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Dec. 11th, 2017 06:22 pm1. One of the down-sides of getting older is I now appear to need reading glasses for everything.
2. Re-watched "Four Weddings and a Funeral Last Night" -- which I hadn't seen in years. (I forgot most of it. Charming 1990s flick, I think 1990s. Starring Hugh Grant and Andie McDowell (whose disappeared from films for the most part). Seen more of Kristin Scott Thomas, who played one of Grant's friends, who had a crush on him. She was more interesting in the movie than McDowell.)
Anyhow, while watching it, I pondered what were my favorite rom-coms. Rom-coms aka Romantic Comedies, are apparently harder to pull off than one might think, considering there's a lot of really bad ones, not to mention forgettable. Many of which starred either Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts, Kate Hudson, Mathew McConaghy, or Seth Groban -- do not put Seth Groban in a rom-com. Eww.)
Favorites in no particular order, off the top of my head. I'm not being held to this list, it's liable to change in a year, a month or an hours time.
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3. Lucifer - eh, mixed feelings about this episode. And I really wish they'd cast David Boreanze, James VanderBeek, Joshua Jackson, or Nathan Fillon instead. But that' s just me. Welling is not working for me. I honestly think his fandom is deeply stoned. Sort of what I think of the Twilight fandom...these people are clearly on something.
( spoilers )
4. Dark Phoenix -- read an article about the upcoming X-men flick "Dark Phoenix" which looks to be rather amazing. The writer is also directing it, and he's using it as his chance to fix what he did the wrong previously due to studio pressure. He's also the same guy who wrote Days of Future Past (the best X-men movie to date). This story is going back to the comics and adapting the source material -- it's sticking really close to it. In it, the X-men have become national heroes (as they were in the books at that time), Xavier gets big-headed and sends them to space for a rescue mission, but things go awry and a solar flare/mystic cosmic force invades Jean who saves them. She begins to wrestle with her own dark side and the X-men become split down the center. The script was so good, and the actors liked the fact that the writer was also directing, that Jennifer Lawrence agreed to reprise Mystique and everyone came back on board. Magneto is in Genosha running a place for displaced mutants. Jessica Chastain is in it as a shape-shifter who attempts to take advantage of Jean. Good cast and heavy emphasis on female characters. (They said it was the best filming experience for an X-men movie to date, calm, no chaos, no Bryan Singer, no Brett Ratner, Simon Kineberg -- the screenwriter is directing the film. YES! I prefer writers directing films.)
The Dark Phoenix story is how I got hooked on comics, and when I fell in love with the X-men. My favorite characters are in that story.
So excited for this movie -- which is premiering in November 2018.
This is the story I've been aching to see adapted for the big screen. (I could care less about the Avengers, never been a fan of the Avengers. But X-men Dark Phoenix? The inner college kid in me is jumping for joy. I was 18 when started reading comics.)
[Yes, I'm a geek, hardly a surprise.]
2. Re-watched "Four Weddings and a Funeral Last Night" -- which I hadn't seen in years. (I forgot most of it. Charming 1990s flick, I think 1990s. Starring Hugh Grant and Andie McDowell (whose disappeared from films for the most part). Seen more of Kristin Scott Thomas, who played one of Grant's friends, who had a crush on him. She was more interesting in the movie than McDowell.)
Anyhow, while watching it, I pondered what were my favorite rom-coms. Rom-coms aka Romantic Comedies, are apparently harder to pull off than one might think, considering there's a lot of really bad ones, not to mention forgettable. Many of which starred either Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts, Kate Hudson, Mathew McConaghy, or Seth Groban -- do not put Seth Groban in a rom-com. Eww.)
Favorites in no particular order, off the top of my head. I'm not being held to this list, it's liable to change in a year, a month or an hours time.
( Read more... )
3. Lucifer - eh, mixed feelings about this episode. And I really wish they'd cast David Boreanze, James VanderBeek, Joshua Jackson, or Nathan Fillon instead. But that' s just me. Welling is not working for me. I honestly think his fandom is deeply stoned. Sort of what I think of the Twilight fandom...these people are clearly on something.
( spoilers )
4. Dark Phoenix -- read an article about the upcoming X-men flick "Dark Phoenix" which looks to be rather amazing. The writer is also directing it, and he's using it as his chance to fix what he did the wrong previously due to studio pressure. He's also the same guy who wrote Days of Future Past (the best X-men movie to date). This story is going back to the comics and adapting the source material -- it's sticking really close to it. In it, the X-men have become national heroes (as they were in the books at that time), Xavier gets big-headed and sends them to space for a rescue mission, but things go awry and a solar flare/mystic cosmic force invades Jean who saves them. She begins to wrestle with her own dark side and the X-men become split down the center. The script was so good, and the actors liked the fact that the writer was also directing, that Jennifer Lawrence agreed to reprise Mystique and everyone came back on board. Magneto is in Genosha running a place for displaced mutants. Jessica Chastain is in it as a shape-shifter who attempts to take advantage of Jean. Good cast and heavy emphasis on female characters. (They said it was the best filming experience for an X-men movie to date, calm, no chaos, no Bryan Singer, no Brett Ratner, Simon Kineberg -- the screenwriter is directing the film. YES! I prefer writers directing films.)
The Dark Phoenix story is how I got hooked on comics, and when I fell in love with the X-men. My favorite characters are in that story.
So excited for this movie -- which is premiering in November 2018.
This is the story I've been aching to see adapted for the big screen. (I could care less about the Avengers, never been a fan of the Avengers. But X-men Dark Phoenix? The inner college kid in me is jumping for joy. I was 18 when started reading comics.)
[Yes, I'm a geek, hardly a surprise.]