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May. 12th, 2006 07:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnyFive days is totally enough time between moving cities and leaving the country, right? I can fit in a haircut and bag buying and everything. It'll be great! *slightly frantic*
I have such a very lot to do before that point, but it's fine. I have time. Really I do.
Letting agent's letters are getting increasingly snitty, shall have to get back to him tomorrow. As well as Tintern Abbey tomorrow, I think, setting off reasonably early in the morning; should be a nice trip. We're trying to do nice flatmatey things as much as possible 'cos JockJock is moving at the end of the month all the way up to Scotland. *pouts*
*clings to Cardiff and flatmates*
Anyway, yes: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. That was quite an awful film, really. It was huge chunks of exposition cut with ridiculously frenetic fight scenes. The fights were cut together so jaggedly that it was virtually impossible to tell what the hell was going on, and there were too many characters to get to know enough to really care what the hell was going on.
Some of the lines were classically awful; "I'm an immortal, man, not a gazelle" was particularly good, as well as:
"That shcaresh you?"
"Heavens, man, doesn't it you?"
There were many many shrieking fits of laughter that I suspect the makers never in fact intended. And what was with the random insertion of Tom Sawyer?
'What's his super power?'
'Oh, he's American.'
It was under-explained, over-CG'd, and generally reasonably terrible... but I will be watching it again. Want to know why I will be watching it again?
Stuart Townsend.
That's right, kids. Stuart Townsend singlehandedly made this film worth watching. Just... every scene he's in, it's worth watching him; he's always in character with ridiculous poses and immaculate suits, spends a huge amount of time fondling his cane, and just... I don't know. It's the little things. How relaxed he appears in a firefight, the way he gets into a car - which is about to go haring off at top speed - as though he's going on some fashionable outing. It also helps enormously that he's really quite stunning.
Well worth the pound I paid for it.
ETA: I forgot to mention, I completely protested the continued gratuitous destruction of paper. I mean, yes, fluttering/burning paper is very dramatic and adds such atmosphere, but it hurts me right down to the little black cockles of my heart.
I have such a very lot to do before that point, but it's fine. I have time. Really I do.
Letting agent's letters are getting increasingly snitty, shall have to get back to him tomorrow. As well as Tintern Abbey tomorrow, I think, setting off reasonably early in the morning; should be a nice trip. We're trying to do nice flatmatey things as much as possible 'cos JockJock is moving at the end of the month all the way up to Scotland. *pouts*
*clings to Cardiff and flatmates*
Anyway, yes: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. That was quite an awful film, really. It was huge chunks of exposition cut with ridiculously frenetic fight scenes. The fights were cut together so jaggedly that it was virtually impossible to tell what the hell was going on, and there were too many characters to get to know enough to really care what the hell was going on.
Some of the lines were classically awful; "I'm an immortal, man, not a gazelle" was particularly good, as well as:
"That shcaresh you?"
"Heavens, man, doesn't it you?"
There were many many shrieking fits of laughter that I suspect the makers never in fact intended. And what was with the random insertion of Tom Sawyer?
'What's his super power?'
'Oh, he's American.'
It was under-explained, over-CG'd, and generally reasonably terrible... but I will be watching it again. Want to know why I will be watching it again?
Stuart Townsend.
That's right, kids. Stuart Townsend singlehandedly made this film worth watching. Just... every scene he's in, it's worth watching him; he's always in character with ridiculous poses and immaculate suits, spends a huge amount of time fondling his cane, and just... I don't know. It's the little things. How relaxed he appears in a firefight, the way he gets into a car - which is about to go haring off at top speed - as though he's going on some fashionable outing. It also helps enormously that he's really quite stunning.
Well worth the pound I paid for it.
ETA: I forgot to mention, I completely protested the continued gratuitous destruction of paper. I mean, yes, fluttering/burning paper is very dramatic and adds such atmosphere, but it hurts me right down to the little black cockles of my heart.
