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[green_queen]

Went out with cousins for dirnks for Puppy's birthday and saw melissajane14, Funtimes. Slightly drunk.

Linkies:

Supernatural 5.11 'Sam, Interrupted' preview clip. Funny!

More clips.

Spoilery Kripke interview.

Go help Haiti via ontd_startrek.

Calvin and Hobbes snowmen FTW.

'Avatar' rant. I argued with Puppy about this movie tonight. TBH, if people were just enjoying this as a movie that is fairly well-made I wouldn't care so much. It's the rave reviews, "BEST MOVIE EVER" comments, and award nominations that make me angry. Without a plot and characters, it's not a movie, it's a feature-length cartoon with lofty aspirations.

#7 Papyrus font. Yellow Papyrus font. Everywhere. WHYYYY.
#8 I had to see this film in 3D. If you are also someone who has to wear glasses in the cinema, you will know how fucking annoying 3D films are. I don’t want to wear glasses over my glasses!! I just— WHY is 3D suddenly so popular again? Stop trying to make 3D happen! It’s not going to happen!
THESE POINTS. YES.

Day 01 → Your favorite song
Day 02 → Your favorite movie
Day 03 → Your favorite television program
Day 04 → Your favorite book
Day 05 → Your favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 → A photo you took
Day 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 → A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever tickles your fancy

Day 13 → A fictional book
Does this mean post a fictional book?

Go buy 'Good Omens' on Amazon.com if you haven't read it. If you have, Paul Bettany = Aziraphale, amirite? Also, it needs to be a movie yesterday.

Day 14 → A non-fictional book
Day 15 → A fanfic
Day 16 → A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 → A talent of yours
Day 20 → A hobby of yours
Day 21 → A recipe
Day 22 → A website
Day 23 → A YouTube video
Day 24 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 → Your day, in great detail
Day 26 → Your week, in great detail
Day 27 → This month, in great detail
Day 28 → This year, in great detail
Day 29 → Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 → Whatever tickles your fancy

Green Queen

Comments

[subtle--sarcasm.livejournal.com]

If you have, Paul Bettany = Aziraphale, amirite?
You are right.

I don't get the BEST MOVIE EVER OMG Avatar people either, but I also don't get the WORST MOVIE EVER people.
I really enjoyed it, I actually watched it twice (but that's because it's free for me), but I'm fully aware that it has MASSIVE flaws and is about as revolutionary as 90s disney movies when it comes to story. I think the visuals are stunning and Sam Worthington is so pretty he should be illegal.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

I've become one of the WORST MOVIE EVER people by virtue of not being one of the BEST MOVIE EVER people. I'm not a huge Worthington fan, which doesn't help. but I did think Zoe Saldana did an amazing job as Neytiri. I think it was pretty and enjoyable, but I don't like 3D and the plot and majority of the characterisation just wasted all the world-building work they did, to me. It can't be a great movie without a good plot or character depth, and Avatar lacked both. I didn't hate it, but arguing against people who LOVED it makes me sound like I did.

[subtle--sarcasm.livejournal.com]

I thought both Zoe Saldana and the people behind the Neytiri animation where definitely the most impressive people on it. I really like Sam, and I can't see the World-building as wasted, because that on it's own made the movie worth seeing for me. /very convoluted non-grammatical sentence

I don't have a problem with 3D, I usually wear contacts but I have seen 3D movies while wearing glasses and it didn't bother me all that much. But I can imagine that it would get annoying in a movie this long.

I didn't hate it, but arguing against people who LOVED it makes me sound like I did.
Yeah, I get that. There are movies that I really didn't hate but I ended up in the ... i don't know, "hate-corner" for them, simply because people I talked to loved it so much more.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

LOL I just made a comment to baldie_troll saying James Cameron should just give his Globe to Zoe and the effects people, because they're all that raised the movie about the level of a glorified cartoon. I don't get the Sam thing, but even if I did, the character is still flat. The world-building isn't story-telling. It's like Cameron went "I made an awesome world....but I don't have a story! I'll just slap a couple Disney stories on there and see if they stick." That's not movie-making. He should just make video games if he wants to do that.

Meanwhile, that Topher icon is ADORABLE.

[subtle--sarcasm.livejournal.com]

:D I like the idea ^^

Oh Topher, don't leave us :(

[grrliz.livejournal.com]

Am I the only person who wears glasses (like, I don't even own contacts) who doesn't find it obnoxious to also wear 3D glasses? I CANNOT BE THE ONLY ONE!

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

I don't know, but I hate wearing the 3D glasses, and most people I know who wear glasses do too. Also, it dulls the colours and makes the shot look too busy. I just don't get the attraction.

[grrliz.livejournal.com]

Wow, yeah, that totally hasn't been my experience, especially with the dulling of colours (the colours in Avatar really blew me away, actually).

[subtle--sarcasm.livejournal.com]

Sorry that I keep butting into this conversation :D But I really don't get the color thing either. I've heard complaints about it so many times but I don't see it at all. I saw UP both in 3D and in 2D and didn't see a difference. Same with Avatar.

[grrliz.livejournal.com]

I don't think I saw Up in 3D, but the other movies I did see (Coraline, Monsters vs. Aliens, and I'm probably forgetting other stuff) had great, great, great colour in both 3D and 2D.

[subtle--sarcasm.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly, I saw both of those in 3D and they were incredibly colorful. Maybe it's a matter of the actual 3D projectors? I was always confused when I read that complaint in reviews.
I did try to watch Coraline on DVD with the green and red glasses the other day, though, and that was just horrible. But with the 3D movies in cinemas, I never noticed a color-difference.

[grrliz.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I haven't tried the 3D-at-home thing with Coraline because the glasses are tiny and definitely don't fit overtop of regular glasses the way the ones at the movies do. Plus, they're the red/green ones which will definitely add a colour change to the experience. So... my home is not for viewing 3D, and thats okay. :)

[subtle--sarcasm.livejournal.com]

Apparently Sony is working on/bringing out a 3D tv with the 3D cinema technology now that will cost roughly the size of a small country. But yeah, I have no problem with my 3D viewing being limited to cinemas. :)

wtf @ sentence. Roughly the net worth of a small country, is what I meant to say. Not cost the size. My brain is being weird, sorry.

[grrliz.livejournal.com]

I originally interpreted that like a real estate transaction, as in it would cost the same as the price to purchase a small nation. :)

[subtle--sarcasm.livejournal.com]

Yeah it's kind of what I meant. But then my brain made it something confusing :D

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just the technology I've been seeing it with, because when I took the glasses off I looooved the beautiful colours in Avatar. I might have even given it a higher...no, you know what, even then I still wouldn't have given it a better rating without a more interesting plot and characterisation and better dialogue.

[subtle--sarcasm.livejournal.com]

I usually wear contacts, but during the few 3D movies I have seen while wearing my regular glasses, it really didn't bother me.

[killmotion.livejournal.com]

I'm the same! Maybe it's my giant nose.

[zombie_boogie.livejournal.com]

Not gonna lie, I adored Avatar but I can admit it had a lot of flaws (like... the screenplay). I actually did enjoy the story and the characters even if they were contrived and unoriginal and I personally thought the CGI was spectacular. But to each their own, and I can separate my own personal love of the movie from an objective analysis of the film (i.e. I won't be rooting for it at the Oscars except for special effects).

With very few exceptions though, I hate this new trend towards 3-D films. NOT EVERYTHING HAS TO BE IN 3-D JFC. So unnecessary. I saw Half-Blood Prince in IMAX 3-D and they had, like, a few scenes that required the 3-D glasses at the beginning and then you took them off for the rest of the film. Lamesauce. The only films I've seen recently that used 3-D awesomely were Coraline and parts of Avatar.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you have a Neytiri icon. I really do like Neytiri, but I think that's mostly down to Zoe Saldana's quite amazing performance - I'm not sure her lines were better than anyone else's, but Zoe just went for it with the sounds and the emotions.

Yeah, I'm sick of 3D.

[killmotion.livejournal.com]

I am really looking forward to Supernatural being back!

I did love Avatar but I wouldn't call it best movie ever. Serenity gets that in my mind. Which is still bias but I have yet to see as many movies as I'd like before I could even make a valid assessment as to what is. And even then, it's all subjective to personal preference.

And I wear big thick glasses and 3D glasses were fine on me thought the Platypus font was unnerving. I do agree not everything has to be 3D. It's become sp standard and it doesn't need to be.

I've been meaning to read Good Omens for a while. I have the ebook but I procrastinate...

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

I am too. I always get so excited when my shows come back, which is a bad idea with Supernatural, because it so often lets me down.

My best movie ever is Lord of the Rings.

OMG read it! It's SUCH a good book, my favourite after Harry Potter.

[gabsy.livejournal.com]

OH HAI, that's my post!! Though the best part of the rant isn't mine!

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

LOL yes it is. I kind of love Tumblr.

[baldie-troll.livejournal.com]

Best movie ever! xD

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

...is Lord of the Rings. Duh.

[baldie-troll.livejournal.com]

Also Calvin and Hobbes, best comic ever! xD

[entwashian.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, I think everyone ever has their own personal casting for Aziraphale & Crowley. Like, there are wars about it on fandomsecrets.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

Doesn't surprise me. I don't really have a Crowley, just Bettany for Aziraphale.

[stufsocker.livejournal.com]

I came away from Avatar with this thought: The dialogue is awful and the plot is totally predictable, but it's pretty enough to make me almost not care. I'm glad I saw it for teh pretty, but best movie ever? Hells no.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

The pretty wasn't enough to make me not care.

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[hepcatliz.livejournal.com]

Go buy 'Good Omens' on Amazon.com if you haven't read it. If you have, Paul Bettany = Aziraphale, amirite? Also, it needs to be a movie yesterday.

You can have Bettany if I can have Matthew Goode as Crowley ;D

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

*shrugs* sure. I don't have a Crowley, although I don't really get the Matthew Goode thing.