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Vampires, dreams, Eastenders and RAW
Feb. 3rd, 2004 03:19 pmIn my on going attempt at avoiding doing work I'm supposed to be doing, I shall now discuss the only vampire film ever that isn't in the least bit scary, ( John Carpenter's Vampires )
Basically, it's a decent film that I would recommend for a couple of good scenes and one great scene.
General opinion is that its a misogynistic film because the only female characters are either hookers or vampires. Which is balderdash. Haven't the idiot critics considered that maybe the only women the characters know are vampires and hookers, because basically they're a drifting mercenary army. It's not the sort of lifestyle that lends itself to deep meaningful relationships, really how many women are going to go steady and/or marry a man who is never there, and has to deal with the threat of imminent death (his own or his collegues) every day? Very few, plus I'm betting the Vatican doesn't pay out a pension to widows.
Plus, I really wish some so called feminists would stop complaining about films, because there are more important battles to be won, like equal pay. Once we've got that sorted then there's time for pointlessness like criticising films.
Getting off my high horse now.
Other than that I had a really odd dream last night, possibly because I'd had a big dinner, I always get more vivid dreams after that.
( Cue dream )
What else, hmm, well according to a friend, Dennis in Eastenders is going to turn out to be gay. Which would come under highly unlikely things like Casanova being outed by a historian. Because Dennis seems to chase after women (even the one who turned out to be his half-sister) with a distinct passion.
And, the icing on the cake is that they're apparently going to have Dirty Den being a-okay with this. Dirty Den, unreconstructed throwback to 1979, being okay with it. The illogic is great. Although if it does happen (which I doubt) I'd love to see that conversation.
The most troubling thing about it would be that it means the Eastenders scriptwriters would have been reading my mind. A couple of days ago, Andy (who was married to Kat Slater - I think) had resurfaced on the run from someone and Sam Mitchell gave him somewhere to stay (and a bit more). The Mitchells had been drawing up battle-lines against the Watts' for some time now (involving firebombing, pubs, clubs, putting people in jail and random acts of violence) [I think Den took Lisa's (Phil Mitchell's ex-wife's] side in a dispute against Sam Mitchell (Sister of the aforementioned Phil) and it's all escalated from there.] Personally I don't think the Mitchell's know what to do if they're not drawing battlelines against someone.
Anyway, Nisha said this was bound to turn into Romeo and Juliet somewhere along the line. She pegged Dennis and Sam for the star-crossed couple. Utterly unbidden into my mind came the thought that Andy and Dennis would make a far hotter couple. Because yikes, they're both good looking men. Actually neither of them are classically pretty, they're both more in the roguish charm category.
Admittedly how ever nice the mental pictures are (and since I probably won't be able to get decent pictures, the mental picture is really nice) it's not going to happen. No mainstream programme with half a brain would do that because of the ratings. It'll probably be given to someone else on the show, maybe one of the new family since they haven't had a juicy storyline yet (plus one of the men in it, is the cutest person on the show = admittedly everyone else thinks I'm crazy but what's new?)
RAW ( Was good )
So much fun.
Basically, it's a decent film that I would recommend for a couple of good scenes and one great scene.
General opinion is that its a misogynistic film because the only female characters are either hookers or vampires. Which is balderdash. Haven't the idiot critics considered that maybe the only women the characters know are vampires and hookers, because basically they're a drifting mercenary army. It's not the sort of lifestyle that lends itself to deep meaningful relationships, really how many women are going to go steady and/or marry a man who is never there, and has to deal with the threat of imminent death (his own or his collegues) every day? Very few, plus I'm betting the Vatican doesn't pay out a pension to widows.
Plus, I really wish some so called feminists would stop complaining about films, because there are more important battles to be won, like equal pay. Once we've got that sorted then there's time for pointlessness like criticising films.
Getting off my high horse now.
Other than that I had a really odd dream last night, possibly because I'd had a big dinner, I always get more vivid dreams after that.
( Cue dream )
What else, hmm, well according to a friend, Dennis in Eastenders is going to turn out to be gay. Which would come under highly unlikely things like Casanova being outed by a historian. Because Dennis seems to chase after women (even the one who turned out to be his half-sister) with a distinct passion.
And, the icing on the cake is that they're apparently going to have Dirty Den being a-okay with this. Dirty Den, unreconstructed throwback to 1979, being okay with it. The illogic is great. Although if it does happen (which I doubt) I'd love to see that conversation.
The most troubling thing about it would be that it means the Eastenders scriptwriters would have been reading my mind. A couple of days ago, Andy (who was married to Kat Slater - I think) had resurfaced on the run from someone and Sam Mitchell gave him somewhere to stay (and a bit more). The Mitchells had been drawing up battle-lines against the Watts' for some time now (involving firebombing, pubs, clubs, putting people in jail and random acts of violence) [I think Den took Lisa's (Phil Mitchell's ex-wife's] side in a dispute against Sam Mitchell (Sister of the aforementioned Phil) and it's all escalated from there.] Personally I don't think the Mitchell's know what to do if they're not drawing battlelines against someone.
Anyway, Nisha said this was bound to turn into Romeo and Juliet somewhere along the line. She pegged Dennis and Sam for the star-crossed couple. Utterly unbidden into my mind came the thought that Andy and Dennis would make a far hotter couple. Because yikes, they're both good looking men. Actually neither of them are classically pretty, they're both more in the roguish charm category.
Admittedly how ever nice the mental pictures are (and since I probably won't be able to get decent pictures, the mental picture is really nice) it's not going to happen. No mainstream programme with half a brain would do that because of the ratings. It'll probably be given to someone else on the show, maybe one of the new family since they haven't had a juicy storyline yet (plus one of the men in it, is the cutest person on the show = admittedly everyone else thinks I'm crazy but what's new?)
RAW ( Was good )
So much fun.
