DH and I are watching Touching the Void. Holy shit is this compelling.
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Yeah, Fred. Kind of a similar vibe, huh? Greta Garbo and I have the same birthday. But that was the first thing I ever knew about her, when I was twelve or something.
It's really more of an avant garde slide show with voiceover.
Tomato, tomahto.
Creepy!
Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms;
Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms.
Saw The Protector last night. Thai cinema. Huh.
There were truly fun parts, whoa!moments (the previously mentioned running up walls...I couldn't see the wires!) and some truly dumb stuff.
The animals in peril aspect was unexpected and was way more stressful than the actual fighting.
Jaa is a terrific fighter. We learned about 487 ways to powder an arm bone .
And the carpoeria (sp) dude, if he doesn't already have a great career, should.
Cashmere, Touching the Void was a movie that Nutty and I watched together. Well, Nutty watched and I kind of watched through my fingers... even knowing that the narrators survived, because hey, there they were, narrating.
even knowing that the narrators survived, because hey, there they were, narrating.
Yes! That fact really should have sapped all the tension right out of the film, and yet...
Yes! That fact really should have sapped all the tension right out of the film, and yet...
DH totally laughed at me because I commented something like, "I know they live and yet, I'm so scared for them!"
It was an incredible piece of work. The only thing that took me out of it was the weird, musical, hallucination part.
Oh man, that reminds me of marvel's Secret Wars being translated into Japanese as "Mindless Cosmic Fighting"!