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rsadelleThe Lake House
I loved The Lake House. It's romantic and magical and beautifully filmed.
Parting Glances
Many years ago, I watched and read my way through an awful lot of Mona Ramsey's recs. And many of them were not so good. But I liked Parting Glances, and I wanted to see it again. It's still pretty good, although the actual picture quality is iffy. The film takes place over the course of just over a day, and tells the story of Michael, whose partner is leaving to work overseas for a while. They have to finish packing Robert's things, attend a dinner party followed by a real party, and get Robert off to the airport in the morning. Robert eventually tells Michael he needs a break from their relationship, and Michael confides in Joan (Kathy Kinney, who you may not recognize without the Mimi makeup) that he loves Nick (Steve Buscemi), his ex, more than Robert. He shows that, too. He goes to Nick's place every day and cooks for him, which Nick tells Joan is the only reason he eats. The most romantic moment of the movie is even before Michael tells Nick he loves him. When Michael first goes to Nick's, he pulls Nick down onto his lap at the kitchen table, and it's just adorable.
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
You might have loved the first one and forgotten by now how bad the second one is and thus think you want to see the third one. You would be wrong. This movie is bad. Bad, bad, bad.
First of all, Lucas Black looks about thirty, even though he's only 23 and his character is supposed to be about 18.
Secondly, the move to Japan makes little to no sense.
Thirdly. Well, thirdly, the movie sucks.
The best part of it is Sung Kang as Han. First of all, he's hot. Secondly, he's constantly eating, which I found hilarious. Thirdly, he and Sean (Lucas Black) are awesomely slashy. There's a great bit where he takes Sean and two extremely beautiful girls back into the back of the club. Sean gets completely distracted from the girls by the cars.
There's a cameo at the end--Dom shows up to race--and it's lame. I also had to wonder if the audience was old enough to have seen the first one and get the reference.
Sean: This ain't no ten-second race.
Dom: I got nothin' but time.
X-Men: The Last Stand
Unlike the rest of you, I knew this was bad from the start. Okay, so Magneto and Xavier retrieving Jean was awesome in its "gay daddies adopting a child" way, but the movie went rapidly downhill from there.
I was irritated by the Bobby/Kitty thing. They have Peter. It's supposed to be Kitty/Peter and then later Kitty/Pete Wisdom. And speaking of Kitty and Peter, where is Ileana? Ileana's death is a great story.
I didn't actually read the article![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
deadbrowalking linked to (because italic white text on a black background is just a really bad idea if you want people to be able to, you know, read the text without hurting their eyes), but I thought of it when the government agent called Mystique "Raven" and she says, "I don't answer to my slave name."
Quite possibly the stupidest part of the movie is when Magneto moves the Golden Gate bridge. I mean, seriously. What the hell was that about? He can control metal. Why doesn't he just have his army stand on a smaller, more easily movable piece of metal and move that? All I could think as they walked onto the bridge in the first place was, "This is going to take a long time. That's a pretty long bridge." I, myself, have never walked it, but it's 1.7 miles long and people who have walked it describe it as awfully windy. Then, of course, there's the part where it becomes night in an instant just as soon as he sets the bridge down.
I did like the ending of the movie--not the whole Xavier in someone else's body, Magneto's powers coming back thing, which was stupidly predictable, but the other stuff. I love Storm and Wolverine taking over the school. I harbor love for Wolverine/Storm, and I can only hope this is a good setup for that. I also hold out hope that the end of the movie will let them make things right; it's a good setup for Mystique to finally become Rogue's mother.
Speaking of Mystique, I was amazed, considering how much they fucked with her look as Mystique (Why does she have scales and where is her white clothing?), by how good a job they did with her look as Raven. She finally looks right.
I see basically two options to fix the X-Men movie franchise.
Option 1: Reboot. Seriously. Just start all over. Pretend the first three movies never happened and make a new X-Men movie. You can keep Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart, but everyone else has to go, especially Halle Berry. This is not because I personally find Halle Berry to be not that attractive, but because her Storm is all wrong. She's way too warm and normal. Storm should be colder, distant, and much more otherworldly. She should feel things deeply but not really know how to express it.
Option 2: AU. Bring in Legion and bring on the Age of Apocalypse. That would make an awesome movie.
Tall, Dark & Dead
I loved Lyda Morehouse's AngeLINK series. It's one of my most highly recommended set of books. So when her new book, Tall, Dark & Dead (under the alias Tate Hallaway, which I assume she picked because it'll put her near Laurell K. Hamilton on the shelf if anyone files it under sci fi/fantasy instead of romance), came out, I picked up a copy. I found the book horribly disappointing. It's extremely thin on plot, which would be okay if there were more sex, but there isn't much of that either. Overall, you can just tell she's trying too hard. This week I read Karen Chance's Touch the Dark, which is just chock full of plot.
I loved The Lake House. It's romantic and magical and beautifully filmed.
Parting Glances
Many years ago, I watched and read my way through an awful lot of Mona Ramsey's recs. And many of them were not so good. But I liked Parting Glances, and I wanted to see it again. It's still pretty good, although the actual picture quality is iffy. The film takes place over the course of just over a day, and tells the story of Michael, whose partner is leaving to work overseas for a while. They have to finish packing Robert's things, attend a dinner party followed by a real party, and get Robert off to the airport in the morning. Robert eventually tells Michael he needs a break from their relationship, and Michael confides in Joan (Kathy Kinney, who you may not recognize without the Mimi makeup) that he loves Nick (Steve Buscemi), his ex, more than Robert. He shows that, too. He goes to Nick's place every day and cooks for him, which Nick tells Joan is the only reason he eats. The most romantic moment of the movie is even before Michael tells Nick he loves him. When Michael first goes to Nick's, he pulls Nick down onto his lap at the kitchen table, and it's just adorable.
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
You might have loved the first one and forgotten by now how bad the second one is and thus think you want to see the third one. You would be wrong. This movie is bad. Bad, bad, bad.
First of all, Lucas Black looks about thirty, even though he's only 23 and his character is supposed to be about 18.
Secondly, the move to Japan makes little to no sense.
Thirdly. Well, thirdly, the movie sucks.
The best part of it is Sung Kang as Han. First of all, he's hot. Secondly, he's constantly eating, which I found hilarious. Thirdly, he and Sean (Lucas Black) are awesomely slashy. There's a great bit where he takes Sean and two extremely beautiful girls back into the back of the club. Sean gets completely distracted from the girls by the cars.
There's a cameo at the end--Dom shows up to race--and it's lame. I also had to wonder if the audience was old enough to have seen the first one and get the reference.
Sean: This ain't no ten-second race.
Dom: I got nothin' but time.
X-Men: The Last Stand
Unlike the rest of you, I knew this was bad from the start. Okay, so Magneto and Xavier retrieving Jean was awesome in its "gay daddies adopting a child" way, but the movie went rapidly downhill from there.
I was irritated by the Bobby/Kitty thing. They have Peter. It's supposed to be Kitty/Peter and then later Kitty/Pete Wisdom. And speaking of Kitty and Peter, where is Ileana? Ileana's death is a great story.
I didn't actually read the article
deadbrowalking linked to (because italic white text on a black background is just a really bad idea if you want people to be able to, you know, read the text without hurting their eyes), but I thought of it when the government agent called Mystique "Raven" and she says, "I don't answer to my slave name."Quite possibly the stupidest part of the movie is when Magneto moves the Golden Gate bridge. I mean, seriously. What the hell was that about? He can control metal. Why doesn't he just have his army stand on a smaller, more easily movable piece of metal and move that? All I could think as they walked onto the bridge in the first place was, "This is going to take a long time. That's a pretty long bridge." I, myself, have never walked it, but it's 1.7 miles long and people who have walked it describe it as awfully windy. Then, of course, there's the part where it becomes night in an instant just as soon as he sets the bridge down.
I did like the ending of the movie--not the whole Xavier in someone else's body, Magneto's powers coming back thing, which was stupidly predictable, but the other stuff. I love Storm and Wolverine taking over the school. I harbor love for Wolverine/Storm, and I can only hope this is a good setup for that. I also hold out hope that the end of the movie will let them make things right; it's a good setup for Mystique to finally become Rogue's mother.
Speaking of Mystique, I was amazed, considering how much they fucked with her look as Mystique (Why does she have scales and where is her white clothing?), by how good a job they did with her look as Raven. She finally looks right.
I see basically two options to fix the X-Men movie franchise.
Option 1: Reboot. Seriously. Just start all over. Pretend the first three movies never happened and make a new X-Men movie. You can keep Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart, but everyone else has to go, especially Halle Berry. This is not because I personally find Halle Berry to be not that attractive, but because her Storm is all wrong. She's way too warm and normal. Storm should be colder, distant, and much more otherworldly. She should feel things deeply but not really know how to express it.
Option 2: AU. Bring in Legion and bring on the Age of Apocalypse. That would make an awesome movie.
Tall, Dark & Dead
I loved Lyda Morehouse's AngeLINK series. It's one of my most highly recommended set of books. So when her new book, Tall, Dark & Dead (under the alias Tate Hallaway, which I assume she picked because it'll put her near Laurell K. Hamilton on the shelf if anyone files it under sci fi/fantasy instead of romance), came out, I picked up a copy. I found the book horribly disappointing. It's extremely thin on plot, which would be okay if there were more sex, but there isn't much of that either. Overall, you can just tell she's trying too hard. This week I read Karen Chance's Touch the Dark, which is just chock full of plot.
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Date: 2006-06-23 08:54 am (UTC)Haven't seen X3 (or, that I remember, X2), but yes, totally. And stop making Bobby a stupdent, for god's sake, he's barely a few years younger than Scott! (I hate that in every single AU universe (movies, Ultimates), they make him a student. Give me mature!AU!Bobby, dammit!)
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Date: 2006-06-23 02:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-06-24 01:27 am (UTC)Unlike the rest of you, I knew this was bad from the start.
I got news for you: everyone knew this was going to be bad. Months before it came out, in fact. I remember when I saw the first commercial for it (or maybe it was a preview), I said, "Oh, a new X-Men!" My friend replied, "Not worth it; it's going to be terrible." I thought this was odd, and then I heard from another friend that it was going to be terrible. And then another. And another. Many of these people don't talk. The essential buzz about X-Men 3 for the past I don't know how many months has been that it's going to be bad. So those who say they knew X-Men 3 was going to be bad no longer get any street cred points in my Grand Street Cred Points Standings ledger.
So, why say this? Because I still want to see X-Men 3--especially now that I've heard about the Golden Gate Bridge moving. That should become Magneto's flying mount, like a pegasus. Just flies around the world on the Golden Gate Bridge. That would be "dope".
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Date: 2006-06-26 04:10 am (UTC)