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I need a Granny Weatherwax card …
Oct. 29th, 2013 10:12 pmNot dead!
Currently uninjured (let us not speak of Mr B accidentally semi-dislocating my arm the other week (all better), or of the woman who tried to drive over me on the way home tonight: I know it's scary driving in gale-force winds, madam, just imagine what it's like for me riding in them with lunatics like you out there!)
VERY OVERWORKED! But in fact much less so than last month when I was UNTENABLY OVERWORKED AND LIABLE TO MURDER SOMEONE. In fact, last month was so horrible that I totally reorganised the way we do almost everything so that I would be less stressed. And accidentally saved loads of cash. Now people have been looking at me as though I am a genius. Yes. Absolutely. I was completely thinking about the company's bottom line.
But we did see films. Rush was terrific, despite factual inaccuracies and a lack of car cam. Just a few laps of juddery old helmet cam was all I asked for … But it was wonderful to see all the old drivers portrayed; JODY SCHECKTER! And Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl were sterling.
And Thor the Dark World, which was a raft of very fine performances in a patchy film. The comedy was mostly good, the script was up and (largely) down, the action at times completely baffling – if you have laser gun thingies, why are you only using them once you close to grappling range?
But Hiddleston and Hemsworth are both so magnificently charismatic that you just don't deeply care that the film is meh. And Rene Russo is brilliant, as is Idris Elba. Kat Dennings and Natalie Portman are not well written at all, but strive to rise mightily above someone's laziness. And yet it is enjoyable. It's like Reign of Fire, in that you can mosty ignore the crap, or the first five minutes of Gladiator, when you know you are in for a rather poxy piece of nonsense in many ways, but the individual interactions Maximus has with each of his men is so convincing that you forgive much of the next two hours.
I think that fannish people will be best served with this film, as Hiddleston is champion, and Hemsworth ever so pretty, but it does make you wish that they had hired a real writer and been able to lure Kenneth Branagh back. I guessed literally every plot twist as things went on, which is not good!
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treacle_tartlet caught me at a weak moment and I am signed up for Nanowrimo, so I may not be around then, either. I hope that the world is kinder to several of you next month, and that it remains sparkling for the remainder. You are missed! But I am going to bed before midnight, making lace, reading books, and getting some exercise every day, even if that means there is no time for more than a quick read of LJ between snatches of life and work. BIG HUGS! MWAH!
Currently uninjured (let us not speak of Mr B accidentally semi-dislocating my arm the other week (all better), or of the woman who tried to drive over me on the way home tonight: I know it's scary driving in gale-force winds, madam, just imagine what it's like for me riding in them with lunatics like you out there!)
VERY OVERWORKED! But in fact much less so than last month when I was UNTENABLY OVERWORKED AND LIABLE TO MURDER SOMEONE. In fact, last month was so horrible that I totally reorganised the way we do almost everything so that I would be less stressed. And accidentally saved loads of cash. Now people have been looking at me as though I am a genius. Yes. Absolutely. I was completely thinking about the company's bottom line.
But we did see films. Rush was terrific, despite factual inaccuracies and a lack of car cam. Just a few laps of juddery old helmet cam was all I asked for … But it was wonderful to see all the old drivers portrayed; JODY SCHECKTER! And Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl were sterling.
And Thor the Dark World, which was a raft of very fine performances in a patchy film. The comedy was mostly good, the script was up and (largely) down, the action at times completely baffling – if you have laser gun thingies, why are you only using them once you close to grappling range?
But Hiddleston and Hemsworth are both so magnificently charismatic that you just don't deeply care that the film is meh. And Rene Russo is brilliant, as is Idris Elba. Kat Dennings and Natalie Portman are not well written at all, but strive to rise mightily above someone's laziness. And yet it is enjoyable. It's like Reign of Fire, in that you can mosty ignore the crap, or the first five minutes of Gladiator, when you know you are in for a rather poxy piece of nonsense in many ways, but the individual interactions Maximus has with each of his men is so convincing that you forgive much of the next two hours.
I think that fannish people will be best served with this film, as Hiddleston is champion, and Hemsworth ever so pretty, but it does make you wish that they had hired a real writer and been able to lure Kenneth Branagh back. I guessed literally every plot twist as things went on, which is not good!
November promises to be better for life, though
treacle_tartlet caught me at a weak moment and I am signed up for Nanowrimo, so I may not be around then, either. I hope that the world is kinder to several of you next month, and that it remains sparkling for the remainder. You are missed! But I am going to bed before midnight, making lace, reading books, and getting some exercise every day, even if that means there is no time for more than a quick read of LJ between snatches of life and work. BIG HUGS! MWAH!
