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This story illustrates why I am the worst storyteller ever, because I cannot remember any of the pertinent details, but now that it has occurred to me, I must at least sketch it out. I have a friend From the Internet who used to send me quotes from random forum posts, typically on SomethingAwful. The agreement was that as long as he didn't send anything requiring brain bleach my way, I'd refrain from quoting fanfic at him. One of my favorites was the thread about things that people had just realized. I can't think of a single actual example now, but it was stuff on the order of, "I just realized it's called clockwise because that's the direction hands on a clock go."
Anyway, so the thing that made me think of this was that I was reading ye olde lj flist today and scrolled past an entry that made no sense on first glance. See, I had assumed it was a cap_ironman post about Tony Stark, but no! It was in fact an entry about Stark Sands. I don't know why it rocked my world to realize that they had a name in common, but it totally did.
I finally went to see The A-Team today, and I'm glad I did, but I still love The Losers about a billion times more. I wanted to like The A-Team, I really did, and there were moments that I loved, but either the editing or the directing was so, so bad that it pained me to watch at times. Like, any dialogue in the first half or so of the movie, where they're using mostly coverage of different actors instead of showing them all in the same shot? Hurt my brain.
I haven't seen more than a handful of scenes of the original show, so I can't really compare the two. Other than the fear of flying thing, is the rest of BA's arc in the movie a reference to characterization from the show? Or did they just invent that from whole cloth?
Also, Murdock's accent (or rather, Copley's) was all over the place, and I could never figure out of that was just sloppiness or him taking on characters for a few minutes at a time.
I'm sort of sad about the news that Edward Norton isn't going to be reprising his Bruce Banner for The Avengers. That said, I still haven't gotten around to seeing Iron Man 2, so it's not like I'm a solid enough fan of the franchise to be really invested in it.
For the past six months or so, while I haven't been sleeping in the master bedroom because it has no furniture, I have been under the impression that the ceiling fan light fixture was actually a source of sufficient light. It totally is not. It's about on par with candlelight from five feet away. So, I need to buy some lamps. On the other hand, should I ever have a need for mood lighting ever again, I am all set.
Also, new mattress, very comfortable. Yay.
Anyway, so the thing that made me think of this was that I was reading ye olde lj flist today and scrolled past an entry that made no sense on first glance. See, I had assumed it was a cap_ironman post about Tony Stark, but no! It was in fact an entry about Stark Sands. I don't know why it rocked my world to realize that they had a name in common, but it totally did.
I finally went to see The A-Team today, and I'm glad I did, but I still love The Losers about a billion times more. I wanted to like The A-Team, I really did, and there were moments that I loved, but either the editing or the directing was so, so bad that it pained me to watch at times. Like, any dialogue in the first half or so of the movie, where they're using mostly coverage of different actors instead of showing them all in the same shot? Hurt my brain.
I haven't seen more than a handful of scenes of the original show, so I can't really compare the two. Other than the fear of flying thing, is the rest of BA's arc in the movie a reference to characterization from the show? Or did they just invent that from whole cloth?
Also, Murdock's accent (or rather, Copley's) was all over the place, and I could never figure out of that was just sloppiness or him taking on characters for a few minutes at a time.
I'm sort of sad about the news that Edward Norton isn't going to be reprising his Bruce Banner for The Avengers. That said, I still haven't gotten around to seeing Iron Man 2, so it's not like I'm a solid enough fan of the franchise to be really invested in it.
For the past six months or so, while I haven't been sleeping in the master bedroom because it has no furniture, I have been under the impression that the ceiling fan light fixture was actually a source of sufficient light. It totally is not. It's about on par with candlelight from five feet away. So, I need to buy some lamps. On the other hand, should I ever have a need for mood lighting ever again, I am all set.
Also, new mattress, very comfortable. Yay.
