Hamlet Hum

Dec. 28th, 2009 11:06 pm
bunn: (Bungles)
Certainly can't complain at Patrick Stewart as Claudius and the Ghost, but not entirely convinced by David Tennant's Hamlet, particularly during the scenes with Ophelia. Ophelia was good though.

Laertes was a tit, but then I guess Laertes is a bit of a tit so maybe that was just well acted...  But I think I prefer him more angry and less... prattish. 

On the whole, thinking that Hamlet probably works better on the stage than as a film, though the references to CCTV were quite clever and would have been a bit more difficult to do on stage probably. 
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I'm watching a film called Dragon Hunter.  It's not very good.  There's just been a brilliant moment when some bloke snogged the Elven Princess and the poor girl playing her is sooooo obviously repelled by the guy.  It was hilarious: in extreme closeup you could really appreciate her trying to act adoring while trying to have her lips in absolutely minimum contact with his...

However, my favorite moment so far is very obviously based on a clip from The Fellowship of the Ring movie, the bit where all the orcs are coming storming up, and Aragorn strides out sort of in slow motion to confront them?  I imagine the thought process of the film makers went like this:

"OK, so we're going to do that scene.  We'll use the same armour cos then everyone will know they are orcs.  Only, wouldn't it be better if instead of a bloke, it was a girl in a leather bikini top?!!  And, we don't have money for that many orcs right now, so we'll cut back on that a bit.   And we'll give her a bow!  And then she can do the surprise reveal of being an elf, by pulling back the hair over her pointy ear!!   And then, she steps forward, and, and this is the good bit, shoots all the orcs together with one arrow!!!   Squish!!!! "

It was a moment of inspired cinema.  Well, to my low tastes it was, anyway.  I almost dropped my banana sundae.

Also, dragons mostly kill people by causing mild scorchmarks on their toned abdomens, did you know? That's the toned abdomens of the people, obviously. I have no information on whether the dragon has a six-pack.

Serenity

Oct. 12th, 2005 10:08 pm
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I finally lost my cold and went to see Serenity. )

Dratted washing machine died this weekend - I suspect the plumber who installed the new boiler of clonking it about rudely when he moved it to get at the pipes [insert expression of brooding fury]. The man made such a mess - we are still finding little bits of solder and copper pipe strewn in and outside the house - and he left the old boiler in a heap in the back garden rather than putting it tidily in the skip - I would put nothing past him. Can't prove it though so there is nothing to be done but curse and buy a new washing machine.

It is nice that nowadays they have to take away the old one when they bring a new one, as long as you ask. It probably doesn't encourage repair and recycling though. The old machine was the cheapest one you could buy in 1996, if I remember rightly. I am pretty sure the new one uses a lot less energy and water, so I suppose that is something.

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