Thank you so much for the invite. Really appreciate it. (Maybe will keep it in mind for next year? ) But it's not a problem really - I need to finish work on the marketing plan which is due this coming tuesday. Also, will be doing the turkey thing at Xmas.
Haven't seen Master & Commander yet - hoping to maybe grab a viewing this coming week. Possibly next Wed, assuming it doesn't disappear on me. I read the first book. (It's not as gripping in my opinion as Dorothy Dunnett historical novels, but it's a good take on the Napoliaenic (sp?) Wars at sea. Really takes you aboard a ship while it's at war.) The movie is a combination of the first and last books in the series. My Dad whose read just about all of them - loved it.
The film does have a couple major things going for it - one of which is the reason Russel Crow gave in - it's a Peter Weir film. The first one he's done since The Truman Show. Peter Weir films include: Year of Living Dangerously, Witness, The Mosquito Coast, The Truman Show, Picnic at Hanging Rock...he's one of those directors that I'll watch just about anything he does. (In film - the most important party is the director, s/he makes or breaks the show. ) The other things are the cast - Crow and the actor who played his friend in A Beautiful Mind. Only thing making me wait - is mood. Just haven't been in the mood for a good seafaring yarn.
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Re: Class and other stuff...
Date: 2003-11-26 08:32 am (UTC)Haven't seen Master & Commander yet - hoping to maybe grab a viewing this coming week. Possibly next Wed, assuming it doesn't disappear on me. I read the first book. (It's not as gripping in my opinion as Dorothy Dunnett historical novels, but it's a good take on the Napoliaenic (sp?) Wars at sea. Really takes you aboard a ship while it's at war.) The movie is a combination of the first and last books in the series. My Dad whose read just about all of them - loved it.
The film does have a couple major things going for it - one of which is the reason Russel Crow gave in - it's a Peter Weir film. The first one he's done since The Truman Show. Peter Weir films include: Year of Living Dangerously, Witness, The Mosquito Coast, The Truman Show,
Picnic at Hanging Rock...he's one of those directors that
I'll watch just about anything he does. (In film - the most important party is the director, s/he makes or breaks the show. ) The other things are the cast - Crow and the actor who played his friend in A Beautiful Mind.
Only thing making me wait - is mood. Just haven't been in the mood for a good seafaring yarn.