Comments | elfwhistletree: The last temptation is the greatest treason - to do the right deed, for the wrong reason

elfwhistletree

The last temptation is the greatest treason - to do the right deed, for the wrong reason

Oct 20, 2013 00:02

Tonight laosin and I saw "The Fifth Estate" - OK, I went mainly because it had Benedict Cumberbatch in it but also because I was interested to see what a big budget movie would make of the Wikileaks story ( Read more... )

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wolfy_writing October 20 2013, 02:32:46 UTC

Hey, you're here! My favorite squirrel!

Now I totally want fic where Sherlock is pretending to be Australian.

elfwhistletree October 21 2013, 09:13:58 UTC

Australia is a traditional place to go if you want to set up a new identity, so that makes perfect sense :-)

anef October 20 2013, 07:06:44 UTC

Cumberbatch is always intensely watchable. Will I make it out to the cinema to see this one? Probably not.

elfwhistletree October 21 2013, 09:16:26 UTC

Fair enough - to be honest, I think it's a film you could watch on DVD just as well - it's not a special effects blockbuster that is improved by the "big screen experience" ;-)

halotolerant October 20 2013, 14:43:42 UTC

Not sure I'll see it in cinema, but interesting to hear what you thought. I suspect 'because it has Benedict in' will account for a decent proportion of the film's takings... *g* I am, however, DETERMINED to go and see 'Thor' in cinema (ahhh, sweet bizarre Norse psuedo-incest funtiemz)

Is it just me, or is the time elapsing between 'thing happening' and 'movie about thing happening' getting shorter?

elfwhistletree October 21 2013, 09:23:19 UTC

This one should work on DVD just fine :-)

Yes, I agree with you about THOR 2 - maybe this one might pass the Bechdel test as well, that would be a bonus - it has Jane and Sif and Mrs Odin in the trailer, so there's hope?

I think you are dead right about the "event to movie" timescale - it's just a general symptom of things speeding up, I think - plus also just more stuff overall, perhaps. If you look at TV programs, they are mining the past from Greek myth to just a few years ago, stopping off at the Tudors, Downton Abbey and every decade of the last century. Not too mention all the film remakes, resurrections of classic comics and pseudo-documentaries. Not so much looking to the future perhaps - nostalgia seems to be where we are at?