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maystone1. There's a freakin' blizzard going on outside. Make it stop.
2. So at this moment my lungs are OK, but I can't breathe through my nose. It shouldn't be an either/or proposition, but there you have it.
3. I missed most of the SB, but I did catch a couple of the ads. Two stood out: the GM ad with the despondent robot (wicked anthropomorphicazation [huh?] on that, and the Coca-Cola ad that started out looking like a video game shoot-em-up and ended with a parade including, I think, a high-stepping chorus line of sewer rats. If so, that rocks my world. I'll have to see if I can find it around somewhere and watch it again.
4. Rome. I know that the critics are slamming the less than epic battle scenes and the conflation of historical events, but for me it's all about the characters. Pullo, Vorenus, Atia, Timon (yes, Timon), damn near all of them. Great acting all around.
5. Space Channel here in Canadia showed the extended version of LOTR:TTT. I'm still in love with the trilogy. I can't see a time when I won't be. Perfect casting, stellar story telling, and hands down my favorite sound track. Hands down. After all these years, parts of it will still bring me to tears; I actually have to be careful not to listen to certain sections while I'm driving because I become so distracted by the emotions it evokes in me. That . . . is powerful stuff.
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gatezilla started a meme to which I never posted a response. It was "Name your five favorite action scenes on film." I don't like action scenes, as a rule. I detest car chases (or foot chases), gun battles and fistfights bore me to tears; I'll ff through them all if I'm watching them on CD. In the theater I just get impatient for them to be over so we can get on with the story. So I didn't really jump on the meme, you know? But I've been thinking about it, and I came up with favorites - and it surprised me when I saw them all listed.
A. LOTR:FotR - The flight to the Bridge at Khazad-Dum. Absolutely without a doubt the greatest action sequence ever filmed. In my opinion, of course :) That scene alone should have secured an Oscar for the movie, but no. I bought every single second of it. When Frodo and Aragorn were teetering on that falling staircase, I thought I'd have a heart attack. Just a spectacular piece of work.
B. LOTR:FotR - The final battle scene split between Boromir defending the hobbits and Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli fighting their own batch of Orcs. (It also has my favorite not-quite blooper with The Little Orc That Could running so daintily down the stairs.) Boromir's death scene destroyed me. Legolas stabbing an orc with his arrow jazzed me. Aragorn's fight to death with the head Uruk-Hai warrior just about had me crawling out of my skin. And let's not forget, "My brother. My captain. My king." Waaaaaaaaah. I'm tearing up.
C. The Phantom Menace - The gorgeously choreographed fight between my Qui-Gon and Darth Maul, and then Obi-Wan and the Maulster. Oh. My. God. That fantastic idea to have the combatants isolated by the force fields, Qui-Gon meditating, Darth Maul and Obi-Wan pacing and edgy - gah! Then the actual saber work was dazzling. I bet I saw that a half dozen times, each time hoping for a different outcome. Sigh.
D. LOTR:TTT - The Battle at Helm's Deep. I don't know how they filmed that. Just extraordinary work all around. The rain, the lightning, the desperation, the fatigue - I felt exhausted just watching it.
E. The Three Musketeers (Richard Lester's 1973 classic version) - Pretty much every single swordfight. I'll go with the one where D'Artagnan meets up with the Three to have his individual duels with them and it degenerates into this unbelieveably stylish, funny, brawling have-at when the Cardinal's Guard shows up. If you've never seen that film, you owe it to yourselves to check it out.
So then, when it comes to action sequences, I'd say that there has to be sword work for me to sit up and take notice. I love the clash of steel :)
And on that, I have to see if I can get my sinuses to stop strangling me so I can actually get some sleep.
2. So at this moment my lungs are OK, but I can't breathe through my nose. It shouldn't be an either/or proposition, but there you have it.
3. I missed most of the SB, but I did catch a couple of the ads. Two stood out: the GM ad with the despondent robot (wicked anthropomorphicazation [huh?] on that, and the Coca-Cola ad that started out looking like a video game shoot-em-up and ended with a parade including, I think, a high-stepping chorus line of sewer rats. If so, that rocks my world. I'll have to see if I can find it around somewhere and watch it again.
4. Rome. I know that the critics are slamming the less than epic battle scenes and the conflation of historical events, but for me it's all about the characters. Pullo, Vorenus, Atia, Timon (yes, Timon), damn near all of them. Great acting all around.
5. Space Channel here in Canadia showed the extended version of LOTR:TTT. I'm still in love with the trilogy. I can't see a time when I won't be. Perfect casting, stellar story telling, and hands down my favorite sound track. Hands down. After all these years, parts of it will still bring me to tears; I actually have to be careful not to listen to certain sections while I'm driving because I become so distracted by the emotions it evokes in me. That . . . is powerful stuff.
6. Months ago,
gatezilla started a meme to which I never posted a response. It was "Name your five favorite action scenes on film." I don't like action scenes, as a rule. I detest car chases (or foot chases), gun battles and fistfights bore me to tears; I'll ff through them all if I'm watching them on CD. In the theater I just get impatient for them to be over so we can get on with the story. So I didn't really jump on the meme, you know? But I've been thinking about it, and I came up with favorites - and it surprised me when I saw them all listed.A. LOTR:FotR - The flight to the Bridge at Khazad-Dum. Absolutely without a doubt the greatest action sequence ever filmed. In my opinion, of course :) That scene alone should have secured an Oscar for the movie, but no. I bought every single second of it. When Frodo and Aragorn were teetering on that falling staircase, I thought I'd have a heart attack. Just a spectacular piece of work.
B. LOTR:FotR - The final battle scene split between Boromir defending the hobbits and Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli fighting their own batch of Orcs. (It also has my favorite not-quite blooper with The Little Orc That Could running so daintily down the stairs.) Boromir's death scene destroyed me. Legolas stabbing an orc with his arrow jazzed me. Aragorn's fight to death with the head Uruk-Hai warrior just about had me crawling out of my skin. And let's not forget, "My brother. My captain. My king." Waaaaaaaaah. I'm tearing up.
C. The Phantom Menace - The gorgeously choreographed fight between my Qui-Gon and Darth Maul, and then Obi-Wan and the Maulster. Oh. My. God. That fantastic idea to have the combatants isolated by the force fields, Qui-Gon meditating, Darth Maul and Obi-Wan pacing and edgy - gah! Then the actual saber work was dazzling. I bet I saw that a half dozen times, each time hoping for a different outcome. Sigh.
D. LOTR:TTT - The Battle at Helm's Deep. I don't know how they filmed that. Just extraordinary work all around. The rain, the lightning, the desperation, the fatigue - I felt exhausted just watching it.
E. The Three Musketeers (Richard Lester's 1973 classic version) - Pretty much every single swordfight. I'll go with the one where D'Artagnan meets up with the Three to have his individual duels with them and it degenerates into this unbelieveably stylish, funny, brawling have-at when the Cardinal's Guard shows up. If you've never seen that film, you owe it to yourselves to check it out.
So then, when it comes to action sequences, I'd say that there has to be sword work for me to sit up and take notice. I love the clash of steel :)
And on that, I have to see if I can get my sinuses to stop strangling me so I can actually get some sleep.
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2007-02-05 08:10 (UTC)no subject
2007-02-05 15:34 (UTC)Isn't it the greatest movie? I don't think too many of these whippersnappers have ever seen it, and we should really do something about that. The abomination that was the Sheen/Sutherland/Platt version will hopefully be scrubbed from their brains forever.
I remember sitting in the theater as the opening credits came on: the black screen, the whistle and clang of the blades, and only the shine of the steel being shone. Outstanding! And it just got better from there. I need to see it again. Like now.
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2007-02-05 15:49 (UTC)I still have a major crush on Oliver Reed to this day.
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2007-02-05 12:07 (UTC)I wish I could teleport to your house.
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2007-02-05 15:35 (UTC)How are you doing this morning, honey? I hope that you decided to stay home, but I fear that you did not.
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2007-02-05 16:22 (UTC)Now I need a hot meal.
I think I'm going to try not to nap this afternoon in hope that I will sleep more soundly tonight.
I mean, yeah, it probably won't work, but I'm nearing the end of my rope.
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2007-02-05 16:15 (UTC)Favorite... movie... ever...
It may have something to do with it being the first "grown-up" movie I ever went to. My mom took me to a double feature at night. Hooked forever. Not even LOTR has managed to displace it.
My favorite sequence from there is the one in the laundry, but see above.
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2007-02-05 17:55 (UTC)no subject
2007-02-05 21:39 (UTC)The Three Musketers... Awesome movie.