Voluntary Madness

Stephenie Meyer is, I think, very talented when it comes to burying her admittedly excellent ideas in sub-par prose and non-existent plot. I say this, because she frequently takes the trouble to present an alternative take on the same events which end up being more exciting and evoke more genuine emotion than the entire story. Case in point the ending of Twilight, where the antagonist reminisces about this other vampire who was in love with a human girl and, when the antagonist became too much of a threat, turned her to keep her safe (newborn vampires being stronger than older ones). All of this took place in a psychiatric hospital, where she was treated for having premonitions. The Host has much the same problem: after an hour and a half of the heroine being helpful and more human than humans and special, we get to find out that the reason the antagonist is so devout to chasing her that she starts evolving past what her species determines she should be, is that her own host is still there, still fighting, and she wants to know how to defeat her. In about five minutes of screen time there is more drama than the protagonist(s) had in the entire movie.

I'm not going to get into the whole romance, because bleh, and the movie is very painful to watch, on account of extremely horrible dialogue. Think of any scene between Anakin and Padme in Star Wars, and then multiply it by, oh, seventeen. There is also the lazy ending and drawn-out everything, but even that could be made bearable if the dialogue wasn't written for people who were going to read the script, not see the movie.

Lastly, the movie deserves an award: they managed to find pants which don't flatter Diana Krueger.

I wonder if I can make a fusion of it. :D

I had a really good birthday, thank you all for the wishes! I want to say thanks especially to kispexi2, katikat and orvida, for the gifts!

Yesterday I had school, so we (me and sisters) mostly curled up on the couch with drinks, and watched The Count of Monte Cristo. Today though we went off to Katowice (which is not far, but takes an hour by bus) to see Prince Caspian undubbed and ended up failing miserably at the undubbed part. Fortunately, the dubbing didn't suck that bad. ( It was bad, but watchable )

I can't wait for the Voyage of the Dawn Treader. It's always been my favourite Narnia book. :) As sister pointed out today, it has Prince Caspian (it used to be Edmund and Lucy XD) and a ship. It's bound to be my favourite.

The Friday strike - let's face it, it's pretty pointless. They don't care. There's not going to be a massive flood away from LJ, little will change for existing users and new ones will likely join anyway. The plus in the accounts doesn't make that much of a difference. I also have no plans to desert LJ in the foreseeable future either.

I went and saw Step Up 2 The Streets and have this to say: ( it's High School Musical, without the 'Disney made me!' excuse )

I've seen PotC: The Deadman's Chest.

Technically, I suppose it wasn't a bad movie, except for the melodramatic parts about Will and his parental unit. I liked the beginning, I liked the set-up and the three-way fight was way cool. Elisabeth was cool (you'd have to be an idiot not to realise she's a girl though), Will was cool (see, he can be taught sneakiness. And he's a terrific soprano :P), Jack Sparrow goes without saying. Norrington, I loved. <3 It's just that the whole thing seemed to lack *heart*. Of course, I know they just wanted to make a sequel to cash in, but...

So, yeah, go and see it, it's a fun way to spend two and a half hours. I will keep wishing they never made it, but it's fun to watch.

In other news, I finally caved in and bought the FF VII: AC DVD. I collapse in a laughing fit whenever I hear the dub (SEPHIROTH: Where did you find that strenght *hinthint*? This is how you talk when you learn English from porno movies, you know. CLOUD: Uh. KTHXBYE. Too much information!)

( Told you I won't be a mere memory )

*goes off to gain some PotC icons*

I've seen The Omen today. It's good. Liev wasn't Gregory Peck, but overall I think they did a good job. Alright, maybe the fact that I knew what exactly was about to happen lessened the impact, but I enjoyed it. And even though I could spot several scenes imported from the '76 version direct (copy + paste!), there were also some surprising ones. The concrete bathroom. *shudders*

In other news, I started the adopt_bunnies community. Please visit and drop any long-running plotbunnies, which don't seem to get out of your head but don't seem to attract the muses.