Writing & Movies

[tarotgal]

Wrote a little tonight... am feeling too tired to get anything brilliant written, so I stopped on the FAKE fic after one paragraph. I'm having a hard time writing the word paragraph tonight. Keep typing paraphrag or paraphgra or paraphagra. It's odd.

But I also managed to write a little feedback on the sneezefic list. I'm planning on finishing that tomorrow (at least the rest of Sharon's fics and Hermione's Moulin Rouge one... I hate reading het but Ewan is Ewan and stories with sneezing Ewan characters will always get feedback from me! *loves*)

Bought Eye of the Beholder on DVD from the $5 Walmart bin a week ago and finally watched it a couple of nights ago. I'd seen it when it first came out on video... but that was a few years back. I hadn't been thrilled with it, but found it interesting and Ewan.. yum... After watching a second time, it's still my least favorite Ewan movie of all time. But that's not saying much. I still like it a whole lot. I just don't get a couple of his moves as the character... I'm hoping the director commentary will explain them. But... yeah... Ewan! Love love love love love...

Watched Reservoir Dogs for the first time tonight. Whooo boy! I loved it! I'm a sucker for nonlinear storytelling and sexy boys in suits. I didn't think I'd like it as much as I did (I've seen parodies and tributes and things to parts of it... and one Highlander episode is similar to the big gun scene at the end) but, yeah, loved it. Angst, worry, mystery, pain... LOVED. I love movies where I'm totally sympathetic with and on the side of the bad guys the whole way through. Check your morality at the door. I was SO easily pulled in. Gotta love the bad boys. Really. Loved. Good movie! :-) Mother and sister kept "ewwwing" at the blood and stuff. And there I was rather indifferent to it (though I kept wanting to snuggle poor Mr.Orange, damn instincts!) but making notes on the top of a piece of paper about the characters.
I still not thrilled with Quentin Tarantino. Pulp Fiction was fantastic, don't get me wrong. His directing is definitely unique and interesting and then some. I'm just not an Uma fan. LOL! But I love Tim Roth to death and Steve Buscemi was fantastic. I'd have watched that for him alone. He's one of my favorite character actors.

Watched Phone Booth last night for the first time. Liked that, too. I'd been wanting to see it, but everyone kept saying it looked horrible and wouldn't see it with me. I kept telling them that if the only thing that happened the whole time was Collin talking on the phone I'd GLADLY pay to see that! But I really enjoyed it. I was shouting things at him and getting nervous and all throughout the whole thing. Good movie :-)

Watched a little of Catch Me if You Can tonight. I taped the rest and will watch it tomorrow. Very engaging. Light and enjoyable... and again, one where you immediately side with the crook. Although I liked Tom Hank's character a lot as well. And, damnit, wanted to snuggle Leo there at the beginning as well. Poor sick baby...

Thanks for the feedback on the ficlets! :-) They've been a lot of fun to write, and I've been able to think of a lot of other ideas and concepts during the process. So it's definitely been worthwhile to me. :-)

Comments

[tarotgal]

Yes het=heterosexual relationships (man/woman). I'm straight, so it's sort of my gig. It's just a whole lot more boring to me now. Slash is far too exciting and delicious in comparison. But I love Ewan, and Moulin Rouge, so I'll definitely give you feedback.

Mmmm Star Wars! *G* I was raised on it. :-)
Big Fish is about a man who spent his whole life telling stories about his life and now that he's on his death bed his son wants to know which of the stories were true and which weren't. That's a huge dumbing down of it... but it's very fantastical (Tim Burton!) and very sweet... and as a writer it really, really moved me! :-) And Ewan's just too cute *G* He's my perfect man, he is. I'll watch him in anything. It's nice you're developing an appreciation for him. He totally deserves one *G* Love that man...

[smokeycat-430.livejournal.com]

Awww! Reservoir Dogs is one my favorite movies (I even did a speech about it in one of my classes)! Yes, Orange is cool and so is Pink but Blonde is by far my favorite. A young Michael Madsen is just too...good so to speak.*points to Mr. Blonde icon* I still don't know what happened to him to make him look so old. Oh well. And then White, good old Harvey Keitel. He's another good one. And Buscemi, to paraphrase the Simpsons: "Aren't you the guy who was thrown in the wood chopper in Fargo?" LOL. And Tim Roth, one of Tarantinos fave guys,along with Keitel and Thurman, that he uses all the time.

Catch Me If you can is very very good. You should read the book. Abagnale gives a very good account of what happened to him in the different prisons he was in. He says that the French prisons are horrible but the Swedish are comfy. He even has a cameo in the movie at the end as the French cop who puts Leo in the car.

Okay, enough of my movie rant. Glad you had/are having fun!

[vatergrrl.livejournal.com]

Gotta love Buscemi, and he was terrif in Ghost World as a sort of sad, reclusive record collector. The movie itself probably appeared and disappeared in art houses in the blink of an eye, but it's based on Daniel Clowes' comics of the same name, and is absolutely one of the best movies to be made from any comic, ever. I want to say it starred Christina Ricci and Scarlet Johansson, but I could be horribly wrong.

[smokeycat-430.livejournal.com]

Well, you're right about Scarlett Johansson. The other girl who starred in it was Thora Birch. But yes, another good, quirky part that Buscemi is always good at.