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And now for something that's already happened: some friends of mine and I went to see Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus" at the Globe last week. I highly recommend going to see it if you get the chance! The acting was great, especially the two main characters (played by Paul Hilton and Arthur Darvill), and the sets, costumes, props etc were all just right for the atmosphere. (Hurray for eerie hell-creatures!) I was a bit... not wary exactly, but unsure going in, because although I knew the basic story I had no idea if I'd let myself in for a comedy, a tragedy, or a heavy philosophical treatise. In the end, though, it turned out to be the prefect balance of (generally slapstick) humour and dark creepiness and dread.
And walking out of the theatre we all agreed we wanted a BBC TV series of Faustus and Mephistopheles's wacky adventures.
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Look a this!
Also this!
And now for something that's already happened: some friends of mine and I went to see Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus" at the Globe last week. I highly recommend going to see it if you get the chance! The acting was great, especially the two main characters (played by Paul Hilton and Arthur Darvill), and the sets, costumes, props etc were all just right for the atmosphere. (Hurray for eerie hell-creatures!) I was a bit... not wary exactly, but unsure going in, because although I knew the basic story I had no idea if I'd let myself in for a comedy, a tragedy, or a heavy philosophical treatise. In the end, though, it turned out to be the prefect balance of (generally slapstick) humour and dark creepiness and dread.
And walking out of the theatre we all agreed we wanted a BBC TV series of Faustus and Mephistopheles's wacky adventures.
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I miss the times when I'd go to see a film at least twice, with different friends or whatever, and I'd always bring a notebook to the multiple viewings and take notes and write down quotes to use in my LJ review. I think I should start taking notes and writing about TV shows again, too. It’s fun.
2012
I went to see 2012 last weekend. It was pretty cool if you like seeing things fall apart in grandiose and dramatic ways, and I really, really like that. Especially the Earthquake stuff when the ground moves in waves like water; that is so badass.
In terms of the story, though, I pretty much agree with the io9 review. I really just didn't care either way about whether the main characters lived or died. The question of what the various world governments were doing to survive occupied me, and the thing about whether they were going to suck it up and let their full capacity of people on board the ships, but after that I was a lot less engaged. The Eurasian arks got away, so what if the North American one hits Mt Everest? And I guess South America, Australia, and Africa's arks didn't get finished in time? I guess they redistributed the people from that onto the completed arks? Nah, the future of mankind doesn't need any Australians, don't be silly. And don’t even talk to me about Africa. There’s no-one there who’s rich enough to afford a giant Chinese ship anyway, amirite?
Ok, I’ll stop now.
But anyway, the only people I sort of wanted to survive both didn't, the Russian pilot guy because he nobly sacrificed himself to land the plane, and the Russian woman because... she had a boob job, or because of her affair, or some other transgression against movie ethics, idk. Maybe the pilot died because he was sleeping with her, as well. RUSSIAN INFIDELITY DOESN'T PAY. Obviously. I am rambling, because I am quite sleepy. Oh, but the Tibetan(?) family survived. I liked them, too.
ANYWAY. It was a very pretty film. it suffers from that thing that films sometimes have where all the side characters are more interesting than the main ones, but if you're like me you'll spend most of your time enjoying the destruction and fantasising about what you’d do in an apocalypse, anyway, so that's alright.
Doctor Who
I drew this on a train.
I really enjoyed Sunday's Dr Who special thing. I like it when things go wrong for people they usually always work out for. And things went pretty spectacularly wrong this time, I'd say. I really don't pay any attention to Dr Who canon, either (when they mentioned the daleks invading at Christmas, I thought something like: "did that... happen in a previous Christmas special? I vaguely remember... or do I?"), so they can do anything they want, imo, as long as it stays interesting. And if not, I'll just stop watching like I did before, no harm done. I am a very casual Doctor Who watcher.
Tin Man
The first half of a film (mini series? idk.) called Tin Man (which I'd heard about. On Fandom Secrets. XD) was on the SciFi channel last night. It's pretty good! Much like Alice in Wonderland, my only knowledge of The Wizard of Oz comes from pop-culture osmosis, so I may be missing the odd reference, but it's fun in any case. Not super amazing, or anything, but fun.
ΠΛΑΝΗΤΕΣ
When Tim came over this weekend, he brought a box set of Planetes with him, and we watched it, and I totally thought we had run out, but it turns out that box set was only half of the series, and we're going to watch the other half next weekend. This makes my life a small but statistically significant amount more amazing.
Twilight
My mum is suddenly really into the Twilight film, and she really wants me to watch it, too, and I really just have no desire to. I clawed my way through the book, I know what happens, I just don't feel like bringing up the energy to give this a chance. Ok, no, I do sort of want to watch it with Steph and an intoxicating substance of some kind (by which I mean caffeine, because I couldn’t stay awake through a movie if I had alcohol), but that’s a different matter altogether.
I think that's all I had to write about. Now I shall make some tea and write about the next few chapters of Colony. Mustn't let my reading get too far ahead of my writing.
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