Nice Night

[tarotgal]

Went and picked up two friends and went over to boyfriend's, and the four of us sat around and watched 'Freddy vs. Jason' which was MUCH less horrid now that I know two of the main characters from 'Joan of Arcadia' *small squee* It was still a terrible movie... and I purposely tuned a good 75% out in order to try and put together my big climax scene for my Neville/Harry story. I think it's going to have to happen in the showers. Yes. Only way, really, considering I start the story with a completely naked Ron. Ug. It's NOT cooperating. LOL Anyway, then we watched FotR EE *louder squee*

My boyfriend was UTTERLY confused the first time we saw FotR- and having not read the books at all and not having listened to them since I was, like, 5, I was no better. So Boyfriend kept leaning over to me and saying "This makes SO much more sense now!" He's seen TTT 3 times now (twice the EE) and RotK 2 times now. So now he understand FotR. A little backwards in my mind, but whatever works, right? Of course, he still leaned over and asked me a dozen questions throughout as well- and one of the four of us had NEVER seen any of the movies, so that was a nice experience. Of course, we made some jokes throughout, and I kept bringing up slash pairings, but they were drinking and so we wanted to keep it light. I stil cried a little bit after Gandalf's "Death" and at Boromir's. But, MAN, I do a wicked Boromir impression with "Give them a moment for pity's sake!" Having watched the Lothlorien scenes at least 100 times while writing 'Cherishing', I know it all by heart- both the theatrical and the EE versions *G*

Anyway, I'm going to go find something to eat for dinner (yes, it's 3am, what's your point?) and then watch some of that Sci Fi movie starring John Rhys Davies I taped tonight. Hope it doesn't suck, but I have very low expectations. I watched some of Dragonheart earlier today and I'm back to HATING Thewlis. LOL! Ew ew ew! He is NOT my Remus! His voice just... ick... he looks like a pervy old child molester. Ew. Okay, a lot of it was his wig, but still. EW!

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[ladykorana.livejournal.com]

I watched that movie, 'Dragon Storm' on Sci-fi last night. Yeah, it sucked. Pretty badly, I might add. I don't think they could have chosen an uglier or less realistic wig to put on the head of the 'huntsman', who was so obviously supposed to be as cool as Aragorn, but failed miserably in that. And his bow...very primitive. It's hard to be impressed by his 'fancy' new longbow after seeing Legolas' gift from Galadriel. I liked the poor woman working the ballista, but I hated the king's daughter. Watching her acting in a manner completely inappropriate for the time period, I was reminded strongly of various LOTR Mary-Sues I've seen in less than great fics. It made me hugely relieved that PJ decided to pull Arwen out of the Battle of Helm's Deep. *sigh* LOTR has spoiled me.

I kept wincing again and again on behalf of poor John Rhys-Davies. I don't know what possessed him to agree to be in something of such low quality, particularly after doing Gimli. He'd be wise to avoid cheesy B-movie fantasy like the plague or risk losing a lot of the respect he gained through LOTR. I kept hoping none of his LOTR costars accidentally saw him in this...if they did, I'm sure he'll never hear the end of it *G*

[tarotgal]

I was going to write some comments last night about it but I didn't have the heart. I know I watched it at 3:30am, but I COMPLETELY missed where they introduced the guy who brought the enforcement in to help JRD's character take over the castle. I thought much of his "kingdom" was already destroyed and was confused as to where that guy came from. As well as where the extras came from in their second fight with the dragons- suddenly lots of people were getting killed and I didn't have any idea who they were. LOL

But the character who ran and got the egg- the "scientist guy" was IMO the WORST. I started wincing when he started speaking. His lines were pointless, superficial, and delivered without ANY emotion. Definitely the flattest dialogue of the whole thing. Which is saying a lot. "Poor woman working the ballista" was indeed good... and there were moments where the movie had potential- BRIEF moments. But suddenly the dragons come and just select one area to destroy and then wait in the woods? Then the hunters get together and fight- why not put together a team of 30 or 40? Then they forget it all and worry about the conspiracy. It's like the movie was INCAPABLE of doing two things at once.
John Rhys Davies was very good in it- for what his character was, at least. I at least enjoyed his performance. But the other characters made little sense. Silas(Huntsman guy) spends the first 10 minutes of his existance in the movie talking about how he answers to no man, then spends the rest of the movie being all loyal and caring and throwing himself into his role. And just cuz a guy tries to betray and kill, then 2 seconds later confesses a takeover plot he's "died with honor?" He was covering his ass and trying to keep his wife alive by appealing to the only people present. Ug... the concept was interesting but poorly executed. And the characters so flat it was painful. And nudity? What's the point? Gah... it moved SO slowly and yet so little got accomplished. Painful movie. So painful. Not quite as painful as the Breed (or the commercials for it they kept showing) but pretty bad even for a B-movie. Oh! And the sound effects? Why did it sound like two pieces of wood banging together when they were marching to battle with armor and shields and such? And the egg's first in RHD's character's room, then in the middle of the courtyard? *deep sigh* I'm so confused. LOL

I agree about his LotR costars. Considering Sean Astin joked about him being Indy's "sidekick" I can't imagine any of them NOT giving him a hard time about this movie if they were to see it. Poor baby.

[tarotgal]

I was going to write some comments last night about it but I didn't have the heart. I know I watched it at 3:30am, but I COMPLETELY missed where they introduced the guy who brought the enforcement in to help JRD's character take over the castle. I thought much of his "kingdom" was already destroyed and was confused as to where that guy came from. As well as where the extras came from in their second fight with the dragons- suddenly lots of people were getting killed and I didn't have any idea who they were. LOL

But the character who ran and got the egg- the "scientist guy" was IMO the WORST. I started wincing when he started speaking. His lines were pointless, superficial, and delivered without ANY emotion. Definitely the flattest dialogue of the whole thing. Which is saying a lot. "Poor woman working the ballista" was indeed good... and there were moments where the movie had potential- BRIEF moments. But suddenly the dragons come and just select one area to destroy and then wait in the woods? Then the hunters get together and fight- why not put together a team of 30 or 40? Then they forget it all and worry about the conspiracy. It's like the movie was INCAPABLE of doing two things at once.
John Rhys Davies was very good in it- for what his character was, at least. I at least enjoyed his performance. But the other characters made little sense. Silas(Huntsman guy) spends the first 10 minutes of his existance in the movie talking about how he answers to no man, then spends the rest of the movie being all loyal and caring and throwing himself into his role. And just cuz a guy tries to betray and kill, then 2 seconds later confesses a takeover plot he's "died with honor?" He was covering his ass and trying to keep his wife alive by appealing to the only people present. Ug... the concept was interesting but poorly executed. And the characters so flat it was painful. And nudity? What's the point? Gah... it moved SO slowly and yet so little got accomplished. Painful movie. So painful. Not quite as painful as the Breed (or the commercials for it they kept showing) but pretty bad even for a B-movie. Oh! And the sound effects? Why did it sound like two pieces of wood banging together when they were marching to battle with armor and shields and such? And the egg's first in RHD's character's room, then in the middle of the courtyard? *deep sigh* I'm so confused. LOL

I agree about his LotR costars. Considering Sean Astin joked about him being Indy's "sidekick" I can't imagine any of them NOT giving him a hard time about this movie if they were to see it. Poor baby.