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[green_queen]

I honestly think that the opening scene of season 2 of Torchwood is one of the best opening scenes of any season of TV I've ever seen, we need to kill the CW logo department, and is it wrong that I kinda want a Faraday icon? I realise that sentence mixes fandoms, but I didn't feel like making separate dot points.

Does anyone else just skip every TMI LJ cut assuming it's about periods? Am I a bad person for doing this?

Why have I not heard of The Ianto Show? This girl is awesomecakes with awesomesauce!!!

TAHMOOOOH...will be at DragonCon. Gareth David-Lloyd needs to go to another con so I can know about it and send an envoy.

So, groaty linked this and it's awesome and I ahven't posted anything MCR-related in a while: a Frank/Gerard manifesto.

I had over 40 comments for this meme, and I've been trying to think of how to go about posting the results. I'm just posting the answers, you'll know if you got them right or not; top scores will also be posted. Also, if you commented, the comments are now unscreened. Sorry, everybody else. Thanks for playing, it was fun!

1. I'm a girl, I'm a girl, I wish I were dead. - Some Like It Hot
3 correct guesses

2. Oh my GOD! That's my mom's most favorite piece! The Goonies
5 correct guesses

3. I don't want to be a laundress. I want to be famous. Hairspray
6 correct guesses

4. I mean, it's literally like someone took America by the East Coast and *shook* it, and all the normal girls managed to hang on. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
6 correct guesses

5. Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence. Rear Window
1 correct guess

6. Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
5 correct guesses

7. Character 1: We unraveled in the face of the enemy!
Character 2: It's not our fault, they pulled a mind scramble on us. They opened their eyes and talked. The Lost Boys
3 correct guesses

8. Truth is cool but unattainable... the truth is totally amazing, but you can't ever reach it. Y Tu Mama Tambien
1 correct guess

9. There's that word again; "heavy". Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull? Back to the Future
14 correct guesses

10. The downside of coming off junk was I knew I would need to mix with my friends again in a state of full consciousness. It was awful. They reminded me so much of myself, I could hardly bear to look at them. Trainspotting
8 correct guesses

11. Do not take me for some conjuror of cheap tricks! Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
13 correct guesses

12. I went to rock and roll heaven, and I wasn't on the guest list. Empire Records
5 correct guesses

13. That's me, darling. Unusual places, unusual love affairs. I am a most strange and extraordinary person. Cabaret
0 correct guesses

14. It's love, in point of fact. Serenity
7 correct guesses

15. If only you could'a been my dad. We could have breakfast in the morning. Rebel Without a Cause
0 correct guesses

Winner:
truffle_shuffle with 7 points
Runners-up:
thetinydemon with 6 points
stufsocker with 6 points
pamdoove with 5 points


Today I sawThere Will Be Blood

I don't get it. I do, at least, know I was watching the same film that I've been reading insanely glowing reviews of - I saw all the shots and heard all the music I'd been reading about, I just didn't get the appeal. Yes, strong performance from Daniel Day-Lewis (and the completely remarkable Paul Dano, who is being unfairly overlooked - how he didn't get an Oscar nom for supporting I don't know.) My shoulders are still sore from being set on edge for what seemed like hours. That overloud, overbearing score was like nails on a chalkboard, and while I see the allegory, I felt like the film was just trying too hard. A really great film shouldn't feel like you're being dragged through it. The editing was strangely handled, too. There were a few scenes that I thought were genuinely outstanding (mostly when Dano and Day-Lewis were together, although I also liked the gorgeous burning of the oil well and the HW story) but I found a lot of it just...boring. I see a lot of parallels to 2001: A Space Odyssey, actually, and was equally bored; it wasn't boring enough to tune out, because the story was good when it was moving, but the characters were unlikeable (HW excepted, of course) and there were long scenes that I just didn't care about. The not-brother storyline felt like an unnecessary diversion, just to show us what Plainview was capable of; I'd have preferred it if that segment was removed and the movie was tightened up. I have the patience to sit through long movies, but they can't feel long. This felt like a day out of my life. I don't even feel, at the end of the day, like I learned or felt anything; I can't remember huge portions of the film. I just feel sore.

I need a massage.

3 out of 5



Honestly, it's just sex sex sex with you people
Green Queen

Comments

[corellianjedi.livejournal.com]

...and is it wrong that I kinda want a Faraday icon?

UM NO. I've been trying all week to decide what icon I want to delete so I have room for one.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

I can't find one that I really, really like, but if I do I'll take it. He is adorable.

[pinkegogirl.livejournal.com]

YOU JUST LINKED ME TO TWO OF THE MOST AMAZING THINGS EVER. I TOTES LOVE YOU.

[dekolette.livejournal.com]

we need to kill the CW logo department

WORD. The CW logo is already a pain in the ass but the CW logo + the PCD ad = too much! Well at least that stupid show starts tomorrow which means we don't have to see the ad again but I am pretty sure The CW will think of something else.

[hepcatliz.livejournal.com]

Empire Record *headdesk* Of course it was Empire Records!!

[greedy_dancer]

Heh, I just made a TMI cut, and it wasn't about periods! You are, however, not a bad person for not clicking. It might have been about periods, and by cutting you give the reader the power to ignore you even more easily than usual ;)

[hobbitofkobol.livejournal.com]

idk if you saw this but Gareth David-Lloyd will be at a Torchwood con in April in London, it's called The Rift or sth, James Marsters will be there too

*kicks self for not guessing some of the quotes*

[snuffkin.livejournal.com]

Does anyone else just skip every TMI LJ cut assuming it's about periods? Am I a bad person for doing this?

I always assume those are for tales of bad sex - but I read them anyway *lol*


Fank/Gerard manifesto = ♥ And so is bandom_ships. I love that community

[swear-jar.livejournal.com]

That manifesto seriously hurt me with how awesome it was... it just kept going. And going. I think I nearly exploded from the shockingly comprehensive squee.

[makkabee.livejournal.com]

I just saw There Will Be Blood this afternoon, and while I agree with you that the score was oppressive, otherwise I quite liked the film. I thought the not-brother story line was important because it allowed Daniel to open up and talk about his inner demons, show some humanity (the only time he did so other than with HW), and relax a bit. Daniel finally made an exception to his rule that people were rotten by nature and needed to be kept at arm's length, and it turned out his exception was a liar pulling a con job. His reaction was the point of no return for the path he'd been taking in life. What's more, that reaction provided others with a weakness they could exploit in dealing with him -- I'm not sure you could have gotten him into that church scene otherwise.

Anyway, I loved the movie and I'm sorry it wasn't all you'd hoped for.

[stufsocker.livejournal.com]

Yea, the Kiss Kiss and Rear Window lines were totally getting to me. I've seen both within the last few months, but I guess those just didn't stick. Doh.