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[green_queen]

Polls!

Hilarious fake posters of Chris Evans' character in 'Scott Pilgrim vs. The World'.

Damon & Carlton news.

Lost: The Auction. Cool stuff.

Lego Serenity!

Lineup of writers for Torchwood season 4. As much as I love Jane Espenson, I'm not watching it without Ianto.

'Glee' creator Ryan Murphy developing a musical series for pal Kristin Chenoweth. AWESOME.

'Glee': Carol Burnett is Sue's mum. Hee.

Joss posts about the Joss/JJ panel at Comic-con which I was totally at, by the way. It was epic. I'm on Team JJ regarding 3D though.

Human Relations vs. Drones aka Amber Benson vs. SyFy. It's all making me very sad.

Enver Gjokaj and Tom Lenk are doing a play together!

Tim DeKay and Matt Bomer Boner at Comic-con. I must've walked past there a dozen times and never saw anything that cool.

Dom's Eminem video:
Article one, article two.

I have to say, I'm creeped out by the idea of Eminem and Rihanna, of all people, doing a duet about what'e essentially an abusive relationship. It's obviously very close to home for both of them, and Rihanna isn't exactly a poster child for women's rights at this point. Also, it makes me feel bad about how hot Dom is in it.

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I haven't reviewed a bunch of the movies from my holiday, but I want to review this one while it's fresh in my mind and before a possible rewatch: Inception

Flawless. This is seriously a perfect movie. It makes you think while simultaneously entertaining, it is perfectly cast, and every technique is used in the service of the movie. The structure was fantastic - they drop you in the thick of it, and explain things along the way as you need to know them. Nolan has completely outdone himself. I don't like the Batman reboot as much as other people, and I felt like this movie threw out some of the problems I had with that one - the bleakness and the feeling of being hammered into the ground - by keeping us on the edge of our seats but inserting a fair bit of character-driven humour. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Tom Hardy were fantastic, and Marion Cotillard was ridiculously good. I want to watch it again now that I know how the pieces of the puzzle fit. I could watch the part where the van's falling over and over again. I love a good action movie, I love a good heist, and I LOVE a good ending.

There were some interesting shades of Shutter Island in there, I thought, just from the Leo point of view. The only thing that annoyed me was the use of "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien", because it is so linked in my mind to 'La Vie En Rose' and it brought me out of the illusion of the movie by reminding me of Marion Cotillard's most famous role. Also, why did JGL insist on calling Saito "say-toh"? And while I appreciate the means-bad-in-Latin-ness of Mal's name, I wish the Americans could pronounce it. *sigh*

5 out of 5

Dream a little bigger, darling
Green Queen

Comments

[entwashian.livejournal.com]

My favorite fake poster: "Spencer Jay is awesome. You're welcome."

N'awww, Joss!

HOLY SHIT I'VE GOT TO SEE THAT PLAY!

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

I love the second one that lampoons Nicholas Sparks, because I hate all those movies.

[hobbitofkobol.livejournal.com]

that music video made me uncomfortable but I couldn't help finding Dom really really hot in it

yay Inception! everything you said!
yeah, why do they pronounce Mal as "Mall"? it sounds weird to me

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's pretty much exactly how I feel about it.

I guess they were told to? Or they couldn't get their heads around the way it was supposed to be pronounced? It's weird.

[grrliz.livejournal.com]

I appreciate the means-bad-in-Latin-ness of Mal's name

Is it supposed to be from Latin or from French (which is of course also from Latin)? It's "bad" in French too and while I don't think Leo's French accent is terribly good, I don't think it sounded mispronounced in French. (No idea what it's supposed to sound like in Latin.)

ETA No, now that I'm saying it over and over in my head, it still sounds wrong if it's French. Maybe they're purposely mispronouncing it because otherwise it's kind of lame to have a villainesque character have the word "bad" as their name.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

I was quoting Firefly for that, I figured it was from the French. It's a weird choice any way you slice it, I reckon.

[snuffkin.livejournal.com]

I agree with everything you said about Inception. I think what I most loved about it is that, as you said, the effects were in the service of the movie, not the other way around. I felt that everything was used as much as needed. The cast was amazing, not one person felt out of place.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

I forgot to mention how Eames and Arthur were obviously doing it.

[snuffkin.livejournal.com]

no need to mention the obvious :D