TV and Films
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redfiona99At the minute, Australia seems to be sending us it's murder mysteries, so Drama (the channel) are showing them early in the a.m., possibly to appeal to the hungover student crowd. The most recent one I've caught is Mr and Mrs Murder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_%26_Mrs_Murder), which comes so close to working, but doesn't quite. It has awesome opening credits. L thinks that there must be an American TV producer out there looking for an idea who can pick it up and turn it into a mega-hit.
We also originally intended to watch the first of the Star Trek reboot films but L turned it off in disgust midway through, because he couldn't stand what they were doing to Kirk. So we watched the second Hobbit films instead. Or, as it's known, 'Do something Thorin. No, not that, anything but that'.
I am not kidding about that.
I'm also really not sure if I was supposed to see, instead of the love triangle someone foisted on PJ and the others, Thranduil trying to set Tauriel up with Legolas, who is oblivious, because Tauriel is his bestest bro.
Finally saw Dredd.
I can see why people who aren't 2000AD fans didn't like it, and why the 2000AD fans went absolutely nuts over it. Because it's the very best 2000AD adaptation we're going to get, and all the things that made it that are the things that turned non-fans off. It's the ultra-violence, the grittiness, that we didn't see Dredd without his mask (thank you Karl Urban for standing up against that nonsense).
Anderson was a great example of how you do vulnerable but not squishy (and props to whoever cast Olivia Thirlby because she looks right). I loved how they shot the effects of Slo-Mo on the users, because it really looked like some of the Judge Dredd artwork.
Lena Hedley was amazing. Actually, all of the acting was damn good. (And I have decided that if Wesley Snipes and Tony Curran are too old to play Sinister and Dexter now, I'm having Anthony Mackie and Domnhall Gleeson as replacements.)
I could have done without the corrupt judges plot, because I think it just dragged the film out and added nothing but apart from that, it was A++ Double Good, and as I said, the best 2000AD film we're ever going to get.
We also originally intended to watch the first of the Star Trek reboot films but L turned it off in disgust midway through, because he couldn't stand what they were doing to Kirk. So we watched the second Hobbit films instead. Or, as it's known, 'Do something Thorin. No, not that, anything but that'.
I am not kidding about that.
I'm also really not sure if I was supposed to see, instead of the love triangle someone foisted on PJ and the others, Thranduil trying to set Tauriel up with Legolas, who is oblivious, because Tauriel is his bestest bro.
Finally saw Dredd.
I can see why people who aren't 2000AD fans didn't like it, and why the 2000AD fans went absolutely nuts over it. Because it's the very best 2000AD adaptation we're going to get, and all the things that made it that are the things that turned non-fans off. It's the ultra-violence, the grittiness, that we didn't see Dredd without his mask (thank you Karl Urban for standing up against that nonsense).
Anderson was a great example of how you do vulnerable but not squishy (and props to whoever cast Olivia Thirlby because she looks right). I loved how they shot the effects of Slo-Mo on the users, because it really looked like some of the Judge Dredd artwork.
Lena Hedley was amazing. Actually, all of the acting was damn good. (And I have decided that if Wesley Snipes and Tony Curran are too old to play Sinister and Dexter now, I'm having Anthony Mackie and Domnhall Gleeson as replacements.)
I could have done without the corrupt judges plot, because I think it just dragged the film out and added nothing but apart from that, it was A++ Double Good, and as I said, the best 2000AD film we're ever going to get.
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Date: 2016-10-08 03:20 pm (UTC)