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[trinityvixen]

It's really, really sad when you find yourself checking your DVD clock every ten minutes or so to figure out how long it's been since you last saw zombies. Flight of the Living Dead did eventually deliver zombies, but, sheesh, I swear that Night of the Living Dead had more zombies and faster and it was made with less than half the budget (even without adjusting for inflation) and had fewer people in it to begin with. Outtakes were great, though.

And, FINALLY, I got to see Day Watch. Can I just say (as I've said before) that I love Anton? He's absolutely the biggest fuck-up of all time, and yet? Sweetly endearing in his credulous ineptitude. I'm gonna have to watch Night Watch and then Day Watch again to be sure I appreciate all the continuities (we did pretty well among the crowd that happened to be watching of reconstructing the plot by consensus from the last film). I'd love to see more of this, but I'm afraid. ecmyers said they're filming the next one in English. Why? I mean maybe I just don't know that the entire cast is actually bilingual and proud of it, but it seems to me that you shouldn't mess with the language through which they most comfortably express themselves. Hell, bad accents can take power out of a performance; adopting another language could do god-knows-what.

Plus, Anton sounds even more pathetic with his schlubby muttering in Russian than he would do in English, and his sclubbiness is why we love him!

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On a completely unrelated note: Rejected public proposals. Like the announcers, I've always wondered what would happen if someone actually said "no" when the grand "romantic" gesture was made. Rumor has it that this particular one was staged. If so, this one is probably fake, too. Regardless, you'll note that the crowd turns on the woman doing the rejecting pretty quick and that's the real mob reaction to her defying the narrative. Obviously, if he proposes in public, you're obligated to accept. How embarrassing for you to get that wrong.

Except? Ugh. I can't think that anyone who does this and really gets rejected would be anything but an idiot. Because there are two major reasons I could see this going wrong for that person. Either the woman never wants to marry him and he didn't know it but plowed along thinking the public proposal would force her into it; or she very likely would marry him but somehow their comfortable intimacy has not led him to realize that this is exactly the wrong way to do it. Either way, dumb move on the dude's part. I can't think of anything less romantic than thousands of strangers watching me for my every reaction and making judgments on whether it's grateful/happy/etc enough to match his grand gesture (by grand, I mean in size only, not in terms of tactfulness or true thoughtfulness). I break out into hives thinking of a traditional wedding where I would then be required to accept that I fit into some minister/justice-of-the-peace's statements about how joyous and blessed I feel to be with so-and-so. And there I'd only be doing so in front of people I know and who have, presumably, entered into friendships/are part of family such that I am allowed to do the same to them at some point. Being mushy in front of people period: DO NOT WANT.

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[viridian.livejournal.com]

... though I did tell Ben that if he embarrassed me with a public proposal the answer was automatically no, so uh, I may be the tiniest bit hypocritical. I'd like to think that I would've at least waited to kill him til we got home, though.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

... and after WATCHING those, I don't see so much a "rejected proposal" as two women going "OMG WTF DO NOT WANT" in response to the whole spectacle of the thing, which is probably how I would've reacted even if my answer later on was yes.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

See, that's what I object to. You have to wonder how many proposals like this are accepted and then later dismissed when the woman is "allowed" to vent her fury over being cornered. How many proposals didn't make it past the ride home, that sort of thing. The first example, she looked surprised and heartbroken in a way, and it seemed that she tried to explain and let him down gently then run off. That's about as good as you deserve when you invite the prying eyes of strangers to witness something so personal. The second lady is more of my mind, the "FUCK THIS AND FUCK YOU AND FUCK YOUR MOTHER I AM OUT OF HERE" thinking.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Heh, full disclosure here: when I was 17, my then-boyfriend of 7 months or so proposed to me in an extremely theatrical sort of way (thank fuck, not in public) and my immediate mental reaction was "WHAT? NO! WE'RE 17!!!!!!11"

However, I knew it would've crushed this kid's spirit, so I pinned on a smile and said yes, and then immediately afterwards negotiated terms that involved words like "If we're still together after college." I then made it a point to go very far away for college. No, just kidding, I broke up with him a few weeks later for being a tool. :D

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

...well, congratulations for being more tactful than I would have been. I would have, twu wub not withstanding, run screaming for the hills.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, well, you have to understand, this was my first foray into the wonderful world of dating actors. Everything was high drama with this boy, and because I used to go for that sort of thing, I was sympathetic enough to let him down more easily than I might've otherwise.

... anyway, if I recall correctly, he did it while my ankle was broken, so running and/or kneeing him in the balls wasn't the most viable of options.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

He probably did time it on purpose. He must have known you were a dancer :)