Anyone want?

[trinityvixen]

I get a free month on Netflix for any who'd like to claim the code or whatever. I highly doubt that this is anything different from what they will give you if you just go and sign up at their website (I seem to remember that I got a month free and I don't remember getting any code from a friend to do it). But! If you've been meaning to get it and would like the link, just comment.

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Speaking of Netflix, it coughed up Longitude last week, a rather decent series from A&E about the making of the first sea-worthy accurate clock that would allow fo longitude calculations at sea. Jeremy Irons was good in it, but every time I listen to him, I hear Scar. Curse of having seen The Lion King too many damn times.

I also watched Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. Um, yeah. Directed by the guy who did Run Lola Run, which is of the good. Bits were funny, but it was mostly just kinda long. Until the end. And then it was horrifying out of nowhere. Very German, in its way.

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[glvalentine.livejournal.com]

The end of Perfume is LOLtastic, though sadly it's true to the book and just suffers from a case of trying to literally interpret a non-representational piece of writing.

When the scene came in the book, I was like, "Ooh, I get it!" and then I saw the movie and was like, "HAHAHAHAHAAH!"

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I didn't buy the last-second conversion, but the ending is right out of the zombie movies I watch, so I was good for the gore. It was just...it's hard to say in a movie with so many murders and dumped corpses that the one death should be so shocking, but yeah, it was.

And this is where I show my ignorance: it was a book? Man, that's like the time I didn't know that Arsenic and Old Lace was a play...

[glvalentine.livejournal.com]

It's an AMAZING book. (http://www.amazon.com/Perfume-Story-Murderer-Patrick-Suskind/dp/0375725849/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211902373&sr=8-2)

It's also his only amazing book, so, uh, don't go looking him up for anything else.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I'll add it to the pile :)

[shell524.livejournal.com]

I had to read Longitude for a grad class I took a couple years ago. If I tried to explain how it fit into the class it'd take me an eternity. Suffice to say that my professor liked to mix all kinds of stuff into our engineering management classes. I have not, however, seen the movie. (If you haven't read the book and want to, let me know, and I'll bring it back from Dallas with me and get it to you with Zero.)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Oh, that would be cool. How easy is the read? I'm all about easy reading these days. If it's not fun, why should I read it, you know?

And Zero! Right, I meant to comment on your other LJ post about that. No rush. I have books still piled up from my birthday.

[shell524.livejournal.com]

It was a pretty easy read, if I remember correctly. I enjoyed it enough to finish it, which says something about it since I hate required reading for the most part. I'll toss it in my bags on the way home from TX.

S'fine. I'll try to keep reminding myself, so you will get it eventually. :p

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

I think I had about the same reaction to Perfume, though I thought it had a lot of greatness in parts, until the ending.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I liked parts, sure--I thought Dustin Hoffman was hilarious--but on the whole it was like "Er?" The ending was gross-out-of-nowhere, but at least it provoked a real reaction.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

No worries either way, but I'll definitely snatch both from you at some time. No rush--god knows it takes me forever to read things (and longer to get them back once I've read them!).

[moonlightalice.livejournal.com]

Is the free month for new members only?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Looks like, alas.