Too much television
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ebonlockWhy oh why did Turner Movie Classics pick last night to run most of my favorite Elizabeth Taylor flicks back to back? Are they trying to kill me? Do they want me to go entirely without sleep? I finally gave up around 9:30 and recorded the last half of Beau Brummel which I just had to finish this morning. So sad, but my god Stewart Granger was hot in that flick. I've never been much of a fashion slut, but I do get a bit drooly over his costumes in that one.
And thanks to TiVo I'm always watching obscene amounts of animated series. Avatar: the Last Airbender continues to impress me. What's not to like about a show with intense continuity, interesting characters, a cool pseudo-Asian setting and elemental magic? And now that they've introduced a subplot where Aang is crushing madly on Kitara I'm even more intrigued. Funny how the addition of something as simple as a little hint of romance can hook me.
Speaking of which, Inuyash just needs to get over his dead ex-girlfriend and shag Kagome. If this has happened in the Manga and anyone can tell me how it turned out I'd love to hear it. I suspect, though, that this series is entirely powered by romance angst and that I'm going to end up frustrated in the extreme.
Also Full Metal Alchemist continues to convince me that I eventually need to plunk down the cash and just buy the series. Although having sneaked a peek at the series end I was disappointed to see that it seems to head in the usual incoherent WTF? direction that most anime does. The kind of ending that makes Stephen King's seem genuinely well thought out by comparison. Poo.
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divine_debris has just posted info on the new flick "The Prestige" which tells me I need to see this film as soon as it's released:
Has everyone seen this new trailer for The Prestige? The film is based on the stellar Christopher Priest novel of the same name. The film boasts a pretty nifty cast including: Hugh Jackman as Rupert Angier, Christian Bale as Alfred Borden, David Bowie as Nikola Tesla, Michael Caine as Cutter, Scarlett Johansson as Olivia and Andy Serkis as Alley.
You can't get much better than turn of the century rival magicians in London battling each other for trade secrets, right? Well add on top that Christopher Nolan of Memento and Batman Begins fame is the screenwriter and director. I'm just chuffed to learn that Bowie will be playing Tesla, who is based on the real-life Serbian-American inventor who discovered the rotating magnetic field. The minute I saw him from a far in the trailer I knew it was Bowie. Fantastic.
Oh yeah, I'm going to be all over that film, hell I'm drooling already. The question is, do I read the novel first or wait until after I see the film? Decisions, decisions.
Also, has anyone heard anything about the new SciFi series about a sorcerer? I think it's called "The Devlin Files", and the trailer looked both fun and cheesy so I'm not sure whether to be enthusiastic about it or not. I'm quite liking "Eureka" so far, even if the plot was ridiculously easy to see through and the characters were only an inch or so deep, still it's got potential. And I'm adoring the Mr. Smithers-type kid, hope he hangs around for a bit.
One more quick thing, just heard frommoonlightnrain who seems to be having a glorious time down in SD. Can't wait to hear back about all the fun at Comic Con!
And thanks to TiVo I'm always watching obscene amounts of animated series. Avatar: the Last Airbender continues to impress me. What's not to like about a show with intense continuity, interesting characters, a cool pseudo-Asian setting and elemental magic? And now that they've introduced a subplot where Aang is crushing madly on Kitara I'm even more intrigued. Funny how the addition of something as simple as a little hint of romance can hook me.
Speaking of which, Inuyash just needs to get over his dead ex-girlfriend and shag Kagome. If this has happened in the Manga and anyone can tell me how it turned out I'd love to hear it. I suspect, though, that this series is entirely powered by romance angst and that I'm going to end up frustrated in the extreme.
Also Full Metal Alchemist continues to convince me that I eventually need to plunk down the cash and just buy the series. Although having sneaked a peek at the series end I was disappointed to see that it seems to head in the usual incoherent WTF? direction that most anime does. The kind of ending that makes Stephen King's seem genuinely well thought out by comparison. Poo.
Ah and
divine_debris has just posted info on the new flick "The Prestige" which tells me I need to see this film as soon as it's released:Has everyone seen this new trailer for The Prestige? The film is based on the stellar Christopher Priest novel of the same name. The film boasts a pretty nifty cast including: Hugh Jackman as Rupert Angier, Christian Bale as Alfred Borden, David Bowie as Nikola Tesla, Michael Caine as Cutter, Scarlett Johansson as Olivia and Andy Serkis as Alley.
You can't get much better than turn of the century rival magicians in London battling each other for trade secrets, right? Well add on top that Christopher Nolan of Memento and Batman Begins fame is the screenwriter and director. I'm just chuffed to learn that Bowie will be playing Tesla, who is based on the real-life Serbian-American inventor who discovered the rotating magnetic field. The minute I saw him from a far in the trailer I knew it was Bowie. Fantastic.
Oh yeah, I'm going to be all over that film, hell I'm drooling already. The question is, do I read the novel first or wait until after I see the film? Decisions, decisions.
Also, has anyone heard anything about the new SciFi series about a sorcerer? I think it's called "The Devlin Files", and the trailer looked both fun and cheesy so I'm not sure whether to be enthusiastic about it or not. I'm quite liking "Eureka" so far, even if the plot was ridiculously easy to see through and the characters were only an inch or so deep, still it's got potential. And I'm adoring the Mr. Smithers-type kid, hope he hangs around for a bit.
One more quick thing, just heard from
moonlightnrain who seems to be having a glorious time down in SD. Can't wait to hear back about all the fun at Comic Con!
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Date: 2006-07-21 09:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-22 08:48 am (UTC)I can't wait for The Prestige, which was cemented as soon as I saw the writer--Priest wrote some of my favorite actual funny books, as in comics that make me laugh. The rest of it is just gravy.
Eureka seemed ok last week, but I completely forgot this was Friday in my fog of cd-ripping (I would be very nearly done, but your queen of a sister just sent me a bunch of NIN/Bauhaus stuff), so missed the whole swath of shows. At least it's SciFi, so they'll run it again.
And it's "The Dresden Files," which is based on books written by an acquaintance of mine (and same or more to several others I know), Jim Butcher. I read the first book waaaaaaay back, before it was published, when we were both online at ridiculous hours, and I couldn't be more delighted for his success. I still wish James Marsters had been cast as Harry (he did the readings for books-on-tape for the series, and was quite keen on the role), but I'm so there, all the same.