indicted in the same conspiracy.

Not to mention there were other aspects of the book-to-movie transition which bugged me, but I can't remember offhand what they were. The book simply seemed to be going "What if Holy Blood, Holy Grail were true?" and using that as a basis for a rather by-the-book murder/thriller (then again, we're talking about Dan Brown here, so formulae are pretty much the order of the day) at a fifth grade reading level. Only with the movie did I get the feeling that we were expected to treat the "history" as true--and I blame Howard, not Brown, for that one ( ... )

executrix January 21 2007, 04:35:40 UTC

I like a trashy page-turner as much as the next person, but I just thought The DaVinci Code displayed astonishing ineptitude in every possible way.

There might be an interesting crossover between Holy Blood Holy Grail and French Women Don't Get Fat, though...the Mediterranean Consecrated Wine Diet?

wisdomeagle January 21 2007, 04:30:19 UTC

Wait, wait, you have a brother?

Over the Hedge also has Allison Janney, doesn't it? Hm.

I've req'd BSG from the library. In just 120 days, it will be mine. For two weeks. Other than that, perhaps I should consume the media I already own.

alixtii January 21 2007, 04:41:39 UTC

Certainly I've mentioned my brother previously?

Yes, A.J. is in OtH.

alixtii January 21 2007, 04:45:02 UTC

Yes, I have.

wisdomeagle January 21 2007, 04:53:15 UTC

All right, surely I can be excused for not noticing then because I was deeply distressed about finals at that time.

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