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[cloudsinvenice]

 We're having some pretty bad nights, so are zombies this evening, keeping awake until bedtime with tea and Battle: Los Angeles. It's not as bad as expected - a lot of films like this would've set everything at night or gone teal-and-orange, and the fact this commits neither sin makes it a lot more convincing in the aliens-really-are-invading-this-

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[peachpai]

Les Mis the book is soooo goooood. I'm not usually a book snob, but for this I am of the unpopular opinion that all the adaptations thus far have been mediocre. Definitely give it a read if you have the opportunity!

[cloudsinvenice]

I went on Wikipedia to see what had changed from book to movie, and I think my jaw actually did drop when I saw just how vast the book is and how many different things are going on in it. That kind of literary/human ambition makes my heart beat faster. Inside this crabbid old cynic there is still an idealist, apparently...

[peachpai]

It is pretty intense and awesome, yeah. :) I've not read the full version (it seems to be difficult to find in bookshops here), but even the abridged ones are still wonderfully expansive.