'Ey buddy; I'm speaking in an accent that's beyond her range of hearing

[takmarierah]

So let me tell you about this weekend I had.

First of all, we had to say goodbye to J, since he's moving to California. He's one of those guys you can't really try to be friends with, even though you may want to; it has to just end up that way, with you hanging out with him and wondering where the hell these kinds of guys come from, anyway. He's a

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[gwendolynflight]

Strange, that's not what Centurion made me want to do ... ;)

[takmarierah]

...I set myself up for that one didn't I? XD

[idioticonion]

I'm so so sorry I haven't betaed Utopia yet! Will get right on that today.

And yeah, Centurion basically is this:

[takmarierah]

Oh no that's no problem (I mean like half your day has passed by the time I wake up anyway) and as much as I love your detailed comments I would not mind if you decided it took too much time to do. <3

The part I love about that is that he's actually crawling around half-naked in the snow, not just the fake paper stuff*, which somehow makes it even better. Also I swear there is no one else who's lower teeth I have seen more than their top teeth; I keep trying to figure out how to describe that in writing but it's just so strange. But endearing!

*Nobody films in Wisconsin but a couple years ago they did that Johnny Depp movie here, Public Enemies, which was pretty terrible but I heard that there was a scene where they brought in some snow machines and covered everything with snow. The thing was, it had JUST SNOWED, there was something like eight inches of perfect fluffy snow on the ground and they plowed it all out so they could make their own. WTF Hollywood?

[idioticonion]

No honestly, it's a pleasure to do the feedback! :-) It's just when I am away, I get behind with emails.

And yes, did you see the extras on the Centurion DVD? Because I love seeing the roman soldier/actors freezing their knackers off during the filming, and sitting huddled with cups of tea.

Evidently Fassy is much harder than Johnny Depp but I think we knew that! :-) They probably thought real snow would be too hard for their namby pamby pampered actors to deal with. Silly Hollywood.

[takmarierah]

I did see! They were adorably eager to suffer for their art and I shouldn't find it so endearing to see them freezing like that but it iiiiissssss

No see the thing was is that they replaced the snow with shavings of ice, so it was still cold but it was just ice that they made instead of what was already on the ground! Although Depp is quite a bit older and creakier than Fassy so I am willing to cut him some slack for not rolling around in it, just... Snow, man.

[garrideb]

Congrats on winning the tournament!

Is Centurion a gory film? Crawling through snow is one of my favorite things in stories, so this sounds relevant to my interests, but I don't do gory very well.

[takmarierah]

Thank you! :D

Eeeehhhh well, it is, but more in the way where the filmmakers were trying to emphasize the point that War Is Not Sexy than in the uncomfortable sort of Quentin Tarantino someone-somewhere-is-jerking-off-to-this kind of way. And if crawling through the snow is not enough to convince you, there are also Roman soldiers all huddled up and sleeping in a big Roman soldier pile on top of a mountain. In the snow.

[garrideb]

There are also Roman soldiers all huddled up and sleeping in a big Roman soldier pile on top of a mountain. In the snow.

Huh.

*adds to library hold list*