random things

[jade_sabre]

1) did anyone else actually love all three of the POTC movies? I mean, I'll admit the second one drags and the third one is ridiculously convoluted, but I love the ridiculous convolutedness, and the way the stories turn out, even though Norrington's problems all stemmed solely from the fact that the writers decided to screw him over. I just. Really love the canon.

2) apartment searching is the pits and we are going to be homeless and broke and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

3) I BEAT THE DWARVES, HELL YEAH, LOOK AT ME AND MY BADASS BROODMOTHER-KILLING SELF, WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO why doesn't alistair love me yet OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

also like, dude, I played through the female city elf opening just for kicks, and dude, I was actually furious. Like, yelling at my computer screen, wanting to punch a pillow angry. So well-done, but ARGH.

also I love the fact that as an elf you can hate on humans all day long in the dialogue options. No human-curious Dalish elf for me! I KILLED AN ARL'S SON, BITCH.

(quark: and you were telling me about all the terrible things he's doing and I was like, oh God, I think--I think I freed him.)

4) why are custom mood themes so much effort. I don't waaaaaaaanna get a photobucket. That being said, my new layout/theme pleases me greatly. I just want to play "Part of Your World" on repeat and cry contemplate things.

5) All of the movies on TCM today are about, like, unrequited love and the crazy things women will do to overcome it. Thanks, TCM. Thanks a lot.

anyway, back to gathering up the nerve to call people. w-wish me luck?

Comments

[keestone.livejournal.com]

I liked the first POTC movie . . . the first time around. I didn't find it bore repeated watching at all, and I thought League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was by far the better of the two movies that summer. The second one bored me to pieces . . . as in I spent half the movie thinking about how good the sushi I'd had the day before was. #3 I think I fell asleep for part of it. But I loved the Davy Jones' Locker scene and the turning the ship upside down.


Ack! Dwarves! Hopefully, by the end of the week I can kind of say that too. I'm trying to write about "The Birthday of the Infanta", and the intersection of The Grotesque, Ruskin, Bakhtin, possibly Hegel, Dwarfs, the topos of the Dying Child, and Dickens is wrecking my head. Why does "The Stones of Venice" have to be so long?

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

ah-hahahahahaha, well, that's one vote. Most people are like "those second two movies were terrible" and I'm like "well, I don't really remember the second one, but the basic plot was okay, but HOMG THE THIRD ONE, IT WAS RIDICULOUS" and I love how ridiculous it was, and how as the audience watching it for the fifth time you start to feel like you understand what's going on in every scene better than the actors do. Heh.

YOU CAN DO IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. *raps Dickens on the head and tells him to play nice*

[keestone.livejournal.com]

Considering one of those actors is Orlando Bloom, one is Keira Knightley, and one is most likely on something while he phones it in, there's a very good chance you understood the scenes better than the actors the first time around. (I think Orlando Bloom is actually an excellent actor whose skills are completely underused in those movies, but from interviews, I'd never claim he was the brightest button in the box.)