Saturdays should be "lots to get done" free zones.
Well, yeah. But my apartment is a mess, my parents are coming tomorrow, I have no clean socks, and two assignments due this week. And plans tonight.
You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Feb 19, 2005 5:50:39 am PST #9182 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Polter-Cow - Feb 19, 2005 5:53:20 am PST #9183 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
And plans tonight.
Pot and sex, right.
Huh. I wonder where the word "sexpot" came from.
kat perez - Feb 19, 2005 6:13:29 am PST #9184 of 10002
"We have trust issues." Mylar
Well, yeah. But my apartment is a mess, my parents are coming tomorrow, I have no clean socks, and two assignments due this week. And plans tonight.
Pshaw. Parents don't count as guests. They totally get to see their kids' apartments in their natural state. No clean socks means it's time to buy new socks. I can't hand wave the assignments, but yay plans tonight! I love plans!
Polter-Cow - Feb 19, 2005 6:17:09 am PST #9185 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I love plans!
I have plans! I'm getting together with some TWoPers for wings and Constantine.
Jesse - Feb 19, 2005 6:23:12 am PST #9186 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Mmm, thanks, kat. Good calls all around. But seriously, my apartment is gross even for me right now, much less parents.
kat perez - Feb 19, 2005 6:39:13 am PST #9187 of 10002
"We have trust issues." Mylar
I have plans! I'm getting together with some TWoPers for wings and Constantine.
I want to see Constantine as well. I have great Keanu love (excepting when he's horribly miscast as Prince John, but I fault Kenneth Branagh for that) and not being at all familiar with the source material, it looks to be a rollicking fun time rather than a pale imitation of the comic.
But seriously, my apartment is gross even for me right now, much less parents.
I hear you. We'll actually be partners in apartment cleaning today. But there's always the socks. Buy new socks.
Typo Boy - Feb 19, 2005 6:44:38 am PST #9188 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
You may have a point. The description of Constantine enraged me because it is so unfaithful not only to the letter, but the spirit of the comic. But in all fairness a movie should be judged on it's own terms; I should think about it as a movie whose characters happens to have the same names as characters in a work of literature I enjoy. I guess it does not help me that I have never like Keanu as an actor when he talked - he has great body language, but to me no ability to deliver dialog.
§ ita § - Feb 19, 2005 6:49:24 am PST #9189 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
in all fairness a movie should be judged on it's own terms;
When you're an adaptation, I think the source material is one of those terms, though.
Typo Boy - Feb 19, 2005 6:53:52 am PST #9190 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
You have point too. I'm easily swayed this morning.
kat perez - Feb 19, 2005 6:54:42 am PST #9191 of 10002
"We have trust issues." Mylar
See, if I am familiar with the source material, then I have to side with ita. I expect the movie to make some attempt at faithfulness. Otherwise, make your own damn movie with your own damn story and call it something else. Don't try to cash in on people's affection for the original work by selling them on something familiar and beloved and then giving them something totally different.
However, since I know nothing about Constantine, I can escape all these dilemmas and just enjoy the movie and Keanu (who I think can be quite wonderful given the right material).