Quick rec and a question

[trinityvixen]

For ivy03, jethrien, anomilygrace, and any other Hornblower fans: a fantastic entry about Archie Kennedy at the 1character challenge. It reads well for both period and character, and makes me absolutely ache for Archie (not because of any one line, but just, you know, in general).

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For everyone Would anyone want to play dodgeball?

I've been thinking about what to do for my belated birthday festivities. I would love to go out to dinner with all and sundry, per the usual, but I was thinking about what group activity to do, and I came up with dodgeball. I haven't played it in years--years!--and I figure, hey, why not? I know a basketball court or two we might take over in Riverside Park, and I can pick up a few red balls. All I need are some players!

Athletic skillz are not required--I'm probably in the worst shape of my life (I'm the reverse Bo-flex guy!), but I'm going to play if people are interested. The only rules I'll impose are upon some of the stronger folk to ask that they be very careful about tossing balls at people.

What say ye lj folk? I was thinking I might do it the weekend of the May Movie, so May 6th? (Exactly one month from my birthday, so yay relevance!)

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I cannot believe it's two weeks to the annual MAY MOVIE outing and I haven't so much as pestered one person about it. I've talked to theKathy and xannoside about the movie choice, but otherwise, not so much.

Oh, the MAY MOVIE this year will be Mission: Impossible III. Yes, I am as sick to death of Tom Cruise as the rest of you, but the Mission: Impossible movies have always been sorta fun in spite of him. I liked the first one a lot as a good crazy mystery/action thriller, and the second one is always good for Dougray Scott constantly mocking Tom Cruise--oh, excuse me, Tom Cruise's character ::cough cough'Ethan'sstupidtendencytogrinallthedamntimecough cough::--if nothing else.

If you've no interest, I understand, but I'm not going to pester this year. I'll just invite who'd like to go for the fun of it, who'll come for the friends involved, and who might want to chill at a cafe/diner afterward.

Come on, it can't be worse than Van Helsing. That one actually made feiran cry, it was so bad. And some of us still had a good time because when it's that bad, it's that good as fodder.

Comments

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yes, but it will have Hugh Jackman. Or, more importantly, it won't have Tom Cruise.

The Jackman factor is less of a draw than the Cruise-less factor. And everyone knows the biggest draw is really Phoenix and Mystique, making this one of the few movies starring women I find attractive, awesome, and NOT annoying.

I don't know yet if it will be Batman Forever bad. I might be. I might even be Daredevil bad. Really, I think it will be kinda Return of the Jedi level tolerable to a degree, but nowhere near X2 good. Because X2 just was that good.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

X2 was just that good up until the last act when I was like, for god's sake! Get it over with. ("Kill all the humans. Kill them." *stab, stab, stab*) And what was up with Hugh's hair in the first part of the film? It was like it grew wings! For all that X2 had a lot harder an edge and was "cooler" and more true to the comics, I still prefer the first one.

I also have to point out, for the record, that I liked Batman Forever the first time I saw it. I was totally seduced by the woobie factor. It was only on rewatching that I realized the writing was complete excrement. That and Val Kilmer just ain't Batman.

I might even be Daredevil bad.
Oh, you're bad. Bad to the bone.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

X2 was just that good up until the last act when I was like, for god's sake! Get it over with. ("Kill all the humans. Kill them." *stab, stab, stab*) And what was up with Hugh's hair in the first part of the film? It was like it grew wings! For all that X2 had a lot harder an edge and was "cooler" and more true to the comics, I still prefer the first one.

Perhaps that's why it's so good to me then. It adheres to comic logic. Of course Xavier's weak enough mentally to succumb to that kind of stuff. Riiiiight. But I enjoyed the humor better (less one-liner stuff, more priceless stuff, even from the Jack-man), and like I said, Mystique is one of the biggest draws for me because I genuinely like her character, she's awesomely translated to screen (even the gratuitious nudity makes a lot of sense when you figure she can't exactly wear the same clothes in her different shapes)--plus plus plus! I totally said it would be awesome if Mystique shape-shifted into someone who looked like Rebecca Romijn-Stamos and she did (she was even Romijn-Stamos at the time and everything!).

The first one is pretty good, don't get me wrong, but X2 is the "better" movie.

I also have to point out, for the record, that I liked Batman Forever the first time I saw it. I was totally seduced by the woobie factor. It was only on rewatching that I realized the writing was complete excrement. That and Val Kilmer just ain't Batman.

As did I, I confess it. I was so excited by there being a new Batman movie, I overlooked just about everything wrong with that picture (Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris O'Donnell...just about everyone on the poster, I guess, and don't get me started on the nipple suits). I defend Jim Carrey because I actually thought he did pretty well at making the Riddler mischievous and too-smart arrogant, kinda like in the cartoon only slightly more manic. It borrows a lot from the Joker in his more hysterical Carrey-isms, but the portrayal of Edward Nigma is otherwise fair (I still get chills when he says "I'll make you understand" because he does this creepy voice drop and lip-quiver that scares the crap out of me).

I might even be Daredevil bad.
Oh, you're bad. Bad to the bone.

If you're going to nag on a typo, at least go the whole hog and quote it right. "Bad to the bone, baby."