Just noticed
Apr. 21st, 2004 02:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarotgal*Just* noticed Restoration is on Bravo right now. But it's replaying later today at 4:30. I've never seen it, but people have told me it's definitely worth a watch. With Sam Neill, Meg Ryan, Ian McKellen, and Hugh Grant... I don't doubt it's interesting. And, hey, I can add it to the growing list of David Thewlis movies I've seen, right? *G* Yummy Sam Neill. Is it a bad sign when you start to find the same men attractive as your mother does? Eh. Probably not. It's Sam Neill. Hard not to find him attractive. LOL
Speaking of which, someone asked me about Timeline. I really liked it. My little sister (who's more critical of movies than I am and who read the book first) liked it as well, but felt they left a lot out. For your typical time travel, romance, and war movie, I adored it. But I've got a thing for time travel and historical fiction. Crichton is like God to me, so I love most all of his works(though the movie Sphere was highly disappointing. That book deserved so much more)... I'm reading the book 'Timeline' now and loving it. I really liked the movie, though. I cried a couple of times. But SEXY accents (and Scottish ones at that, my favorite kind!) make it worth the watch, I think. Plus, there's Thewlis. As a bad guy. He plays bad guys SOOOOOO well. I love him as a bad guy. So that was great. I really liked it. I'm buying it on DVD any day now. So... yeah... I'd say it's certainly worth renting!
I *so* want to buy Big Fish and Love Actually, too. I've got $40 in gift cards for Target and Best Buy. But there's no Best Buy even remotely nearby (closest one is an hour away). As I'm broke... I'm trying to figure out how this will work out. I might *just* be able to pull it off. Or I might not. Otherwise, I'll have to wait to buy Love Actually until later. Which will most likely be the case.
So, yeah, what was my point? Oh Restoration is on right now. I have no tape to tape it on- DAMNIT. I'll have to work that out now so I can tape it tomorrow and watched charmed at 6 while I'm taping. Yes. That works. Ha ha! :-)
Speaking of which, someone asked me about Timeline. I really liked it. My little sister (who's more critical of movies than I am and who read the book first) liked it as well, but felt they left a lot out. For your typical time travel, romance, and war movie, I adored it. But I've got a thing for time travel and historical fiction. Crichton is like God to me, so I love most all of his works(though the movie Sphere was highly disappointing. That book deserved so much more)... I'm reading the book 'Timeline' now and loving it. I really liked the movie, though. I cried a couple of times. But SEXY accents (and Scottish ones at that, my favorite kind!) make it worth the watch, I think. Plus, there's Thewlis. As a bad guy. He plays bad guys SOOOOOO well. I love him as a bad guy. So that was great. I really liked it. I'm buying it on DVD any day now. So... yeah... I'd say it's certainly worth renting!
I *so* want to buy Big Fish and Love Actually, too. I've got $40 in gift cards for Target and Best Buy. But there's no Best Buy even remotely nearby (closest one is an hour away). As I'm broke... I'm trying to figure out how this will work out. I might *just* be able to pull it off. Or I might not. Otherwise, I'll have to wait to buy Love Actually until later. Which will most likely be the case.
So, yeah, what was my point? Oh Restoration is on right now. I have no tape to tape it on- DAMNIT. I'll have to work that out now so I can tape it tomorrow and watched charmed at 6 while I'm taping. Yes. That works. Ha ha! :-)
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Date: 2004-04-21 01:13 am (UTC)Oh, I found out they're going to be playing the Sharks game on regular local broadcast for once this Sat. so I actually get to see a game!
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Date: 2004-04-21 01:30 am (UTC)Yes, I really enjoyed Timeline. It had its cheesey moments. But I really liked the characters (I'm a character gal, essentially. If the characters are good, I'm happy). There was a lot of suspense and a lot of very beautiful action. There was a nice Hollywood measure of romance and mystery. Several of the characters were VERY passionate about history, which I loved. And, again, sexy accents. It's a bit predictable at times... but also shocking at others.
But if you like historical fiction at all, or time travel paradoxes... it's the movie to see. There's a BEAUTIFUL moment with hundreds of arrows being released, all of them on fire in the middle of the night. Took my breath away to see it in the theater.
Really, I liked it a lot. Hrmmm... wonder if I can find my review of the movie on LJ from when I saw it...
There it is. It's paragraph 4 in this post: http://www.livejournal.com/users/tarotgal/191331.html
Which pretty much just says all I just said, now that I re-read it. LOL
But, yeah, it's certainly worth a watching, I think. Just don't expect it to be brilliant, I suppose :-) It's my sort of movie, so I'm biased :-)
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Date: 2004-04-21 01:57 am (UTC)It's funny because the commercials for the sports this weekend are like GOLF! oh, and we also have hockey...