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redfiona99Didn't see much of RAW, only about twenty minutes, due to silly girls who'd rather watch Sex and the City. Not that I wasn't tempted for once but even my crush on Mikhael Barishnikov has its limits.
Anyway my main RAW thoughts are:
HBK getting angry at Orton would be believable if the height difference didn't make me giggle. Really, Shawn, if you're that much smaller, looking them in the chest does not make them scared.
Shut up HHH. (and could the muse one do the same.) And that pedigree looked nasty.
I would like to state for the record that I don't care how it happens, it can be the flukiest, screwiest, most whack job way of winning ever, I just want Benoit to win at WM. Someone in the writing/booking/ideas department is doing something right if I'm feeling this hyper about it already. Plus Benoit being fantastic helps too.
In a similar vein, Eddie winning would be cool too. It's not going to happen, but it would be cool.
From flashback - Bad Kane, bad. No breaking of the Trish. But yay for Jericho.
And that was all I saw.
However, due to Sex and the City foolishness (or stupidly shutting at 11.30 foolishness) I'll probably miss Benoit v Flair next week. So not fair. Edit: I'll also probably miss the Ric/Randy love in. Bah!
Other than that I saw the first about 30-40 minutes of Chicago and want to know what the fuss is about. Yes, it's good, but it's not Best Picture material. No goosebumps have been brought about.
That's probably because of the complete lack of sympathetic characters other than Amos Hart and the Russian woman (who by the way I'm presuming is doomed) Okay, so fine, they're murderers and other riff raff so they shouldn't be sympathetic but it did lead me to just wanting Roxy dead. Because she was so wishy-washy. Velma at least had spirit.
The best character so far has to be the detective. Much hearting of the detective.
However some questions were left
1) Why is Richard Gere singing with an English accent?
2) Why does the director insist on shooting his female cast in the least flattering light possible? Or at least their legs. And crotches. Sam, very male, very fond of the female form Sam, was complaining.
3) Why did what's his face that Roxie shot put his underwear back on to go the toilet? I'm presuming it was because of a male nudity problem but surely there had to be some other way around it.
Catherine Zeta Jones and Queen Latifah own me, but you knew that already. Most of the women in the Cell Block Tango also own me, particularly Squish, the one whose husband ran on to her knife ten times.
And on that note, how much was that scene influenced by Jailhouse Rock. And it was also nice to know what the words were about having spent ages thinking about it watching Bourne and Kraatz's routine to the tune.
(Ice skating note - I haven't seen the Europeans but how the fuck did Joubert win the men's? France produces all these male skaters who do these wonderfully intricate and interesting to watch with tonnes of artistry and one jumping machine, and the jumping machine wins. Any bitterness due to being a fan of the guy in second place has nothing to do with it, because Yagudin beat Plushenko all the time and I'd still admit he was the better skater.)
One thing I did like about the film was the way the musical numbers were played out in Roxie's head.
On an RL note, I'm going to a fencing competition on Sunday. It involves getting up at 6.45. Wish me luck.
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Fencing - ended up getting up at 6.30 instead. Breakfast was museli bars and water. Museli bars tasted like cardboard but they did grow on me.
Had lots of fun. Won the bronze in the womens event. Admittedly there were only three women but ;) Reeda, the other girl from the club that went, won the silver. We were both totally outclassed by the winner so no complaints. Chris the club captain won the overall competition. So all is whee. Love fencing. My back doesn't but what does my back know.
And I've got a cold now but that was a mixture of the early rising, the lack of food, the stupidly high temperature inside the fencing gear - I'd love to know how James manages in his goalie gear, the cold outside and that there's been something going round anyway.
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Monday, back aches something chronic. Walking hurts, sitting up straight hurts. Buses are an agony.
Sound on my laptop has completely gone. I do wish it wouldn't do that.
Just read Mynx's Evolution fic. If you haven't already, go read it. It's good. Although it did set me pondering on how you can see a pairing completely differently from the same starting point. But difference is always good otherwise you end up with 515 different variations on Matt and Jeff loved each other very much but this was fucked up because they were brothers and therefore Jeff killed himself. Not that there's anything much wrong with that either.
Read another chapter of FOTR last night. Man is Gandalf ever the exposition dude. But it fits for he is supposed to be wise and knowledgable. I have no problem with someone being exposition if they are naturally a source of information. So far film Gandalf seems to be very like book Gandalf.
Book Frodo is a little different, I'm not entirely sure how but in someway he gives off a different vibe. As does Book Sam. So far he's burst into tears twice. Save me from over-emotional hobbits.
And Aragorn got a mention.
Then there's all these bits of dialogue that happen in the film. That's one of the good things about the way it was adapted, PJ didn't stick directly to it but when something was good he used it somewhere were it would fit. Like the speech about Bilbo's pity. It wouldn't have fit in at the beginning of the film where it is in the books (and where it works very well) but it did fit in perfectly in Moria.
There's something so right about the ring downscaling its evil to suit the bearer. And of Gollum becoming a sneak when he first found it. There something very unsettling about his downfall too, very understandable, Smeagol's story is indeed a very sad one.
Some how I'm thinking none of the Dwarf ringbearers became ringwraiths because you never hear any of the Nazgul complain about not being made for cross country running. And much with the anti-Dwarf elvish propaganda I notice. Bah! Although I do find it interesting that in some way none of the Elvish rings have been tainted, although they could become so if Sauron ever gets the ring back. I wonder how that works. I'm hoping the reason turns up somewhere in the LOTR trilogy.
It also annoys me quite how uppity the Elves are, just sailing off without a care what happens to anyone else. I do like the idea of the Dwarves being a source of information though.
And the description of the evil of Sauron - "He does not need you - he has many more useful servants - but he won't forget you again. Hobbits as miserable slaves would please him more than Hobbits free and happy." It works. Nothing about him being horrific evil or vicious or unspeakable but that horrid air of nastiness that says all those things without needing too.
First mention of hope by Gandalf about Gollum.
And hee, Frodo saying that the Gandalf saying there are other forces than evil at work, and that he and Bilbo were supposed to get the ring, was not an encouraging thought. I have to say I wouldn't find it encouraging either.
Anyway my main RAW thoughts are:
HBK getting angry at Orton would be believable if the height difference didn't make me giggle. Really, Shawn, if you're that much smaller, looking them in the chest does not make them scared.
Shut up HHH. (and could the muse one do the same.) And that pedigree looked nasty.
I would like to state for the record that I don't care how it happens, it can be the flukiest, screwiest, most whack job way of winning ever, I just want Benoit to win at WM. Someone in the writing/booking/ideas department is doing something right if I'm feeling this hyper about it already. Plus Benoit being fantastic helps too.
In a similar vein, Eddie winning would be cool too. It's not going to happen, but it would be cool.
From flashback - Bad Kane, bad. No breaking of the Trish. But yay for Jericho.
And that was all I saw.
However, due to Sex and the City foolishness (or stupidly shutting at 11.30 foolishness) I'll probably miss Benoit v Flair next week. So not fair. Edit: I'll also probably miss the Ric/Randy love in. Bah!
Other than that I saw the first about 30-40 minutes of Chicago and want to know what the fuss is about. Yes, it's good, but it's not Best Picture material. No goosebumps have been brought about.
That's probably because of the complete lack of sympathetic characters other than Amos Hart and the Russian woman (who by the way I'm presuming is doomed) Okay, so fine, they're murderers and other riff raff so they shouldn't be sympathetic but it did lead me to just wanting Roxy dead. Because she was so wishy-washy. Velma at least had spirit.
The best character so far has to be the detective. Much hearting of the detective.
However some questions were left
1) Why is Richard Gere singing with an English accent?
2) Why does the director insist on shooting his female cast in the least flattering light possible? Or at least their legs. And crotches. Sam, very male, very fond of the female form Sam, was complaining.
3) Why did what's his face that Roxie shot put his underwear back on to go the toilet? I'm presuming it was because of a male nudity problem but surely there had to be some other way around it.
Catherine Zeta Jones and Queen Latifah own me, but you knew that already. Most of the women in the Cell Block Tango also own me, particularly Squish, the one whose husband ran on to her knife ten times.
And on that note, how much was that scene influenced by Jailhouse Rock. And it was also nice to know what the words were about having spent ages thinking about it watching Bourne and Kraatz's routine to the tune.
(Ice skating note - I haven't seen the Europeans but how the fuck did Joubert win the men's? France produces all these male skaters who do these wonderfully intricate and interesting to watch with tonnes of artistry and one jumping machine, and the jumping machine wins. Any bitterness due to being a fan of the guy in second place has nothing to do with it, because Yagudin beat Plushenko all the time and I'd still admit he was the better skater.)
One thing I did like about the film was the way the musical numbers were played out in Roxie's head.
On an RL note, I'm going to a fencing competition on Sunday. It involves getting up at 6.45. Wish me luck.
~~~~
Fencing - ended up getting up at 6.30 instead. Breakfast was museli bars and water. Museli bars tasted like cardboard but they did grow on me.
Had lots of fun. Won the bronze in the womens event. Admittedly there were only three women but ;) Reeda, the other girl from the club that went, won the silver. We were both totally outclassed by the winner so no complaints. Chris the club captain won the overall competition. So all is whee. Love fencing. My back doesn't but what does my back know.
And I've got a cold now but that was a mixture of the early rising, the lack of food, the stupidly high temperature inside the fencing gear - I'd love to know how James manages in his goalie gear, the cold outside and that there's been something going round anyway.
~~~~
Monday, back aches something chronic. Walking hurts, sitting up straight hurts. Buses are an agony.
Sound on my laptop has completely gone. I do wish it wouldn't do that.
Just read Mynx's Evolution fic. If you haven't already, go read it. It's good. Although it did set me pondering on how you can see a pairing completely differently from the same starting point. But difference is always good otherwise you end up with 515 different variations on Matt and Jeff loved each other very much but this was fucked up because they were brothers and therefore Jeff killed himself. Not that there's anything much wrong with that either.
Read another chapter of FOTR last night. Man is Gandalf ever the exposition dude. But it fits for he is supposed to be wise and knowledgable. I have no problem with someone being exposition if they are naturally a source of information. So far film Gandalf seems to be very like book Gandalf.
Book Frodo is a little different, I'm not entirely sure how but in someway he gives off a different vibe. As does Book Sam. So far he's burst into tears twice. Save me from over-emotional hobbits.
And Aragorn got a mention.
Then there's all these bits of dialogue that happen in the film. That's one of the good things about the way it was adapted, PJ didn't stick directly to it but when something was good he used it somewhere were it would fit. Like the speech about Bilbo's pity. It wouldn't have fit in at the beginning of the film where it is in the books (and where it works very well) but it did fit in perfectly in Moria.
There's something so right about the ring downscaling its evil to suit the bearer. And of Gollum becoming a sneak when he first found it. There something very unsettling about his downfall too, very understandable, Smeagol's story is indeed a very sad one.
Some how I'm thinking none of the Dwarf ringbearers became ringwraiths because you never hear any of the Nazgul complain about not being made for cross country running. And much with the anti-Dwarf elvish propaganda I notice. Bah! Although I do find it interesting that in some way none of the Elvish rings have been tainted, although they could become so if Sauron ever gets the ring back. I wonder how that works. I'm hoping the reason turns up somewhere in the LOTR trilogy.
It also annoys me quite how uppity the Elves are, just sailing off without a care what happens to anyone else. I do like the idea of the Dwarves being a source of information though.
And the description of the evil of Sauron - "He does not need you - he has many more useful servants - but he won't forget you again. Hobbits as miserable slaves would please him more than Hobbits free and happy." It works. Nothing about him being horrific evil or vicious or unspeakable but that horrid air of nastiness that says all those things without needing too.
First mention of hope by Gandalf about Gollum.
And hee, Frodo saying that the Gandalf saying there are other forces than evil at work, and that he and Bilbo were supposed to get the ring, was not an encouraging thought. I have to say I wouldn't find it encouraging either.
