Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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I completely get what a terrible movie it is...which...in no way, stems my warm, gooey like for some parts of it.
Fair enough. I'll freely admit I get a little turned on by the hairy beast sex in the rain scene, but only because of the mostly nekkid chic.
And now I'm sure I've just skeeved out a bunch of people.
And now I'm sure I've just skeeved out a bunch of people.
Just now?
Oh, come on, you just left that one hanging there like a big juicy curveball.
I should go home. My boss has gone to her cottage. Tell me why I am still here?
I still watch the movie because Ooooh, pretty! Nothing to do with the actual novel, but full of vampires and pretty clothes. (Yes, I will forgive a lot in a movie if it has vampires and pretty clothes. I admit it's shallow of me.)
I know this is one of the few movies I don't actually share the stupid-but-PRETTY! love with you, but it still makes you just that much more endearing.
And even though I like to bag on it, when people pull the stupid-but-PRETTY, I have to forgive, because I do it, too.
Just now?
Do you have any idea how frustrating it is not to just hang out with after work on a regular basis? Just saying that because it's good to have you back from Pennsic, gimp-boy.
Tell me why I am still here?
To trade witty barbs and bon mots with us?
Oh, I'd say that Undiscovered Country had some cinematic integrity as well, but only by virtue of being directed by Nicholas Meyer, same as Wrath of Khan.
I'd also put First Contact up there. And not just because of James Cromwell and Alfre Woodard.
I'd also put First Contact up there. And not just because of James Cromwell and Alfre Woodard.
I'd say that one's the best of the Next Gen movies, but a) that's not saying much, and b) it still peaks about an hour in, Berman and Braga have just never in five movies now(?) quite learned how to make a real movie, as opposed to a TV movie. They just can't nail down the pacing, and have so far refused to let outsiders (like, say, Nicholas Meyer) help them do better.
saying that because it's good to have you back from Pennsic, gimp-boy.
Good to be back, my friend, although I could do without the gimping, it's messing with the social life I didn't know I had.
To trade witty barbs and bon mots with us?
That's a good reason, true nuff, but I could go home and spark up the pc there and do that. And so mote it be.
I must have skimmed over the JohnSweden injury. Hope it a) isn't bad/painful and b) not Pennsic related, which might change my plans for SCA somewhat...
I must have skimmed over the JohnSweden injury.
(I learned about it in his LJ, you probably didn't miss anything.)
(And if I remember correctly, it wasn't a combat-related injury, so much as a slip-and-fall sort of thing, but I may be wrong about that.)
I know this is one of the few movies I don't actually share the stupid-but-PRETTY! love with you, but it still makes you just that much more endearing.
You flatterer, you.
I've been in a pretty and/or gothy cliché movie-watching phase for a week or so now. Every time I get to pick a dvd to watch in the evening, it's been "Moulin Rouge! Addams Family! Sleepy Hollow! Interview with The Vampire! Dangerous Liasions!" Pete has been rolling his eyes at me a lot.