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Apr. 25th, 2005 01:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annundrielSo Martouf was in Ginger Snaps Back and he was a right bastard. Heh. Why is it that the people I've seen in previous things always end up nasty in those movies? Except for Mimi Rogers. Actually didn't think the third movie was that bad. Liked it more than the second one at least.
On Friday, Kay and I saw A Very Long Engagement. So good. So very good. Beautiful movie. Visually it was just stunning. Never actually cried, but got darn close a couple of times. Basically, it's about this young woman's search for her fiance after WWI. He's supposed to be dead, but she believes otherwise. There was a lot of stuff in the trenches, and that was hard to watch. Especially the beginning when the five main military characters are introduced. They are all being lead through the trenches to be executed for mutilating themselves out of service. That's all well and good until they show each character shoot themselves in the hand. If they had shown one more...Eh. Not fun. But that's how the fiance is introduced. He's only about 18 when the movie starts in the trenches and he's seen some pretty horrific stuff, so he's kind of lost it mentally. At night he lights a cigarette and then sticks his hand with the cigarette over the trench wall and waits to be shot. The suspense was horrible. It wasn't the gore that bothered me, just the waiting for what I knew was coming.
But, yeah, definitely recommend it. Parts of it, seriously, were like magic up on the screen. Beautiful, shiny visual magic.
And now here it is, 1:37 in the morning and I'm wired and it sucks. Blah. However, there's been some really nice SG-1 stuff to come back to. Pictures are being released for season nine and wow Ben looks really good in the SGC uniform. And Claudia is there, too! There's even a couple with both of them in the same frame and that's got to be weird and fun for them to work together again in completely different circumstances. Anyway, apparently they will be exploring Arthurian legend for the very first time. I'm really excited to see what sort of spin they put on it. All of the stuff they've done with Egyptian, Norse, Greek, Roman, etc. mythology has been really interesting. So, yeah, I'm *really* looking forward to it. (And then there's the really shallow bonus of Ben and Claudia. Guh.)
Oh, Kay and I also watched Nip/Tuck Saturday night. First mention of the Carver. Have to say, I really liked that episode. Mostly just for Sean and his pro bono work with the victim-lady (who reminded me strangely of Shannon on Lost) and her reaction to Bobbie Whatsherface's "botched" lipo. You tell her! Poor Bobbie Whatsherface. Poor Sean. I'm ambivalent about Sean. They do an episode like that where he's mostly all soft and then they do the next one where he just about strangles Julia over the whole Julia-Matt-Christian thing. Everyone on that show is seriously fucked and in need of therapy. I love 'em anyway. Most of the time.
I hate to say it, but I'm mostly over Smallville. I'm about ready to delete my last SV icons (a sure sign I'm over it) and I still haven't caught up on the eps, even with the promise of double Lex. Plus? I only really want to see the season finale because Grodin's got a bit part in it. He probably won't even have a line, but, damn it, I don't care about the finale otherwise.
I really am a fickle fangirl.
OMG, Quantum Leap is on!! ::geek:: Sam's a pregnant woman! He's gonna give birth! Hee! I <3 this show. But talk about a blast from the past.
On Friday, Kay and I saw A Very Long Engagement. So good. So very good. Beautiful movie. Visually it was just stunning. Never actually cried, but got darn close a couple of times. Basically, it's about this young woman's search for her fiance after WWI. He's supposed to be dead, but she believes otherwise. There was a lot of stuff in the trenches, and that was hard to watch. Especially the beginning when the five main military characters are introduced. They are all being lead through the trenches to be executed for mutilating themselves out of service. That's all well and good until they show each character shoot themselves in the hand. If they had shown one more...Eh. Not fun. But that's how the fiance is introduced. He's only about 18 when the movie starts in the trenches and he's seen some pretty horrific stuff, so he's kind of lost it mentally. At night he lights a cigarette and then sticks his hand with the cigarette over the trench wall and waits to be shot. The suspense was horrible. It wasn't the gore that bothered me, just the waiting for what I knew was coming.
But, yeah, definitely recommend it. Parts of it, seriously, were like magic up on the screen. Beautiful, shiny visual magic.
And now here it is, 1:37 in the morning and I'm wired and it sucks. Blah. However, there's been some really nice SG-1 stuff to come back to. Pictures are being released for season nine and wow Ben looks really good in the SGC uniform. And Claudia is there, too! There's even a couple with both of them in the same frame and that's got to be weird and fun for them to work together again in completely different circumstances. Anyway, apparently they will be exploring Arthurian legend for the very first time. I'm really excited to see what sort of spin they put on it. All of the stuff they've done with Egyptian, Norse, Greek, Roman, etc. mythology has been really interesting. So, yeah, I'm *really* looking forward to it. (And then there's the really shallow bonus of Ben and Claudia. Guh.)
Oh, Kay and I also watched Nip/Tuck Saturday night. First mention of the Carver. Have to say, I really liked that episode. Mostly just for Sean and his pro bono work with the victim-lady (who reminded me strangely of Shannon on Lost) and her reaction to Bobbie Whatsherface's "botched" lipo. You tell her! Poor Bobbie Whatsherface. Poor Sean. I'm ambivalent about Sean. They do an episode like that where he's mostly all soft and then they do the next one where he just about strangles Julia over the whole Julia-Matt-Christian thing. Everyone on that show is seriously fucked and in need of therapy. I love 'em anyway. Most of the time.
I hate to say it, but I'm mostly over Smallville. I'm about ready to delete my last SV icons (a sure sign I'm over it) and I still haven't caught up on the eps, even with the promise of double Lex. Plus? I only really want to see the season finale because Grodin's got a bit part in it. He probably won't even have a line, but, damn it, I don't care about the finale otherwise.
I really am a fickle fangirl.
OMG, Quantum Leap is on!! ::geek:: Sam's a pregnant woman! He's gonna give birth! Hee! I <3 this show. But talk about a blast from the past.
