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I watched Last Chance Harvey on the flight out, since I didn't get my act together to see it in the theater, and I will watch literally anything with Emma Thompson in it. I'm not a huge fan of Bumbling Dustin Hoffman, but it seemed worth the risk. And it was better than spending 2 hours on the plane bored, but not by much because - and maybe this is just me being the wrong generation, or overcaffeinated, or something - but it seemed, even for a romance, to be overly formulaic and predictable, while also dragging along interminably until in setting up the characters. There was this endless back-and-forth between Kate's and Harvey's stories, and I kept thinking, "Oh, this will be the moment where one of them walks (wherever) and runs into the other" and it kept not happening, and it was just frustrating. Maybe if there'd been more of an element of farce in how sad-sack their individual lives were, it wouldn't have dragged on so badly. AND THEN, once they finally get to share screen time for more than 10 seconds, there's one of those scenes where they promise to meet somewhere at a very specific time, and of course you know as soon as it happens that one of them is going to be unavoidably detained and the other is going to be heartbroken/confused/depressed/angry so that they have another hurdle to overcome. I mean, it was fine. It was a nice, gentle romance for People of a Certain Age, but I expected more.
I also watched He's Just Not That Into You (and wow, that imdb entry is by order of appearance. lame) - twice, actually - and I loved it. I adore Ginnifer Goodwin (and sort of wish I hadn't fallen out of the habit of watching Big Love, now) and, obviously, Justin Long. I haven't seen any of the past 3 or 4 movies that Jennifer Anniston and Ben Affleck have done, but I really enjoyed their parts in this. And, question: Is it just me, or does Scarlet Johansson play a lot of sort of unpleasant characters, or at least unenlightened and dubiously moral ones. Part of me wants to congratulate her for being willing to play people who are not cookie-cutter ingenues who live their charmed lives and meet their perfect life-mate. Either way, I'm more interested to see her version of Black Widow than I was a couple days ago.
I have about 15 things open in tabs from skimming through flist (reading page...whatever) this morning that I may or may not get to. Taking a break from the internet is sort of daunting.
I am bad at conversation in groups of people. Talking to groups, I'm fine with, and I can make conversation or fill dead air when talking to just one person for hours if need be, but by about 24 hours in, I had no idea who I'd already given the abridged version of the past 10 years to, and so my anecdotes sort of ran out of steam. On the bright side, I got food from all the restaurants I miss over the course of the weekend.
I have all manner of notes for all manner of fictional things, and haven't finished anything in longer than I'm happy with. I really need to sit down and string some words together.
I feel like I have other things I was going to say... Oh well.
I watched Last Chance Harvey on the flight out, since I didn't get my act together to see it in the theater, and I will watch literally anything with Emma Thompson in it. I'm not a huge fan of Bumbling Dustin Hoffman, but it seemed worth the risk. And it was better than spending 2 hours on the plane bored, but not by much because - and maybe this is just me being the wrong generation, or overcaffeinated, or something - but it seemed, even for a romance, to be overly formulaic and predictable, while also dragging along interminably until in setting up the characters. There was this endless back-and-forth between Kate's and Harvey's stories, and I kept thinking, "Oh, this will be the moment where one of them walks (wherever) and runs into the other" and it kept not happening, and it was just frustrating. Maybe if there'd been more of an element of farce in how sad-sack their individual lives were, it wouldn't have dragged on so badly. AND THEN, once they finally get to share screen time for more than 10 seconds, there's one of those scenes where they promise to meet somewhere at a very specific time, and of course you know as soon as it happens that one of them is going to be unavoidably detained and the other is going to be heartbroken/confused/depressed/angry so that they have another hurdle to overcome. I mean, it was fine. It was a nice, gentle romance for People of a Certain Age, but I expected more.
I also watched He's Just Not That Into You (and wow, that imdb entry is by order of appearance. lame) - twice, actually - and I loved it. I adore Ginnifer Goodwin (and sort of wish I hadn't fallen out of the habit of watching Big Love, now) and, obviously, Justin Long. I haven't seen any of the past 3 or 4 movies that Jennifer Anniston and Ben Affleck have done, but I really enjoyed their parts in this. And, question: Is it just me, or does Scarlet Johansson play a lot of sort of unpleasant characters, or at least unenlightened and dubiously moral ones. Part of me wants to congratulate her for being willing to play people who are not cookie-cutter ingenues who live their charmed lives and meet their perfect life-mate. Either way, I'm more interested to see her version of Black Widow than I was a couple days ago.
I have about 15 things open in tabs from skimming through flist (reading page...whatever) this morning that I may or may not get to. Taking a break from the internet is sort of daunting.
I am bad at conversation in groups of people. Talking to groups, I'm fine with, and I can make conversation or fill dead air when talking to just one person for hours if need be, but by about 24 hours in, I had no idea who I'd already given the abridged version of the past 10 years to, and so my anecdotes sort of ran out of steam. On the bright side, I got food from all the restaurants I miss over the course of the weekend.
I have all manner of notes for all manner of fictional things, and haven't finished anything in longer than I'm happy with. I really need to sit down and string some words together.
I feel like I have other things I was going to say... Oh well.