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timekiller
27 Dec 2013 12:35Okay, folks, I'm stuck at work with little to do and less supervision and require your assistance:
1) Rec me a book, movie, TV show, comic book, tumblr, blog, fanfic. Nothing with zombies.
2) AMA, for values of A that don't require personal information in response. Includes questions about fic.
3) Three sentence fic challenge. Y'all know what I can do to a "drabble." :)
4) Open Mic Afternoon! Say what you gotta say...
Movies watched over Christmas, in order:
Mulan (the "special edition," according to Netflix, but I never saw the original, so I can't tell you what was special about it). Pleasant and I had one of the songs stuck in my head for a couple of days, so I suppose that qualifies as a Disney success.
The Iceman. Michael Shannon was riveting, as usual, and it was extremely well-cast as a whole, a great mix of expected actors doing new things with old roles (Ray Liotta, Robert Davi, arguably James Franco) and casting you didn't think would work and did (Chris Evans, David Schwimmer). The look of it was pretty brilliant for a period piece on a tight budget, but... but. It was good and I enjoyed it. But it wasn't great. Michael Shannon was great, though.
Blancanieves. Lovely, inventive silent black and while film that presumably owes its existence to the success of The Artist. It's an update on Snow White, wonderfully done, especially with the acting. I'd recommend it heartily and without reservation except I do have a giant, honking reservation, which is the very last frames of the very last scene, which disturbed me so profoundly it almost ruined the movie for me.
Alice in Wonderland. The original Disney cartoon, which still puts every single live-action version to shame.
The Place Beyond the Pines... I got maybe a half-hour into this before I realized that (a) I was bored silly and (b) I really can't stand watching Ryan Gosling act. He's so inert. He underplays everything so much he makes Keanu Reeves look like Jim Carrey. It's like watching wallpaper and I don't find him attractive in the slightest, so it's not even pretty wallpaper.
1) Rec me a book, movie, TV show, comic book, tumblr, blog, fanfic. Nothing with zombies.
2) AMA, for values of A that don't require personal information in response. Includes questions about fic.
3) Three sentence fic challenge. Y'all know what I can do to a "drabble." :)
4) Open Mic Afternoon! Say what you gotta say...
Movies watched over Christmas, in order:
Mulan (the "special edition," according to Netflix, but I never saw the original, so I can't tell you what was special about it). Pleasant and I had one of the songs stuck in my head for a couple of days, so I suppose that qualifies as a Disney success.
The Iceman. Michael Shannon was riveting, as usual, and it was extremely well-cast as a whole, a great mix of expected actors doing new things with old roles (Ray Liotta, Robert Davi, arguably James Franco) and casting you didn't think would work and did (Chris Evans, David Schwimmer). The look of it was pretty brilliant for a period piece on a tight budget, but... but. It was good and I enjoyed it. But it wasn't great. Michael Shannon was great, though.
Blancanieves. Lovely, inventive silent black and while film that presumably owes its existence to the success of The Artist. It's an update on Snow White, wonderfully done, especially with the acting. I'd recommend it heartily and without reservation except I do have a giant, honking reservation, which is the very last frames of the very last scene, which disturbed me so profoundly it almost ruined the movie for me.
Alice in Wonderland. The original Disney cartoon, which still puts every single live-action version to shame.
The Place Beyond the Pines... I got maybe a half-hour into this before I realized that (a) I was bored silly and (b) I really can't stand watching Ryan Gosling act. He's so inert. He underplays everything so much he makes Keanu Reeves look like Jim Carrey. It's like watching wallpaper and I don't find him attractive in the slightest, so it's not even pretty wallpaper.
