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I have had the same three DVDs from Netflix for pretty much ever: Disc 1 and 2 of Slings and Arrows: Season 1, and Bernard and Doris. I've had Bernard and Doris since the Golden Globes; I actually managed to watch In Bruges after about a month.
I refuse to return them until I watch them, because I'm stubborn like that, and because there isn't anything else that I really want to watch. But I've been trying to at least watch some movies online, so I'm not totally throwing money away every month.
Tonight I noticed a new line, in the midst the the Action/Adventure, Romance, and Comedy recommendations: Dramas Featuring a Strong Female Lead, based on the fact that I liked Juno and Becoming Jane. The recommendations are some French movie about a woman with a psycho boyfriend, some teen drama about a popular girl who gives up her status when she falls for a possibly psycho (or dying - its ambiguous) boyfriend, The Other Boleyn Girl, and Step Up 2: Ihe Streets. Now, I haven't actually watched any of these movies, and I'm willing to admit that one or more of them actually has a (fictional - Hollywood, you do not get extra credit for accurately portraying real women) strong female lead who has just been synopsized (that's totally a word) into idiocy.
In further WTFery, The 1940s Pride and Prejudice has a screenplay by Aldous Huxley. Yes, that Aldous Huxley. Also, its based on the "dramatization of the novel by Helen Jerome" because clearly, Austen was a crap storyteller, and it needed some punching up? I made it about 30 minutes into the movie, and it was too squished-together for me. Sadface, because I can totally get behind Olivier as Darcy.
I love Stars and Stripes Forever. I'm a fan of Sousa and marches in general, which may be my vestigial band-geekery. I particularly love Stars and Stripes Forever because of the piccolo part. (if you don't know what I'm talking about, the solo starts around 2:00, but pretty much all the chirpy bits are piccolo: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znEePD1nJxo] I could probably find a non-youtube version if I tried, but, uh, lazy.) So that makes me extra sad that I didn't find this video with the Muppets earlier, but a quick browse through my Dreamwidth network informs me that just about everyone else did.
I've just started watching season 3 of America's Best Dance Crew on the MTV website, and was completely surprised to see Dominic and Hok from SYTYCD show up with their crew. I actually made a sort of screeching noise and scared my cat when Hok popped up on screen. That Brian kid looks familiar, too, but I'm not sure if I remember him from SYTYCD auditions, or what. Also, Brandon from the clogging group I think tried out for SYTYCD...and maybe was brought back for the finale last season?
Also, my mom bought Sammy a new cat toy, with a bell in it. He is terrified of toys with bells (traumatic collar incident as a kitten? nfc.) so I think I may need to tear it open to take the bell out.
And in belated maybe-date news (verdict: may have been a date, but if we go somewhere again, it won't be) Star Trek was at least as awesome the second time as the first. Although, wow, I do not remember it being quite so lens-flare-tastic. The "IMAX" version, while quite pretty, and possibly higher-resolution than the original print, was still projected in widescreen format, so was not actually any larger than the screen I saw it on originally. But, was also the same price as a normal movie ticket, so I'm not going to complain. I managed to keep the tears (dear English language: how awful is it that crying and ripping have homographic synonyms? please be more specific. ugh.) to a minimum. The random guy next to me, who spent most of the pre-movie period going on at length about the flaws in Transformers 2, also was subtly wiping his eyes, though, so whatever.
muccamukk multiple words about five words, but it got a bit out of hand, and I got distracted, so I'm going to post this first! Many of these paragraphs have nothing to do with the ones adjacent to them, but I am too lazy, as always, to find transitional phrasesI have had the same three DVDs from Netflix for pretty much ever: Disc 1 and 2 of Slings and Arrows: Season 1, and Bernard and Doris. I've had Bernard and Doris since the Golden Globes; I actually managed to watch In Bruges after about a month.
I refuse to return them until I watch them, because I'm stubborn like that, and because there isn't anything else that I really want to watch. But I've been trying to at least watch some movies online, so I'm not totally throwing money away every month.
Tonight I noticed a new line, in the midst the the Action/Adventure, Romance, and Comedy recommendations: Dramas Featuring a Strong Female Lead, based on the fact that I liked Juno and Becoming Jane. The recommendations are some French movie about a woman with a psycho boyfriend, some teen drama about a popular girl who gives up her status when she falls for a possibly psycho (or dying - its ambiguous) boyfriend, The Other Boleyn Girl, and Step Up 2: Ihe Streets. Now, I haven't actually watched any of these movies, and I'm willing to admit that one or more of them actually has a (fictional - Hollywood, you do not get extra credit for accurately portraying real women) strong female lead who has just been synopsized (that's totally a word) into idiocy.
In further WTFery, The 1940s Pride and Prejudice has a screenplay by Aldous Huxley. Yes, that Aldous Huxley. Also, its based on the "dramatization of the novel by Helen Jerome" because clearly, Austen was a crap storyteller, and it needed some punching up? I made it about 30 minutes into the movie, and it was too squished-together for me. Sadface, because I can totally get behind Olivier as Darcy.
I love Stars and Stripes Forever. I'm a fan of Sousa and marches in general, which may be my vestigial band-geekery. I particularly love Stars and Stripes Forever because of the piccolo part. (if you don't know what I'm talking about, the solo starts around 2:00, but pretty much all the chirpy bits are piccolo: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znEePD1nJxo] I could probably find a non-youtube version if I tried, but, uh, lazy.) So that makes me extra sad that I didn't find this video with the Muppets earlier, but a quick browse through my Dreamwidth network informs me that just about everyone else did.
I've just started watching season 3 of America's Best Dance Crew on the MTV website, and was completely surprised to see Dominic and Hok from SYTYCD show up with their crew. I actually made a sort of screeching noise and scared my cat when Hok popped up on screen. That Brian kid looks familiar, too, but I'm not sure if I remember him from SYTYCD auditions, or what. Also, Brandon from the clogging group I think tried out for SYTYCD...and maybe was brought back for the finale last season?
Also, my mom bought Sammy a new cat toy, with a bell in it. He is terrified of toys with bells (traumatic collar incident as a kitten? nfc.) so I think I may need to tear it open to take the bell out.
And in belated maybe-date news (verdict: may have been a date, but if we go somewhere again, it won't be) Star Trek was at least as awesome the second time as the first. Although, wow, I do not remember it being quite so lens-flare-tastic. The "IMAX" version, while quite pretty, and possibly higher-resolution than the original print, was still projected in widescreen format, so was not actually any larger than the screen I saw it on originally. But, was also the same price as a normal movie ticket, so I'm not going to complain. I managed to keep the tears (dear English language: how awful is it that crying and ripping have homographic synonyms? please be more specific. ugh.) to a minimum. The random guy next to me, who spent most of the pre-movie period going on at length about the flaws in Transformers 2, also was subtly wiping his eyes, though, so whatever.
