Dream murderer

I had a dream that I was avenging the death of a friend and proceeded to wipe out, like, a billion army dudes who were trying to invade my lawn. All my other friends were high-fiving each other and going back into the house for drinks, giving me the o.O face when I was still a snorting, wheezing maniac coming down off homicidal highs into guilt-wracked, PTSD lows. Then the lawn flooded and everything below this staircase leading up to the balcony flooded and I started to, grudgingly, go back in to relax and "celebrate." I noticed, on my way in, some strange silver coins that were oddly shaped and I dove for them. Turns out they were Ye Olde Romane Coines. Having something new and shiny to think about instead of slaughter, I was about to run inside and show everyone when I woke up.

Now I'm giving my subconscious the o.O face....

Ah.

While I was griping about stuff that is, aside from the second item, more important in the grand scheme of things, there was a press release about the third Nolan-helmed Batman film.

I'm actually not at all upset about Tom Hardy playing Bane. As several of the commenters at io9 pointed out pictorially, he could pull off the shape just fine. We only have to hope that Nolan uses him in the slyer, smarmier way that he did in Inception (rather than how Joel Schumacher used the character in that film I refuse to believe exists). It could work.

It's Anne Hathaway I remain unconvinced by. Anne Hathaway is, in a word, cute. She's cute, cutesy, pretty, girly, twee, etc., etc., etc. None of these are things I associate with Catwoman. I don't doubt her abilities as an actress, though, again, most of what I've seen her in has generally fit into the label "twee" without spilling over. (Before you tell me, I'll let you all know I still haven't seen her in Brokeback Mountain, in which I hear she was great. I promise I will get on that.)

Perhaps I'm just disappointed that my much-preferred casting choice for the role, Rachel Weisz, didn't get it. Maybe they're saving her for Talia al Ghul? I don't know. But Rachel Weisz is TEH SEX in mind, body, voice, and attitude. Funnily enough, the first thing I saw her in was The Mummy, in which she plays what I would call the Anne Hathaway type--ditzy, pretty, somewhat smart but not overly arrogant. But ever since then, the woman has been made of sex (including in the less-good sequel to The Mummy in which she wears so much eyeliner I died). It's a missed opportunity to have her in the movie.

Still? It's a Nolan Bat-film, so it'll be good, Anne Hathaway or no. I should just be glad that Catwoman has plot immunity and can't be killed off just to make the hero feel ways about stuff like Nolan does in all his movies....right?

Holy God, this is my fourth post

Since starting my new (now seven months old) job, I've not been a regular on LJ. I used to post once a day. The new job started up and I was busier during and after work and now it's more like once a week. Today has been an anomaly since this is, as my subject says, the fourth post I'm making today.

Anyway, in effort to be more regularly around, I'm doing a 30-day meme I stole from droidguy1119. This should be easy since it's all about movies. I am going to modify it, as he plans to, to state that my "favorite" is subject to change and most answers will be chosen from among several favorites (or, as necessary, least favorites).

30 Day Movie Challenge:
Day 01 - Your favorite movie

I have seen many movies in the theaters multiple times. But no matter how many times teenage me watched The Matrix, toddler me had her beat. There used to be a teeny tiny little video store back in the day (we're talking it-was-located-in-a-strip-mall-with-a-Woolworth's back in the day) that had two copies of Sleeping Beauty. I would rent one and, in three days, take it back and rent the other copy. My mother would take roughly ten minutes to pick out movies, during which I would browse the horror movie section (I liked to look at the backs of the VHS covers and gawk at gory stuff) and then return to the front with the empty jacket for Sleeping Beauty in hand.

It may not be the movie I turn to nowadays, but it's definitely an all-time favorite.

( The days to come... )

Things and such for posting

I'm collecting a lot of links for posts.

1) Proof positive that outlawing a thing doesn't make it go away. (ETA: TRIGGER WARNING) For fuck's sake, abortion isn't illegal now, and this is what's happening because it's become so goddamned shameful and fucking difficult to obtain for anyone who isn't rich. You tell me what's more offensive to your God, anti-choicers: a woman scraping some insensate cells out of her uterus or a man forcibly delivering viable** fetuses and stabbing them with scissors? Pro-life my goddamned ass.

2) This isn't a totally accurate list, which makes it all the more aggravating when it gets things right. I agree with all the points about emotional attachment to a franchise. Spider-Man isn't James Bond. Hell, he's not Batman. We've had pretty much the one guy. (Okay, Tobey Maguire was the guy and that was an up-and-down relationship, but he's still the guy.) The story still resonates where the films were any good. And the best villains were already used, including, despite how shittily he was used, Venom.

However, the cast wasn't perfect, and the acting was occasionally too embarrassed/embarrassing for its own good. (Dunnnssssssssst!) Raimi did something amazing with Spider-Man, and I'll fight anyone who'll take that credit from him. He overcame hurdles that had banished Spider-Man to development hell for some 20 years. The problem was that Spider-Man, for all the general awareness of him in pop culture, was still kind of an unknown. He's not Superman and he's not Batman, the binary twins of screen superheroism. Once Raimi made Spider-Man, the dam burst and we were able to accept other people's visions of superheroes. (Or, in the case of The Hulk, reject them.) There's no one guy who can do Spider-Man, just one guy who did it well (until the studio meddled and sabotaged him). There's room for more there.

Just, you know, not right now. Sony's not doing this for revenge, by the way. This is purely to keep the rights and make the most of them. Yes, okay, fine, maybe they're spiting Marvel Studios a little. But this is 90% financial interest.

3) Never trust a movie that films today and will be showing tomorrow. If I'd followed that rule for Bachelor Party in the Bungalow of the Damned, I might have that hour back to waste on this movie. Alas, I do not. (No, really, they're filming it now to show in two months. You stay classy, SyFy.)

4) Wow, I didn't know John Cusack had been drinking that much. Kidding! He's still not hang-dog looking enough to play Edgar Allen Poe without a lot of makeup, but I'm sure he'll manage. Hey, today was Poe's birthday and his biggest secret fan didn't show up. Sadness :(