Pop Culture Friday - from the ridiculous to the sublime

[cassiphone]

godiyeva had a quilt to bind today, and I had bookmarks to sew, and we each had a child to mind today, so it would be asking for it to try and do something really productive like work on our Nano novels (though Raeli spent the morning in the sand pit and Felix slept beautifully all morning) so we holed up for a serious cultural experience while we sewed

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[ashamel]

I enjoyed St Trinian's, for better or worse.

[cassiphone]

Yay! I am glad to find other people. I need to be less apologetic for just plain liking things!

[cassiphone]

Ooh yes, Educating Marmalade. It was *exactly* like that. Damn, I loved her. It still makes me sad that the actress died so young.

I actually thought the girls in this movie were less sexualised than the older girls in the original films - and hell, look at them all up there, walking confidently, wearing far MORE than your average Gossip Girls star, and posing far more powerfully than most of Buffy's publicity shots.

And I actually found it uplifting when the 'posh totty' girls who only knew how to seduce and cheat learned that they actually had brains. Yes, I'm a sucker :D

But omg how rare is it to have a cast so predominantly female? In which the women consistently get one over on the few blokes, every single time? If I had seen this as a teenager, I think it would have have been MY film in the way that Tank Girl actually was...

[godiyeva]

Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhh!!!!!!! Marmalade DIED???????????????

[cassiphone]

Ooops.

Not recently. A year or two after she was Scarlett in Four Weddings and a Funeral. Asthma attack, from what I remember. You can Google her - Charlotte Coleman.

[lady_dae]

Wow, your friends are awesome, Sci Fi loving people. Wish mine were the same! Don't know if Red Dwarf is among your faves but I just stumbled across the fact that they're making four new episodes for next year! Squee!!! (I just had to tell someone :P )

[cassiphone]

Hehehe yes I do have awesome friends.

Red Dwarf is one of my true SF loves (which is to say I adored it as a teenager and will therefore never not love it) but... however good the news is... I fear it.

I mean, what if it's BAD?

*first snogged my honey during a Red Dwarf marathon - why yes, I am that much of a fan*

[lady_dae]

I know what you mean, I had the same fear when series VII and VIII came out but I suppose you just have to approach them knowing that they will be different from the classic series. With Doug Naylor at the helm they can't make too much of a dog's breakfast out of it can they... Can they?! But honestly, I'm so desperate to see the second half of Battlestar Galactica Season Four that any new Sci Fi news is good new... news.

Now I must resist the urge to reacquaint myself with the Red Dwarf Slash lj...

[flinthart]

I have that film. Haven't opened or watched it yet. Love B&B at work together. Both very good independently, too. Good to know this film will be worth watching...

[cassiphone]

It's awesome! A very clever film from beginning to end. And the performances are excellent.

[godiyeva]

Soooo glad you liked Dark Passage. Loooooooove Bogart & Bacall. Best movie team since Everett & Firth :)

[cassiphone]

Hahahaha I can't believe we didn't talk about this today. Too busy banging on about our books.

The question is, between Bogart and Bacall, which would be the Doctor and which the Master?

[godiyeva]

BOgart would be the reluctant hero Doctor a la Hartnell, and Bacall would be his Master. Toooootally.