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revdorothyl at 07:43pm on 17/05/2004 under movie reviews
revdorothyl at 07:43pm on 17/05/2004 under movie reviewsI'm beginning to get panicky about the conference paper I have yet to write for May 30 (the Slayage BtVS Conference), but know I'll have to make some serious progress on it tomorrow, or ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
missmurchison will SO kick my butt! I'm trying not to let my resentment over the fact that my panel is scheduled opposite a vidding presentation by sisabet and sockkpuppett -- meaning that I won't get to attend their presentation, which kind of sucks -- distract me from my purpose, which is to get something halfway decent written, at least in rough draft form, by the end of this week.
Meanwhile, my procrastination yesterday afternoon (after a particularly draining church service, in which the only sounds during the hymns seemed to be my voice and the solo violin accompaniment -- which was fine for me, since the violin covers a multitude of vocal sins and lets me really 'belt out' on those high notes, but kind of defeats the purpose of congregational singing, if nobody else seems to be joining in, at least not at a volume my ears can detect) took the form of seeing two amusing movies back to back: "Monsieur Ibrahim" (Omar Sharif; in French with English subtitles -- a bit unusual, but I strongly recommend seeing it, if you get the chance) and "Laws of Attraction" (Pierce Brosnan -- which is usually reason enough to see any halfway tolerable film -- with a script that ALMOST starts to do him justice in the second half of the movie, and gives another nice plug to the Irish film industry). [Cuts for movie spoilers]
"Monsieur Ibrahim" ( Read more... )
"Laws of Attraction" ( Read more... )
Overall, if you like Pierce Brosnan, rural Ireland, and Julianne Moore, you CAN spend an entertaining hour-and-a-half at this movie -- especially if you don't pay more than matinee prices to see it. Just don't be surprised if your inner fanfic writer kicks in and starts mentally re-writing and fixing things, to turn it into the movie it should have been in the first place, while you're still watching it. Even as a non-fanfic-writer, I still felt a strong urge to re-write this story at several points as we went along.
missmurchison will SO kick my butt! I'm trying not to let my resentment over the fact that my panel is scheduled opposite a vidding presentation by sisabet and sockkpuppett -- meaning that I won't get to attend their presentation, which kind of sucks -- distract me from my purpose, which is to get something halfway decent written, at least in rough draft form, by the end of this week. Meanwhile, my procrastination yesterday afternoon (after a particularly draining church service, in which the only sounds during the hymns seemed to be my voice and the solo violin accompaniment -- which was fine for me, since the violin covers a multitude of vocal sins and lets me really 'belt out' on those high notes, but kind of defeats the purpose of congregational singing, if nobody else seems to be joining in, at least not at a volume my ears can detect) took the form of seeing two amusing movies back to back: "Monsieur Ibrahim" (Omar Sharif; in French with English subtitles -- a bit unusual, but I strongly recommend seeing it, if you get the chance) and "Laws of Attraction" (Pierce Brosnan -- which is usually reason enough to see any halfway tolerable film -- with a script that ALMOST starts to do him justice in the second half of the movie, and gives another nice plug to the Irish film industry). [Cuts for movie spoilers]
"Monsieur Ibrahim" ( Read more... )
"Laws of Attraction" ( Read more... )
Overall, if you like Pierce Brosnan, rural Ireland, and Julianne Moore, you CAN spend an entertaining hour-and-a-half at this movie -- especially if you don't pay more than matinee prices to see it. Just don't be surprised if your inner fanfic writer kicks in and starts mentally re-writing and fixing things, to turn it into the movie it should have been in the first place, while you're still watching it. Even as a non-fanfic-writer, I still felt a strong urge to re-write this story at several points as we went along.
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